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 spread to most continental countries has helped to concentrate attention upon the physical activities of man. But there is a deeper reason for the failure of Christianity in its insistent attempts to foist on to Western nations that are distinctively materialistic, combative, and individualistic, in their real aims and interests, ideals of character and conduct out of keeping with their nature and traditions. The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is so evidently divergent from our real feelings about men and women’s characters and conduct as to drive its teachers to all sorts of evasive interpretations. It is not a question of gradual spiritual advances towards the adoption of the Christian teaching. The character of Jesus, though commanding a conventional respect and even admiration, is not the ideal character of an English gentleman, an English sportsman, or an English business man, an English scholar, even an English clergyman. The full Christian