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Rh of justifying Christianity to the modern world. The reader will notice how anxiously they aim at placing themselves at the point of view of the student and thinker of to-day. In the spirit of true apostleship, they endeavour throughout to understand how the claim of Christianity to be the truth must present itself to the scientist and the critical historian. They trace the stages by which alone he will be able to recognize the validity of that claim. They understand that truth cannot be merely imposed and passively accepted, but must be actively sought and found. They see what the initial attitude of the critical historian towards the Bible and the Church must be. They know the process by which alone he can come to accept the Christian estimate of their value and significance. It is that attitude which they have here