Every one must have remarked the waning sense of sin so characteristic of our age. If, after all, sin is not so sinful, then Jesus ceases to be the true and only Saviour and He retreats at once into the unrealities of the ideal. He is precious only in proportion as He saves from sin. He was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification. If not, the blood-writ story of the cross descends to the level of a mere incident in the history of hate. If in Adam all do not die because of sin, then in Christ all cannot and need not be made alive. If it is not true that all have sinned and must appear before the judgment seat of Christ to give an account of the deeds done in the body, then it is not true that the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin; and there is no righteousness of God through faith.

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