_Sixth_.—In our conception of Jesus as our Saviour, we should not separate his death from his resurrection and ascension. If he died for our sins, he rose again for our justification. He is now exalted as a Prince and a Saviour at the right hand of the Father, to give repentance and the remission of sins. United to him by faith, and changed into his image, our resurrection is assured by his, and because he lives we shall live also. As oft as we “eat this bread and drink this cup,” we do show forth his death TILL HE COME. “Henceforth,” (said[9] the great Apostle) “there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day, and not only to me, _but also to all them that leave loved his appearing_.” “And[10] the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he that heareth let him say, Come; and he that is athirst let him come; he that will, let him take the water of Life freely.” [1] It is one of the marvels of sin and shows the effrontery of Satan, that Hooykaas, who is about as rank an infidel as Strauss himself, should be pastor at Rotterdam, a Doctor of Divinity, and entitle his book, which laboriously excludes everything miraculous or supernatural in relation to Jesus, “The Bible for Learners.” Mr. Chadwick, while admitting that he is not a Christian in the original sense of the word, argues against Strauss (with whom he agrees in sentiment) the right to apply the term to himself, but meaning by it only “a stream of tendency,” “freedom, progress and civilization.” “It may be,” he says, “that some of you conceive that my definition of Christianity does worse than include those who are at pains to prove themselves not Christians. It includes the dangerous classes of society; it includes the men of vice and crime. There is no doubt of it.” (See _Free Religious Index_ for March 17, 1881, March 24, 1881, and March 31, 1881.) Mr. Miln recently _preached a sermon_ upon “The Church of the Future,” from which he said all speculative beliefs as a condition of membership will be excluded, even the belief in a personal Deity. (See _Index_ for February 23, 1882.) He does not believe in prayer other than communion with himself. (See _New York Observer_ of February 23, 1882.) If Mr. Savage has not yet gone as far, he stops but little short of it. [2] So expressed in a creed drawn up by him in 1807. (See _Congregationalist_ of February 15, 1882.) A copy of this creed was read at the centennial anniversary of his birth (January 18, 1882) by the Congregational Church of Salisbury, New Hampshire. He joined this church on profession of faith September 13, 1807, and never removed his connection. (See _New Hampshire Journal_ of January 28, 1882.) [3] See chap. xiii. p. 67, _ante_. [4] In the _North American Review_ for August, 1881, p. 118. [5] Starkie on Evidence, Vol. II., Sec. 10, and note upon Hume. [6] Greenleaf’s Testimony of the Evangelists, p. 478.