Painted Windows

Painted Windows
Studies in Religious Personality

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Painted Windows by Harold Begbie

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1922

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Painted Windows
Studies in Religious Personality

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A boldly frank and fearless discussion of the problems of the modern church as disclosed through intimate and personal biographies of twelve religious leaders, from Roman Catholic to Salvationist. The author discloses the chaos of opinion existing in the church of to-day and draws some startling conclusions which will arouse the widest attention and controversy.

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ove God because he has never been able to love his neighbour. It is in the foremost nations of the world, not in the most backward, in the most Christian nations, not the most pagan, that we find unintelligent conditions of industrialism which lead to social disorder, and a vulgar disposition to self-assertion which makes for war. History and Homicide, it has been said, are indistinguishable terms. "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

This striking impotence of the human race to arrive at anything in the nature of a coherent world-order, this bewildering incapacity of individual man to live in love and charity with his neighbour, justifies the presumption that divine help, if ever given, that an Incarnation of the Divine Will, if ever vouchsafed, must surely have had for its chief mercy the teaching of a science of life--a way of existence which would bring the feet of unhappy man out of chaos, and finally make it possible for the human race to live intelligently, and so, beautifully.

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