Christ's sole and singular relation to the whole race. There are profound truths embodied in this relation.
(a) There is implied the adequacy of Christ for all He is for all, because He is the only and all-sufficient Saviour. By His death He offered satisfaction for the sins of the whole world. Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.' Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name,' etc.
(b) The divine purpose of mercy for all. God will have all men to be saved, and to come to a knowledge of the truth.'
(c) The adaptation of the Gospel message to all. It deals with all men as on one level. It addresses universal humanity. Unto you, O men, I call, and My voice is to the sons of men.' It speaks the same language to all sorts of men, to all stages of society, and in all ages. Christianity has no esoteric doctrine, no inner circle of the initiated.' Consequently it introduces a new notion of the unity of humanity, and knows nothing of privileged classes.
Note the history of Christianity in its relation to slavery, and to inferior and down-trodden races, Christianity has no belief in the existence of irreclaimable outcasts,' but proclaims and glories in the possibility of winning any and all to the love which makes godlike. There is one Saviour, and so there is only one Gospel for all the world.'
