of impressing the suggestions of superlative Love which can be trusted to the uttermost. Even the crude conception of the Father's "justice" being satisfied by the sacrifice of "the Son", however faulty both as Law and as Theology, in no way misses the mark from the metaphysical standpoint of Suggestion; and those who have not yet got beyond this stage in their conception of the Divine Being receive the assurance of the Divine Love towards themselves as completely as those who are able to grasp most clearly the sequence of cause and effect really involved; and for these latter it resolves itself into the simple argument a fortiori [with still greater reason - Ed.] that if the Universal Spirit could thus inspire one to die for us who was already beyond the necessity of death, then It cannot be less loving in the bulk than It has shown Itself in the sample.

Universal Law in Practice

It is an axiom that the Universal cannot act on the plane of the Particular except by becoming individualised upon that plane, and therefore we may argue that so far as it was possible for the Universal Spirit to give Itself to death for us, It did so in the person of Jesus Christ; and so we may say that to all intents and purposes God died for us upon the Cross to prove to us the Love of God. Let us, then, no longer doubt the fact of this Love but, realising it to the full, let us make the Cross of Christ not the mysterious end of an unintelligent religion, but the beginning of a bright, practical, and