any immediate influence on our Christian life. They may only lead us back again, though with quickened gratitude and deepened interest, to His death. The cross may still be in our eyes the grand termination of His redeeming work. But the view thus taken, even if so far correct, is as a whole in a high degree imperfect; and the teaching of the New Testament distinctly shows us that it is so. Thus in John 10:17, 18, we read, “Therefore doth the Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I may