Article May 16, 1908 Issue

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[The Church Times.]

To tell the truth, Christianity, generally, stands in need just now of a great impulse. . . . The heart of the Church is, on the whole, in the right place. Enlightened views and wise counsels are mostly in the ascendant. Yet, as a bishop said the other day, everybody to be waiting for nobody knows what, and a kind of paralysis lies upon far-seeing and courageous action. Is it the call of the Chief Shepherd, the compelling motion of the Holy Spirit, that is still lacking? Or is the defect of large initiative and enthusiastic purpose due to something in the spirit of the twentieth century? Is our moderation, our latitude of view, our wide comprehensiveness, our indefinitensess, our belief that every one is more or less in the right, claiming an inevitable corollary in incapacity for greatness? Did the immense spiritual, intellectual, and artistic construction of the Middle Ages demand for their genesis that "cocksureness" which has been complained of as the characteristic of medievalism? Seeing as we do that every question has many sides, are we doomed to hesitate on the brink of every problem and falter at the threshold of every opening door?

[The Christian Herald.]

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