faith in the grace of God, as manifested in Jesus Christ alone, on the grounds that it did not touch the vast number of people who had lived before the time of Christ. The answer, of course, is that it did touch those people and that salvation through Christ was just as possible hundreds of years before He appeared on this earth as it has been since He has come and performed the actual work of expiation for our sins through the shedding of His blood. If Christianity were a religion founded by Jesus