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    What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider
    What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider
    What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider
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    What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider

    By Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      What the Church Means to Me A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider - Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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      Title: What the Church Means to Me

      A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider

      Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell

      Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21323]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT THE CHURCH MEANS TO ME ***

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      MY IDEAL CHURCH IS CHARACTERIZED SOLELY BY THE VERY SIMPLEST INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD, OLD STORY, AND EACH MEMBER DESERVES THE NAME OF THE FRIEND OF ALL THE WORLD

      WHAT HAS THE CHURCH MEANT TO ME? IT HAS MEANT THE AGENCY THROUGH WHICH I RECEIVED SUCH SPIRITUAL SIGHT AS I HAVE. IT HAS MEANT THE BODY THROUGH WHICH HAS COME TO ME STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS MANY TIMES, COMFORT IN TRIAL, HELP IN TIME OF NEED

      WHAT THE CHURCH MEANS TO ME

      WHAT THE CHURCH MEANS TO ME

      A FRANK CONFESSION AND A FRIENDLY ESTIMATE BY AN INSIDER

      BY

      WILFRED T. GRENFELL, M.D. (Oxon.)

      Superintendent Labrador Medical Mission

      THE PILGRIM PRESS

      BOSTON  NEW YORK  CHICAGO

      Copyright, 1911

      By Wilfred T. Grenfell

      THE PLIMPTON PRESS

      [W · D · O]

      NORWOOD · MASS · U·S·A

      WHAT THE CHURCH MEANS TO ME

      The Church to me means all who, consciously or unconsciously, are forwarding God's kingdom on earth. In the broad definition of the Master it means all those who are not against us. The way in which men associate for worship, or in which they consider it most remunerative to invest their efforts to forward the kingdom, gives them no right to arrogate to themselves the title of God's Church. Any body of men saying, We are the Church, seems to me ridiculous.

      If they try to exclude at the same time those who approach their Maker, or who are endeavoring to do faithfully the things Christ would approve, only in some other way, then they become offensive also. I am firmly convinced the world is coming to this view, and I am glad it is already beginning to express it. Through the Church the salvation of the world must come. I have no use whatever for the

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