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CHAPTER I
THE PEACE OF GOD — SALVATION — JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH
“What must I do to be saved?”
I begin, then, with what I take to be
the central knot and need of all religion,
“What must I do to be saved?” The
old monosyllable, which has sounded
so clearly since the coming of Christ
the S.O.S. call of humanity, utters, it
would seem, an ultimate need. And
yet, what is it? Saved from what?
The old word does not say; and this,
I think, is very significant. We are to
understand without telling, and I suppose
we do. “Saved from pain and danger
and hazardous enterprise?” No, that
