“The moment you realize this goodness of Christ, his helpfulness to you, his lenient, forgiving, sympathizing spirit, then you know what _faith in Christ_ means. If such a Saviour attracts you, and you strive all the more ardently, from love toward him and trust in him, then you are a Christian: _not a religious man_, but _a Christian_. “A man may worship through awe, or through a sense of duty, and I think there are hundreds of men in the churches who are _only religious men_, and _not Christians_. A man who feels toward God only awe or fear, who obeys merely from a _sense of duty_, who is under the dominion of _conscience_ rather than of love, may be religious, but he is _not a Christian_.” There is nothing said in this article of any need of any new creation of _the nature_ of the mind; nor is this Augustinian dogma to be found in any of this author’s published works. In this article, written expressly to give clear views of what it is to become a Christian, and _how_ to do it, we find it taught “a man who feels toward God only awe or fear, who obeys merely from a sense of duty, who is _under the dominion of conscience_ rather than of love, may be _religious_, but _he is not a Christian_.” Suppose, then, a person with a strong sense of justice and great natural benevolence, is trained to believe the Calvinistic form of the Augustinian system, so that God appears to him only the awful, incomprehensible author of this dreadful system, and Jesus Christ, this same God, so united to a man (as this transaction is usually represented) that the human soul alone bears all the grief and suffering involved in the expiatory sacrifice demanded. Suppose, also, that, in this view, unable to feel any emotions but fear and awe, he says, “_There must be a dreadful mistake somewhere_. I can not fathom it; but I can and will do this: I will trust the word of Jesus Christ as to the character of God, and I will _obey his teachings conscientiously_ in all things, as nearly as I am able;” and this determination is carried out in his life. Is such a man a Christian, or is he not? Guided only by the above extract, it would be very difficult to decide, or to state what is this author’s view of regeneration; nor is there any thing in his published writings to remove the vagueness and uncertainty caused by such teachings as are embraced in the above extract, as to what _change_ makes a man a true Christian. According to the system of common sense (as explained chapter 24, and also on page 258) to form and carry out a ruling purpose to obey the laws of God, as made known by Jesus Christ, is loving God and Christ in the only way in which love can justly be made a subject of command. And when a man forms and carries out such a purpose, he is “under the dominion of conscience,” and is a true Christian.