[Painted Windows by Harold Begbie]@TWC D-Link bookPainted Windows CHAPTER II 16/29
Spiritual goods are unlimited in amount; they are increased by being shared; and we rob nobody by taking them.
He believes with Creighton that "Socialism will only be possible when we are all perfect, and then it will not be needed." In the meantime, "Christianity increases the wealth of the world by creating new values." Only in the currency of Christ can true socialism hope to pay its way. We miss the heart and centre of his teaching if we forget for a moment that it is his conviction of the sufficiency of Christ's revelation which makes him so deadly a critic both of the ritualist and the socialist--two terms which on the former side at least tend to become synonymous.
He would have no distraction from the mystery of Christ, no compromise of any kind in the world's loyalty to its one Physician. Simplify your dogmas; simplify your theologies.
Christ is your one essential. I have spoken to him about psychical research and the modern interest in spiritualism.
"I don't think much of _that!_" he replied.
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