VALUE OF THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL.
NONCONFORMIST TRIBUTE.
"The religious excuse for Nonconformity, whether m the seventeenth century or at the time of the Evangelical revival, was that the Established Church did not provide the Christian fellowship, the spiritual discipline, the pure preaching needed by the soul. It would not be true to say that to-day the tables have been turned, but it is true that we lose many to the Church of England, because they find there, as they do Tiot find with us, the spiritual direction, the adoring worship, the siiper-
natural faith they need. "Much as we may regret and dislike the ecclesiasticism and not infrequently the mannerisms of AngloCatholicism and the Oxford Movement, there can be not doubt that by its firm insistence upon supernatural religion,, its passionate devotion to our Lord, its concern for the way of holiness, it has caused a renaissance of deep religion m the Church of England. Paradoxically, it has m some degree done for the country what Nonconformity did m days gone by."— (From "Church Times.")
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 26, Issue 5, 1 May 1936, Page 5
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