COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY.

Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910
[Printed in the United States of America]

Published, January, 1917

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CONTENTS

SUBJECTS AND LEADING THOUGHTS

ESSAY

OF THE ESSAYS

I. THE SCRIPTURES AS A RULE OF FAITH: A

reliable, God-given guide for religious

belief and practise

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II. THE INERRANCY OF THE BIBLE: Should be
claimed only with respect to the way
of life and salvation

III. THE VIRGIN BIRTH AND THE RESURRECTION

OF OUR LORD: Credible occurrences

which accord with all other events of

Gospel history..

IV. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST EXPLAINED:

It included a miraculous transformation

of his body

V. SAVING FAITH: Essentially an operative
belief in the mercy of God for sinners
who repent

VI. JESUS THE CHRIST: God's only begotten
Son and the most exalted of created
beings.

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VII. THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST: All his media-

torial offices belong to him as "the Son

of Man"

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VIII. THE DEITY OF CHRIST: An explicit teach-

ing of the Scriptures; an identifying

union of our Lord's human spirit with

a divine personality

(RECAP)

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ESSA

IX. THE TRINITY: An intelligible and reason-

able doctrine. But, using common lan-

guage, there are not three persons but

only three personalities-that is, three

distinct modes of self-conscious opera-

tion-in the one God

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X. THE GOSPEL OF THE CROSS: Christ died

for our sins, according to the Scrip-

tures; and we have redemption through

his blood, the forgiveness of sins .. .. 267

XI. THE ATONEMENT ON CALVARY: A satisfac-

tion of God's justice the philosophy of

which becomes clear after a searching

analysis of the Moral Law and a percep-

tion of the nature and design of Rectoral

Righteousness ..

THE SUFFERING SAVIOR (A Hymn) ..

XII. EXPLANATORY OF DIFFICULTIES: Verbal

thought (that immediately exprest in

words) is to be interpreted rationally.

Justice admits of mercy. Christ was

the Atoning Martyr of the Covenant of

Redemption

XIII. THEORIES OF "IMPUTATION": The teach-

ings of Moses and of Paul regarding our

Fall in Adam. The law under which

the children of Adam are subjected to

evil explained. This condemnation be-

cause of the apostasy of our first parent,

is analogous to our justification because

of the righteousness of Christ, yet it was

an act of administrative and not of

punitive justice

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XIV. THE CHRISTIANITY OF PAUL: The experi-

ence of one who lived by faith in Jesus

Christ, the Son of God, his Redeemer.. 380

ESSAY

XV. THE FULNESS OF THE TIME:

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The pre-

paredness of the world at the Christian

era for the advent of Christ and his

Gospel

XVI. SATAN OR THE DEVIL: A powerful per-

sonal being, the enemy of God and a

promoter of all evil

XVII. DÆMONS AND HEATHENISM: Subordinate

evil spirits work under Satan and strive

to maintain and extend his kingdom of

darkness

XVIII. THE MOSAIC COSMOGONY:

A venerable

tradition respecting the origin of the

universe with which the findings of

modern science agree, but with which

the Darwinian hypothesis of evolution

conflicts

XIX. THE CREATION OF MAN: This probably

took place eight or ten thousand years

ago. The philosophical weakness of

Darwinism exposed. Arguments ad-

duced from chronological calculations

and from the records and monuments of

ancient times

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XX. ARCHEOLOGIC AND GEOLOGIC REMAINS:

Shell heaps, lake - dwellings, burial

mounds, and megalithic erections, con-

sidered; also the so-called Paleolithic,

Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, to-

gether with the fossils from which the

existence of those ages has been in-

ferred. Geologic facts do not justify

the belief that man has lived on the

earth more than 10,000 years

XXI. PREHISTORIC MAN: A critical estimate of a

recently published book

MY CREED (Versified).

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