Excerpt from Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 1911-1912, Vol. 5Istory is the first bar of judgement at which Churches have to stand. At that bar sooner or later their real character comes out.History has no prejudices and no consideration for persons. Nothing will induce it to keep alive a fiction, but it cannot let a truth die or a profitable way of life be lost. It has its own principle of the conservation of energy, and preserves what it wants to a life beyond life.History and doctrine continually interact. Doctrines make history and history sifts doctrines so that, taking broad spaces of time, we get a prag matic valuation of truth, not indeed perfect, but on a broad scale such as serves the purposes of life. In some respects London is a particularly good Sphere for applying this principle, for London, is both singularly hospitable and singularly critical.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,