order’ on the one hand, and the warmth and elasticity of healthy tissue, all the exchanges of life, on the other hand. Preoccupation with order must not so dominate that it stifles the new inventions of life. That will degenerate into sclerosis and final necrosis. Neither must life and ardour be measured by excitement, or excesses of exuberance. Life in depth is no noisy phenomenon, and we must not mistake fever for fervour. A biblically harmonious balance should be sought in the apportionment of ministries and in the forms of worship, and there is room for variety and adaptation.
