A New Christianity

A New Christianity
"The task before Western civilization today . . . is the greatest [our] civilization has ever faced. It is a complete reconstruction that is demanded. . .
"Nothing but Christianity can carry the Western peoples through this unparalleled crisis. But it must be Christianity in its purity and its fullness, not a Christianity wasting its energy on doctrinal controversy, broken by denominational divisions, or absorbed in taking care of its machinery. It must, in short, be a Christianity neither intellectualized, nor sectarianized, nor institutionalized.
"It must be a Christianity, born as at the first, in the hearts of the common people, simple, democratic, brotherly: like a tree, its top in the sky but its roots deep in common earth; treating institutions, even the most venerable, as the mere temporary contrivances that they are; with the faith of Jesus in the human heart and in the ultimate triumph of love, and a willingness, like His, to find a throne in a cross." [Salem Bland, The New Christianity, 1920!! ]

I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.... Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 5:21-24