TUB CIIWAGO-LAMBETII ARTICLES 105 



come to be recognized that what have 

 been most freely faulted as their elements 

 of weakness are really their elements of 

 strength. They are the product of a race 

 which, arrogant as it may sound to say so, 

 has revealed itself to many men in many 

 lands as having more than any other the 

 future of Christendom in its hands. They 

 may not bring about the result for which 

 we all long, and to which, let me add, 

 this honored institution and the men who 

 are its strength and ornament have so 

 nobly contributed, — to-day or to-morrow. 

 But what of that ? You and I, my broth- 

 ers, can trust Him to whom, in the words 

 of Bossuet, " the ages of men are moments 

 of the disc of his eternity." And, mean- 

 time, the signs of His working are not 

 wanting. " God is showing us as never 

 before that the Church of his appoint- 

 ment, the Christian brotherhood of man, 

 is needed in its fullest strength to meet 

 the demands of a vast and confused civili- 

 zation. The day is past when men of 

 earnest thought are busied only or chiefly 

 with the questions of church polity. It 

 is what the gospel and the kingdom of 

 Christ can do for the solution of the growing 



