CHRISTIAN MORALITY. ADDRESS BY BISHOP SPROTT.
The ( modern attacks on the ethics of Christianity were very ably dealt with by Bishop Sprott in an address to rnert at St. Paurs pro-Cathedral yesterday afternoon. The dominant idea "of Christianity,.he said, was self-sacrifice for the common good. The battle Christianity Would soon have to face would not be the question of the supernatural character of the creeds, but Christian morality. One contention was that the morality of the Christian was hut an interim ethic and not intended ot suitable for a world that was to last. In other woi-de, the argument was that it was a morality suitable only for the deck of a sinking ship. The Christian morality, however, was not so visionary and impracticable ac ihe critics thought, but it certainly wae difficult. The selfish view of life was, in his opinion, the cause of industrial strife. Christ came not to be served, but to serve.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 62, 11 September 1911, Page 9
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