REAL CHURCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 6

REAL CHURCH

INSPIRER OF SERVICE AND PROGRESS. “From the egoism, of religious persons—sometimes cynical as with the Borgias. sometimes devoted as with Luther—come the corruption and the divisions of the Church; so that a society founded to be the model of fellowship and to lead mankind into the way of peace is itself divided and cannot find the way to heal its own divisions,” said the Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple, in a recent address.' "Yet, in spite of all this, it remains true that the Church of Christ is the chief inspirer of service and progress in the world. The historical Church, when judged by the standard of its own vocation, falls under the condemnation common to all human associations; yet when judged by the standard accepted for those associations, it proves its divine origin and quality by its unceasing capacity to produce saints and heroes. If we ask by whom the day-to-day drudgery of philanthropy and social service is performed, we shall find that the share of Christian people, unknown and commonly unrewarded is very large. For within the historically organised Church is always the life of the true, the real Church, which is the life of Christ Himself; it is the presence of this within the historical Church which qualifies that historical Church to be called the Church at all. Those who really share in the life of the Church know that it is a glorious life and that the Church of Christ, in spite ol the faults of its members which have marred its historical ex- . pression of that life, is a fountain of spiritual, 'ov and Dower,”

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