The Breadth Freeness And Yet Exclusiveness Of The Gospel

Edward Horae, through this work, attempted to consider whether the Gospel, as revealed in Scripture, is really broad or really narrow. He stated that while openly admitting that the most general statement of the Gospel is most probably the truest, it is yet to be decided which statement really is the broadest and on which side can the narrowness be found. He tried to answer this question by applying the tests of breadth and fulness to the message of salvation as revealed in the Gospel.

THE subject has, I presume, been chosen for our discussion, in order to meet the aspersions of those who claim for their own system the merit of breadth, comprehensiveness, and large-heartedness, while they speak of our Gospel as the narrow-minded theology of a body of men whose contracted intellects are so cramped and stunted that they are unable to take in the broad views of the nineteenth century. Such persons consider themselves broad, and us narrow; and their teaching to be characterized by largeness, ours by narrowness; theirs by generosity, ours by bigotry; theirs by comprehensive philanthropy, ours by an exclusive interest in a small section of the human family.