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method ... The attempt will always fail."-Rev. G. Galloway, "The Hibbert Journal" for April, 1925.
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Some have even claimed, without knowing really the full extent of the intellectual attainments by the religious teachers of the past and of the difficulties which they encountered in explaining them to others, that they were intellectually inferior.
"The main tenets or doctrines of Christianity, as it even now exists, were formulated at a time when the intellectual atmosphere and the social conditions were entirely different from what they are now. By ecclesiastical authority they were fixed and imposed upon believers. Then they seemed perfectly natural and reasonable, in accordance with the facts of the world and with religious experience. They often made their way by their inherent reasonableness. But now they seem to us unreasonable, in contradiction to natural laws and to human nature."-Dr. Percy Gardner, "A Historic View of the New Testament," p. 27.
The Rev. J. Cranbrook (see "The Founders of Christianity," p. 109) tolls the death-knell of Christianity when he says:
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Christianity comes before us with certain high pretensions which entirely and wholly rest upon alleged historical and literary facts. We look into the evidence of these facts. We find it totally insufficient to prove their reality. We therefore reject the pretensions... . Although Christianity, with all other forms of .. religion. must die, humanity lives on for ever."
But it is only the death of Churchianity; true Christianity remains unaffected. I should rather like to say, Hallelujah! Hosanna! in the highest! Gone are the errors of old, the splendour of Light has come, the Magi from the East, it is said, once came to proclaim a World-Redeemer; today comes the Light from the East to explain what a World-Redeemer can be! The Key of
