The Chaos of Babel
.The only form of religion .that ever will be. popular will be one that will'pander to human "passion and pride. Christianity is 'not so, just because'(as the Rev! Dr. "Wa'ddell said last Suridav in Danedin) it smites human pi ide r fon' the .forehead and;the:face. Many men (added he) w.ould-'do; anything, rather than'wa^k humbly with GodC 'They will consent,' says the Otago Daily Times report, 'even to go through endless'incarnations'if so !•« they can co/ne out-at last-clapping themselves on the back -and -saying proudly: ''Aha! Is not this great Babylon -which mine own hands h&vebui't?" But they willrfind'as Hhe first Babel • builders found, only confusion "and chaos at the end of that.'
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 August 1908, Page 22
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115The Chaos of Babel New Zealand Tablet, 13 August 1908, Page 22
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