Excerpt from Religious Education in the Church
A few years ago there appeared a striking essay entitled "Heckling the Church." It called attention to the fact that every person felt fully qualified to sit in judgment on the church, and to exercise freely his gifts of criticism in this direction. Captious criticism is annoying, but, for the church it is better to be annoyed than to be ignored. If the latter should come to pass the case would be serious indeed. The emphasis of several generations on the primacy of material things has led to the popular assumption that we do not need spiritual institutions. Now we have a renaissance of the spiritual, under the stress of a world agony. But there is a tendency to feel that the spiritual is so implicit in all things that it does not need explicit expression anywhere. Men ask whether a spiritual age needs a special religious institution. Further, various social agencies have taken over many of the activities of the churches. Men are asking whether in the social organization of to-day there remains any special task or place for the church.
These are the questions the present-day church must face. They are not essentially hostile questions. They are expressed by persons of serious minds. They rise within the church rather than without. They are not the questionings of an anti-religious spirit.
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