look for it elsewhere when it blossomed with such divine glory in the life of the Founder?  This is the highest spiritual synthesis conceivable.  The world has known nothing greater, and nothing greater is to be known.  This is the Eternal element in Christianity which has to be possessed and preserved and furthered.  If we ask the question concerning the success or failure of Christianity in the future, the answer is to be found by answering the question, Is Love to God and Love to man found within it to-day?  If we are able to answer in the affirmative, we are thereby answering the question in regard to the future duration and conquests of Christianity.  And if it possesses [p.187] this element deeply enough, it can adopt any existential-form which appears true without any kind of alarm.  If we have to answer in the negative, there is no guarantee as to persistence of Christianity in the future.  Anything less than the spiritual nucleus of Love is lacking in strength necessary to withstand the storms of the future.

We thus see that the essence of Christianity and its durability do not lie in any kind of theology:  it lies within the Spiritual Substance which has abode within it throughout the centuries.  Here will the world find its peace and power; here will all social complexities be solved; here will the meanings and blessings of the spiritual over-world of goodness and love become the possession of man.  This is what Eucken means by contending that it is not the business of Christianity to deal with social problems in any light but the light of Infinite Love.  Without an experience of this deepest source of Christianity, we do not possess the equipment for doing anything more than patching and re-patching the evils of the world.  And all our patching, when but a small span of time has passed away, will leave the situation just as it was, or probably worse.  Every solution will give birth to a new complexity; the world may be incessantly active in connection with the betterment of the social situation,’but we shall never heal the wounds of individuals and of nations until they are [p.188] brought to the depth of the spiritual life revealed in Christianity as Eternal Love.  “A warm love towards all humanity runs through Christianity; it longs to redeem every individual; it gives man a value beyond all special achievements and on the other side of all mental and moral deeds; it has been the first to bring the pure inwardness of the soul to a clear expression.  But it has also, through the linking of the human to a Divine and Eternal Order, raised life beyond all that is trivial and merely human with its civic ordinances and social interests.  He who, with the best intention, views Christianity as a mere means for the betterment of the social situation, draws it from the heights of its nature, and deprives it of the main constituent of its greatness—­the emancipation from the petty-human within the depths of the human itself.  It is essentially the nature of Christianity that it