The Cultivation of the Spiritual Life

Abstract

"It must be reckoned as one of the few, benefits of the present state of world affairs, that the Church has been shaken out of the last vestiges of complacency and with a shock brought up against hard facts. Many of us are for the first time viewing the world situation and the position of the Church with our blinkers of and the prospect is not very encouraging. We are justified in ignoring a great deal of the cheap clap-trap in the popular Press about the dying Church, but no one who has the cause of the Kingdom of God at heart can regard the position with complacency. Moreover, the cessation of hoStilities will increase rather than decrease our problems, The time of, reconstruction and rebuilding after the war will bea crucial one, for the brave new world which is to emerge may either be one which will see the death and burial of institutional Christianity, or one which will see a great step forward towards the coming of the Kingdom of God."