Social Teachings of the Christian Year Lectures Delivered At the Cambridge Conf
Social Teachings of the Christian Year Lectures Delivered At the Cambridge Conf
Vida Dutton Scudder
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'' The incumbent of the parish was so horrified at this incendiary statement that he rose after the sermon and denounced his guest; but Kingsley spoke S'ober truth. Nor are sacraments or Scriptures empty sym- bols of truth forgotten or denied. The Church has held to her democratic purpose, often uncon- sciously, to be sure, but always, beneath the surface, steadfastly. Sometimes, it must be granted, her witness has been borne almost in spite of her intentions. The mediaeval Church, for example,... inspired by a powerful conviction of her superiority to the external order, tried to overtop that order in magnificence and in autocratic as- sumptions; her very hierarchy reproduced the * Stewart Headlam: A Lent in London, p. 127. Whitsuntide 193 feudal model, and seemed remote enough from the plain fishermen of Galilee. Yet at the same time, within her own borders she fostered dem(ocracy to a surprising degree. Peasant and noble were alike eligible to her highest honors, and her saints were drawn from every rank.
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