Article May 2, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[The Churchman.]

The Bishop of Gibraltar in a recent pastoral issued in connection with the approaching Pan-Anglican Congress has spoken some plain words on the immediate needs of the Church.... He exposes the tendency of churches and the clergy to go wrong by wilful blindness and by perversity in disregarding the consequences of past faults. "Corporate selfishness," the pastoral affirms, "is as much a sin in a religious body as it is in a nation or in a limited liability company; and God does not allow even His Church to have a monopoly of the truth.... There can be no doubt," he continues, "that in our one-sidedness and our sectarianism of spirit we have again and again missed our opportunites, and belied the unique catholicity of the heritage that is ours.... It would hardly be too much to say that the history of the English Church, and that of every other Church, is a history of what God has done for mankind, not because of us, but in spite of us; not through any good thing of ours, but in spite of all our wilfulness and blindness and perversity."

[The Hartford (Conn.) Seminary Record.]

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