The life and letters of James Martineau . ove to Hope Street. Bythe beginning of June the plans of Barry and Brown forthe new church were unanimously accepted, to Mr. Mar-tineaus great satisfaction; and his mind was alreadycontemplating what Mrs. Martineau calls a great andwondrous scheme, which was still a profound secret, ex-cept from a few official friends. This mysterious designwas to spend a year in Germany during the building of thechurch. His first wish was that the two congregations ofParadise Street and Renshaw Street should unite for twoyears, and allow each minister a years absence,
The life and letters of James Martineau . ove to Hope Street. Bythe beginning of June the plans of Barry and Brown forthe new church were unanimously accepted, to Mr. Mar-tineaus great satisfaction; and his mind was alreadycontemplating what Mrs. Martineau calls a great andwondrous scheme, which was still a profound secret, ex-cept from a few official friends. This mysterious designwas to spend a year in Germany during the building of thechurch. His first wish was that the two congregations ofParadise Street and Renshaw Street should unite for twoyears, and allow each minister a years absence, while oneremained at home to discharge the duties of both. Thisplan, however, was not carried into effect.^ He spent his vacation at Grange, in Borrowdale, and,while there, decided to select from a portmanteau of manu-scripts a second volume of Endeavours. This, as wellas his second edition of the first volume, was given to thepublic before the end of the year. It was dedicated to his Referred to in a letter to Mr. Thorn, July lo, JAMES MARTINEAU 1847-8 FROM AN ENGRAVING OF A PAINTING BY MR. AGAR X847] ENDEAVOURS, SECOND VOLUME friend, Mr. Thorn, and, like its predecessor, was a miscel-laneous collection. The hoped-for sermons on the Ministryof Christ and the Pauline Gospel were postponed, owingto a growing sense of the inadequacy of his the preface he gives a glimpse into the process of histhought. He points out that differences of theologicalbelief have their secret foundation in different philosophiesof religion; that the sacred writings are allowed to retainprecisely the residue of authority which, according to thebelievers view of our nature and our life, is unsuppliedfrom any other source; and that therefore the psychologyof religion must have precedence of its documentary criti-cism. Hence he says: I am not ashamed to confess, thatextensive and, in the end, systematic changes in the opinionsI derived from sect and education have had no higherorigin t
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