Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it