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MODERN RELIGIOUS PROGRESS.

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MODERN RELIGIOUS PROGRESS. MR J. ALLANSON PICTON AT COLWYN BAY. "A talk on recent religious progress" was the description given by Mr J. Allam,on Pic ton, M.A., J.P., to the address he delivered at the- Westminster HaJl, Colwyn Bay, oil Friday even- ing, und.2r the auspices of the local branch of the Progressive League. If they were' guided by the jeremiads which appeared in the news- pÚlwr. he said, one could but conclude that there had been no progress in religious thought in recent years, but that on the contrary there had been a considerable backward movement. They read of churches lamenting their decreasing I membership and their loss of subscribers- Hopes were entertained of a revival, but whether the revival would take the form expected was not for him to predict. Meantime it was acknow- ledged by the religious press that there was a considerable relaxation of the earnestnetss and zeal which formerly characterised the work in various sections of the church catholic, consist- ing of all denominations. He was personally not at all discouraged by those jeremiads- 11- lustrating his point by means of a parable, Mr Picton contended that the causo of the existing lifelessncss in church life was the insistence upon dogma. Now there had been a sudden expansion of religious thought, and he had no doubt that religion was going to profit by it. The Sl)4..akcr referred to the Leicester conference of 31 years ago when some of the leaders in British Congregationalism agreed that it was quite unnecessary to insist upon agreement in theological dogmas for religious communion or common worship, and proceeded to describe a historical service held in his own church, St. Thomas', East London, when part was taken in the proceedings by representatives of practically every known religious sect in Britain with the exception of the Roman Catholics. At that TI meeting he urged there had been no funda- mental discord; all appeared to be brethren. It was, therefore, obvious that even then the move- ment which had now become so powerful had been initiated in a practical manner, but the time for its full development was not ripe- It had stagnated, but it had remained in feeble life pending the recent awakening, and amongst those who had suffered for his share in sustain- ing it was the late Rev. Samuel Davidson, principal of the Lancashire Independent College, who had been forced to resign his position for teaching doctrines of the Bible, which were now absolutely required to be taught in that identi- cal oolloge as a matter of course. He (Mr Picton) was delighted to see in the audience a daughter of that great and good man (applause). One thing the old movement had done, and it was being more cflectibcly done by the Her- R. J. Campbell to-day, was to correct Martin Luther s most fata.l mistake of substituting the infalli- bility of the Book for the infallibility of the Church. Nothing could have been more de- structive to Christian life than Luther's mistake in that connection. What Luther had accom- plished was an object of veneration when one considered the time in which he lived, but there was something humiliating in the recollection that that good and heroic man insisted ujion the in- fallibility of those parts of the Book which he approved—those bearing upon the doctrine of transubstantiation for example. There never was such a thing in existence a.s an infallible book, and never would be. The stories of the creation, Adam and Eve, the deluge, the tower of Babel, Abraham's attempted sacrifice of Isaac, and other things, were just as much a part of Jewish or rather oriental folklore as the. Arthur- ian legends were the folklore of the British. At the same time the Progressive Leaguer gave no place to the devil. lie did not believe in the personality of the devil for one moment; he would be sorry to think that tsucli a person could have been brought into existence bv the Creator as a source of nuisance to his children (laughter). He accepted everything in the Bible that was self-evident- Mr Allanson Picton replied to a number of -questions bearing upon his address, and at the close was cordially thanked, on the motion of Mr Taylor, seconded by Mr Win. Jones, J.P.

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