The Corrective

Abstract

"THE corrective to deep perplexities is often found in returning to early simplicities. My first opportunity to preach the Gospel was in a chapel which stands on the shoulder of a hill in the Pennines at the head of a lovely wooded.valley, on a kind of promontory jutting out from the wild stretches of the moor. To reach the chapel I had· to walk six miles. In high summer they were miles of delight; in bleak winter miles of hard walking through snow or rain. Snow was my Baptism. Through ten inches of it I toiled up the valley, coming out at the end to the edge of the moor, where it stretched like a shroud over the contours of the earth. Away in the distance, seen through the bare branches of the trees which sheltered it, was the chapel. I could see black figures against the snow moving like creatures on a white uneven sheet making for some hole where they could go underground. Each figure( moved to the rendezvous. Strange rendezvous, a chapel where you went downstairs into the gallery and upstairs into the auditorium I"