In taking up this subject we would cherish, rather than at all suppress, the sentiment that becomes every student within Christendom of writings which have established themselves in the consciousness of man as none others. Every reader must be aware of the effect upon civilization of the spread of them. Alike do skeptics and positive opponents of New Testament truth acknowledge the beneficial results to society of the precepts enshrined in the familiar volume. They will allow that man has thereby learned how to think of himself, how of his fellows and the relations between them, in such wise as ethical treatises of the old world failed to teach, notwithstanding that the same need was felt in ancient times as now; how, moreover, man shall think of heaven and its claims upon him-modified as may be the admission thereof-of the future state and its dread realities. But mere evidence of this, sufficient as it is for educating the judgment, cannot satisfy the aspirations of man.