ABSTRACT
It is a radical mistake fatal to all progress to say that we are to remain in the position 'in which God has placed us'. The very object of all the teaching which we have from God is that we may find out the 'calling' to which we are called. God's plan is that we should make mistakes, that the consequences should be definite and invariable; then comes some Saviour, Christ or another, not one Saviour but many an one, who learns for all the world by the consequences of those errors, and 'saves' us from them. There can be no religion in arguing that you should stay in the Church into which you were born. The Church of England is expected to he an over-idle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an over-busy mother.
