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A NEW PURITANISM

•• Canon 12." A. Burroughs';- speaking in the' Temple •Church,' London, 011-"A -Xev Puritanism," said:— "We linvc not hnd enough' 'spiritual background; 'lis a,nation, to profit spirifai'ally by'the war. And that is where the '.call"'for' more' and better Christians oomeson—for -men and' women who will j 'do'everything-villi an eye to the Gospel,' who will witness to and advertise thu "one- true,'.savins 'science of life-at what ever, cost of 'martyrdom,' great or-small. "It Is not for nothing that the Greek for 'witness' hris become our word 'martyr.'; it is a hint of tho kind-of witness •that really tells on the world. Wo need today, a's a- Ket-uff • to all v our nominal Christians, a far larger number who: am not, just like other people, who will live out relentlessly the life of which -the Cross -is the -keynote.- exaggerating, if need be. Us charn'.*oristic strictness and pelf-denial that, their witness may- be the ,more. telling, the harder to ignore, undeterred by the petty-; irritation of being called a. 'Puritan, a killjoy, a zealot a ornnk.. ."'Qui' world,' as Mazzini says, 'is notit is a field of battle.' " '.There is another life,' says Fronde (in "England's Forgotten Worthies"), 'hard. rough and t.hoVn.v, trodden with Weeding'.feet and aching brow; the life of which tlio Cross is the symbol; a battle which ho peace'follows this side of (lie irravp, . : . and, strange (hut it should b" so. this is the, highest life. ■of "man. Look .back along the; 'great names of historv: thero is.none whoso life has been other than' this.' '• "The fact that, such are the groat names "f historv is the . world's admission that-these men did 'so run that they nii.jlit obtain.' "

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 205, 24 May 1919, Page 7

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A NEW PURITANISM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 205, 24 May 1919, Page 7

A NEW PURITANISM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 205, 24 May 1919, Page 7

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