When the pre requisites of ascending life, when everything strong, plucky, masterful and proud has been eliminated from the concept of God, and step by step he has sunk down to the symbol of a staff for the weary, of a last straw for all those who are drowning; when he becomes the pauper's God, the sinner's God, the sick man's God par excellence, and the attribute Saviour, Redeemer, remains over as the one essential attribute of divinity: what does such a metamorphosis, such an abasement of the godhead imply?