Orthodox Christianity is built upon the doctrine² of the Fall of Man and the damnation of mankind, but I could find only the rarest and remotest allusions³ to this ground beneath the Christian¹ corner-stone of salvation⁴ in the bale of sermons I examined. There is no evidence that Sanderson ever denied the fallen state of man, but he never alluded⁵ to it, and the general effect of his teaching went far beyond a mere⁶ avoidance. As his teaching developed, another word, a word infrequent in the gospels, became dominant⁷, the word 'creative.' For any mention of 'salvation' you will find twenty repetitions of 'creative.' So far as I can gather he took the word from a hitherto unrecognised Christian father, St. Bertrand Russell. And I should submit the following passage from a sermon on The Garden of Life, to any competent theological body with very grave doubts whether they would accept it as consistent with the teaching of any recognised Christian Church.  
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'God had created man, and had moulded and fashioned him, and had breathed into his nostrils⁸ the breath of life, and man became a living soul, possessed⁹ of the divine and eternal indestructible spirit, the God-like spirit which would fill him with the glorious and life-giving spirit of unrest, of unsatisfied longings¹⁰ and desire, of the instinctive¹¹ natural urge to have more of life. A mighty¹² power, a dynamic creative force, a daemonic increasing urge—against which the forces of hell, of destructiveness, of caprice, of lawlessness, of the jungle, cannot prevail. Under this power man and the races of man progress: but without this mental fight, this constant struggle, no life can come. I dwelt on this fact last time I spoke¹³ to you, having in mind the mental or intellectual aspect of it, especially for those of you who are working for some searching examinations: for without a persistent¹⁴, painful, and often enough disappointing effort the understanding of things will not come to you, or to any of us.
 
'Be true to yourselves, suffer no artifice¹⁵, or artificial understanding, to throw dust in your eyes. Do not struggle for a static victory. Be true to yourselves. Do not struggle for your own[Pg 88] recognition, as it were, or for the mere appearance of knowledge—rather struggle to enter into the kingdom, the kingdom of service.
 
'And where can you find the inspiration and urge of life? The source is wonderfully drawn¹⁷ out for us in the illuminating¹⁸ and suggestive commentary on Genesis you have the advantage to study. A great human book is Canon Driver's Commentary, digging out for us the deep truths of life embedded¹⁹ in the ancient myths of Genesis. A study in the use of words; of what we can learn from words; a new form of text-book. Such a text-book as we should have for the new era. This picture of the coming and making of man tells us a story of the widest applicability. It is found in all the works of God; it is found in all our surroundings; it is found in all our work and toil²⁰; it is found most fully¹⁶ and actively²¹ in all our daily working life. God, we are told, made a garden for man, and there He placed him and gave him charge of it; and there the Lord God came and walked with man, and communed with man, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. And there He gave him his chief aim of life, his one purpose. And the Lord God took man, and put[............