The Homiletic Review Volume 82 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, America, as well as representatives of the Holy Synods of Constantinople and Athens, were expected to attend. In the end the various difficulties, especially in connection with passports, narrowed the conference down to members of neutral countries only; yet the communications from all parts of the world asking that an ecumenical conference be appointed as soon as peace is declared made it memorable. Our correspondents, including those belonging to the Eastern churches, felt that while it was necessary to work for unity for unity's sake, there was another way of approaching the matter--the way of love. Love cannot see a suffering world without thirsting to relieve it, and from almost every quarter, belligerent and neutral, came the cry, 'Let us, for Christ's sake, begin, in the strength of our common faith, to work for the healing of the nations and the solution of the problems that press upon us all alike.' The second meeting I would like to refer to took place at The Hague in 1919, when, for the first time since the war, men and women from all countries met together in brotherly concord. You wEl readily understand what a thrill that meeting brought. As long as life lasts, the impulse then engendered will be as a burning fire in our souls. But to come back to the question of the date for the conference. While these great meetings represent an urgent demand for such a conference on the part of what may be called the inner circle of representative Christian men and women, the true success of that conference will not be assured until there is, throughout the churches of Christendom, a multitude of devoted souls who give themselves in prayer to the healing of our torn and struggling humanity. To put it plainly, something like a...