The Preaching of Tomorrow

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Excerpt from The Preaching of Tomorrow: Address Delivered at the Opening of the Eighty-Sixth Academic Year Now my answer will of course be but the fragment of a frag ment, as befits the limitation both of my knowledge and of my time: and it will have one special emphasis - the missionary emphasis - due to the fact that my life during the past year has been lived upon the frontier of Christendom. What has worried me most, as I have thought back upon my own preaching and the preaching of many of my contemporaries, is its terrifying provincialism. The philandering of the Pro testant churches with that nationalism whose growth cul minated in bloated obesity in 1914 and whose feverish dying convulsions we are witnessing now, led to the supine acceptance, by many in the Protestant churches, of a nationalistic parochial version of the Christian message, which simply will not live in a frontierless world - That word frontierless may raise a momentary smile, in view of the cataleptic muscular contrae tions which we have seen among the nations during the last two years. Even the huge frame of America has tried somewhat grotesquely to huddle and shrivel into an isolation which is of course wholly impossible. The traveler from country to country is still harassed by regulations that suggest the fortress and the stockade. But thoughtful men can now detect a pitiful Odor of antiquation about these things, and they know that pass ports presently will be as dead as crinolines. Already the mind of the world everywhere is coming to be one Openable, if not open book: what is needed, as we shall see later, is readers of that book. 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.