| Show DEAN nEAN ON llev dean of or Canterbury who rho io l Is 8 look d upon as one of ot the most niost In Intellectual Intellectual churchmen In re Ie recently recent cent startled the tho religious l word by stating In public that the Church hurch of England must In essential o re cc reforms ret forms t If Ie It desIres desire to retain the thC masses of ot the people within Its folds folda Ho lie said that hat ceremonials rituals and cat cal mU mUst t le 10 and a spirit lI Infused Into the tho forms Corms of ot the tat The working people ia declared are re drifting away from irem the church The prayer book hook no longer Iter attracts ta lie thu people The poor of or the cities complain that the services ft arc tiresome and too long The saloon anti and the gambling den lien are ore more mere valued than the tM sanctuary It If this state of ot things iii hi s to be lie changed cl the church In Dean Forcers opInion must rouse to notion action and quickly Ministers must took look to their th lr enthusiasm and their of oC office nee flee as all reformers The facts actS no OR stated cannot be quo uc ct Cully contradicted They are com corn common mon men everywhere In Christendom and more so eo In the Protestant than world Hut But it may be doubt douht Mt d matter how hm essential will wilt suffice In tho the language of ef Italy holy 1101 writ no man can successfully mend an anold anold old garment with new patches The Th trouble U la that t people leepe have had the very ery foundations of ot all nil religious faith shaken They Th were driven from Crom corn their belief bellet In the Iho authority of ot popes anti and councils to take n a stand on the Infallibility of ot the mille Anti And for Cor a R alime RII time lime II e the change of ot position termed to be rather bench bonen fbi elal In so 10 far ns RS It stimulated In Individual thought and anti awakened Individual tint ual responsibility But Dut today the tM most efforts are being made to show that tho the Bible nible too tee Is U mostly myth that Its Ita Inspired writers were mistaken and nd that the human element elem nt In 0 It Is I preponderating What In is there left to 10 rest faith upon upen when God foci Is d out ont of oC human humon history and an dl di lne Ine inspiration In pronounced pro nn an Illusion With no 11 id God manifested no revelation no divine authority no authentic record re rd of revelations how can con there be n a true religion No wonder if It Christ fades CAdell wt Nt of tow the heroes of ot the past liat that Is I enthroned In Ills stead dead The Tue god of ot Mammon remains n a terrible reality roo lit Higher criticism hat has not to reduce duee him him to a n amyth amyth myth It ilo a not ilot better the condition n to say that modern orn criticism alms at itt up uplifting uplifting lifting mankind from tho Iho contemplation c of the M teachings of ot prophets nth to 10 the th admiration of ot the Ideal laeal i ai Christ For Tor l or the th Master Meeter M lt l Himself Um U has condemned cond that thi proceeding by the emphatic declaration 11 that he who de tie despite spite Ills mil messengers m despises Him There Thc Is Ia no escape from this There Is hut but on one remedy for the eon con conditions ou about which Dean Farrar com corn complains complain plains plain This Is for Cor the world worM to accept the t e Opol of ot Jesue J t Christ ns nu again gwen given on to It through the Instruments which He lie Selected io to o be his IU messen messengers messengers gers tors In thie cv 01 and anil generation netlon It l be e that no one ono van m from A mete meie human level leici raise tho the world from Ita its fallen condition no mat matter matter ter how bow ho SAudi much enthusiasm Is 18 put ut Into 1110 tM or ol how much money mone II li spent f nt on It II It Is la Owls God work to be done In HI lib ills way and In accordance a with III Ills His Instructions instruction In But Dut his dl di divine vine revelations s a divinely lI CS That ami a net t tI u that the condition of ot the tbt religious world w calls oan for tor |
