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And since that false wisdom has failed, and the wisdom of this world,
and the rulers of this world, came to nought in the terrible crisis
of the French Revolution, eighty years ago, men have been taking up a
new idolatry. For as science has spread, they have been trusting in
science rather than in the living God, and giving up the old faith
that God's judgments are in all the earth, and that he rewards
righteousness and punishes iniquity; till too many seem to believe
that the world somehow made itself, and that there is no living God
ordering and guiding it; but that a man must help himself as he best
can in this world, for in God no help is to be found.
And how shall we escape that danger?
I do not think we shall escape it, if we stop short at the text. We
must go on from the Old Testament and let the New explain it. We
must believe what Moses tells us: but we must ask St. John to show
us more than Moses saw. Moses tells us that God created the heavens
and the earth; St. John goes further, and tells us what that God is
like; how he saw Christ, the Word of God, by whom all things were
made, and without whom nothing was made that is made. And what was
he like? He was the brightness of his Father's glory, and the
express image of his person. And what was that like? was there any
darkness in him--meanness, grudging, cruelty, changeableness, deceit?
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