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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    which inheres in the whole race. This thought is not vulgar blasphemy. It rests upon the conviction that we are all mutually responsible to each other for the state of our souls. Think of it! Not a thought that you and I think— not a word that we utter—not a thing we do— but affects, influences, smites somebody ! Are we to say that that influence entails no effect} What force in nature is comparable in potency to the mental and moral force in man ? And what, save this, can create, develop, mould, fashion a soul ? I like, I confess it, the thought of Eternal Hope. It brings us, men and women, ideally together—into touch, in fellowship and com- munion, as it were, with one another—and it seems to suggest to me the thought that we may all share in an immortality which, I verily believe, inheres in the moral universe. But does such a hope amount to the convic- tion that Salvation is to be a foregone conclusion ? Or does it lead us to hope that we may be saved by the grace of some superhuman power ? Assuredly it does not. Surely if immortality is
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