Excerpt from The Law and the Gospel, or the Foundations of Unsectarian and Christian Education: A Sermon Preached at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, on the First Sunday After Trinity and at the Parish Church of Beddington on the Second Sunday After Trinity At the same time it would be necessary to look not only at processes, but also at results to observe, not only whether steps were taken to keep the various churches independent, or on the other hand to hold them together, but also whether different races of nations did, as a result, develop different sides of truth, and exemplify different aspects of the Christian character. If it be true, as we are told on good authority it is, that to different elements in the Church we owe different parts of truth; and if it is God's will that in their turn these, which we now call native races, should bring to light, in the course of their own divinely-guided life, aspects of the Christ-life which the old peoples have missed, then we must be careful how we insist on uniformity, lest in any way we crush, so to speak, this divine originality of the Churches.2 We owe them nurture, but also we'owe them freedom; we are bound to recognise the liberty of the native as well as the civilized Churches. We are thus debtors both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians. These things are in the hand of God. We labour and plan here below, but above the King sits upon His throne, ruling His own Kingdom. Our wisdom is to mistrust our own wisdom, to follow the steps through which He has already led His Church and above all to be ever looking unto the Lord, that He may guide us with His eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.