Excerpt from The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven: A Course of Lectures on the Gospel of St. Luke

If the children in Sunday-schools understand and accept the letter of the Gospels, their teachers and those who preach to them out of pulpits, I fear, do not. Certain conventional notions mingle themselves with it in all our minds, we read it as if they were inseparable from it. Clergymen receive these notions as sacred heirlooms. They are enforced by public opinion. If an ecclesiastical synod should acquire the power of imposing penalties.

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