When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great ConspiracyThorne, Guy
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When It Was Dark: The Story of a Great Conspiracy
Thorne, Guy
Christian fiction; Conspiracies -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
"'How then,' men have asked, 'can you believe that the body you
have deposited beneath the earth shall collect from the universe
its dissipated particles and rise again?'
"Hitherto we have been content to put the question aside with a
simple faith that 'with God all things are possible.' But to-day we
are enabled to have a further comprehension of the Lord's words,
'It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.'
"Doubtless those who, even among our own company of Evangelical
Protestants, have attached too much importance to the teaching of
the so-called 'Fathers of the Church' (who so early corrupted the
sweet simplicity of the Gospel) will find themselves compelled to a
more spiritual explanation of some passages of Holy Scripture; but
Faith will find little difficulty in rightly dividing and
interpreting the word of Truth.
"The Protestant cause has little to fear from facts. We have been
by God's Providence gradually prepared for a great elucidation of
the truth about the Resurrection.
"Those who studied with attention the treatise of the late
Frederick W. H. Myers (the man who, of all moderns, has best
appreciated the personality of Paul the apostle) had come to a
conviction on the survival of Human Personality after death on
scientific grounds.
"The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus was no longer to them 'a thing
incredible,' its unique character was recognised as consisting in
its spiritual power.
"'Some doubted,' as on the mountain in Galilee. Protestantism on
the Continent, especially in Germany, the home of what is misnamed
the 'Higher Criticism,' has been hampered in this way by the study
of the 'letter,' and so in some degree has lost the assistance of
'the spirit which giveth life.'
"But the great heart of Protestant England is still sound, and
whilst Rome and Ritualism are aghast as the foundation of their
fabric of lies crumbles into dust, we stand sure and steadfast,
rejoicing in hope.
"Some readjustment of formularies may be conceded to weak brethren.
"Our great Reformers drew up that marvellous manifesto of the
Protestant faith--'Articles agreed upon by the archbishops and
bishops of Both Provinces, and the whole clergy in the Convocation
holden at London in the year 1562 for the avoiding of diversities
of opinions, and for the establishing of consent touching True
Religion.'
"England was at that time--alas, how often has it been
so!--inclined to compromise.
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