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...look at the different sects and denominations which have grouped themselves under the name of religion; we see nothing but conflict and bad feeling, each party accusing the others of heresy or inconsistency; but Christ is watching over the struggle and will direct man to that ideal time when each lover of Jesus shall count his fellow Christian as a brother...
...world we may see that there have been recently and that there still continue works that have brought us to a much better state than was enjoyed by the people of fifty years ago. And all these changes are effected by the force of the spirit of Christ. This does not mean the increase of churches alone, for a man may have in him the spirit of Christ without being able to repeat a creed. It means rather the spirit that is bringing help to the poor, deliverance to the captives, and "preaching the acceptable year of the Lord...
...said that the civilization of the present is infinitely better than that of two thousand years ago, and men are willing to grant that this fact is largely due to the teaching of Christ. But people are often in doubt as to whether Christianity can cope with the problems of today. Sometimes it seems as if the world was not growing better,- as if the problems were growing more complicated and the spirit of Christianity could not be the force to meet them. It this were so we should have to grant that the spirit of Christ had been...
...more specific example of the working of the spirit of Christ is given in the great emergency that has come upon us this winter. Never has any country responded so nobly to the cry for help from its poor. The charity is not of the grudging and condescending kind, but comes from an overflowing heart longing to help those whom it regards as equals and brothers. When the letter carriers of Boston give unanimously a whole day's pay to the poor, does not this show the spirit of Christ? Should we ask before answering, "can they say their creeds...
...economics is not yet thoroughly understood, nor is the art of right and just government perfectly clear. So with a boundless force we could not yet have the world perfect, but let us rest assured with so many evidences of the presence and growing strength of the spirit of Christ, that when the machinery is perfect, if that be ever possible, the power to move it will not be lacking...