Clergymen Should be Men of this World.
"ifeis-abspltitely nc<jes?ary that the clergy ■ should betriehfef 'tKe world in the best sense .of that much-abused phrase. They should: iknbw. aigreat dcalf notfonly.of the.' peopl6 of; '.thiJfiist.brit of the people of the. j nineteenth \ ,'centbry; They^shbuld4ie acqaaintebl nofconly ( ,'witli the learned apeculationiaiof. the school-; .men,. but also^with tke uhleaTOod>pßcuUitioj)& : «ii&plermiuded folk : in thictt ipitialies. , Thus -*he,chtiroh,ihough4xi »; different, vwayy may 1 again: become th.e:pbwer which it was ip, the :ao.call6d^ ageg, . of. faith, and - represent not- . <only. fche.aplendid achieYementa of .a vanished 1 -,past> but the jnore.iiplendid triumphs of a living t)teaeftti. :. ),,i' '• .■: , ..; ....; ■.>.,.,:-..:. ..■: : ' „; Andiinuaddf easing ithetrißelve^. to .the needs uof tbftßgoi'.dthe'.iclergyijwill. ibe^doing onlyi ' iirhatliastbeßn! idone before- ,by. the: church, . J ,x)yer.andloVert»gaiiii . iWhSt isinow ;accepted vl>ecaape of thestamp of antiquity, •„■ we : must •*«tpetafeSr,oiyas:joiiee looked *n witfeß.uspicion "'ihecausecit what',is L now; so . «rude:and newj,i or;«vtin radical, >; will one day 'liaTef^tieflsta&tioniOfciarTenemble. antiquity. <3hra<iianity ; itt.eK;ww, at .the.;beffioning, a 'Mew thing>:;rtnd!tt conquered ite plaqfi4n/the of ißjiajakindj.not because- it., appseled f "*Qlthori>Wt*>fe»fe becanse.it::lwd.ft:iqeas<ige; for &ft tfrabbtog life 9% its ■ age, That j^e^age - aflay h9 m&pM fifa) : *» to-day,. if f i modern , T MeftcW9K'«#;c.oijcern. itself with the aeeda J^d longings of 'taodern men.
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 309, 30 November 1883, Page 5
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192Clergymen Should be Men of this World. Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 309, 30 November 1883, Page 5
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