The Archive · 1924

A Fancy Gospel

What a refreshment to have a person of such quality before us! Tt is the need of every age, not least our own, when with all our invention and' discoveries we cannot find the man who satisfies us.

"What China wants it has several leadins Tacking in China really wants, Christendom too, if a man plus something indefinable, one who is above criticism and worthy to be followed till death.

Other gospels are in the air, and in the air they are likely to remain. One has just been published by the notorious Trotsky who has been responsible for the efficiency of Red army and is looked up to as leader by a large proportion of mankind, So long as he. only Jooked fierce there was the risk of assuming he was wise, But he has written a book and exposed his! mind, He has hung out his remedies like clothes on a line, blown out by the wind, allowing the world to see the poverty of] thought with which the Red mind is clothed. The excuse for his book is, curiously the sinfulness of mankind for which he retails his gospel in the following formulae. "People must deliberately and consciously, create a new life and this life must take new forms.... We must come out on the rod of spiritualized, ennobled forms of life by means of the creativeness of general masses: of the population." If it is creative. ness that the world wants it will have to look in another quarter, for when did masses of men ever: create anything? Even if the theory were right instead of wrong: it is still only theory. Trotsky has. got so many words off his chest, Dut what has he got into anybody's heart? And who could be inspired by all that verbiage? coming Kingdom: he had put. all hho had and was at the disposal of this cause, You may be sure he will not place the crown on the wrong head. Yes, you may say that John focussed the prophetic Insight and conscience of the Bible, and his testimony must still carry conviction to every reasonable, mind,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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