Show A VERY BROAD CHURCH is lively likely to correspond in tte length to which ut it goes with the extreme of which it is the opposite this aiple is illustrated in the religious ais expressed during late years by hinnent clergymen who are descend echi I 1 the he rigid and purl teof of new england such as lie henry ury ra tard beecher baecher heber newton and limes freeman clarke recently the lifter ter gave his view of what the burch butch of the future would be and li ai exchange in speaking of the discourse says here is a picture of the broad church of the luxure drawn by the rev james freeman clarke last sunday oat would probably be repudiated by wen even the broadest ot of orthodox churchmen it will iri include clude 1 he said all pod mod men and women of every religion it will be broad enough to include socrates oc rates and plato confucius and doodha garibaldi and abraham lincoln adough some of them never bend 4 of jesus and never claimed to be ills his disciples its test of saw bern barship will at last be in the norda of the master Elim himself self not m axy y one that mayeth unto me lord urd shall enter into the tee kingdom of kiven but he that boeth the will of yat father fat her who is heaven The broad gh wi will I 1 I 1 include in its fellowship uly the good people but also itse wao would like to be good it have abroad bible it will find 1 diore more in the bible than kas ever S a lound found before and will make it laore the book of books than it ma effer before been made tor for it so W in it the current ot of spiritual life through the ages agea gradually unfolding froma from a seed into a stalk and ancl a bud bucl alto fato a blossom a history of amb ik in every stage staffs of his moral pro gress fresa a picture of humanity and a etim m of the soul the broad church will take broad views of prayer and ha warship worship will toe be vastly more free such will be the broad cital chu ch b emancipated from ritualism dogmatism aud and sectarianism havin having more of the mind and heart of christ leaving behind its old egotists and Yan va altius hies its small ambitions and petty controversies instead of sectarianism iv afe shall have operation cooperation co in wad of dogmatism insight instead ot 01 formal worship the glorious lo rious liberty ot the mug of goa god I 1 I 1 Th thelrue etrue church of christ will never become so ao broad as aa this true under the political government of which the head church christ will be the sovereign as broad a liberty as the rev bev mr clarke has pictured will be enjoyed but the citi zeus of that government who will eo en loy a liberty so great and a peace so as thai set forth in panegyric will not necessarily be members of the church of christ nor wen evell believers in his mission too great a breadth iu in religion is an f wU exceeded only by the narrowness and bigotry of which mr Ci Car arkes kes ideas ens are the opposite and rea tion there is this to be saith however in tevor of the latitudinarian ideas ot 01 ach teachers as he they do not lead those who believe in them to persecute 1 and l destroy those who 00 io not as is with the dogmatic systems chieh are being superseded by the oeral views of modern leaders in re glotta thought |