For the first and most radical contrast is that of general outlook. The Apostolic Age was instinct with the belief that Christ would return before the generation of His first witnesses had died away: and much of its aloofness of attitude towards ordinary human interests, all that may be called culture as distinct from sanctity, was bound up with this human illusion. Wider experience of God’s ways has brought another and larger conception of His counsels for His Kingdom on earth. It is received not