As we thus gaze upon him in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; as we meditate upon him, seek to reason about him, are touched by his love, held by his power, and filled with his life, we say with the inspired apostle: "Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: _God was manifest in the flesh_." "_Our great God_," repeats Paul, and he adds, to balance the wonder of it, "and _our Saviour Jesus Christ_;" he who, in some glad day nearer than we think, is coming back to this old, sin-stained, grave-digged world--to be owned and saluted by all nations, peoples, kindred and tongues as-- "THE GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH." With all this glory and this wonder he is, as the angels said, (who spoke of his ascension, session and Second Coming), "THIS SAME JESUS," full of tender mercy, and loving compassion; by virtue of his perfect sacrifice able to save unto the uttermost all who come unto God the Father by him; saying from heaven as he once said on earth: "Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out"; but saying at the same time, and with unfailing faithfulness: "No man cometh into the Father _but by me_"; saying it faithfully because, of a truth, only in the _Son_ can the _Father_ be found. Let me exhort all who may read these lines, if you have not already done so, to fall down at his pierced feet, and with deep contrition for all your transgressions and for your very _nature_ of sin which helped to nail him to the accursed tree, say with voice of unfailing love and unfaltering faith: "My _Saviour_ and my _God_." If you have already owned him as your Saviour, then, as Thomas of old, with the voice of deep devotion say: "My _Lord_ and my _God_." To those of you (if there be such) who still deny his deity and persist in calling him good, he, himself, is asking you from heaven as he asked it aforetime upon earth: "_Why_ callest thou me _good?_" In asking you that he is putting upon you the responsibility of the terrible conclusion of your own premise: IF NOT GOD--NOT GOOD! Are you willing to face him in eternity with that inexorable alternative: "IF NOT GOD--NOT GOOD?" Christianity WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? WHAT is Christianity? The question seems a belated one. It never was more pertinent than now. Its pertinency rests upon two facts. First: the modern drift in Christianity and its absolute failure. Second: the phenomenal triumph of primitive Christianity. The modern drift is antagonistic to doctrine and repudiates the miraculous. It sets aside the virgin birth, has no toleration for atonement by sacrificial death, and positively refuses to accept the bodily resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.