The emotionalist, too, is no longer on safe ground in protesting his miracles of conversion.  The psychologist is advancing towards that ground, and advancing with every theory of supernatural evidence excluded from his mind.  The psychologist may eventually be driven to accept the Christian explanation of these phenomena; but until that surrender is made the emotionalist will not be the power in the world which he ought to be.  His house, too, must be founded upon a rock.

Let us not be afraid of examining our faith, bringing our minds as well as our hearts and our souls to the place of judgment.

I will give here a few quotations from the utterances of Canon Barnes which show his position with sufficient clearness.

We all seek for truth.  But, whereas to some truth seems a tide destined to rise and sweep destructively across lands where Jesus reigned as the Son of God, to me it is the power which will set free new streams to irrigate His Kingdom.

     As is obvious to everyone, all the Churches realise, though some do
     not acknowledge, the necessity of presenting the Christian Faith in
     terms of current thought.

     We have seen the urgent need of a fuller knowledge of the structure
     of the human mind if we would explain how Jesus was related to God
     and how we receive grace from God through Christ.

I am an Evangelical; I cannot call myself a modernist.  I have welcomed the intervention of those who, disclaiming any knowledge of scholarship or theology, have in simple language revealed the power of Christ in their lives.  For theory and practice, speculation and life, cannot be separated.  We cannot begin to explain Jesus until we know how men and women are transformed by the love of Christ constraining them.

     Those to whom religion is external and worship formal are of
     necessity pretentious or arid in speaking of such matters as the
     Person of Christ or the value of creeds.

We do not affirm that the Lord’s Person and work have been central in Christianity in the past.  There is much to be said for the view that they were, from the end of the second century to the close of the Middle Ages, concealed beneath alien ideas derived from the mystery religions; that the Reformation was the hammer which broke the husk within which, under God’s providence, the kernel had been preserved during the decline and eclipse of European civilisation.

     . . . as religion grows in richness and purity, Jesus comes to His
     own.

     Reason and intuition combine to justify the belief that our Lord
     had a right understanding of what man can become.

     We say that man is not only a part of the evolutionary process.  His
     highest attributes must serve to show its purpose.  They reveal the
     nature and the end of God’s plan.