men to expect more from slow evolution than from a sudden change. “The spiritual expectations of the Christian Church are restrained by the accepted idea, or at least the expectations, of those who give the keynote to the temper and religious enterprise of our times.” Materialistic views of sin have a share in hindering both effort and expectation. Above all, the questions of the hour, and the desire to be perfectly fair in his statement of the old doctrines, paralyse many a preacher. “The result