Excerpt from The Coming Church: A Plea for a Church Simply Christian The word Church has so often and so much been the symbol, not of union, but of disunion, that we need again and again to turn aside from the thoughts and ways of men to study the story of the divine charity in the Gospels, and by that study to revive our fading ideal of What ought to be the spirit, aims, and methods of a Church that is at all worthy to be called a Christ's Church. Indeed, one of the characteristic tendencies of our religious times, that represented by the phrase Back to Jesus, indicates, I believe, the best and most direct way out of not a few of our. 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.