ORGANISED RELIGION
" Our churches cannot be saved by organisation, but that is no reason for belittling- its value. It is possible to press too far the contrast between spirtuality and machinery," said the Rev. T. T. James in his presidential address at the Assembly of the British Congregational Union. "It is true |hat for us life comes first, but life then shapes for itself an organisation. It is true, too, that in the history of religious movements? the freshness and spontaneity and vividness of new life have been modified and repressed by the organisations it has ci'eated. But also it is true that the movements would have been lost, their spirit evaporated, and then- influence Ihave vanished, apart from the order and arrangement and administrative form which have been tlhe vehicles of their expression. We shall do well not to fence off the Holy Spirit fi'om our efforts to set things in order."
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3555, 8 December 1934, Page 11
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153ORGANISED RELIGION Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3555, 8 December 1934, Page 11
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