If Christ Jesus did not come to this world to die for sinners, and so to save sinners, what necessity was there of any divine Christ at all? The prophets and apostles were as grand men as ever walked this earth of God’s. They taught the grandest of truths, and died martyrs thereto. If this were all, what better is Christ than they? One might as well believe in Isaiah, or Jeremiah, or John, or Paul. We have never been fortunate enough to meet a man or to find an author who denied the vicarious atonement of Jesus Christ, who could give an intelligent reason why the world needs a Divine Christ, or who could state, in language that ordinary mortals could understand, what He came to this world for.

”