260 REV. W. R. INGE, D.D., ON FREEDOM AND DISCIPLINE. 



a sort of completely secularized and materialized primitive 

 Christianity." 



*' The way to Christian freedom is to bring into captivity every 

 thought to the obedience of Christ." 

 And lastly : — 



" An arbitrary government, a tyrannical Church, may in some 

 cases be schoolmasters to bring men to Christ, though it is a sad pity 

 that such methods should ever be necessary." 



But the gem of the paper is in its final remarks on the last page, 

 when the Dean reaches the pregnant conclusion that after all 

 Discipline and Liberty " are not absolutely opposed to each other," 

 thus adding one more to the marvellous list of things that even 

 two made one in the Cross of Christ. For here we see Jew and Gentile, 

 bond and free, rich and poor, as well as mercy and truth, righteous- 

 ness and peace, and now discipline and freedom, made one in the 

 Great Sacrifice, the sole key to the redemption of mankind, and the 

 only solution to the world's great problems to-day. 



Prof. H. Langhorne Orchard said he was sure they would all 

 wish to express their appreciation of an address marked by that 

 profound thought, acute analysis, felicitous diction, which had long 

 been recognized in the able author. That address will, to a great 

 extent, have enlisted cordial assent. Especially valuable are pages 

 255-257. 



Bub " there are spots in the sun " : and there is lacking clear 

 definition of the terms " Freedom " and " Discipline," and of self- 

 discipline as distinguished from what is imposed from without. 

 The statement, on page 249, that " Discipline may be a safeguard of 

 freedom " seems inconsistent with that, on the next page, that 

 " repressive Discipline " (and all Discipline is repressive) " always 

 involves a curtailment of " that self-determination which is one of 

 the highest attributes of humanity." 



As a matter of fact, man, in his present condition, is always a 

 servant to one of the two principles, or forces, perpetually operating : 

 he is yielding himself to obey either the Sin force or the force of 

 Righteousness. These " two masters " are irreconcilable with each 

 other. A man cannot be servant (or slave) to both at once, and he 

 must serve one. His will is free to make the choice, the service 

 of either necessarily involving Freedom from the service of the other. 



