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of any other human speaker, ancient or modern. This uniqueness is utterly inseparable, utterly unintelligible, apart from a doctrine of Incarnation, which of course means the. only begotten Son of God becoming the Son of man. “ That doctrine is reduced to nonsense if the personality of that Son of man does not differ from the personality of all other sons of men. If Jesus were the son of a double human parentage, we have a right to ask very closely at what particular point and in whj,t particular manner this infinite difference between Himself and all others took place. The Gospels give us ground for asserting that there was an essential difference from the beginning.” SPINELESS SHEETS A new subscriber in Kansas writes as follows: “ Your magazine is really a blessing, compared to the many easy-going, re ligiously spineless papers that are float ed today. We want men that speak with authority, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ and do not cater to all the new-fangled ideas that come around.” “ I was a trial subscriber for the — for three months. I thought the name implied godliness of the loveliest kind, but of all the tommy-rot that was served, in the name of religion, during those three months, it is impossible for me to say! They laid special stress upon trying to show that those who be lieve the fundamentals of the Bible lacked the “ steientifie” knowledge to discuss religious questions with the proper decorum. I could not resist the temptation to write them and tell them that I did not wish their paper any longer, because I want to spend what little money I have on papers that stand for the Word of God.”
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. C. G. WARREN of Hunan, ina, in The Biblical Review inds the warning that “ Any- e who wishes to retain a
belief in the Incarnation owes it to him self to be quite sure before he gives up a belief in the Virgin Birth that he is not unwittingly giving up much more. It is a common experience of daily life that means taken to remove one diffi culty have resulted in bringing into be ing others which were quite unforeseen. Medicine is not the only science in which men have been driven to the conclusion that some remedies are worse than the disease. Again and again in the history of legislation, new laws have had to be modified or even abandoned because they have been found to pro duce worse evils than those which they were introduced to remove. Supposing we contemplate abandoning the doctrine of the Virgin Birth; there is only one alternative for any one who would read these pages— Jesus must be considered to be the son of Joseph and Mary. Then we must at once confront ourselves with this problem: In what way could the son of Joseph and Mary be the Son of God, with a meaning to that phrase which would not apply to any other son of two parents? In all other cases the result of birth is the commencement of a new personality. In every language which is spoken the answer to the ques tion which is asked in every language, “ How old are you?” is, “ I am-------years old,” and it always means, Before such and such a year there was not this par ticular “ I” . One only said of a man who was born a score of centuries before Him: “ Before Abraham was, I am.” Like words cannot be placed on the lips
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