My younger brothers, I am not speaking to you the words of enthusiasm
or excitement, but the words of sober every-day knowledge and
certainty. I tell you that all the miseries of England and of other
lands consist simply in this and in nothing else, that we men, made in
the image of God, made to know him, to be one with him in his Son, will
not confess that Son our Lord and Brother, to be the Son of God and
Son of man, the living Head of our race and of each one of us. I tell
you that if we would confess him and lay hold of him and let him enter
into and rule and guide us and the world, instead of trying to rule and
guide ourselves and the world without him, we should see and know that
the kingdom of God is just as much about us now as it will ever be.
I tell you that we should see all sorrow and misery melting away and
drawn up from this fair world of God’s like mountain mist before the
July sun.