CHRISTIANITY AND THE FAR FUTURE
"Christianity pledges itself to the truth of an ever-advancing wdemptive purpose, and a far-off Divine event to which the whole creation moves," says the Church Times. "But it is haunted with the thought of mah's fall and man's wilfulness, ( and dubious of the results of mere 'civilised progress,' leaning on human effort ratltef than Divine grace. As for the suggestion that tho Christian era is only just beginning, it ha<» to be remembered that Christianity is an historical religion, based on certain stupehdous events. But it would be practically impossible for men of the far future to build their faith and their daily lives on hanpeningo said to have occurred in dim, primaeval ages thousands of aeons before. What would Bethlehem and Calvary be to people living in A.D. 300,000 ?' J
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 13
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136CHRISTIANITY AND THE FAR FUTURE Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 13
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