[Painted Windows by Harold Begbie]@TWC D-Link bookPainted Windows CHAPTER IV 7/21
Christianity, as Dr.Jacks says, has been more studied than practised. How far quarrelling theologians and uncharitable Churches are responsible for that rejection, let the conscience of the traditionalist (if he happen to know history) decide. As for the message, here is a reading of it by a Unitarian--a reading, I venture to say, for all minds, for all places, for all times--a reading which stands clear of controversial theology, and which, in spite of its profundity, is a message for the simple as well as for the learned. Christianity is man's passport from illusion into reality.
It reveals to him that he is not in the world to set the world right, but to see it right.
He is not a criminal and earth is not a Borstal Institution. Nature is the handiwork of a Father.
Look deeply into that handiwork and it reveals a threefold tendency--the tendency towards goodness, the tendency towards beauty, the tendency towards truth.
Ally yourself with these tendencies, make yourself a growing and developing intelligence, and you inhabit spiritual reality. Study the manner of Jesus, His attitude to the simplest and most domestic matters, the love He manifested, and the objects for which He manifested that love.
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