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Introduction to the study of English literature by Vida Dutton Scudder Book 14 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Audience Level. Related Identities. Look into your mind and find out whether it is Jesus of Nazareth that you want to defend against satire, or a certain paste-and-water conception of Him which assuredly needs your defense. It seemed worth while to comment a little further on this correspondence, so the following letter was written:.
They are good fun. It is apropos of the letter from California and your comment on it. He does not stand alone. It is high time for you to recognize that anti-Church radicals do not absorb radicalism any more than Church-members absorb Christianity.
The old creeds are not dead, though impassioned believers in them are not often met, according to my experience, in 'cultured Boston' or its suburbs--or anywhere else. They exist, however, these believers--men and women who consider themselves, not merely with you, admirers of a dead martyr-hero, but disciples of a Living Lord.
Among these disciples a considerable number find the pungent and penetrating treatment of Churchi-anity and civilization in The Masses as welcome as flowers in May.
They agree with you not all the time, but much of the time, and they give thanks for you and wish they were clever enough to do so too. But it has never been lost. In the unpromising eighteenth century, William Blake defiantly proclaimed it:. Where'er His chariot took its way. The gates of death let in the day It bides its time, it finds its own. It is most compelling to-day among those who believe,--they really do, I assure you,--that He who was executed by the combined forces of the religious, intellectual, and governing classes of His day, is to be the Judge of the human race.
Editor, you are provincial. Please socialize your mind! Please open imagination to the fact of which I inform you,--that there are plenty of people ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with you in the fight for a clean, just, democratic civilization, who get authentic inspiration from sources closed to you. And don't sneer at their sanctities; it isn't worthwhile. The most seeming-obsolete formula is likely to have a sacred heart beating in it. It has meant, at all events, something profound in human experience.
Were I in Buddha-land, I should never make fun of even the most crude and popular forms of Buddha-worship. Were I among the Turks, I should say my prayers in the Mosques--always supposing I am hazy on this point --that they would admit a lady. The Masses lives in a country where a great deal of real Christianity survives--though I confess that appearances rather contradict the assertion. It wouldn't do you a bit of harm to show a little respect for it.
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