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...first Protestants, Steere says, deliberately swept away many of the outward forms of Christianity. Emphasis on visible authority and external practices had brought the Roman Catholic Church, they thought, to Pharisaism and travesty; they hoped to avoid the same pitfall by stressing an inward spirituality. Instead of relying on liturgical formulas and the "outward priestly act of the sprinkling of holy water," they hoped to permeate each moment of everyday life with devotion to God. "One could meditate on Bible verses as one shoed a horse, or patched a pair of trousers, or planed a door." But over the centuries...
Nonetheless, Steere notes "certain incalculable assets which Protestantism's character and temper give it in the inward renewal it longs for: 1) It is free to criticize itself and to seek the truth, wherever that may lead it. 2) It is not inseparably bound in its confrontation of Jesus Christ to the historical formulae of any particular historical period or culture. 3) It is in principle a laymen's movement...
...spite of every surface indication to the contrary, there are prophets among us who see our catastrophic cultural situation in the West as bringing us nearer and nearer to the threshold of an age ... of Christian laymen permeating the world with an inward spiritual religion which would touch each mode of its life...
...Frugal City. The Communist plan fell into several stages. Decentralization would not only move out "nonproducers" but shift factories to the interior, where they would be closer to food, raw materials and coal. What remained of Shanghai would be turned "inward," i.e., weaned away from dependence upon foreign trade...
...wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...