Neither  can  claim  to  be  the  superior  of  the  other  in
point  of  spiritual  life,  for  each  confesses  the  ex-
periential knowledge  that  the  fundamental  element
of  all  faith  is  the  gospel  of  salvation  revealed  by
Jesus.  The  real  line  of  cleavage  lies  in  the  differ-
ent values  placed  upon  the  doctrinal  legalism  of
ecclesiasticism.  One  party  is  perfectly  sincere  in
insisting  that  there  is  no  genuine  Christianity  ex-
cept as  men  believe  in  the  infallibility  and  perma-


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nent  authority  of  the  inspired  Scripture,  the  Nicaean
formulas  for  the  person  of  Jesus  and  the  Anselmic,
legal  formulas  for  the  doctrine  of  the  atonement.
The  other  party  insists  that  it  too  would  have  the
truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus,  but  that  it  believes  in  the  in-
spiration of  the  Scriptures  as  the  progressive  revela-
tion of  God's  will  known  in  the  experience  of  the
spiritual  life  of  God;  in  Jesus  as  a  unique  and
individualized  revelation  of  God  in  history  with-
out full  pronouncement  as  to  the  metaphysical,
premundane  nature  of  a  Logos;  in  the  necessity  of
the  death  of  the  Christ  as  an  integral  part  of  his
vocation  as  Saviour.  Yet  to  the  one  party  as  to  the
other  God  has  spoken  in  the  regenerate  life  bom  of
Himself.  To  both  the  gospel  is  a  positive,  vital
message  of  salvation.
