And the work that we have builded,
Oft with bleeding hands and tears,
Oft in error, oft in anguish,
Will not perish with our years,
It will rise and shine transfigured
In the final reign of light;
It will pass into the splendours
Of the City of the Light.
For the assurance which breathes in these lines rests on a previous, deeper assurance: it is that which the Christian expresses in the words, "If God be for us, who is against us?"
[1] Ethical Religion, p. 48.
[2] Ibid, p. 39.
[3] See A Few Points about Ethical Societies, a tract issued by the Union of Ethical Societies.
[4] Ethical Religion, pp. 81, 84, 86, 89; for a concise treatment of this subject the reader may be referred to the present writer's Jesus or Christ? chapter iv.
[5] History of European Morals, ii., p. 26.
[6] Op. cit., p. 38.
[7] Ibid. pp. 16-18.
[8] Op. cit., p. 17.