Is Ritualism Honest?
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Excerpt from Is Ritualism Honest?: Three Lectures Individual souls we leave to the Judge of all. What amount of religious honesty may exist in persons detained within the trammels of a system which I hope to show you is in itself essentially dishonest, we dare not speculate. "Judge not, that ye be not judged." It is certainly harder to acquit the teachers than the taught: so far is clear. Ritualist clergymen are acquainted with history; they are familiar with the formularies of their Church; they are in contact - not always very willingly - with their bishops. How they can fail to perceive, under these three heads, the anomaly, amounting to dishonesty, of their position, is more than we can see. But I do not constitute myself even a puisne judge in that Court. And, as to the blind who are led by such blind guides, there is humility, though mistaken, in the position of a disciple, surrendering himself to the direction of another, whom he believes to be instructed and authoritative. It implies something of that self-mistrust and abnegation which, under right conditions, is a Christian grace. We must always pity, sometimes almost admire, such docile souls. They reason, as the insane are said to do, rightly, upon wrong premisses. And we would fain hope, even against hope, for inculpable ignorance in some, who now range themselves under the banner of a deadly misbelief, "until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in their hearts." Then, again, I, for one ought not to be unsympathising towards those who are really struggling out of darkness into light. Can I forget, though now more than a quarter of a century ago, the hopes and fears by which I have myself been agitated? I found myself in a Communion, with a growing dislike of its tone, its history, and (I must add) its living authorities. I found myself, in the same measure, drawn towards that true home, centre of hearts and minds, where nothing was national, sectional, narrow, cold, or ambiguous; where doctrine was clear as a trumpet-tone, and sympathy and healing soft as a mother´s whisper to her sick child. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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