[Painted Windows by Harold Begbie]@TWC D-Link bookPainted Windows CHAPTER XIII 4/15
There is another place in which she must look for the truth of Christ, a truth as completely overlooked by the modernist as by the traditionalist: it is in the movements of the soul, in the world of living men. I believe that there are more evidences for the existence of Christ in the modern world than in the whole lexicon of theology.
I believe it is more possible to discern His features and to feel the breath of His lips by confronting the discoveries of modern science than by turning back the leaves of religious history to the first blurred pages of the Christian tradition.
I believe, indeed, that it is now wholly impossible for any man to comprehend the Light which shone upon human darkness nearly two thousand years ago without bringing the documents of the Church to the light which is shining across the world at this present hour from the torch of science. "Why seek ye the living among the dead ?" For twenty years I have followed this clue to the meaning of Christ and the nature of His message.
I have seen Darwinism, the very foundation of modern materialism, break up like thin ice and melt away from the view of philosophy.
I have seen evolution betray one of its greatest secrets to the soul of man--an immanent teleology, an invisible _direction_ towards deeper consciousness, an intelligent _movement_ towards greater understanding.
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