THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 4

THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

I Christianity is. in its ideal, the highest. the final, the absolute Religion. Ii j is the transcendant end ol' a long pro- ! cess of spiritual development which, j while special, is organically related tc the religions' progress ol mankind. It ; recognises, assimilates and unities the ; facts of history, the deepest spiritual needs and the intuitive deliverances of facts in a supreme satisfaction to them all. It throws out divers factors and I principles as sufficient liases for all I the manifold activities of human lile. I II constrains every other religion with I which it comes in contact to select for emphasis its points of affinity wrtli Christianity as the condition of its surviving the contact. It so welds Divin--1 ity with Humanity as to make religion at once .Mystic and Moral. Rational and Humane. Any alternative to il that has keen proposed represents either such an evacuated version ol it as will satisfy religiosity, or the selection ol such particular elements or iL as, when furnished with a mundane or subjective foundation, may supply the utilitarian necessities of special moral and social concerns. On the plane of Religion Christianity can never he superseded. because ii gives an account ot Reality, of which the only criticism is that it is too good to be true. 11 does so under the highest, conceivable doctrine of Ond His fatherhood as revealed in Christ—and under the highest. spiritual principle, that ot the Sovereignty of hove, as exemplified in

( lirist. On this foil udii tit hi it rears a, spirtual structure in which the hiulicst mysticism is combined with the widest catholicity, in which the loftiest inspiration is united with the highest standards and the most far-reuehino obligations of practical life.—Rev. J. Stott Liditett in ‘■The Contemporary Review. - ’