and lords, but nations!
Not crowns and thrones, but men!"

To such comes with new and convincing power that which has been hidden
from the wise and prudent, the vision that this is still God's world,
in which, for all the learned data we have collected, there are still
the almost untapped reservoirs of human possibilities awaiting not the
test tubes of the scientist or formulas of the mathematician to bring
them out, but merely the spirit of redemptive love as we have learned it
in Jesus.

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."

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THE 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

HEROES IN PEACE
by
John Haynes Holmes

HIDDEN FROM THE PRUDENT
by
Paul Jones

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