This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...what God would have him believe and do, teach him how to worship God, how to reach the highest development of which his nature is capable, how to attain to ultimate happiness. If I could not believe in a personal God who was good and just and yet had given no revelation of Himself, still less could I conceive One who ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...what God would have him believe and do, teach him how to worship God, how to reach the highest development of which his nature is capable, how to attain to ultimate happiness. If I could not believe in a personal God who was good and just and yet had given no revelation of Himself, still less could I conceive One who could give a revelation which was uncertain or misleading. If there be a revelation it must, I saw clearly, contain truths to which my unaided reason was incapable of attaining, else it would but limit the activity of reason. It could reveal no truth which contradicted or cramped reason, for that too was God's gift; but it must be superior to reason, and deal with truths of a higher order, for, though firmly convinced of the reliability of reason, I realised how limited was its sphere. After all my long years of searching after truth what had reason taught me? CHAPTER XIV HIGH CHURCH, LOW CHURCH, BROAD CHURCH, NO CHURCH Where could I find this revelation from God, if indeed such revelation existed? I did not deem it could be aught else but Christianity, yet Christianity as I knew it did not seem in any way adequate to my needs. Christianity as I knew it was represented by Anglicanism, and possessed neither unity nor certitude; no two Anglicans were agreed as to what was true Christianity, and the teaching of the Church of England was all confusion and contradiction. It was to me simply impossible to accept the Anglican Church as the organ of truth, impossible to see in it God's ambassador to man, the channel through which He revealed His will, impossible to find in it the ladder by which the mind of man was to scale the heights of the infinite, or the link that was to bind the creature with the Creator. No, that to me was impossible. Never have...
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