Time's Gentle Anodyne

New Zealand Tablet, 20 August 1908, Page 10

Time's Gentle Anodyne

rimes gcn.lt anodyne is fast, softening' ,!„ olden asperities rlcl' fT S '" ?i ° US »«""•; Times was-ond within easy needed" n 8 ™7^-«*e">e,,. clergymen of some repute rtri., „ •■■■ En ,8 1 ?« d ''>"=' +«m>rE«y !.„„ other qualification Lth "« Cal "?; fc «JSi?a 'hah to be so disposed; and the abundance of the spirit was made manifest in the vehem 'paid t 'f,*^"**- 1 '"*• «-*«.• added he "s" s r^i^o^^---sis gladly allowed that- Church to ' b et cWch "/ T ' of English- Protestants to speak of thf th£ loLv .7 ,1 2"^ Church and of the intellectual powe o £llool o * f™*^ her claims is passing. . How it could ever W- e b 'r * * that she had the undivided control of the^ hL'T " '° rgOtt * n.--thought fO,f 0 ,. C entu r ies, and

had the allegiance, not merely of blind enthusiasts and impasP sioned saints, but of the. brightest genius s and the wealthiest learning, the keenest logical . acuteness, ~ incomparable sagacity, and .the ..loftiest eloquence is unintelligible. And no one who has any, acquaintance with the writings of that stately -succession of scholars and theologians who have gradually built up the vast and wonderful structure of Romish belief will ever dream- that the. mere -diffusion _of-education, or a general increase of intellectual activity, will render hearty, faith in the creed of the Church of Rome impossible." '