BISHOP BARNES ON REASON.
“We cannot build either mortality or faith on ignorance, and a religious system which is hostile to conclusions accepted by educated men is dangerous to the welfare of the community in which exists,” said Bishop Barnes, .speaking at a Wesleyan gathering. “Religion is kept sweet and wholesome when the flowing waters of reason continually wash away dead fancies, and when the spiritual experience of living men revives the truth which have come from the past. A faith which fears reason and needs a special eccleciastical language tfor its expression ends by harbouring falsehood. When we succeed in building our modern culture into it we shall have another religious revival. That is why
we must accept evolution and Bibical criticism. liiey. are branches of knowledge which belong to the modern outlook. They form a background against which we necessarily set spiritual inquiry and illumination.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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147BISHOP BARNES ON REASON. Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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