The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 8

when he pointed

gregational minister touched a different chord,

his

audience to the Calvinists in Wales and in Holland, who, in keep-

more

ing

own churches

in kindling the love for their

But

children.

feeling

Even

crease. in

the general

pathy

that

the wilder-

in

England

in

is

in-

outside

the churches in the daily press this reflux

watched so keenly, and

is

considered to be of so far reaching conse-

papers

liberal

sym-

this increasing

ascribe

to

it

for

a large part, the

overwhelming majority which Lord Salisbury secured

For three-quarters of a century,

elections.

on the

still

spirit is

for Ritualism

quences,

the hearts of their

approaching ebbtide among

of an

Methodists and Congregationalists

whatsoever

difficulty in

was a voice of one crying

his voice

and the uneasy

ness,

had no

closely to their standards,

at the last

as they frankly ack-

nowledge, non-conformism had been the stronghold of the Liberals,

and

it

remarkable change

this

is

more

giously being

advantage of

tlie

ming forward

in

the public mind, which,

in

The

conservatives and unionists.

by

this

it

lowed

in

beats

in

social

mere

trifle

its

and

in church-life,

is

us,

in

if it

no small

In the long run

oneness of impulse.

The

track

almost spontaneously

is

So much

political affairs.

movement,

tell

movement.

ritualistic

forsake

matters of religion,

that this symbolical

a

same

human mind cannot

which

was no doubt

by Mr. Gladstone's persevering support

incidentally brought about

our

interesting co-

of the unionists under Mr. Chamberlain

of home-rule, but was countenanced, as they

proportion

reli-

favor of Ritualism, turns politically to the

to convince

carries the day, far

fol-

you

from being

on the contrary impregnated by an

energetic principle, which menaces to react upon our whole

human

existence and upon the whole history of the world.

The second siastically

church

it

In the

after

est service

more

first

is

to

(for I

emphasize that eccle-

be observed

in the

attraction

Episcopal

period the thirst of the non-conformistic

artistic

worship

is

duly

satisfied

conducted by a low-church minister. But

England people,

same

movement

has three stages)

itself.

renegade

of

stage of this

by the for the

church

things are very differently conditioned.

which the low-church

is

plain-

The

exercising upon a faltering

and wavering non-conformist, the episcopalian himself undergoes

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