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The Captives

CHAPTER IV
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Follow me and I will show what will transform your life." He concluded his sermon with these words: "And what of our responsibility?
We may compare ourselves, I think, to men who, banded together on some secret service, wait for the moment when they are to declare themselves and, by that action, transform the world.

Until that moment comes they must lead their ordinary daily lives, seem as careless of the future as their fellows, laugh and eat and work and play as though nothing beyond the business of the day were their concern.

But in their hearts is the responsibility of their secret knowledge.

They cannot be as other men knowing what they do, they cannot be to one another as they are to other men with the bond of their common duty shared between them.

Much has been given them, much will be demanded of them; and when the day comes it will not be the events of that day that will test them but the private history, known only to themselves and their Master, of the hours that have preceded that day." "I tell you what I have often told you before from this same place, that beside the history of the spirit the history of the body is nothing--and that history of the spirit is no easy, tranquil progress from birth to death, but must rather be, if we are to have any history at all, a struggle, a wrestling, a contest, bloody, unceasing, uncertain in its issue from the first hour until the last.


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