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. 1872 Excerpt: ...eternal 1 John viii. 34-36. knowledge of truth will be vouchsafed us, and through this truth we shall attain to liberty. Hence it follows that the problem Christianity has to solve, since its birth amid the ruin of the old world, is to attain through faith to the knowledge of truth, and thereby to the possession of ...
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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. 1872 Excerpt: ...eternal 1 John viii. 34-36. knowledge of truth will be vouchsafed us, and through this truth we shall attain to liberty. Hence it follows that the problem Christianity has to solve, since its birth amid the ruin of the old world, is to attain through faith to the knowledge of truth, and thereby to the possession of liberty. Such is God's Will; it is His doing; it is the work of a Hidden God. And so, when I see my generation carried away by a movement which it cannot fathom, perpetually driven backwards for want of understanding, surely it is the time to say with S. Paul, "Whom ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you." It was precisely this which our dear friend did: it was what Lacordaire and many another had done before. Henri himself appreciated Lacordaire's prophetic clairvoyance. "These few lines," he wrote, "contain Pere Lacordaire's political programme. The leading idea is the union of religion and liberty, and the first practical application thereof is a sincere, loyal, inviolable attachment to those principles which the modern world tries painfully but persistently to reconcile. One might hesitate as to the means selected, but there is no doubt as to the thing to be done. Either nothing can be done at all, or the attempt must be made to reconcile modern society with the Gospel, by proving that the primary laws of its existence, so far from encountering an implacable foe in Christianity, have really only come to light under the shelter of Christian thought. It needed to show that political liberty, if free from revolutionary licence and anarchy, is dear to the Catholic Church, is actually one of its stoutest earthly guarantees. One must convince this modern society that the Gospel is the source of all social progress, o...
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