The Bishop of Zanzibar preached a sermon at All Saints,
Margaret Street, last Sunday, taking for his subject the "three narrow platforms of faith, hope, and charity." Passing over his references to faith and hope, we may note his declara- tion that he might not bring on to his platform of charity anything that was in the least incompatible with his own union with the Divine Love Incarnate. Thus pain was caused, but charity was always in trouble. "Was not Christ," he asked, " when he exercised his charity, on an exceptionally narrow platform P" Charity meant personal union with God. The pain caused was not the pain of injured feelings, but of bewilderment. Then followed this amazing passage. which we quote verbatim from the Times report :—
"The gushing embrace that the world called charity, the preacher considered 'the embrace that takes in all men and leaves out the word "incarnate."' Of course, there would always he relationships with men hostile to God and to the Church, bat that caused a different kind of pain, for they knew in these days there were a few Christian people who regarded it as a duty to suffer much for such because they liked to be thought understanding people. He claimed, however, to select his relationship with creative things and tho good things of life, to choose those whom he could take into the saving grace of Christ and to reject those whom he could not. That was what he thought was really what was meant by charity."
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