The modern doctrine of the universal fatherhood of God then, which is being celebrated as the essence of Christianity, really belongs at best only to that vague natural religion. And when it is regarded as a reassuring, all-sufficient thing, it comes into direct opposition to the New Testament. The gospel itself refers to something entirely different. There is nothing narrow about such teaching, for the door of the household of faith is open wide to all. That door is the new and living way which Jesus opened by his blood. If we really love our fellow men, we shall not go about the world with the liberal preacher trying to make men satisfied with the coldness of a vaguenatural religion. But by