Richard Roberts has said it rather finely:
"The story of Jesus is 'the instance of love without a limit,' the love that will not let me go or give me up, that flings down party-walls and overleaps frontiers, flings wide the gate of friendship to the enemy, the impulse and the energy that creates the sovereign loveliness, the loveliness of a living society of men, purged of enmities and discords and hatreds, living out its manifold and abundant life in the unbroken harmony of unreserving fellowship."
If we can have the humility to see that there lies the heart and glory of the world, we can be content to let the wise ones erect their houses of cards as they may, while within the tottering structure we build the eternal Kingdom of God. We can then greet the new day with Alfred Noyes:
"It is the Dawn! The Dawn! The nations
From East to West now hear a cry,—
Though all earth's blood-red generations
By hate and slaughter climbed thus high,
Here—on this height—still to aspire,
One only path remains untrod,
One path of love and peace climbs higher.
Make straight that highway for our God."
CHRISTIAN LIFE
by
Elbert Russell
THE QUAKER OF THE FUTURE TIME
by
George A. Walton
THE CHRISTIAN PATRIOT
by
Norman H. Thomas
THE CHRISTIAN DEMAND FOR
SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
by
Harry F. Ward
RELIGION AS REALITY, LIFE AND
POWER
by
Rufus M. Jones