THE WAR AND UNITY
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THE WAR AND UNITY
BEING LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE LOCAL LECTURES SUMMER MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 1918
EDITED BY THE REV. D. H. S. CRANAGE, LITT.D. KING'S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1919
PREFACE
For some time past the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate have arranged a Summer Meeting in Cambridge every other year in connexion with the Local Lectures. The scheme of study has always included a number of theological lectures, and at the last two meetings an attempt has been made to deal with some of the religious and moral problems suggested by the War. In 1916 a course of lectures was delivered, and afterwards published by the University Press, on _The Elements of Pain and Conflict in Human Life_. In 1918 the Syndicate decided to arrange a course on Unity. It was at first suggested that the lectures should be confined to the subject of Christian Reunion, but it was finally arranged to deal not only with Unity between Christian Denominations, but with Unity between Classes, Unity in the Empire, and Unity between Nations.
Many of those who attended expressed a strong wish that the lectures should be published, and the Lecturers and the Syndicate have cordially agreed to their request. The central idea of the course is undeniably vital at the present time, and the book is now issued in the hope that it may be of some help in the period of "reconstruction."
D. H. S. CRANAGE, Secretary of the Cambridge University Local Lectures. _November 1918._
CONTENTS
UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
I. A GENERAL VIEW PAGE 1
By the Reverend V. H. Stanton, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Regius Professor of Divinity.
II. THE CHURCH IN THE FURNACE 25
By the Reverend Eric Milner-White, M.A., D.S.O., Fellow and Dean of King's College, late Chaplain to the Forces.
III. THE PROBLEM OF THE ENGLISH FREE CHURCHES 51
By the Reverend W. B. Selbie, M.A. (Oxford and Cambridge), Hon. D.D. (Glasgow), Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.
IV. THE SCOTTISH PROBLEM 72
By the Very Reverend James Cooper, D.D. (Aberdeen), Hon. Litt.D. (Dublin), Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), V.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Glasgow, ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
UNITY BETWEEN CLASSES
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The War and Unity
- 2: To unite Christian denominations with one another
- 3: These are strong reasons for aiming at Christian unity
- 4: The so called proselytes of righteousness
- 5: The believers in Jesus now formed the ecclesia of God
- 6: The divisions between these communities were local only
- 7: But it does not correspond to the ideas of the Apostolic Age
- 8: All these measures of organisation
- 9: As a portion of the Church Catholic
- 10: And with truer insight into important principles
- 11: Or those framed in the 16th century
- 12: Before all the denominations concerned
- 13: Unity between christian denominations ii
- 14: Only semi pagan because the ethics
- 15: A Wesleyan minister had charge of it
- 16: One Roman Catholic and one Presbyterian or Nonconformist
- 17: The drawing together of other denominations
- 18: The importance of unity is so great
- 19: Which during 1917 faced the question of Episcopacy
- 20: And about brotherhood and a new world
- 21: All of which would be unanimous
- 22: There are Nonconformists of acknowledged eminence
- 23: Perhaps our Nonconformist brethren could join us here
- 24: When this Sacrament of Love be celebrated
- 25: They did rejoice in the dissidence of their dissent
- 26: Evangelization and the Ministry
- 27: For us men and for our salvation
- 28: While thus maintaining the Ministry as an office
- 29: To cooperate in Christian service
- 30: 2 This distinctive revelation
- 31: The question of church order is more difficult
- 32: They would loyally accept them
- 33: They do not see the use of agitations for reunion
- 34: As the only possible Church for England
- 35: Unity between christian denominations iv
- 36: Indeed not embracing even all the Presbyterians of Scotland
- 37: And primarily that its two great Churches should be one
- 38: The Church of Apostolic times was visibly one
- 39: Scott was a devoted subject of the British Monarchy
- 40: What these Precedents of 1610 were
- 41: And of the Scottish Episcopal Church
- 42: Such deputations would not go away empty
- 43: Not indeed the distinction of blood
- 44: And our aristocracy the most democratic in the world
- 45: From that time onwards the smaller landowners
- 46: And through a large part of the 19th century
- 47: But that every bricklayer should survive and succeed
- 48: Each was bound by fealty to his immediate superior
- 49: Only gradually permeated the Christian Church itself
- 50: Still more anyone might become a Saint
- 51: History is the best cordial for drooping spirits
- 52: Not merely for self denying service
- 53: The more men work together in a real comradeship
- 54: 28 Lactantius quoted by Harnack
- 55: Made mainly by the energy of the industrial population
- 56: Is a most powerful and important factor
- 57: That is not a body which will consist of landowners
- 58: Not that I am opposed to an increased output
- 59: In the conditions of remuneration
- 60: But in regard to employers and employed in the workshops
- 61: Given to their fellow workmen as mates
- 62: We must begin in the workshops
- 63: But democracy must not be duped by phrases
- 64: The human side of the workshop has
- 65: And effective unity running round the Empire
- 66: On a broad based statesmanship
- 67: And our people overseas have much to teach us in this matter
- 68: It happened in a great marquee in France
- 69: Our unity demands this wider culture
- 70: And watchwords are tested in a larger arena
- 71: There emerges the august conception of the Holy Roman Empire
- 72: The smaller nations strove to protect themselves
- 73: The influence of Christianity was impotent to prevent war
- 74: But it is by unachieved ideals that men and nations live
