Pity that he could not have let "works" alone, seeing it was so important for the other Apostles to establish the one idea of justification by faith.

He made great trouble for Luther and his companions in their contest with Popery.

Luther had to reject his epistle; "_straminea epistola_" he called it,--an epistle of straw,--weak, worthless; and he denied its inspiration, because it conflicted with his doctrine of "faith alone." So much for trying to be candid and just, and for presenting the other side of a subject, or of a man, when the spirit of the age is averse to it, and candor is in danger of being looked upon as a time-serving thing.

Neither Paul nor James, however, had felt the tonic, bracing effect of good anti-slavery principles, or they would not have written, the one such a letter to a slave-holder, and the other such a back-oar argument against "faith alone." However, I am disposed to think well of Paul and James, notwithstanding these the great errors of their lives.

Indeed I can almost forgive them, when I am reading other things which they said and did.