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do the work of an evangelist,' to have the 'feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace,' to be content to leave nothing but evil outside the church--that is to be a real catholic. 4. To St. Paul's mind the Catholicism of the church is to lead the way to an even wider 'reconciliation.' Through the catholic union of men in the church the whole universe is to come back into unity. The kingdom of God is to be something wider than the church which exists to prepare for it. This principle once recognized secures that the church shall feel and exhibit a constant interest in all departments of knowledge and progress. The universe is one, and redemption is for the whole. 5. Catholicism is the antithesis of esotericism. All--men and women, slave or free, Greek or Scythian--are capable of full initiation into Christianity. All--not apostles and presbyter-bishops and deacons only--but all Christians make up the high priestly body and have on their foreheads the anointing oil: see above, pp. 111 ff. Forbearance between divergent classes and races and individuals--doctrinal toleration--missionary {274} enthusiasm--universal sympathy--recognition of a universal priesthood of Christianity--these constitute the moral content of Pauline Catholicism. [1] S. Aug. _de Baptismo_, ii. [xiii.] 18, [xiv.] 20. NOTE G. See p. 190. THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE AND INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS. The 'Report of the Committee of the Lambeth Conference appointed to consider and report upon the office of the Church with respect to industrial problems--(_a_) the unemployed; (_b_) industrial co-operation,' is so much to the point as a statement of Christian social duty that I venture to reproduce the _first part of it_ here. 'The Committee desire to begin their Report with words of thankful recognition that throughout the Church of Christ, and not least in the Churches of our own Communion, there has been a marked increase of solicitude about the problems of industrial and social life, and of sympathy with the struggles, sufferings, responsibilities, and anxieties, which those problems involve. 'They hope that they rightly discern in this some increasing reflection in modern shape of the likeness of the Lord, in whose blessed life zeal for the souls, and sympathy for the bodily needs of men were undivided fruits of a single love. 'The Committee, before proceeding to touch upon two specific parts of the subject, des
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