Briefly, the contention of the pamphlet is that we are in the birth throes of anew era, So far as recent history goes, the mediaeval saw the experiment of socialization and unification. The Reformation and Renaissance began the epoch of extreme individualism. The world must go forward into a "creative synthesis"
the two. Solutions which are! @enying either of the terms in the problem are retrogressive and cannot be permanent. Well, that is easy enough to say at a lecturer's desk. Face to face with some of the vigorous movements of men which are ruthlessly cancelling out one of the terms in the problem, is it more than a dear mei" in the midst of the tempest Is there any Creative Power that can lead us'into the new manner of living for which the world Dr. Collier is convinced there is. He believes that Christian friendship, born in us through the kind of worship, and expressing itself in the manner, he describes, holds the clue} to. the solution, Centres of such' friendship, in every village and ward and hamlet, could display the type' of personal living and Social relation Ships which would give the world "a silken clue that can ead it out of the present labyrinth of bloody sacri-fAce on to the open plains of creative peace." It is to be hoped the basic theme of this lecture will be translated to Christendom in tongues of diving flame, For such a high claim on behalf of the Christian fellowship litle short of an absurdity unless the churches are born again of the Spirit to. an intense consciousness of their purpose—n.2n,
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