We are all busy still, and yet the world is not saved.
The Anarchist is perfecting the process that shall bring his millennium
to be, and the young Socialists in Barnet House are working out the
details of their new economic order. The Altruist still translates the
infinite into finite terms; the Young Reformer is on the platform; I
toil daily in the self-same Cause, but the world is not saved.
Many times since we closed ranks and marched onward over the Lad’s grave
I have paused, disheartened. Full assurance has not been granted me, and
it is my lot in doing battle to strike often in the dark. Yet I have
moments when I know that the strife is not in vain. In these I wonder
why we are so troubled about our duty to our fellow-man, and about our
knowledge of God. The one command in regard to our neighbour is not
obscure. And our foreboding lest our faith in God shall escape us seems
futile, inasmuch as we cannot escape from our faith.
THE END
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2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
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