Let us have time. And the gradual working of the Spirit
of God, for Whose help many prayers are going up con-
tinually, will lead us into the truth : we shall know the
mind of Him who is the Way, the Truth, the Life. As
it is, our opponents themselves being judges of the last
clause, it is generally becoming recognised that it does



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not come from Him. In a few years it will fall away
without a struggle, without a murmur. What to do
in the mean time it is not for me to suggest. I do not
think that the Faith is in. danger except from the action
of some of its defenders. If the statements of the
Creed proper convey the truth, they will remain: and
I believe they do convey the truth. But, after all, this is
Truth, allied rather to the Science of Christianity than
to. its Life ; here as elsewhere men may live and move
within the bounds of the Truth without entering into
the Science of it. This love of analysis has in many
minds already resulted in destroying their reverence.
To my own nothing is grander than the Gloria in
Excelsis in its appeal to the Trinity at its close.
On subjects of the wide character touched upon in
the end of Mr Ffoulkes' pamphlet I cannot enter. All
that I ask for is Time : Time to smooth down ruffled
feelings: Time to enable us to see more into each
other's difficulties : Time to investigate the historic
bearings of the subject.
"The chemist may analyse the fruit and flower.
