[Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookLord of the World CHAPTER I 26/45
And then Communion.
You used to believe that that made you a partaker of God; well, we are all partakers of God, because we are human beings.
Don't you see that Christianity is only one way of saying all that? I dare say it was the only way, for a time; but that is all over now.
Oh! and how much better this is! It is true--true.
You can see it to be true!" She paused a moment, forcing herself to look at that piteous old face, the flushed wrinkled cheeks, the writhing knotted hands on the coverlet. "Look how Christianity has failed--how it has divided people; think of all the cruelties--the Inquisition, the Religious Wars; the separations between husband and wife and parents and children--the disobedience to the State, the treasons.
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