How different a view of the Education of the World does the HOLY SPIRIT,--does our LORD Himself--furnish, from that which Dr. Temple here advocates!... Fallen, in the person of Adam, and made subject to the penalty of eternal death, behold Mankind from the very first taught to believe that they should be ultimately redeemed by One born of woman. Under the image of a son who remained in his father's house, the favoured descendants of Abraham are set before us: while the rest of the world is pourtrayed in the person of another son, who goes into a far country, and there wastes his substance with riotous living. _Not_ when grown into a colossal "youth too old for discipline," (p. 20, _bottom_,) but in the day of his dire necessity, and when he begins to be sensible of his utter need, behold the heathen nations, (in the person of the poor prodigal,) arising, and going to their true Father, and in the fulness of their misery asking for a hired servant's place in the household. Behold too GOD'S mercies in CHRIST set forth by "the first robe," (_that_ robe of innocence which when Adam lost he knew that he was naked!) and the ring, and the shoes, and the fatted calf! Lastly, in the embrace which the Father, (while yet the offending but repentant son is a long way off,) _runs_ to bestow,--behold _how_ GOD loved the World! But Dr. Temple may say,--_My_ parable relates to one person: that which you have quoted pourtrays two, and thus all parallelism is lost. (In other words, _our LORD'S picture_ of "the Education of the World" _is altogether unlike Dr. Temple's_!)--Take, however, a parable which ought to suit exactly; for in it mankind are exhibited in the person of "a certain man." This individual is represented as one who, as he travels, is by thieves stripped, wounded, and left half dead. Such then, by nature, is the state of the human race! Priest and Levite, who "look on him," but "pass by on the other side," set forth the Education of the World (!) until CHRIST came. A certain Samaritan, who has compassion on the naked and wounded wretch, goes to him, binds up his wounds, pours in oil and wine, sets him on his own beast, brings him to the inn, and takes care of him:--_this_ one is CHRIST. The stranger's pence, and his promise to repay at his second coming what shall have been over-expended,--set forth, I suppose, _that_ ministration of CHRIST'S Word and Sacraments which Dr. Temple exercises.... Let me dismiss the subject by remarking that I find no countenance given by Holy Scripture to Dr. Temple's monstrous notions concerning the Infancy, the Youth, and the Manhood of the Colossal Man.