Praise from the 'New' Theologian

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 8 April 1909, Page 542

Praise from the 'New ' Theologian

The N Rev. R. J. Campbell— he of the revamped old errors ycleped the ' new ' theology— lias somewhere in his heart a tender spot for the Ancient Faith. He took the wrappings off that spot in a recent sermon in the City Temple, Londonf ' I wish,' said he — ' oh, how earnestly I wish — all members of all Churches, and of no Church, couldcome to think of human society as Christians once thought of the Church universal and undivided. I never go into a Catholic church without catching something of the spirit

of that older day. In the silence of the kneeling worshippers; in the lamp that burns before the Hieh Altarin the pictures that adorn the walls, showing tf c ttages +L^ Cross u °V vllicl ' tlle ' life of Chr£st *« sacrificfd that He m,ght draw all men unto Himself, I see symbols of 4he vaster unity that is yet to be achieved TherTia a stillness, a suggestion of heaven and unseen helpers in that earthly temple made with han§s * It £ 'impossible for any man , with reverence in his ' soul to ofaod 1 '" * SileilCe Witliout feeli "S - that i* w the speech Well said, Brother Campbell!