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 of the question is unimportant. What is the necessity, they urge, of exact definition? Whether Jesus is Divine in any unique sense, or merely Divine as all men are claimed to be Divine; whether he is thought of as the Second Person of a Trinity of Persons, or as a splendid example to follow in life and teachings, what does it matter?

This argument is very much like asking what the advantage is of having a correct idea of our solar system and of the universe about us. It is true that men, before the discovery of the fact that the earth was round and turned on its own axis every twenty-four hours and circled about the sun once in three hundred and sixty-five days were just as happy and contented in many respects as afterward; but without our knowledge of the facts as they are Columbus could not have discovered the new world, the globe would not be circumnavigated as it is today, and all races and nations brought together almost as one community. The world of our day is not the world that believed in the fabrications of the ancients in regard to the earth and the sun and the universe; the knowledge of the facts has not only changed our conceptions, but also transformed