NOT DECIDED ENOUGH.
The Rev. A. T. Thompson, speaking at a Y.M.C.A. meeting at Masterton, said Christians in those days had grown too modest by half, and lived in an atmosphere of toleration and liberalism, being far too much inclined to become concessional. As a consequence of this laxity our Christian blood was losing its iron. Wo certainly did not form a part of the Church Triumphant, nor did we belong to a church militant. We belonged to a Church that was non-com-mittal. Wo wero not decided enough, and the tendency was to apologise .ton our religious belief. We lacked the note of challenge, as found in the instance of St.-Paul, and ever since the wave of criticism had set in, from the publication of Darwin's " Origin of Species," Christians had been too weak-kneed, and this criticism had been allowed to have too much of its own way.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14209, 4 November 1909, Page 6
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