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... | ''The Spiritualist'' of April 30th, of the current year, I ventured to make the following remark: “At the present period men have inherited, unwittingly, so much of a tolerant kindly spirit, brought about by the unseen leaven of Spiritualism running through the whole present generation, that they sometimes write and think in the pure spiritualistic groove even when least aware of it.” | ||
That teaching in this direction is coming up in unexpected places, we lately received a tolerable example of, at the Leicester Church Congress, of September last, at which the president, the Bishop of Peterborough, made use of these words: “One supposed great object and result of Church Congresses is the promoting of tolerance and charity amongst churchmen.” | |||
Whether the full measure of this object has been attained, or even feebly understood, even in the somewhat limited area of churchmen among themselves, seems problematical, and the object is mentioned hesitatingly, as but a “supposed great object,” as though the conclusion had scarcely been arrived at as to whether it were really a great object, or only a supposed great object. Still, the above proves a seeking for tolerance, and is a great contrast to the general ''animus'' of twenty years ago. | |||
It is now just twenty years since some of the bishops so sharply prosecuted the writers of ''Essays and Reviews''—those early exponents of tolerance, charity and breadth of thought; those unaccustomed teachers in the Temple, so to speak, at the very period when the stripling, Spiritualism, the very high priest of tolerance, was but twelve years old. | |||
My object here is to give further evidence from most legitimate sources that modern Spiritualism has good right to regard itself as having been the leader and example of all the real tolerance in religion that exists in the present day; for we may look in vain for its having ever existed before at any epoch, or in any degree, throughout Europe’s history of “civilisation.” | |||
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Religious Tolerance Advanced by Spiritualism
The Spiritualist of April 30th, of the current year, I ventured to make the following remark: “At the present period men have inherited, unwittingly, so much of a tolerant kindly spirit, brought about by the unseen leaven of Spiritualism running through the whole present generation, that they sometimes write and think in the pure spiritualistic groove even when least aware of it.”
That teaching in this direction is coming up in unexpected places, we lately received a tolerable example of, at the Leicester Church Congress, of September last, at which the president, the Bishop of Peterborough, made use of these words: “One supposed great object and result of Church Congresses is the promoting of tolerance and charity amongst churchmen.”
Whether the full measure of this object has been attained, or even feebly understood, even in the somewhat limited area of churchmen among themselves, seems problematical, and the object is mentioned hesitatingly, as but a “supposed great object,” as though the conclusion had scarcely been arrived at as to whether it were really a great object, or only a supposed great object. Still, the above proves a seeking for tolerance, and is a great contrast to the general animus of twenty years ago.
It is now just twenty years since some of the bishops so sharply prosecuted the writers of Essays and Reviews—those early exponents of tolerance, charity and breadth of thought; those unaccustomed teachers in the Temple, so to speak, at the very period when the stripling, Spiritualism, the very high priest of tolerance, was but twelve years old.
My object here is to give further evidence from most legitimate sources that modern Spiritualism has good right to regard itself as having been the leader and example of all the real tolerance in religion that exists in the present day; for we may look in vain for its having ever existed before at any epoch, or in any degree, throughout Europe’s history of “civilisation.”
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London Spiritualist, No. 429, November 12, 1880, pp. 229-31