A Noble Dream Become a Nightmare In an address to the International Congregational Council at Boston, Dean Charles R, Brown of the Yale School of Religion described the Interchurch World Movement as a noble dream which had become a nightmare, and this and other similar movements had "left a dark brown taste in the mouth of Protestant Christianity in this country."
"We have sore need," he said, "of getting away from the tyranny of big things, back to the ultimate significance of the regenerate man wisely striving in his particular station to do the will of his Master. The Interchurch World Movement, for example, was a noble dream which ought to have become true. It did not, as we all know now, It became to a large extent a nightmare. This was due mainly to the lack of wise heads to accompany the warm hearts, furnish more judicious plans and sounder financial methods. We cannot get far on the basis of a cold and world ly prudence, nor can we go far if we allow hollow enthusiasm usurp the place or atone for the lack of sound judgement.
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