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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 19 May 1913, Page 3

_ Sir, —It would be well if wo could at times detach our minds from our theological conceptions of Christ, truo and reverent as they may be, and endeavour to estimate the immense intellectual force which He has exerted on tho world. Where is there any force approaching it or liko to it? What other words have gone on echoing in the human mind, through the last eighteen centuries, and begetting from age to age new evolutions and revolutions of thought and a constantly progressive vision of conduct?" The more deeply this phenomenon : is studied the more clearly will it appear that merely considered as an intellectual force there has never been in this world any influence comparable with that of Clirisfs. There is a story, of Napoleon who ono day in St. Helena, after a prolonged study of the Gospels, closed the Book and said: "I am an understander, a reader of men. I tell you this man was more than a man," and he finished his letter by saying that one night a group of literary men were discussing . how they would feel if suddenly the great men of the past entered the room. "And if Shakespeare entered," said ono to Charles Lamb, "what then ?" "We should all rise." said Lamb. "And if Jesus Christ? "Wo should all kneel," ho replied, bowing his head as ho spoke. The distinction between Christ and all others who have over spoken to tho minds and souls of men could not bo more finely put.—l am, etc., A GRANDFATHER.