The psychologist is advancing towards that
ground, and advancing with every theory of supernatural evidence
excluded from his mind. The psychologist may eventually be driven to
accept the Christian explanation of these phenomena; but until that
surrender is made the emotionalist will not be the power in the world
which he ought to be. His house, too, must be founded upon a rock.
Let us not be afraid of examining our faith, bringing our minds as well
as our hearts and our souls to the place of judgment.
I will give here a few quotations from the utterances of Canon Barnes
which show his position with sufficient clearness.
We all seek for truth. But, whereas to some truth seems a tide
destined to rise and sweep destructively across lands where Jesus
reigned as the Son of God, to me it is the power which will set
free new streams to irrigate His Kingdom.
As is obvious to everyone, all the Churches realise, though some do
not acknowledge, the necessity of presenting the Christian Faith in
terms of current thought.
We have seen the urgent need of a fuller knowledge of the structure
of the human mind if we would explain how Jesus was related to God
and how we receive grace from God through Christ.
I am an Evangelical; I cannot call myself a modernist. I have
welcomed the intervention of those who, disclaiming any knowledge
of scholarship or theology, have in simple language revealed the
power of Christ in their lives.
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