Then he returned to his own
high station, having left an example which is still
occasionally followed. That is the story of Christ as
spirits have described it. There is nothing here of
Atonement or Redemption. But there is a perfectly
feasible and reasonable scheme, which I, for one, could
readily believe.
If such a view of Christianity were generally
accepted, and if it were enforced by assurance and
demonstration from the New Revelation which is coming
to us from the other side, then we should have a creed
which might unite the churches, which might be
reconciled to science, which might defy all attacks,
and which might carry the Christian Faith on for an
indefinite period. Reason and Faith would at last be
reconciled, a nightmare would be lifted from our minds,
and spiritual peace would prevail. I do not see such
results coming as a sudden conquest or a violent
revolution. Rather will it come as a peaceful
penetration, as some crude ideas, such as the Eternal
Hell idea, have already gently faded away within our
own lifetime. It is, however, when the human soul
is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of
truth may be planted, and so some future spiritual
harvest will surely rise from the days in which we
live.
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