The Church and the Divine Order (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Church and the Divine OrderOnly as we manage to subordinate organised force to this higher order of love and freedom will it be our servant and not our slave-driver, and merely to change its form will not serve us. That order a prophetic remnant alone may serve, but by them all forms of social order must be saved, whether individualistic or collective. In some order of love and freedom, that is in some kind of Church, the historical struggle of mankind must be gathered up, and, if it is not being served by the present Churches, then a supreme effort should be made to recall them to their true task. Only in a very dim sense are they not of the world, which seeks personal gain and is divided by rank and possession, but they all contain elements of self-sacrifice not to be found elsewhere, and except by self-sacrifice no social salvation will ever be won. That many are falling away from them is true, but that may be their gain, for, when they become religious societies, holding men only by re ligious ties, their true object and power will appear.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.