The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 7

THE ANTITHESIS BETWEEN SYMBOLISM AND REVELATION.

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Availing myself much pleasure of the opportunity which your kind invitation

my way, my design remarks

words to your honoured Society,

to say a few

in

to

give an elaborate lecture, but only to

on a subject that

falls

with puts

it is

make

not

a few

within the limits of your interests

and mine.

This subject

Revelation,

or the current of symbolical religion, which of late

is

the antithesis between Symbolism and

becoming almost dominant

in

England, and now already

in

is

a

considerable degree menaces our Calvinistic church-life.

The

facts

need

England there ren

any proof.

hardly

generation

are abandoning the paths of their

and are publicly and earnestly declaring

for the episcopalian services.

one of the chief topics tion:

how

to

keep the

in

you

looked

more

for.

their preference

In one general assembly after another

order has been the ever-returning ques-

rising generation in the fold. In so

you have followed the debates on taken,

All over non-conformistic

no end of complaint, that so many of the child-

second

of the

fathers,

is

this question,

much

as

and the resolutions

know in what way improvement at times has been The astonishing proposition to make non-conformism

also

attractive,

school,

or

sports,

speaks

by connecting with the church a dancing or boxing

a large

room

volumes.

for ///door I

and a broad

remember

that

field for c'z^/door

two years ago a Con-

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