of the "great positive Mind," so universally prevalent in that semi-barbarous age, and the apparently total ignorance of the distinguishing characteristics which separate the divine and the human. We will illustrate: some children, on passing through a wild portion of the State of Maine recently, reported they encountered a bear; and to prove they could not be mistaken in the animal, they described it as being a tall, slight-built animal, with long slender legs, of yellowish auburn hue, a short, white, bushy tail, cloven feet, large branchy horns, &c. Now, it will be seen at once that, while their description of the animal is evidently in the main correct, they had simply mistaken a deer for a bear, and hence misnamed the animal. In like manner we must conclude, from the repeated instances in which Christ's biographers have ascribed to him all the foibles, frailties, and finite qualities and characteristics of a human being, that if they have in any instance called him a God in a divine sense, it is an egregious misnomer. Their description of him makes him a man, and but a man, whatever may have been their opinion with respect to the propriety of calling him a God. And if the two do not harmonize, the former must rule the judgment in all cases. The truth is, the Jewish founders of Christianity entertained such a low, narrow, contracted, and mean opinion of Deity and the infinite distinction and distance between the divine and the human, that their theology reduced him to a level with man; and hence they usually described him as a man. CHAPTER XL. A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST IF Jesus Christ were truly God, or if there existed such a co-equal and co-essential oneness between the Father and the Son that they constituted but one being or divine essence, then what is true of one is true of the other, and a change of names and titles from one to the other cannot alter the sense of the text. Let us, then, substitute the titles found applied to the Son in the New Testament, to the Father, and observe the effect:-- "My Son is greater than I." (John vii. 28.) "God can do nothing of himself." (John v. 19.) "I must be about my Son's business." (Luke ii. 49.) "The kingdom of heaven is not mine to give, but the Son's." (Matt. xx. 23.) "I am come in my Son's name, and ye receive me not" (John v. 43.) "God cried, Jesus, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. xiii. 28.) "No man hath seen Jesus at any time." (1 John i. 5-) "Jesus created all things by his Son." (Eph. iii. 9.) "God sat down (in heaven) at the right hand of Jesus." (Luke xxii. 69.) "There is one Jesus, one mediator between Jesus and men." (Gal. iii. 20.) "Jesus gave his only begotten Father." (1 John iv. 9) "God knows not the hour, but Jesus does." (Mark viii. 32.) "God is the servant of Jesus." (Mark xii. 18.) "God is ordained by Jesus." (Acts xvii. 31.) "The head of God is Christ." (Eph. i. 3.)