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The Faith of the Millions

The Faith of the Millions

Tyrrell, George

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Literary CriticismChristian LivingGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1231436921
ISBN13: 9781231436929
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...is first prepared secretly underground; and it is during the intervals between such seasons of conference that the individual members gather together, and give shape to, their contributions to the common fund, whence the truth is to be built up. After each re-union they disperse, holding a common creed, with all substantial differences eliminated, with the mind of the Church reproduced in their several minds; and they go each his own way bearing this seed, which will yield diverse fruit according to the soil in which it is set. For no truth can remain unaltered in a living mind. In the spontaneous endeavour to bring it into harmony with the rest of our knowledge, and the rest of our knowledge into harmony with it, questions and difficulties will arise and will be answered according to each one's ability and information, and eventually the truth in question will receive a further development and interpretation, differing in different 176 minds, so that a new conference, disputation, and comparison of ideas will be needed if unanimity is to be restored again. It is somewhat as with a living and growing language. Let any section of the community be severed from the rest, and it will develop eccentricities which can only be corrected by the restoration of intercourse. Whatever is part of the mind must grow with its growth; and he who should deny subjective development in articles of faith would either be ignorant of the necessary laws of thought, or else would confound the mere bundle of words in which the belief is cased with the belief itself. A man who finds no trace of development in his own religious beliefs since childhood, is convicted of never having thought about those beliefs at all; or even of never having attached any sense to the sounds which he re...

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