The War and Unity

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Title: The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local
Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918
Author: Various
Editor: David Herbert Somerset Cranage
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THE WAR AND UNITY

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THE WAR AND UNITY
BEING LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE LOCAL LECTURES
SUMMER MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
1918
EDITED BY THE REV. D. H. S. CRANAGE, LITT.D. KING'S
COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1919

PREFACE
For some time past the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate
have arranged a Summer Meeting in Cambridge every other year in
connexion with the Local Lectures. The scheme of study has always
included a number of theological lectures, and at the last two meetings
an attempt has been made to deal with some of the religious and moral
problems suggested by the War. In 1916 a course of lectures was
delivered, and afterwards published by the University Press, on The
Elements of Pain and Conflict in Human Life. In 1918 the Syndicate
decided to arrange a course on Unity. It was at first suggested that the
lectures should be confined to the subject of Christian Reunion, but it
was finally arranged to deal not only with Unity between Christian

Denominations, but with Unity between Classes, Unity in the Empire,
and Unity between Nations.
Many of those who attended expressed a strong wish that the lectures
should be published, and the Lecturers and the Syndicate have cordially
agreed to their request. The central idea of the course is undeniably
vital at the present time, and the book is now issued in the hope that it
may be of some help in the period of "reconstruction."
D. H. S. CRANAGE, Secretary of the Cambridge University Local
Lectures. November 1918.

CONTENTS
UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
I. A GENERAL VIEW PAGE 1
By the Reverend V. H. Stanton, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College,
Regius Professor of Divinity.
II. THE CHURCH IN THE FURNACE 25
By the Reverend Eric Milner-White, M.A., D.S.O., Fellow and Dean of
King's College, late Chaplain to the Forces.
III. THE PROBLEM OF THE ENGLISH FREE CHURCHES 51
By the Reverend W. B. Selbie, M.A. (Oxford and Cambridge), Hon.
D.D. (Glasgow), Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.
IV. THE SCOTTISH PROBLEM 72
By the Very Reverend James Cooper, D.D. (Aberdeen), Hon. Litt.D.
(Dublin), Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), V.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical
History in the University of Glasgow, ex-Moderator of the Church of
Scotland.

UNITY BETWEEN CLASSES
I. By the Right Reverend F. T. Woods, D.D., Trinity College, Lord
Bishop of Peterborough 89
II. By the Right Honourable J. R. Clynes, M.P., Minister of Food 115
UNITY IN THE EMPIRE
By F. J. Chamberlain, C.B.E., Assistant General Secretary of the
Young Men's Christian Association 137
UNITY BETWEEN NATIONS
By the Reverend J. H. B. Masterman, M.A., St John's College, Rector
of St Mary-le-Bow Church, Canon of Coventry, late Professor of
History in the University of Birmingham 151

UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS

I. A GENERAL VIEW
By the Rev. V. H. STANTON, D.D.
The governing idea of this early morning course, which at the present
as at former Summer Meetings is devoted to a subject connected with
religious belief, is this year the power that Christianity has, or is fitted
to have, to unite Christian denominations with one another, and also to
unite races and nations, and different portions of that commonwealth of
nations which we call the British Empire, and different classes within
our own nation. A moment's reflection will shew that the question of
unity between denominations of Christians derives special significance
from being placed in connexion with all those other cases in regard to
which the promotion of unity is to be considered. If it belongs to the
genius of Christianity to be a uniting power, it is above all in the sphere
of professed and organised Christianity, where Christians are grouped

together as Christians, that its