JAMES



and perhaps assist in carrying the good news
into all the world. For myself, I confess I
wish it could carry with it the full observance
of the Law of Moses; but we have agreed that
we shall not insist on this.
  To some people it seems as though we had
surrendered something of vital importance in
making this concession, but I cannot help be-
lieving that we are acting in the spirit of Jesus.
Ile had no favour for those who bind heavy bur-
dens upon men.    Religion for Him, did not
consist in any set of forms, but in a willingness
to know God's will and to follow it in loving
obedience. For what is true religion and un-
defiled before God, but to visit the widows and
the fatherless in their affliction and to keep one's
self unspotted from the world.
  I am much disturbed by some things which
Paul has been preaching. In his effort to adapt
the teaching of Christ to the Gentile world he
has seemed to me to make manv and strange
departures from the teaching which we hold
here in Jerusalem. He says much about faith
and speaks lightly of works, whereas it has al-
ways seemed to me that faith without works
would be dead, and that faith must be shown in
righteous works.  I have thought of writing
my views of these subjects and of giving some
practical admonitions concerning life in the
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