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... | The following remarks of mine point only to one or two phases of this subject. Mr. Stopford Brooke’s recent sermon on the Broad Church will doubtless be published, and its wide bearing on vital questions, with the many issues to which it leads, will then be laid clearly before the thinking world. | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-558}} | Mr. Stopford Brooke’s secession from the Church, followed by his powerful explanation of his reason for the step he has taken, marks an era in the religious history of our time. It is not that there have not been seceders, intellectually as honest and fearless as himself, but the circumstances of their secession, when they have been men of any note, have differed from his. They were, as far as worldly prospects were concerned, martyrs to principle, and their resignation of church preferment involved worldly ruin. Times are now happily changed. The martyr of the last century is the hero of this, and Mr. Brooke will, I sincerely hope, find no more difference in his position than that caused by the change of a very few pew-holders, the new comers probably helping to form a more receptive audience than the departing ones. But his work, if not that of the martyr, will be followed by results quite as important to the welfare of the Church of England as any secession of former times. {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-558}} | ||
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