it was a very
brief period, but I weep for it just the same. Now I can not only work
with any section, but worship with them also. If there is error in
their intellectual attitudes, it is to God they stand, not to me.
Doubtless there is just as much error in mine. To me, he is the best
Christian who "judges not." To claim a monopoly of Christian religion
for any church, looked at from the point of view of following Jesus
Christ, is ridiculous. So I find that I have changed, changed in the
importance which I place on what others think and upon what I myself
think.
Unless a Christian is a witness in his life, his opinions do not
matter two pins to God or man. Of course, to-day _we_ should not burn
Savonarola, any more than we should actually crucify that brave old
fisherman, Peter, or ridicule a Gordon or a Livingstone, or
assassinate a Lincoln or a Phillips Brooks, even with our tongues,
though they differed from us in their view of what the Christian
religion really needs. Oh, of course we shouldn't!
Perhaps my change spells more and not less faith in the Saviour of the
world. As I love the facts of life more, I care less for fusty
commentators. As I see more of Christ's living with us all the days, I
care less for arguments about His death. I have no more doubt that He
lives in His world to-day than that I do. Why should I blame myself
because more and more my mind emphasizes the fact that it is because
He lives, and only so far as He lives in me, that I shall live also?
THE END
INDEX
Agriculture, in Labrador, unsuccessful, 217, 290.
Alaska, reindeer experiment in, 291, 294-295.
Albert, the, hospital ship of Dr. Grenfell, 125, 188, 189.
_Among the Deep-Sea Fishers_, magazine, 280.
Andrews, Dr. Joseph, eye-specialist, 357.
Archibald, Sir William, chairman of the Royal National Mission to
Deep-Sea Fishermen, 362.
Armstrong, Dr. Seymour, his work at St. Anthony, 367.
Arnold, Thomas, of Rugby, 14.
Athletics, Grenfell's fondness of, 21, 32, 44, 50, 51, 53, 81, 424.
Bailey, Florence, nurse, 326.
Barnett, Samuel, of Mile End, head of Toynbee House, 83.
Barter system, the evils of, 131, 132, 133-138, 215-217.
Bartlett, Captain, father of "Captain Bob," 136.
Battle Harbour, Newfoundland, site of hospital, 126, 162, 165, 169, 193.
Beattie, Arthur, 192.
Beetz, Mr., 239.
Begbie, Harold, _Twice-Born Men_, 101.
Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham, 338.
Belle Isle, the Str
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