So far as the gospels relate, Jesus never had any experience with three of the chief difficulties of human life--sex, earning a living and illness. He was therefore less able to explain those relationships than one who has struggled through in the customary manner of mankind. To take the inexperienced Jesus as our guide in practical living would be like a traveller who was planning a trip over perilous mountains and engaged as a guide a man who had never crossed the mountains. As Jesus believed that the end of the world was approaching, and as he revealed no information about the future, his teachings should be taken as applying solely to his own time. A divinity living now would preach far differently from the inadequate doctrines of Jesus. * * * * * The abandonment of reliance upon a Jesus who has not changed in nineteen hundred years, in favor of an Evolutionary philosophy that requires constant change, leads to a new conception of the world and its possibilities for man. A person who has thought himself out of antiquated theology may be expected to have an open mind towards the betterment of human customs. Every improvement in human relationships originates secularly and is adopted by the Church only after a bitter struggle. Faith in Jesus is a reactionary force. The Christian opposes change in the creations of God; the Evolutionist seeks to alter every unsatisfactory condition. The Evolutionist is more responsive than the orthodox Christian to proposals for promoting the happiness of the human race. Many liberals have abandoned conservatism because they saw the hypocrisy in Christianity. FOOTNOTES: [1] Matt. xx, 1-16. [2] John x, 13. [3] Luke xvii, 10. [4] Matt. xxv, 30. [5] Luke xii, 47-48. [6] Matt. xviii, 23-34. [7] Matt. vi, 25-31, discussed under the Sermon on the Mount. [8] Luke vi, 20. [9] Matt. v, 25-26. [10] Luke xix, 23. [11] Matt. xxv, 20. [12] Mark x, 30. [13] Matt. xiii, 12. [14] Matt. ix, 6. [15] Mark viii, 23. [16] John ix, 6. [17] Mark x, 52. [18] Luke xxii, 51. [19] Matt. xxiv, 6-7. [20] Mark xiii, 7-8. [21] Luke xxi, 9-10. [22] Matt. xxvi, 52. [23] Luke xxii, 36-38. [24] Matt. x, 34. [25] Luke xii, 51. [26] Luke xix, 27. [27] John xviii, 36. [28] Luke xi, 21-22. [29] John ii, 15. [30] Matt. xix, 5-6. [31] Matt. xxii, 30. [32] Luke xx, 34-35. [33] Matt. v, 28. [34] Matt. xix, 12. [35] Luke xviii, 29-30. [36] John iv, 18. [37] John viii, 7-11. [38] Matt. xxi, 31. [39] Matt. v, 31-32. [40] John vi, 70-71. [41] John iv, 22. [42] Matt. x, 5-6. [43] John xii, 37. [44] John vii, 5. [45] Mark iii, 21. [46] John v, 30. AN INFERIOR PROTOTYPE