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things which attracted Augustine to the Church of Christ. 

 And we need not prove by argument that joy is the conscious- 

 ness of inner freedom, the consciousness that, as someone has 

 lately put it, " the universe is friendly." Joy and love go hand 

 in hand. " He who loveth, runneth, flieth and rejoiceth," as 

 Thomas a Kempis says. Joy produces love, and love joy. 



We are thus, as usual when we turn to the New Testament 

 in our difficulties, confronted by an apparent paradox which 

 turns out to be a real reconciliation of opposites. It solves no 

 particular political and social problems ; but it convinces us 

 that the rival ideals which we see struggling for supremacy 

 in the world around us are not absolutely opposed to each other, 

 each containing an element of truth. We cannot put the two 

 ideals on the same level, and we may hope that the old his- 

 torical forms of disciplinary repression have nearly had their 

 day. The ideal of the priest and the drill-sergeant are still 

 a danger, and will long be a nuisance, but few suppose that the 

 future is theirs. Neither Rome nor Berlin will be the spiritual 

 capital of the new world. Still, spiritual freedom must be 

 " purchased with a great sum " ; and we shall not have it 

 unless we are worthy of it, which I am afraid we are not at 

 present. 



Dr. ScHOFiELD (Chairman) said how very much the Institute was 

 indebted to Dr. Inge for such an able and closely-reasoned paper. 

 It was full of thought, and thought for the times of extreme value. 

 In accordance with custom there would be no discussion, and he 

 esteemed himself highly privileged in being allowed to make a 

 few remarks on what they had just heard. 



He would offer nothing by way of criticism, which would be 

 entirely out of place, and also because he agreed with the paper ; 

 and felt that with profound insight the root of the matter had been 

 reached. 



All he would venture to do was to underline and emphasize some 

 of the beauties of the paper which he would greatly regret if they 

 were overlooked by the audience. He could, of course, only point 

 out what struck him, and no doubt, each one will have additions to 

 make. 



By comparing page 244 we learn that under real discipline (as in 



