religion and the Christian Church. ” There is not,” he writes, ” and never will be any recon-ciliation between Christianity and the experimental method. Christianity is the great Church and nothing else is Christianity. To call anything else Christianity is to plunge into confusion and chaos ; and it is an insult to Christianity. Christianity is a great thing, not a little one ; one thing not many things ; a rich thing not a poor thing ; a majestic thing not a thing of shreds and patches. Christianity is Christianity at its noblest, truest and most comprehensive, and that is the Catholic Church.
If you desire to be a Christian, join it. It will make no demands upon you that are more fearful than the demands made upon you by any peddling form of Christianity. It asks no greater sacrifice than Little Bethel or the Church of England ; and it does not insult your intelligence by inviting you to become a member of a contradiction in terms.” *
But when we have reached this point there is no longer any reason for one who is not under the influence of rationalist or Protestant prejudices to refuse to admit that the historic faith and life of the Church were founded on the life and gospel of the historic Jesus. It is, in fact, * J. Middleton Murry, God, p. 229.
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