APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY.
"It is possible to accept every doctrine of the: Christian faith - and yet bo' destitute of. the essential,requisite of the Chrißtiafl'ifo,". said Dr. Guinness Rogers at the Merchants'; ■Leoture." n Tho essential quality, of the Christian religion is love, and love* will manifest itself in. obedience, -fcb: the. Christian ideal, - The apostles in their endeavours to cultivate the. .religious life- of' their converts did- not enter into controversy.'; Tlioit- aim wai to deepen and?strengthen-the inspiration' t-hey.' had, already: received.- .The-, mission of the Church , to-day ought to be based upon the.ajiostolic'mpdeL .That, model was not to build- up.', an' organised community, or es-i tablish a new system of philosophy, Still less was it to establish an order of priesthood. ' It:was : simply' to inspire men to realise their, life in God." - , • '-. i
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 13
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133APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 13
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