Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)

Preface.

My foremost design in writing this preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted.

To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, his name and writings are still no doubt familiar, but the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately, from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he imagined me to have invented him.

At a moment when the courts of law have just taken off the embargo from the recreative religion furnished on Sundays by my gifted acquaintance and others, and when St. Martin's Hall and the Alhambra will soon be beginning again to resound with their pulpit eloquence, it distresses one to think that the new lights should not only have in general a very low opinion of the preachers of the old religion, but that they should have it without knowing the best that these preachers can do, and that they are in this case is owing in part certainly to the negligence of the Christian Knowledge Society.

In old times, they used to print and spread abroad Bishop Wilson's Maxims of Piety and Christianity.

His good sense is so perfect and in such happy alliance with his unction that it becomes moderation and insight.

While therefore the type of religion exhibited in his maxims is English, it is yet a type of a far higher kind than is in general reach by Bishop Wilson's countrymen, and yet being English, it is possible and attainable for them.

PREFACE OF CHRISTUS CONSULATOR WORDS FOR HEARTS IN TROUBLE christus consolator words for hearts in trouble by handley mole note this book is intended principally to remind those whose hearts the european war has stricken of the hope and comfort which lie ready for their wounds in our lord jesus christ i shall be glad indeed if anything in my pages may bring help to other sorrowing souls for grief and death do not suspend their normal visitation among us the infliction of the sore pains and losses of common life because of their tremendous activities to-day on the field of battle in the war hospital and on the deep but i have written with these latter troubles more directly in view with reverential sympathy i lay my book at the feet of those who see their dear ones smitten and maimed or who with wet or with tearless eyes lament their death in this awful struggle not of nations only but of right with wrong of light with darkness of causes dear to the god of truth and peace with the energies i cannot doubt it any longer of dark powers in the unseen working through misguided man i dare to hope that some if only some of the reflections here set out may tend to lift such suffering spirits to the region where comfort and the calm of hope and a victory in christ over all embitterment and rebellion will fill and bless them beginning already to transfigure sorrow into living peace If it is so at all, to our heavenly Master all the thanks be wholly given.

I can only add that in the third and fourth chapters I am indebted for some important suggestions to a small book, as able and suggestive as it is finely modest, God and the World, Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, by the Rev.

A. W. Robinson, D. D. Handley Dunholm, Auckland Castle, June 1915. i take the opportunity of a second impression to say that since this book first appeared i have been called july fourteenth very suddenly to surrender to her lord's keeping above the dear wife whose sympathy counsels and prayers lay behind every page which follows Let me humbly affirm that, in my own great grief, Christ is the consoler in deepest reality.

H. D. July 1915 He spread it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein lamentations and mourning and woe.

If it is so at all, to our heavenly Master all the thanks be wholly given.

I can only add that in the third and fourth chapters I am indebted for some important suggestions to a small book as able and suggestive as it is finely modest, God and the World, Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, by the Reverend A. W. Robinson, D.D., Handley Dunelm, Auckland Castle, June 1915.

I take the opportunity of a second impression to say that since this book first appeared I have been called, July 14th, very suddenly to surrender to her Lord's keeping above the dear wife whose sympathy, counsels, and prayers lay behind every page which follows.

Let me humbly affirm that in my own great grief Christ is the consoler in deepest reality.

Preface.

My foremost design in writing this preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted.

To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, his name and writings are still no doubt familiar.

But the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately, from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he imagined me to have invented him.

At a moment when the courts of law have just taken off the embargo from the recreative religion furnished on Sundays by my gifted acquaintance and others, and when St. Martin's Hall and the Alhambra will soon be beginning again to resound with their pulpit eloquence, it distresses one to think that the new lights should not only have in general a very low opinion of the preachers of the old religion, but that they should have it without knowing the best that these preachers can do, and that their in this case is owing in part certainly to the negligence of the Christian Knowledge Society.

His good sense is so perfect and in such happy alliance with his unction that it becomes moderation and insight.

While therefore the type of religion exhibited in his maxims is English, it is yet a type of a far higher kind than is in general reach by Bishop Wilson's countrymen, and yet being English, it is possible and attainable for them.

Preface.

My foremost design in writing this preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted.

To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, his name and writings are still no doubt familiar, but the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he imagined me to have invented him.

At a moment when the courts of law have just taken off the embargo from the recreative religion furnished on Sundays by my gifted acquaintance and others, and when St. Martin's Hall and the Alhambra will soon be beginning again to resound with their pulpit eloquence, it distresses one to think that the new lights should not only have in general a very low opinion of the preachers of the old religion, but that they should have it without knowing the best that these preachers can do, and that they are in this case is owing in part certainly to the negligence of the Christian Knowledge Society.

In old times, they used to print and spread abroad Bishop Wilson's Maxims of Piety and Christianity.

While therefore the type of religion exhibited in his maxims is English, it is yet a type of a far higher kind than is in general reach by Bishop Wilson's countrymen.

And yet being English, it is possible and attainable for them.

Preface.

My foremost design in writing this preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted.

To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, his name and writings are still no doubt familiar.

But the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learned with consternation lately, from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he imagined me to have invented him.

At a moment when the courts of law have just taken off the embargo from the recreative religion furnished on Sundays by my gifted acquaintance and others, and when St. Martin's Hall and the Alhambra will soon be beginning again to resound with their pulpit eloquence, it distresses one to think that the new lights should not only have in general a very low opinion of the preachers of the old religion, but that they should have it without knowing the best that these preachers can do, and that their in this case is owing in part certainly to the negligence of the Christian Knowledge Society.

While therefore the type of religion exhibited in his maxims is English, it is yet a type of a far higher kind than is in general reach by Bishop Wilson's countrymen.

And yet being English, it is possible and attainable for them.

Preface.

My foremost design in writing this preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted.

To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, his name and writings are still no doubt familiar.

But the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately, from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he imagined me to have invented him.

At a moment when the courts of law have just taken off the embargo from the recreative religion furnished on Sundays by my gifted acquaintance and others, and when St. Martin's Hall and the Alhambra will soon be beginning again to resound with their pulpit eloquence, it distresses one to think that the new lights should not only have in general a very low opinion of the preachers of the old religion, but that they should have it without knowing the best that these preachers can do, and that their in this case is owing in part certainly to the negligence of the Christian Knowledge Society.

While therefore the type of religion exhibited in his Maxims is English, it is yet a type of a far higher kind than is in general reached by Bishop Wilson's countrymen.

And yet being English, it is possible and attainable for them.

Preface.

My foremost design in writing this preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted.

To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, his name and writings are still no doubt familiar.

But the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately, from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he imagined me to have invented him.

At a moment when the courts of law have just taken off the embargo from the recreative religion furnished on Sundays by my gifted acquaintance and others, and when St. Martin's Hall and the Alhambra will soon be beginning again to resound with their pulpit eloquence, it distresses one to think that the new lights should not only have, in general, a very low opinion of the preachers of the old religion, but that they should have it without knowing the best that these preachers can do, and that they are in this case is owing in part certainly to the negligence of the Christian Knowledge Society.

While therefore the type of religion exhibited in his maxims is English, it is yet a type of a far higher kind than is in general reach by Bishop Wilson's countrymen.

And yet being English, it is possible and attainable for them.