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OUR LONDON LETTER.
By J. KENNEDY MACLEAN.
Everybody knows St. Paul’s Cathedral. If they
have not actually seen it, they have heard of it,
and its name is as familiar to them as their own,
or almost. It was, therefore, with feelings of con
siderable astonishment and concern that the public
read in newspapers the other day of a supposed
danger to the foundations of this historic edifice.
It was alleged that the construction of a new sewer
close to the Cathedral by the London County Coun
cil, would mean ruin to the stately pile, and there
was naturally much concern when this announce
ment appeared in print.
Londoners, in imagination, saw their beautiful
cathedral laid in the dust, and they shuddered lest
the imagination should become a reality. Happily,
there was no cause for alarm; there is not the
least danger to St. Paul’s, according to expert re
port. The newspapers were simply on the hunt for
a sensation, that was all.
And yet one wonders whether or not London will
collapse some day and disappear in the numerous
underground railways. These are increasing every
year. Deep down below the swirl of the river and
the rush and noise of the streets, there are railway
tracks in abundance, and the thought often comes
to me when traveling on these lines: What if
there should be a collapse? Hitherto these under
ground systems have been wonderfuly free from
serious accident, which is a tribute to the engineer
ing care taken when they have been constructed.
I was one of the company of friends who trav
eled to Tilbury last week to see Mr. and Mrs.
Charles M. Alexander off on their trip to China
and Japan. Many friends accompanied them to the
steamship, “India,” and cheered them when the
tender left for the shore. Both Mr. and Mrs. Al
exander looked remarkably well, and there is every
reason to hope that the long sea voyage will bring
back to the latter the health and strength which
she so much needs. Mr. Alexander hopes to re
sume his work in America next fall.
The City Temple here has long been a place
teeming with sacred and historic associations. Vis
itors from the provinces seldom return home with
out paying a visit to it and attending at least one
of its services, and Americans on tour to this
country seldom omit it from their round of calls.
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The Golden Age for December 20, 1906.
Tn the days of the late Dr. Parker its pulpit had
always a message for the people. I am sorry to
say that the message of his successor, the Rev.
R. J. Campbell, does not carry the same authority.
Mr. Campbell is a man of wonderful charm of
manner, but he is striving after new and peculiar
interpretations of Scripture. One day he preaches
a sermon to which the most orthodox Christian
could never take objection, his next deliverance
from the pulpit surprises even the most advanced
thinkers by the “newness” of its theology. Mr.
Campbell is thus an uncertain quantity, and he
seems to be wandering more and more from agree
ment with his fellow ministers on cardinal points
of doctrine. He is evolving a theology of his own,
and putting forward theories and conclusions as
though they were established and recognized facts.
These are bold statements to make, I know, but
the occupant of the pulpit of the City Temple is
creating unrest in many minds, and it is well that
your countrymen should know exactly how things
stand.
Before commencing to write this letter, I sat
down to read Mr. Campbell’s latest pronouncement.
A few weeks ago, he gave an exposition of his the
ology to the Congregational Board of Ministers,
but this address, instead of satisfactorily fixing his
doctrinal position, sems to have increased the
uncertainty in the minds of many. The criticism
which followed seems to have goaded Mr. Camp
bell into delivering this address, which is regarded
as a kind of manifesto:
After dwelling on the many manifestations of
the Christ and the various ways by which Christ
makes his message known to the minds of men
in all generations, not only through the ordinary
expositions of Christian truth, “but by men of
no formulated religions convictions, yet possessed
by moral passion for the salvation of mankind,”
he continues:
“There has risen today from every part of
the intelligent horizon a new vision, a wider view
of the meaning of the Christian revelation. Men
of science and men of letters, as well as preach
ers of the Gospel, are prophets of the new era.
You may recognize it in the breaking away from
outworn intellectual forms of religious belief called
the venerable creeds. Ecclesiasticism is crumbling
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“The message that is being thus declared is,
briefly outlined: The essential divinity of man;
his unbroken oneness with God; the salvability of
the race as a whole, and not merely an individ
ual here and there; the unity of all life, this side
and the further side of the change called death;
the divine appointment of the struggle and the
pain which are the necessary conditions of the man
ifestations of the essential nature of Eternal Love;
the identity of divine justice, mercy, righteousness,
love, truth; the liome'-gathering of mankind to that
Eternal Heart whence it came.
“I defy any man, Christian or atheist, scien
tist or pietist, to show that this is not a deeper
wider gospel, more really worthy to be termed
glad tidings, than any of the conventional carica
tures of truth which pass current today in the
name of religious faith. The word of God has
never ceased pealing through the ages, and finding
its echo in the hearts of men; but today, as in
all days, though accepted by the few, it is re
jected by the many, through ignorance on the one
hand and malice on the other.”
iStung, apparently, by the criticisms to which
his teaching has been subjected, he turns round
on his critics and hurls at them his reproaches.
“Religious people,” he says, “are often found
willing to employ the weapons of slander, mis
representation, and petty persecution in order to
destroy, as they can, an unpopular doctrine. With
all deliberation and solemnity I say these men
are liars like their predecessors in days of old;
liars, not so much by what they say as by
what they do not say; liars, by trying to misrep
resent, or ignore, or distort the truth, preaching
as though they do not believe it when they do;
liars, because they will not look facts in the face;
liars, using the name of God. ‘Woe unto you, ye
blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow
a camel!’ ”
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