Repentance, Faith, and Obedience are thus the human factors of the new life. They are the moral counterparts of Grace. God gives and man appropriates. By repentance we turn from sin and self to the true home of our soul in the Fatherhood of God. By faith we behold in Christ the vision of the ideal self. By obedience and the daily surrender of ourselves to the divine will we transform the vision into the reality. They are all manifestations of love, the responsive notes of the human heart to the appeal of divine love. [1] Irenaeus, _Contra Haereses_, III. xviii. 1. [2] Matt. xx. 28; John xi. 51; Matt. xxvi. 28; Mark xiv. 8, 9. [3] _The Analogy_, part II. chap. v. [4] 2 Cor. v. 14 f.; Rom. vi.; Ephes. iii. 16, 17, v. 8. [5] Gal. ii. 20. [6] Meyers, _Saint Paul_. [7] See Blewett, _The Christian View of the World_, pp. 88 ff., where this subject is suggestively treated. [8] _Christ and Paul_. [9] Matt. iii. 8; Luke iii. 8. [10] Acts xxvi. 20. [11] Rom. xii. 12; Titus iii. 5. [12] 2 Cor. v. 17; Gal. vi. 15. [13] See Begbie, _Broken Earthenware_. [14] _Varieties of Relig. Experience_. [15] Mark x. 15. [16] _Man and the Universe_, p. 220. [17] _Varieties of Religious Experience_, p. 80. [18] Cf. _Foundations: a Statement of Religious Belief by seven Oxford men_, Essay VI., pp. 274 f. [19] Matt. xviii. 3. [20] Matt. xiii. 58; Mark vi. 5. [21] Cf. Stalker, _The Ethic of Jesus_, p. 179. [22] _Das Wesen des Christenthums_, p. 91, quoted by Stalker, _idem_, p. 176. [23] Luke xxi. 19. [24] _Life's Basis and life's Ideal_, p. 255. {181} SECTION D CONDUCT {183} CHAPTER XI VIRTUES AND VIRTUE So far we have gained some conception of the Christian ideal as the highest moral good, and have learned also how the Christian character is brought into being. We now enter upon a new section--the last stage of our inquiry--and have to consider the 'new man'--his virtues, duties, and relationships. The business lying immediately before us in this chapter is to consider the accepted standards in which the Christian good is exhibited--the virtues recognised by the Christian consciousness.