38 QUAKER ASPECTS OF TRUTH 



greed and egoism; and when it emerges, as emerge it 

 must, it will be found that it has not been in the tunnel 

 for nothing. The communism which was once a mere 

 instinct, will have become intelligent and consciously 

 Divine ♦ 



The same process can often be recognised in the 

 progress of the individual. The very little child is 

 unconscious of the Ego, and speaks of itself in the third 

 person. Soon, however, this stage passes off, and the 

 child becomes an appalling egoist. Then begins the 

 true battle of life, the fight against self and selfishness* 

 Those who succeed best in defeating the Ego and 

 eliminating it from their lives, are the true saints of the 

 earth. But they have not got back to exactly the same 

 position as that from which they started, or they would 

 indeed have fought in vain. The saint is child-like, 

 but he is not childish. The unselfishness of the saint 

 is intelligent and divine. He has come out of the tunnel 

 at a far higher level, with wider views and more extensive 

 horizon. 



In those early communistic days, the members of the 

 Apostolic Church did not call their religion ** Christ- 

 ianity,'^ That was a nickname coined at Antioch, The 

 name that they gave to their religion was ** The Way,** 

 It was a new way of life — a new way of conquering 

 enemies — a new way of overcoming difficulties — a new 

 way of getting what is wanted. 



Since the War I find that I have grown more and 

 more impatient with the good, kindly folk who so 

 constantly tell us that ** We are all working for the same 

 end,'' as though that were all that mattered. Of course 

 we are all working for the same end. Every man of 

 good-will wants a Kingdom of God, and as at least 

 ninety per cent, of our fellow men are men of good- will, 

 it stands to reason that we are all working for the same 

 end. But the thing that matters is not the end in view. 



