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by any chance opened and read for the 

 teaching and guidance of the people. We 

 have seen a system of morals such as that 

 of Alfonso da Liguori accepted as the in- 

 terpreter of duty for whole races of men. 

 And all the while, too, we have seen the 

 growing arrogance of a priesthood and 

 the growing insensibility of the people. 

 Do I need to set over against such a situa- 

 tion the story of Anglo-Saxon Christian- 

 ity during the last three centuries ? Not 

 extravagantly did that gifted voice from 

 which I have already quoted not long ago 

 declare, " If we turn from the discords 

 on the surface and ask what after all has 

 been the fruit of this (later) Christianity 

 on the real civilization of these ages, what 

 for education, for a nobler philanthropy, 

 for the social issues of a time that cares 

 less for church politics than for the king- 

 dom of Christ, — then I say, in spite of 

 its rival sects, it is here that I recognize 

 its meaning. ... I look on the Church as 

 a divine fabric, but its purpose is to edu- 

 cate the heart and life of mankind. If I 

 go to those lands where the Reformation 

 has soAvn its seed, if I compare with the 

 intelligence, the private morality, the 



