Article February 17, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from Ryle, G. W. Briggs, James Adderley, James Muir, John Reid Shannon

[Bishop Ryle, Dean of Westminster, in The Guardian]

The hope of the Christian church depends upon the hope of a great number of Christian individuals. I believe a new hope is entering into their souls; and the hopeful will sweep along with them the hesitating. As has been truly said of the state of things before the war, "The modern world had, frankly and increasingly, left God out." The world which leaves God out of the reckoning quickly finds itself devoid of hope. Our solid ground of hope lies in this,—that we are beginning to seek God again; and they that seek shall find. The materialistic philosophy of life has received a fatal blow. The only working alternative is that spiritual philosophy of life which in the faith of Jesus Christ makes its supreme claim upon men's conscience, and in the experience of the ages of the Christian church has received a continually recurring justification.

[The Living Church]

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