Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-01

matters theologically, apart from q purely
professional point of view. They go much
further than do with regard to the Larger
Hope which they have quite unvaryingly
taught; but like myself, They know not
anything; they can but trust that good shall
fall, at last, far of, at last to all
''See how hopeful Browning always IL
and think of his effect on the theology Of
the last 80 years How ringing with
splendid hope are those lines of his life in
probation, and this earth no goal, but
starting point of mani And then those
deathless lines in Abt Vogler, all we have
willed, or hoped, or dreamed of good shall
exist,
There shall never be one lost good,
The evil is null, is silence implying sound,
On the earth the broken arcs, In the heaven
the perfect round.
IT hardly like to tell you, continued Dr..
Farrar, call the good hope and believe
my book on Eternal Hope has done, b ut
and abused on this subject. And yet in
the end even Dr.. Pusey conceded all I
wanted"
Ecolssiasticism Of the Abbey.
A moments silence, during which some
where far of, heard pesling from q dis
tant organ the magnificent strains of Han
long past summer day rosa before my
mind. It was in the adjacent abbey, and
from the lips Of the very man who now sat
before me, there had just fallen the con-
cluding words Of one Of those splendid
sermons Of his, full Of all hope and love
and consolation; Ind I recollected how ct
the moment had thought how much they
must have differed from, let Us say, the
stern denunciations of some fiery abbot or
some bigoted puritan, and SO I said, with o
humorous smile Pickering round my lips:
''Dr. Farrar, may I ask you personal
question? How far are you afflicted by the
ecclesiastical tradition of the grand old
abbey, and does not its very ecclesiasticism
war against your own tendency to iber-
ality OF thought? Do not these ancient
walls that have in, the past re-echoed to
such very different teaching, seem to hurl
back vast reproaches upon you?"
Archdeacon Farrar broadly smiled as he
replied: "Assuredly am affected, but not
in the way you imagine. The traditions of
Westminster are all in favor of the truest
Catholicity. Is it not the Temple of Silence
and Reconciliation? Do not Mary and
Elizabeth sleep there side by side, at rest
and peace at last, 1ife's itful fever spent?'
Theology In Stone.
Very few recognize the great truth that
the abbey, hike most Of our great cathedrals,
Is theology in stone. Its triple breadth
and height and length symbolizs the great
Trinity, even the pillars defect slightly to
the right as did our Lords head upon the
cross. The double west door is his double
nature. Think how Addison used to seek
shelter from the noisy outside world to
walk its aisles in contemplation. Think of
all the mighty dead and how thronged Its
very air is with the ghosts of the highest
and purest and best that earth has ever
known. The influence OF the poets upon
the preacher is nowhere more perfectly
realized than within the walls Of our be-
loved abbey. e..
They dreamt not Of perishabls home who
thus could build,
Be mine in hours Of fear or groveling
thought
To seek q refuge here. -
Or through the aisles OF Westminster to
roam
Where bubbles burst and folly's dancing
foam
Melts If it Cross the threshold.
And the organ was still pealing on-''For
He shall reign forever and dforever-Amen.
RAYMOND BLATHwAYT