I Believe and other essays

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Thorne Guy. I Believe and other essays

I “I BELIEVE” “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.”

II. THE FIRES OF MOLOCH “There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.”

III. THE HISTORICIDES OF OXFORD

IV. THE BROWN AND YELLOW PERILA FEW FACTS

V. THE MENACES OF MODERN SPORT

VI. VAGROM MEN[AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE WORKING MEN’S CLUB, ST. MARGARETS’] “In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.” – Genesis iii. 19

VII. AN AUTHOR’S POST-BAG “You have the letters Cadmus gave” —

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My dear White,

The publication of this book is a business arrangement between you and me. Its dedication however has nothing to do with the relations of author and publisher in those capacities, but is merely an expression of friendship and esteem. This then is to remind you of pleasant hours we have spent together on the other side of the channel, in your house at London, and my house in Kent.

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The considerations which seemed to compel the clearheaded author of this extract to his own well-known intellectual position no longer apply. In England, at any rate, the Church is not bound down to any mechanical theory of the inspiration of the Bible, and accepts all the discoveries of Modern Physical Science without misgiving. Such books as the late Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Temple) gave us in his Bampton Lectures have long ago shown the futility of attempting to map out the exact terms of a reconciliation between the claims of science and religion, but they have shown that religion and science are not destructive and contradictory of each other.

“The same principles are found in each. The principle of evolution, for instance, is as evident in the gradual development of religion as in the age-long process by which the natural world was created; the order and beauty and regular succession manifest in Nature can be traced also in the spiritual universe. The revelation which was formerly held to be violation of law is seen to be a revelation of higher law. The great postulate of science, the uniformity of Nature, is not infringed.”

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