[The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seeker CHAPTER XIV 14/19
So long as you preach a Saviour who condemns to everlasting punishment for disbelief, so long you will have men pointing to high authority for all their schemes of revenge and oppression here. "Not until you preach a God big enough to save all can you arouse men to the truth that all must be saved.
Not until you have a God big enough to love all can you have a church big enough to hold all. "An Indian in a western town must have mastered this truth.
He had watched a fight between drunken men in which one shot the other.
He said to me, 'When I see how bad some of my brothers are, I know how good the Great Spirit must be to love them all!'" "Was--was he a member of any church ?" inquired the amiable Presbyterian, with a facetious gleam in his eyes. "I didn't ask him--of course we know he wasn't a Presbyterian." Hereupon Father Riley and the wicked Unitarian both laughed joyously. Then the Congregationalist, gazing dreamily through the smoke of his cigarette, remarked, "You have omitted any reference to the great fact of Christianity--the sacrifice of the Son of Man." "Very well, I will tell you about it," answered the young man quite earnestly, whereat the Unitarian fairly glowed with wicked anticipations. "Let us face that so-called sacrifice honestly.
Jesus died to save those who could accept his claim to god-ship--believing that he would go to sit at the right hand of God to judge the world.
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