"The music in the Cathedral may have been my fancy," he said,--"But
the discord in the world sounds clear and is NOT imagination. A
casuist in religion may say 'It was to be';--that heresies and
dissensions were prophesied by Christ, when He said 'Because
iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold';--but this
does not excuse the Church from the sin of neglect, if any neglects
exists. One thing we have never seemed to thoroughly understand, and
this is that Christ's teaching is God's teaching, and that it has
not stopped with the enunciation of the Gospel. It is going on even
now--in every fresh discovery of science,--in every new national
experience,--in everything we can do, or think, or plan, the Divine
instruction steadily continues through the Divine influence imparted
to us when the Godhead became man, to show men how they might in
turn become gods. This is what we forget and what we are always
forgetting; so that instead of accepting every truth, we quarrel
with it and reject it, even as Judaea rejected Christ Himself. It is
very strange and cruel;--and the world's religious perplexities are
neither to be wondered at nor blamed,--there is just and grave cause
for their continuance and increase.
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