Article April 21, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from Joseph Fort Newton, F. H. Larkin

[Unitarian Word and Work]

There were people living in Europe during the Lutheran reformation who did not know that anything unusual was taking place. There were Jews in Palestine at the beginning of the Christian era, and for two hundred years after, who were not aware that the world was being turned upside down. So little was appreheneded of the approach of a new order of things when Christianity was entering the Roman Empire, that outside the gospels not more than two writers seem to have ever heard of Jesus of Nazareth. Only the historian who can view great events at long range has, in the past, seemed to be able to realize their significance. Today, however, it is not necessary to be a historian to appreciate the fact that the civilized world is being transformed on a larger scale and with a greater reference to all the details of associated life than ever was experienced in the past.

[Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, D.Litt., in The Christian Commonwealth]

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