truth the Prophet! That's the prophet for my money; the Man that can
make bread, and secure material well-being.' Have not certain modern
views of Christ's work and mission a good deal in common with these
vulgar old Jews--views which regard Him mainly as contributing to the
material good, the social and economical well-being of the world?

Now, I believe that He does that. And I believe that Christ's
principles are going to revolutionise society as it exists at
present. But I am sure that we are on a false scent if we attempt to
preach consequences without proclaiming their antecedents, and that
such preaching will end, as all such attempts have ended, in
confusion and disappointment.

They used to talk about Jesus Christ, in the first French Revolution,
as 'the Good _Sansculotte_.' Perfectly true! But as the basis of
that, and of all representations of Him, that will have power on the
diseases of the community, we have to preach Him as the Saviour of
the individual from his sin.

And so, brethren, has He saved you? Do you begin your notions of
Jesus Christ where His work begins? Do you feel that what you want
most is neither culture nor any superficial and external changes, but
something that will deal with the deep, indwelling, rooted, obstinate
self-regard which is the centre of all sin? And have you gone alone
to Him as a sinful man? As the Apostle here suggests, Jesus Christ
does not save communities. The doctor has his patients into the
consulting-room one by one. There is no applying of Christ's benefits
to men in batches, by platoons and regiments, as Clovis baptized his
Franks; but you have to go, every one of you, through the turnstile
singly, and alone to confess, and alone to be absolved, and alone to