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The Failure of Christianity
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4.
THE FAILURE OF CHRISTIANITY.
" We do not see God's preparations."
The lack of the Imperialist
vision set
before the Faithful by Christ has been the
weakness of Christendom during long
periods of her history. There have indeed
been imperialisms
as in the great
hierarchical
systems
but they have been of the
order of World-power
visions which Christ
definitely
and
rejected, they were foredoomed
to failure, so far as He was
concerned.
The Vision of Christ has nothing The
material in it, it relates itself at no point
Kin
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,
with the World. He compares
it continually
to the little seed fallen into the
ground, dying to live, growing silently
from within of the power of its own
mysterious hidden life observation
;
hardly
discloses its
growth but as surely as
;
comes the harvest of the farmer, with its
thirty- -sixty- -hundred-fold result, so