A HIGHER TYPE OF RELIGION

Chronicle (Levin), 16 March 1946, Page 3

A HIGHER TYPE OF RELIGION

Private irresponsible religiosity, an affair of v/hims and personal likes and dislikes, attaching or detaching itself according to the preacher, or even the weatner, makes personal feeling the final arbiter as to duty — and this, whatever it is, is not the religion of the Gospel and the Church. God nceds j and means to have, His own community, within the community. He| still works chiefly through His i Church. What Teresa said to her! nuns, "Christ has no body now on j earth but yours, no hands but i yours," is said to me. Woe to me if ! I look for signs of revival in others I and know not its new life in myself . j If that light we seek to see in i others is darkened in us, how great | is the darkness ! As Dr. Temple has j said, "There is some part of the ! Church's life which waits till we are ' willing to liye it." It means that ! every true' member has a ministry, I and that one girl teaching humblyj and devotedly in a Primarv Depart- j ment on Sundays and serving in a: draper's shop, as for her God, on week-days, is of more real value in modern ■ society than a whole t faculty of philosophers who debate] about The Absolute and adjourn for J coffpp — Rev. H. S. Darbv. M.A.