The Speech of God'

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 10

The Speech of God'

The Rev. R. J. Campbell— he of the icvamped old errors known; "as the 'new theology '—has found it in his he>rt to say kindly things of the' Ancient Faith. In the course of a recent sermon; in the City Temple., Lorfdqn (3S( 3S reported in the Christian- Commonwealth), hesaid" in paVt : -' I wish— oh how earnestly T wish-aU members of aU CWhes >and of no Church cpuld.eome to think of human society Ys*Christians once thought of „ the- Church, universal; and undivided. never go into a Catholic chmch without catching something of the spirit of that ofijer day*. .;In'the silence ,of tfie kneeling worshippers; in the S Cf rc iJf. 1Tl I)s-that.I )s - that . burn;befoic the^high alts;-; in the pictures that adorn^he .walls showing the stages of the Cross on which the «• „ ! T St - Vi ' S sacrificed > that He -might draw all men unto Himself, I see a symbol^ of .the vaster unity that is yet to be achieved, .^There is a solemn stillness, v suggestion of heaven and of unseen helpers, in that earthly temple made -with -hands It is .impossible for any man with reverence In his soul to stand in thafcrsilence without feeling that it is the speech of God.'