THE BROADENED VIEW

Evening Star, Issue 16225, 21 September 1916, Page 8

THE BROADENED VIEW

INPLUEN GE3 AFTER'THE WAR, _ >' The war will prove a mighty catholicising . 'actor, Writes Rov. A. C. Boquefc (an Angli:;c_su chaplain),, in ‘The Challenge.’ Never : j since the Crusades have the East and West, j Latin and Creek, Catholic and heretic, been 1 1 “O jumbled and intermingled. The 'West I Country yeoman follows his squire’s son to I j Thessalouica. The London tradesman battles 1 his way through the home country of AbraI I earn. Hindus arc tended in Western bos--1 pitals by Japanese nurses, and the influx of ; Anzacs and Canadians recalls to us the stuff •that the ancient missionaries had to convert !jn the days of Aidan and Pcndn. For the ■ ■ halt-dozenth time iu history wo have rci reived Flemish refugees. What will bo the I nte of stay-at-home ministers preaching fiery i missionary sermons in Tooling when the men I in the pews may themselves have, visited ; India with the Territorials? Balbam will A have found its way to Basra. Bristol mechi anics will have actually fought (and admired) i Mohammedans iu Egypt and Gallipoli. Pro- ; tostants from Devon and Yorkshire will have i observed Belgian and French Romanism in working for themselves, and will have formed their own conclusions. Whatever extremists may indignantly assert, interdenominational barriers are being blurred' and obliterated. Tlie clergy may forget all this. The laitywill not.