The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 11

what has been achieved Gains

highly

so

most glorious days of our

in the

valuable

my

in

fathers.

were the symbolical

eye that,

sympathies outside the boundaries of our own churches an isolated

movement,

should

I

inclined

feel

connive temporarily at the

to

lack of love for the Truth, accepting the assets, which

mentioned^

I

the prognostics of better times to come, and as fully counter-

as

balancing the black points.

however

This

passing

cloud,

little

But

darker

by a

danger,

and the

now

is

you

flash of lightning,

two

little

There

here.

feel at

ritualistic

now and then

once the approaching

So

between

the,

exists

an undeniable

affinity

cloud pending over Great Britain. Both have a

common

one

the

are,

change

the

in

as

as the other, the issue of a

well

common

And

sentiment.

least

danger of being disclaimed by the events as a

you

may

true

image of what

has soul, it

But

energy,

soon

as

certainly find

down

here

should

service

is

as,

like here, a tiniversal

its

that

it

spiritual

of

life.

movement the human

way, digging

its

own bed

like a torrent

like to

be childish, and childish

it

would

be, not

once the inner connection between the general increase

of worship

can

keep

things

As

if

to

must become general, and that

in literature, in painting, in sculpture,

outside our

own

churches, and the clearly

distinguishable changes of religious appreciation

observer

only the

from the mountain-sides. In serious matters none ot

of the symbolical

of love

is

The same cause, always bound in the end

local changes, not affecting the

There are

you know beforehand

shall

seen elsewhere,

awaiting yourselves.

full

its

now

is

without the

false prophet,

springing forward from the very entity of

in,

to realize at

in

what

is

results.

outside.

rushing us

exert

to

set

that

predict,

identical

world

rent

the dark

remarkable

yield

thicker

own churches and

They

allowed

much

all sides

drops become a serious warning.

as yet, feeble symbolical action in our

origin.

from a

falling

not disturb you.

will

gathering on the horizon,

clouds

already

it

over your head,

just

up your eye, you discern from

if lifting

and

Two, three drops

impossible.

is

also

in the

from being impressed there

is

in

bij

our

which no keen

own

circles.

In

an atmosphere permeating the whole

days of our fathers

this

atmosphere was saturated

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