Excerpt from The Fulness of Christ
As a subject of discussion during a time of war the Church is perhaps, at the first glance, more fit for those who can divert their minds with abstract considerations than for men and women whose hearts are broken under the sorrows of the last months. At the first glance only, we venture to think, can this view be held. And not even at the first glance would it be possible, were it not that the "common or garden man," with the "man in the street," has grown up in the belief that the Church is something outside his life, with which now and again he can have short dealings at his own choice. To him the Church appears as an abstract idea, made visible in an order of respectable gentlemen in black clothes, of whom it is expected that they separate themselves from the human race to the extent of denying themselves some of its gayer pleasures and not a little of its vocabulary, and by making a speciality of what is called piety.
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