Article October 21, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from F. Lewis Donaldson, W. H. Carnegie, Robert Freeman, H. D. A. Major

[Rev. F. Lewis Donaldson in The Guardian]

Man finds his true life in fellowship, and that this great principle of salvation must find its outward expression in earth, though its perfect fulfilment may not, perhaps can not, be achieved until the coming of the new heaven and the new earth in the world which is eternal.

Now it is that great principle of fellowship (by which alone the city of God can be realized) which our civilization has grievously ignored and has cruelly outraged. We have largely lost the idea of the brotherhood of man, and have been near to wrecking our ecclesiastical and our national life upon the rocks of aggressive selfishness. In the sphere of religion we have developed a crude individualism which concentrated upon the idea of individual salvation apart from Christ's body, the church, and we have imagined a salvation (which could never, in fact, exist) through a private and peculiar appropriation of the merits of our Saviour. It is doubtful whether it will ever be possible to estimate the harm which has resulted from our apostasy in religion from the teaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles, upon the unity and fellowship of mankind. In the church we have broken up that unity by our parties and sects, and the results are now before us in the impotence of the church throughout Europe before the madness of the nations.

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