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theWorW. There is something morally defective in the very 

 renunciation which his followers treat as the birth and touch- 

 stone of his religion. The sinlessness of Jesus Christ, His 

 self-sacrifice, His infallible authority. His unity with God, 

 separate Him from all other founders and teachers of religion. 

 It is true of His Crucifixion as it is true of no other event in 

 any other life, " I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all 

 men unto Me." He is the Sovereign Head of humanity. If it 

 is asked who is the archetypal man, tlie man who seems to sum 

 up in himself all that humanity may be and ought to be and 

 longs to be, there can be no other answer than that it is He. So, 

 too. His divine eternal life, transcending death, enables Him, as 

 in the Holy Communion, to impart Himself in mysterious 

 intimacy to His disciples. They live a life not their own, a life 

 which He originates, preserves and sanctifies ; they are one with 

 Him, and He with them. 



As I look forward and try to estimate what the future may 

 portend, as I see democracy advancing to its full prerogative of 

 power, as I see the nations of the Far East awakening to new 

 life, I feel more and more that tlie supreme need of the world is 

 to permeate all nations and all classes of men in the nations 

 with the spirit of Jesus Christ. The religious instinct in man 

 is not dead ; but it demands a faith which shall satisfy both 

 intellect and conscience. Christianity alone still holds the key 

 of life's abiding mysteries. In the simplification of the Christian 

 Creed, or its accommodation to the variety of national characters 

 and dispositions, in tlie approximation of the Christian Churches 

 each to the others : above all, in the personal devotion which 

 Jesus Christ evokes from devout hearts and minds all the world 

 over, lies the hope that, as humanity develops, it will bow its 

 head in humble, reverent adoration before the Incarnate and 

 Crucified Son of God. 



Discussion. 



The Chairman asked for an immediate and hearty vote of thanks 

 to the Lecturer, since Bishop AVelldon was obliged to leave at once. 

 They had all listened with profit to his clear and impressive 

 address. 



It was their duty to consider the religion of other races without 

 prejudice, and to extend to them, as the Lecturer had done, every 



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