Moral Glory of Jesus Christ 79 ture announced that the victory is won, and nothing now re mains save to determine the amount of the indemnity. It is very noteworthy that the struggle has indeed measurably sub sided as to the Old Testament, although there are no signs of weakening faith in it on the part of God’s faithful chil dren, and the fight now turns with increasing vigor on the New Testament, and pre-eminently about the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Men who are Christians at least in name, who occupy influential seats in great Universities and even Theological Schools, do not shrink from impeaching the New Testament record touching the Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus, His resurrection from the dead, and His promise of one day returning to this earth in majesty and power. One can not renounce the Scriptures of the Old Testament without relaxing his hold, sooner or later, on the New. Christ is the center of all Scripture, as He is the center of all God’s purposes and counsels. The four evangelists take up the life and the moral glory of the Son of Man, and they place it alongside of the picture of the Messiah as sketched by the prophets, the historical by the side of the prophetic, and they show how exactly the two match. • So long as the Four Gos pels remain unmutilated and trusted by the people of God, so long is the doctrine of the Bible’s supreme authority as sured. God spoke to the fathers in the prophets: He now speaks to us in His Son whom He hath made Heir of all things. In either case, whether by the prophets or by the Son, the Speaker is God.
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