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52 The idea that has generally been regarded as the opposite of this is the doctrine of Unitarianism—One God, the Father, and that Jesus Christ is not to be worshipped as God, but to be revered as a divine messenger sent to awaken the world to a sense of its sins. This view has been very ably advocated, and quite recently public attention has been directed to it, owing to the fact that the Rev. C. Voysey has been teaching this and other views considered to be contrary to the articles of belief.

The line of argument taken up by Mr. Voysey is the strongest that we have ever seen upon that side of the subject. He endeavours to show that the expressions, "God in Christ," "Son of God," "God manifest in the flesh," do not imply that Jesus is really God. We cannot better discuss the subject of the Saviour's divinity than by examining his views and line of argument.

The teaching of Mr. Voysey upon the subject of the divinity of the Saviour is—so far as we can gather it from among the somewhat hazy expressions that he uses—to this effect. In the degree that there is any thing good and true in man, God is in man, and God was in Christ in a more marked manner than in other men, because He was of so much more exalted character than the common level of humanity.

The great object that Mr. Voysey has had in view throughout the course of his teaching, he expresses in relation to this branch of his subject in the following