Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker.

  • Richard Dimsdale Stocker
Date:
1910
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Credit: Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To be religious almost means that one is to he reckoned among the salt of the earth. And I would say that this instinctive belief in one’s own ultimate safety is one of the first-fruits of spiritual experience. Even our old Scotswoman was not denied this. As far as her lights carried her, she was truly religious, and she alighted on a clumsy theory which seemed to her to justify her assurance of salvation. We cannot blame her for thinking that she was worthy of salvation. Her only mistake, perhaps, con- sisted in too hastily assuming that others could not enjoy the same felicitous privilege as her- self. Her heaven, no doubt, was a narrow one. She evidently interpreted salvation in a some- what peculiar fashion. But that does not greatly signify. What does signify, what I am anxious to show, is, that she was certain she would somehow survive and secure an immortal part in the scheme of things. That is what, I believe, all people in their heart of hearts believe too—if only they will come to think about it. Who, having satisfied himself that he is a living fact, can conceive of ultimate
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