fusedly blended together in their minds, Christianity, and its corruptions; and having in so many instances detected fraud with absolute certainty, they think it not worth while to inquire further; but take for granted, that all the Church teaches is one tissue of imposture and superstition throughout."1 Let not us of the Church of England miss the benefit of this warning. 1 Errors of Romanism, p. 97. VI THE NEW REFORMATION BY THE REV. CHARLES E. RAVEN, B.D. RECTOR OF BLECHINGLEY, CHAPLAIN TO THE KING LATE FELLOW OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AUTHOR OF "WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?"; "CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM 1848-1854," ETC. SYNOPSIS I. The present crisis: its scope and character. (a) A century of materialism ending in the enslavement of Life to things. (b) The revolt of Life strengthened by the war. (c) This revolt chaotic and ineffective because unguided by religion. (d) The desire for Life a return to the standards of Jesus. II. The consequent opportunity of the Church of England. (a) Her failure due to— 1. The refusal to put first things first, as seen in the idolatry which mistakes means for ends, the Judaism which prefers the law to the Gospel, the sectionalism which loves controversy and piecemeal reform. 2. The refusal to scrap antiquated methods in dealing with new problems. (b) Her hope based upon― 1. Her past record as Catholic, Evangelical, and Progressive. 2. The Christianity of the younger generation. 3. The emergence of a new and representative type of Anglican. VI THE NEW REFORMATION GOD's judgement of the world is no doubt rightly represented rather as a process than as a single dramatic event. Little by little and line upon line sentence is passed upon us : we act and are judged, or judge ourselves, daily. Yet, although it is a mistake to break up the continuity of life into a series of disconnected episodes, long periods of monotony interrupted by sudden excitement, there are in our own lives and in human history special occasions on which we become unusually aware of responsibility for our decisions, occasions when manifestly a judgement-day has dawned. Most men can look back to several such points in their careers when a crisis long unconsciously prepared has confronted them, revealing to them by their attitude towards it their own true nature and determining the whole scope and quality of their future. And with races and institutions as with individuals, events so insignificant that even in the light of their results the historian can scarcely trace them culminate in drama so intense that none can be blind to its meaning or uninterested in its issue. Few of us would venture to deny that the present generation is in the throes of such a crisis, a crisis unparalleled in the records of humanity, a crisis for which Renaissance and Reformation despite their smaller scale supply the one possible analogy. The Industrial Revolution which initiated and has |