ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to ignore or minimise the heinousness of sin and deprecates the attribution of wrath, anger, vengeance, and to the Creator of all things. The Bishop says that these terms are scriptural, and it was the enthusiasm generated by the feeling of sin overcome that constituted the motive power of primitive Christianity. Professor J. H. B. Masterman admits the crudity of ordinary statements of Christian doctrine, but justifies it as necessary to catch the attention of ignorant laymen who are accustomed to speak in terms of "blood" the author thinks it possible for the clergy to over-estimate the crudeness and ignorance of the laity. For devotional purposes the comparison of humanity with infinite Perfection, and infinite attributes generally, be appropriate and useful, though no finite emendation can be effective against it; as we rise in the scale our ideals rise too, so that there is a constant sense of imperfection.
