Our Common Conscience Addresses Delivered in America During the Great War
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But we have felt it — I know I speak for many — to correct, purify, widen and re-establish our knowl- edge of God, and that in several directions. I have spoken of partial and selfish forms of faith. In the softness of mind bred by our com- fortable civilisation, we religious people had grown to be content with easy views of God as a God of Love and Peace and not of Truth and Law as well, the foundations of Whose throne are justice and judgment; Who spared not His own Son against the evil of th...e world; and Who, even, when He pardons and trusts them once more with His Service, exacts both from nations and RELIGIOUS EFFECTS OF THE WAR 163 individuals the consequences not only of their presumptuous sins, but of all their slackness, in- dolence, and neglect of His laws, whether in the natural or in the moral sphere. Accepting Christ as our Priest we had failed to follow Him as our Prophet and our King; we had selfishly tended to use Him as our Peace without obeying Him as our Conscience.
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