DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE.
ITS MORBEDINTROSPECnVENESS,
"Some of tho books of devotionalism of to-day are doing, surely, infinite liarm," said Canon E. T. R. Johnston at St. Paul's Cathedral recently in tho courso of a sermon on spiritual growth. "They cultivate," ho said, "a morbid and unhealthy introspectiveness, surveying and handling every corrupt affection and every suspicion of incom-, pleteness. until minds are much moro accustomed to thoughts of sin than to visions of righteousness, and to fears of offenco rather than to hopes of acceptance." It was surely better to go up with tho Psalnrst along the hills of Bethlehem and sing, "The Lord is My Shepherd," better to kneel along with angels and archangels and sinsj, "Glory be to.God on High." "It will surely bo an awful thing. for tho Church when tho strong vertebrate, muscular nature doparts from our visions as it is departing from some of our societies."
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14668, 17 May 1913, Page 16
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