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"High and Low are now united to
fight Modernists."]
Therefore in studying the modern mind of Christianity, persuaded that
its mission is to teach mankind a lesson of quite sublime importance,
we may possibly arrive in our conclusion at a unifying principle which
will at least help the Church to turn its moral earnestness, its manifold
self-sacrifice, and its great but conflicting energies, in this one direction
which is its own supremest end, namely, the interpretation of human
life in terms of spiritual reality.
To those who distrust reason and hold fast rather fearfully to the
moorings of tradition, I would venture to say, first, that perilous times
are most perilous to error, and, secondly, in the words of Dr. Kirsopp
Lake, "After all, Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn
of consequence--a courageous trust in the great purpose of all things
and pressing forward to finish the work which is in sight, whatever the
price may be."
"_The distinction between right and wrong disappears when conscience
dies, and that between fact and fiction when reason is neglected. The
one is the danger which besets clever politicians, the other the nemesis
which waits on popular preachers." --Kirsopp Lake._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii INTRODUCTION TO THE
AMERICAN EDITION . xi INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
I.--BISHOP GORE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II.--DEAN
INGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 III.--FATHER KNOX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
IV.--DR. L.P. JACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 V.--BISHOP HENSLEY
HENSON. . . . . . . . . 87 VI.--MISS MAUDE ROYDEN. . . . . . . . . . .
103 VII.--CANON E.W. BARNES. . . . . . . . . . . 121 VIII.--GENERAL
BRAMWELL BOOTH . . . . . . . . 139 IX.--DR. W.E.
ORCHARD . . . . . . . . . . . 155 X.--BISHOP TEMPLE. . . . . . . . . . . . .
169 XI.--PRINCIPAL W.B. SELBIE. . . . . . . . . 191
XII.--ARCHBISHOP RANDALL DAVIDSON. . . . . . 203
XIII.--CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

BISHOP GORE
GORE, Rt. Rev. CHARLES, M.A., D.D., and Hon. D.C.L., Oxford;
Hon. D.D., Edinburgh and Durham; Hon. LL.D., Cambridge and
Birmingham; b. 1853; s. of Hon. Charles Alexander Gore and d. of 4th
Earl of Bessborough, widow of Earl of Kerry. Educ.: Harrow, Balliol
College, Oxford (Scholar). Fellow Trinity College, Oxford, 1875-95;
Vice-Principal of Cuddesdon College, 1880-83; Librarian of Pusey
Library, Oxford, 1884-93; Vicar of Radley, 1893-94; Canon of
Westminster, 1894-1902; Hon. Chaplain to the Queen, 1898-1900;
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, 1900-1901; Chaplain in Ordinary to
the King, 1901; Editor of Lux Mundi; Bishop of Worcester, 1902-4;
Bishop of Birmingham, 1905-11; Bishop of Oxford, 1911-1919.

PAINTED WINDOWS

CHAPTER I
BISHOP GORE
_He is in truth, in the power, in the hands, of another, of another

will . . . attracted, corrected, guided, rewarded, satiated, in a long
discipline, that "ascent of the soul into the intelligible
world."_--WALTER PATER.
No man occupies a more commanding position in the Churches of
England than Dr. Gore. I am assured in more than one quarter that a
vote on this subject would place him head and shoulders above all other
religious teachers of our time. In the region of personal influence he
appears to be without a rival.
Such is the quality of his spirit, that a person so different from him both
in temperament and intellect as the Dean of St. Paul's has confessed
that he is "one of the most powerful spiritual forces in our generation."
It is, I think, the grave sincerity of his soul which gives him this
pre-eminence. He is not more eloquent than many others, he is not
greatly distinguished by scholarship, he is only one in a numerous
company of high-minded men who live devout and disinterested lives.
But no man conveys, both in his writings and in personal touch, a more
telling sense of ghostly earnestness, a feeling that his whole life is
absorbed into a Power which overshadows his presence and even
sounds in his voice, a conviction that he has in sober truth forsaken
everything for the Kingdom of God.
One who knows him far better than I do said to me the other day,
"Charles Gore has not aimed