Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 41: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea; December, 1927 But with the New Testament we find a totally new idea of God in the Gospels. The notion of a king is nearly gone. This God is consistently and constantly assimilated to a father and that is the word most frequently used to designate Him. This God is not angry nor jealous. He is quite indifferent to outer marks of respect and cares nothing for formal Observances. He is preeminently a moral God, and His service consists solely in ethical conduct. Such con duct alone does he reward, and unethical conduct alone does He punish. He is loving and protecting, not to the men of one race, but to all men. His power to punish is put in the background. The emphasis is laid upon his paternal affection and care for men. This is the burden of the Gospel teaching upon that point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.