AS THE SUBJECT OF REDEMPTION Being an Attempt to set forth the Functions of the Church EIGHT LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IN THE YEAR 1883 ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M.A. CANON OF SALISBURY BY THE HON. AND REV. W. II. FREMANTLE, M.A. CANON OF CANTERBURY, AND FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD T. ELY, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD. NEW YORK LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 15 EAST 16th STREET 1892 INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD T. ELY, PH.D. Associate Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. OUR time is one of religious unrest, because the old idealsimperfect and incomplete no longer satisfy. New creeds put forth from time to time have not met the requirements of the situation, and the multitudinous new sects have begotten doubt rather than strengthened faith. What men want now is a new life; and the strength of this work, a remarkable presentation of Christian sociology, lies in the religious basis which it gives for reform and improvement in every sphere of life. Canon Fremantle inspires us with zeal for rendering Christian the whole of the world and the whole of life. He shows Christians that they are fulfilling the purpose of the Founder of their religion in carrying Christianity into every sphere of social life and into every day of the week. 6 The World as the Subject for Redemption' offers a system of apologetics, but it is not concerned merely or chiefly with the original guarantees of Christianity and of the documents in which it was at first enshrined.' Such a system of apologetics is insufficient. Canon Fremantle satisfies us because he vindicates the claim of Christianity to stimulate, to inspire, to lead the world's progress. Christianity, inclusive of all goodness, must ever be in advance, presenting a goal to the individual and to the nation. The purpose of Canon Fremantle is to turn the faces of men away from the controversies engendered by an exclusive interest in worship and dogma to the more fruitful field of a practical influence on the national and universal life.' We have here given us the |