PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY REVIVED 6i 



But the Quaker view of truth knows no such limita- 

 tions ; finality it has none, George Fox said that his 

 function was to bring people to Christy and to leave them 

 there. And why ? Surely in order that they might 

 learn, by personal experience and observation, more and 

 more of the height and depth and length and breadth 

 of the Love of God, 



Those who have received truth from this point of 

 view are scarcely likely, if they have thought about it, 

 to speak of their salvation, as having been attained. 

 Rather, like the Apostle Paul, they will regard themselves 

 as amongst those who are ** being saved ''; growing more 

 and more into the full stature and perfect likeness of 

 their Lord and Master, 



And now let us consider for a short time, how very 

 different are the results produced by Truth received 

 from these two points of view. For example, the 

 members of other religious denominations believe, 

 theoretically, in the Universal Fatherhood of God ; yet 

 we have only to consider their attitude towards war to 

 see that, with many of them this is at best but a pious 

 opinion, '' held as an infant's hand holds purposeless 

 whatso is placed therein, '^ Far from being a Universal 

 Father, God is to them a Mars, or ever a Moloch, who 

 rejoices that they should sacrifice to Him their sons. 



But those who have accepted Truth from the Quaker 

 point of view, and know by personal experience and 

 observation that God is the Father of all men, and Jesus 

 Christ their Elder Brother, can scarcely fail to ** come 

 into the virtue of that Life and Power, which takes away 

 the occasion for all war,'* 



Then again, the members of other religious denomi- 

 nations, theoretically hold the same view as ourselves, 

 regarding the obligation of absolute truthfulness. Yet 

 they condone a lie every time they take an oath, and that 

 in absolute defiance of our Lord's expressed command, 



