Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd.

  • Henry Demarest Lloyd
Date:
1906
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Credit: Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the saviours. By their fruits ye shall know them. He that doeth the will, he shall know the doctrine. The best of orthodoxy here is whether the work be for the good of the people. The hum of industry is the hymn of praise. Every good recipe is a sermon. Every effort to do a good thing better is a prayer, and progress is the answer to the prayers. The recorded memories of their thousands of years of experience have at last fastened in man the secure confidence that these prayers will be answered. They know now that their destiny is progress. This is the Church universal, where all who are workers are worshippers, and where the redeemed are the re¬ deemers. There is the Temple of the Fatherhood which will give all men the chance to be brothers—the father¬ hood of man by man. And coming up into the eyes of men through the eyes of their best and first seers is the vision that a great primal force, as real as that which pulls the planets along, is at work here. Little under¬ stood as yet, it has been so weaving them together in the web of world industry that men serving each other around the globe show themselves to be one with the spirit which could proclaim its divinity in no words stronger than “I come among you as one who serves.” This mighty stream of flowing energy weaves together the works of men that it may weave together the workers. In this congregation is love to be made manifest. It is a waste of time to talk pessimism, degeneration, to a century which has walked with Darwin and has seen congresses of International Arbitration, and has been a participant in such a social function as the election by universal suffrage, white and black, of a four-years’ king from among the people—acts of civilisation never before possible. The age that has seen these things knows also that it sees in them the precedents by which it will pacify
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