Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 34

PantheisrrCs Destruction of Boundaries. tljcii

you are

thu sun

Then

uiidoiie.

lias set

tliesc

people,

armed by you, before

uj)on that day of ven<ijeaiicc shall with a

siiiirle

stroke dispel your enchanting power, and, while crushing j'ou to

the earth, proclaim that

a

has

all

it

become

loud and far that boundaries are no more, evolution, and that they but inaugni-ate

movement which could

Max

not fail in your pantheistic process!

Mlillcr once sketched the nirvayia of the yoga in the

picture of a

lamp which was being extinguished.

a social nirvana

we

see

shall

l\)ward sucli

the nations of Enrope move,

unless something be done to stop the weakening of boundaries. "VYhen, in the

human

body, the boundary

is

distnrbed between

the tissue of the veins and the flesh of the muscles, then, with

an avdyK-q (necessity) which

is irresistible,

there follows the de-

composition of the corpse.

France was not saved twenty years ago by the injudicious supply of arms to the mob, nor by Grnnbetta's wild hue and cry that not an inch of ground nor a stone of the stronghold

No

should be surrendered. iron network with which

escape was possible through the

Yon Moltke

had invested France, and town of Frankfort the Gaul capitulated. But this did not flnish France; for when, at length, it wisely took copy from Prussia's" example after the battle at Jena, and in the old imperial

chauvinism and exerted its utmost efforts and recovery of strength, it soon appeared possessed of so nnich energy of national life that Germany's emperor already feels uneasy and has called out ninety thousand more men per annum for the better protection of his frontiers. Is there no lesson in this for us, when, having shown the erasure of boundaries and the dangers which it threatens, forcibly restrained

in

home

we

its

discipline

face the final question,

What

resistance

may we

offer?

In sooth, the j^resent condition of believing Christianity is very like that of France after Sedan and Gravelotte. The assault made upon us has nv)t been successfully beaten off in

any single

point.

Stronghold after stronghold has been aban-

doned.

Treaso!! has been committed, time after time, within

our own

rardcs.

Intoxicated with transports of

prophesies the near

he

is

quite correct.

dawn

jo\',

the

enemy

of the day of our entire defeat.

"With shame

And

we must ackn()wledge

the

cowardliness and lamentable want of tact which have charactc!"ized our Christian conduct during these last

hundred years

in

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