. Essays and addresses . culptor lay awake in thefireless room and thought of the still moist clay, thoughthow the water would freeze in the pores and destroy in anhour the dream of his life. So the old man rose from hiscouch and heaped the bed-clothes reverently round hiswork. In the morning, when the neighbours entered theroom the sculptor was dead. But the statue lived. The Image of Christ that is forming within us—that islifes one charge. Let every project stand aside for that. Till Christ be formed, no mans work is finished, no re-ligion crowned, no hfe has fulfilled its end. Is the infin
. Essays and addresses . culptor lay awake in thefireless room and thought of the still moist clay, thoughthow the water would freeze in the pores and destroy in anhour the dream of his life. So the old man rose from hiscouch and heaped the bed-clothes reverently round hiswork. In the morning, when the neighbours entered theroom the sculptor was dead. But the statue lived. The Image of Christ that is forming within us—that islifes one charge. Let every project stand aside for that. Till Christ be formed, no mans work is finished, no re-ligion crowned, no hfe has fulfilled its end. Is the infinitetask begun? When, how, are we to be different? Timecannot change men. Death cannot change men. Christcan. Wherefore////cv/ Christ. THE CITY WITHOUT A CHURCH Copyright, 1892, byHENRY DRUMMOND Saw tbe IT^oI^ Cit^, mew Jerusalem, Coming Down front (5oD out ot Ibeavem * * * BnD ir saw no temple tbcrcin. BnD 1bi6 servants sball serve 1bim; BnD tbe^ sball see Ibis 3face; BnD tbis IRame sball be written on tbeir THE CITY WITHOUT A CHURCHI. I SAW THE CITY. Two very startling things arrest us in Johnsvision of the future. The first is that thelikest thing to Heaven he could think of wasa City; the second, that there was no Churchin that City. Almost nothing more revolutionary could besaid, even to the modern world, in the nameof religion. No Church—that is the defianceof religion; a City—that is the antipodes of lO THE CITY WITHOUT A CHURCH. Heaven. Yet John combines these contradic-tions in one daring image, and holds up to theworld the picture of a City without a Church ashis ideal of the heavenly life. By far the most original thing here is thesimple conception of Heaven as a City. Theidea of religion without a Church— I saw noTemple therein —is anomalous enough ; butthe association of the blessed life with a City—the one place in the world from which Heavenseems most far away—is something wholly newin religious thought. No other religion whichhas a Heave
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