CHRISTIANS IN PARLIAMENT.
(From the London Spectator.) Mr Bright was severely reproached for saying that the working classes" care no more for the dogmas of Ohriatianity than ■ the upper classes care for the practice of that religion." That was rather a sweeping charge against theupp»r classes, no doubt; though we fear it is strictly true of all classes in the country, for our modern Christianity, even at its best, compared with the Christianity of Christ, is a sickly, pale, aud. weak affair. But ) Mr Bright's motive in saying it was not as we conceive, simply to throw out a taunt agaiuafc the upper classes, but rather to indicate why it is"that the workiug classes do shew their indifference to. the dogmas of Christianity namely, that they do not find bo much practical result from the Christianity of those who profess it. Now, which of us can stand .:■■ up and say that this is a false" charge, ii."'... of so practical and beneficent a kind that I 'the: : working classes .ought to be joalous of an attempt' to. undermine its dogmatio foundations fJustaß dogmatic orthodoxy fails to make a Christian, just so belief in God fails to make a good man and an upright politician.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 578, 25 September 1880, Page 2
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204CHRISTIANS IN PARLIAMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 578, 25 September 1880, Page 2
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