For to Canon Barnes, religion is simply the teaching of Christ, and Christ is the revelation to man of God's nature and purpose.
He would simplify dogma in order to clarify truth.

He would clarify truth in order to enlarge the opportunities of Christ.

He would call no man a heretic who is not serving the devil.

None who seeks to enter the Kingdom will ever be hindered by this devout disciple of truth in whose blood is no drop of the toxin of Pharisaism.
You may see the intellectual charity of the man in his attitude towards other teachers of our time whose views are opposed to his own.

Of Dean Inge he has spoken to me with almost a ringing enthusiasm, emphasizing his unbounded force, his unbounded courage; and of Bishop Gore with the deepest respect, paying reverent tribute to his spiritual earnestness; even the Bishop of Zanzibar provokes only a smile of the most cheerful good humour.
He inclines quietly towards optimism, believing in the providence of God and thinking that the recent indifference to religion is passing away.
Men are now seeking, and to seek is eventually to find.