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vicarious atonement are essential to human deliverance. Without the knowledge of this plan of Salvation, it denies all moral possibilities and spiritual regeneration. Ignorance of the name of that saviour is no excuse and refusal to accept the dogmatic terms of salvation serves only to intensify the damnation which is already the birthright of all human souls. The spirit of this Gospel refuses to recognise natural goodness, moral aspirations and spiritual worship emanating from any other source.
On these grounds, not to go into further detail, Christian propagandism is founded. In the face of these declarations, is it to be wondered that the enlightened thought of mankind within and without the Christian fold has begun to question the virtue, the divinity, the humanity even, of such a propagandisni ? Can one wonder that the question is propounded “Is Christianity a failure," “ Are missons failures " and why does the world refuse to accept the Salvation thus offered ? I have no word to say in depreciation of the supposed personal character and life of him who is claimed by these dogmatists to be the saviour of the world. I honor and respet all efforts for the uplifting of mankind, no matter under what name. But to claim for hiin and for his devotion the exclusive virtue and saving grace which these false interpreters of his life declare is, in my view to rob him
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