Excerpt from The Function of the Church in Modern Society Heart, is often heard in unexpected places, implying wherever heard the tragic ele ment of suffering. But the claims upon the Church for spiritual authority and for human sympathy are alike SO constant and so pressing, and they are in reality so closely related, that the Church can at no time allow these essential and mutually supporting ministries to decline or to be separated. The history of the Church proves by too frequent illustration how empty a thing is authority without sympathy, and how weak a thing is sympathy without authority. 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.