John Morley: “Now we have lived into a time when the great danger of the church is…”

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Now we have lived into a time when the great danger of the church is the sale of her faith for gold....

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John Morley

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Morley warns against the church compromising its faith for financial gain.

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If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

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John Morley: “Now we have lived into a time when the great danger of the church is the sale of her faith for gold....”