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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