THE CHURCH

up as a kind of foreign embassy, in wfaich the citizens of a heavenly Jdngdom may find refuge amid the threatening stresses of an enemy's land. With its appalling doctrine of original sin, with its disproportionate emphasis on human sinfulness, and by itself creating not a few sins and so haunting us, as children are haunted by the imaginary bogies of nursery-taies, the Church bas done much to drive us out of Nature's garden, to hound us out of her bosom, and to make us aliens in one of the Many Mansions of the Father's House. The Church bas attempted to wrench asunder the corporeal and the spiritual aspects of lif e, and by proclaiming a doctrine of Salvation (Health) which applies to one aspect of the life only (the Soûl) bas set up a false standard of holiness (Wholeness).

The second cause — not altogether unçonnected with the first — may be referred to in a gênerai way as the élaboration of social organization ; Society, acting under an unconscious instinct of self-preservation, covers itself with an armoury of scales (conventions, proprieties, and the like) against the threat of disturbance and disintegration f rom the natural spontaneous impulses of the individual. Up to a point this armament is necessary to the existence of sodety, and is not without its advantage tq the most venturesome member thereof ; but it may assume such proportions as to jeopardize the life of society itself. If the Order becomes so hidebound that pro-