Of this wonderful growth and moving revelation, it can be said, in a way deeper than the old typological and prophetic methods of study could understand, that Christ is the aim and the goal; not only Jesus of Nazareth with His unique Personality, but that still more transcendent mystery, the Christ within the heart, Christ the head of every man. If we have learned nothing else, surely we have learned this: that behind the hopes of mankind, behind their misty dreams, their gropings after truth, their struggles for righteousness, are the eternal thoughts of God; and although these may transcend their poor reflection in the mind of man, as the heavens the earth, yet this remains: that for every hope implanted, there is an answer beyond our expectation; for every desire Godward, the revelation of the Father-friend; for every ideal of the human heart, the Christ; and for every effort after human progress, the ever nearer coming of the Kingdom of God. INDEX Abraham, emigration of, 23; historicity of, 36; religion of, 31, 34 _Adonai_, 60 Ahijah, 117 Altars, erected anywhere, 98; construction of, 200 Amaziah, 118 Amos, 98, 118, 136, 148, 152, 159, 271 Animals, as tribal names, 39; clean and unclean, 40; worship of, 26, 39, 68, 124 Animism, 40, 41 Apostasy, 90, 129 Arabia, home of Semites, 20, 22 Ark, 69, 70, 121, 180 Armageddon, 272 Aryan conception of God, 25 Asaph, 222, 225 Asherah, 46 Ashtoreth, or _Ashtart_, 94 Assembly of the saints, 223 Assyria, 156, 160, 161 Atonement, 102, 208; of Christ, 210, 211; Day of, 177, 178 Azazel, 42, 207, 208 Baal, 38, 92, 96, 98 Baal of Tyre, 94, 109, 125. See also under Melkart Babylon, fall of, 185; Jews in, 169-174, 179, 185, 204 Babylonian epic of Creation, 205; influence of, 204-206 Babylonian religion, 186 Balaam, prophecy of, 271 Ban, the, 49 Blood, significance of, 26, 208; food of deity, 48 Book of the Covenant, 200 _Bosheth_, 94, 97 Bull-worship, 68, 98, 124 Calf-worship. See under Bull Canaan, influence of, 27, 83-86, 170; conquest of, 82, 86, 87; Jewish love for, 83; limitations of, 84 Canaanites, customs of, borrowed, 92, 98; origin of, 23, 24; religion of, 38, 92-95; sanctuaries of, 98, 158, 163; why not exterminated, 90; and Hebrews, 87 Centralization of worship, 144, 157, 163 Chemosh, 43 Choice of Israel, Jehovah's, 75; prophetic conception of, 156, 187 Christ the goal of Old Testament, 282. And see under Jesus Christianity, 101, 274 Chronicler, the, 221 Circumcision, 50, 180 Comparative religion, 38 Conditions of life among Semites, 20; in time of Judges, 87; after exile, 196, 232; in time of Psalms, 226, 231, 232; reflected in Wisdom lit., 247; in Ecclesiastes, 259; in Messianic age, 273 Covenant at Sinai, 58, 65; prophetic conception of, 76, 157, 267