The Religious Life of London

The "Tracts for the Times" tell us "that the Bishop is Christ's representative, and the priests the Bishop's, so that despising the clergy is despising Christ." "A person not co...

Early in our religious history two theories as to Church and State were developed. If the Presbyterians had gained the day in that time of religious ferment--which had so melanc...

There are two classes of people of whom a wise man should be wary. He who comes to you in a jolly, confidential sort of way, and tells you that you know that he never pretended...

At length, if I am to believe what I hear and see, the religious problem of the age has been solved, and I am presented with a form of worship which is in accordance with the di...

Tertullian wrote in his apology, or rather in his appeal, to the heathen persecutors on behalf of the Christians of his age, "We are but a people of yesterday, and yet we have f...

Of the many definitions of London, perhaps the truest is that which describes it as several cities rolled into one. The rich inhabit Belgravia, the poor Bethnal Green. In Mark L...

If the reader be told that there exists in this enlightened age a sect who believe that the day of judgment is passed, that it took place nearly a hundred years ago, that the Ch...

If we may quote the Eastern Church, the Roman Catholic Church is the greatest heresy of modern times. In the Encyclic Epistle of the Eastern Patriarchs, the Papal system is refe...

"In the apostolical Fathers we find," writes the Rev. Islay Burns, "for the most part only the simple Biblical statements of the deity and humanity of Christ in the practical fo...

In the independent way, Baxter, describing the Westminster Assembly of Divines, says, "I disliked many things." After mentioning what those things were--their making too light o...

The original meaning of the word heresy is choice. "It was long used," writes Dr. Waddington, "by the philosophers to designate the preference and selection of some speculative...

Innovations are the order of the day. New times and altered circumstances require them. In Christian work they are imperatively required. While the Church has folded its arms an...

Modern Christianity, it is often said, has little in common with that of apostolic times: I fear it is equally true that the Quakerism of to-day has little in common with the he...

Many professedly Christian people, and many who are in no way such, have long been of opinion that there is something that is wrong about our present religious organizations; th...

In the dark ages of Christianity, when the zeal and purity of the early professors and martyrs of the new creed had died away; when Constantine, anxious to fix his throne on a p...

"Why, sir, when they enter a village they begin to sing hymns, and they go on singing until they collect a number of people on the village green, or in some neighbouring field,...

Sappho, implies Mr. Pope, at her "toilette's greasy task," is quite a different individual to "Sappho fragrant at an evening mask." Just as much does the Jew of the West-end, th...

If the absence of brotherly love for religious people, if a scorn of all who worship God different from themselves, constitute heresy--and surely the Apostle John shows that it...

What virtue there is in an if. Without going as far back as the Book of Genesis, and thinking what a different thing life would have been if the mother of us all had not plucked...

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 76 THE DEAF AND DUMB AT CHURCH 87 A SUNDAY IN JAIL 93 HIGH CHURCH REVIVALISTS 100 A SUNDAY WITH THE LUNATICS 107 LAY WORK IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 113 AN E...