LIBERALIZED ORTHODOXY.

Kumara Times, Issue 436, 18 February 1878, Page 2

LIBERALIZED ORTHODOXY.

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j; i! Generally, it f m.ay‘ *lfc said. there is a-good deal more f animiiti6b jiist‘‘iWav ;iu.-the reigon of • ( theology th.au .in that of.politics., ,The ; Bish<ip : pt*. o;^hQ 1 has latterly benr*me a■gr&it..stickler for iho dignity df W» Kpisc-Jikl'offi6e, has, just ,! delivered .a sprightly} and evpp, i attack on. Mr. John Bright for irreveri ant remarks bri Div Benson and the ; hrandnewness: of the Bispprio, of Truro. ; Dr.; Magee onty wants a ptle,'more geniality of. nature and. courtesy of i manner j fairly; to ;fill; .the,; place once ■ occupied :ijv,the W.iks of English churchmauahip by-. rl Samuel 4 ‘ Wilberforce. More sensation attractions in purely theological questions have notr been . wanting. , QannornFarrar has preached a s sermon ht Weatihiniter Abbey, ,conji dejimirig the,doctrine of eteynal .puniahj meat aara. mischievous, apd-- picked J superstition, ridiculing the notion i of ‘a) ihatetial hell - jirogagrited/.by St. r Augustine, asserting that the texts on j which, the belief was founded realtyalisj proved the idea, and , informing ithe , revisets f of Bible ? thdf jf/thoy did ' their duty, such words.as “eternal,” j'“ damnation,” and <e hell,” V6ixld J be entirety expunged from the new edition ; of the Sacred Book. " We , wonderfully ih dur ideas of liberality 'arid religious propriety^ : :‘ih'' : the' ? last i twenty jears. “ Bssjtys - arid; Rdviriws” i will now ’be regavd&V as quite an hrthei f !px workj.and whpji F. n.;HritiMde 'Wfts ' ’.'Col’lV'ge I ,'' bhe 1 said 'n v otbi'rig half so J 'dar£rig As. which Qanon Fal-rar’, ha'd ! preached, i doubtlei-fr s with - perfect* lidpiinitv, at I Westthiriate'r.' 1 ’ 11 ' ' ►-11 <'l