invoke, as confirming my present contention, the venerable names of the martyrs whose memorials we treasure here. Underneath that floor lies David Livingstone; just within that western wall is inscribed the name of Charles Gordon; all about you, as you walk through this great church, are monuments of goodness, and sacrifice, and service. What, you cannot help reflecting, is the spring of this distinctive and supreme excellence which, among so much and so varied greatness, attaches uniquely to these saints and soldiers of humanity? And you cannot but answer that it was, precisely, Religion, faith in the Unseen, the coercive and continuous sense of obligation towards and contact with God. Of them all we might say what the sacred writer says of Moses, exposed to the seductions of the Egyptian Court. They, as he, "endured as seeing Him, who is invisible." We feel that the popular poet is only uttering a half-truth when he sings— Lives of great men all remind us And departing leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. For in all human lives that can indeed be called sublime, there is present an element which cannot be described in terms of voluntary effort. 'God enters into those lives; they have their inspirations in no earthly hopes; the pilot stars which guide their course are high in the heavens. We feel that they can only be interpreted and described in terms of Religion. And if, leaving the spiritual giants, we come to men cast in a lesser mould, who have left on the page of history a record of mingled character in which elements of the heroic seem to be strangely combined with, and sometimes submerged by, other and lower elements, I think we find that all the redeeming greatness comes from Religion. They rise above themselves when they are religious. Such a man, strangely mingled of weakness and strength, was he whose name is associated with this pulpit, which now, after so long an interval, is restored to use. Archbishop Cranmer has indeed left behind him a memory heavily burdened with faults and failures. It is easy to build up against him an overwhelming indictment; and yet, I think, no one who studies his life without prejudice rises from his study without a very real conviction of his goodness. That last scene at Oxford, when the old Primate, broken with penitence, went through to the bitter end the protracted humiliations which his enemies had devised for him, was a real revelation of latent great ness, and he must be a hard man who grudges to Cranmer a place among the martyrs. I say that this fact of Religion stands related to the very noblest aspects of humanity, and underlies its worthiest achievements. The explanation, which alone can merit our acceptance, must be adequate. : Science is dumb, but in our ears is another voice which claims to be the Voice of the Author of our Being speaking intelligibly in merciful SelfRevelation. We must take our choice between the vague Theism or vaguer Agnosticism, which is all that physical Science can bring to us, and the Faith in God which Jesus Christ proclaims. There is the fact here is the explanation. Is it adequate? What, let us ask, is, apart from theological technicalities, the essential Truth which the Trinitarian. doctrine enshrines ? It will suffice, for our present purpose, to distinguish two constituent notions of our belief. On the one hand, Trinitarianism includes the truth which philosophy, ancient and modern, has insisted upon, that the universe is everywhere indwelt by God, that God is immanent in phenomena, their source, their sustaining principle, their formative, inherent force; and while thus satisfying what seems to be an essential requirement of our reflective reason, Trinitarianism insists upon the correlative truth which has its perpetual witness in the human conscience, that God transcends the universe which He indwells, that He can best be conceived in that description of Personality which is the category of the highest existence we know. On the other hand, Trinitarianism endorses, explains, and satisfies the "thirst for God" which burns in the spirit of man. For God has made man for Himself; and in man moves His Spirit for ever witnessing to an origin and a destiny which are Divine; and man, just in proportion to his goodness as man, comes to be more completely competent for fellowship with God, so that, in truth, manhood in its perfection is the true instrument by which God can be made known. Trinitarianism is the philosophic basis of the belief in the Incarnation; the Incarnation is, precisely, the climax of Divine Self-revelation, the declaration of God in and by Jesus Christ. Το this cry of the Psalmist, "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" Christianity answers by an appeal to the best in man, and then sets us in audience of the Best Man, who was also God. First, we are to recognise and confess the Divine within ourselves; then we are to recognise and confess the Divine in Christ. "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." All the message of all the prophets, Jewish and ethnic, is summed up in this single utterance. But that truth of the inherent righteousness of God, attested ever by the human conscience, could not sustain itself against the pressure of rival and plausible claimants on man's acceptance. Do we. . not know how hard it is even for us to hold that faith in God? The God-revealing goodness of man's nature is strangely obscured by traits of selfishness and depravity, so prevailing and so inveterate as to challenge to themselves the principal right therein; and on that wavering and divided humanity there are always bearing down the sinister pressures of a world grown old in evil, steeped in immemorial sin; and around every man always are the threatening witness of an universe which is as the vast shambles of perpetual and wanton slaughter, and the pitiful legend of human fate sobbing ever in the house of Life. Yes; I do not think the solitary witness within, unhelped, uncheered, unsanctioned, could hold its own against these manifold and besetting rivals. But Christianity not only authenticates the testimony within, but |