When everything necessary to ascending life; when all that is strong, courageous, masterful and proud has been eliminated from the concept of a god; when he has sunk step by step to the level of a staff for the weary, a sheet anchor for the drowning; when he becomes the poor man's god, the sinner's god, the invalid's god par excellence and the attribute of saviour or redeemer remains as the one essential attribute of divinity just what is the significance of such a metamorphosis?