Mr. J.D. Beresford is a little more enlightening. He says "The changes in my attitude to religion have followed generally and in a condensed form the broader movements of thought during the past century. I was brought up in a country rectory and my father was 'a Low Churchman of the old school.
believed in Hell as firmly as 1 believed in God. The first breath of doubt at the age of 21" he says, "was 20 strong thet he came over to. the scepticism characteristic of the Inter part of the nineteenth century. in one evening." Since then he has examined Spiritualism and rejected it and has since acquired a sympathy with modern mysticism, "in-
ches are pressed into the constitu-fa much as the further our ztaear tion of matter, the more we find it} becoming resolved into an aspect of "force' which is merely a name for anything you please." He says, do not disapprove the principles of Christianity. I regard the ethics of Christ as being beyond all comparison the most admirable rule vf life ever given to the world; but T have never seen that ethic practise ed by the members of any Christian community with which I have been associated." "The clearest statement that Christ made," he says, "He that believeth in Me shall® not perish." And I choose to accept. that at once in its simplest and widest significance; not as implying he that believes in an endless rigmarole of senseless ordinances and ritual originally imposed by priests for their own purposes; but fas, he that believes int} principle in himself and kind."
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