“The socialists are doing great good. The church is still doing good;
the societies that have turned to the East have heard the great
message; even in commerce there is a new life; everywhere in the world,
the sense of having found _some new spirit_ which works to destroy
the sense of self. If one great figure should come now--come saying,
‘You are all good. You are all after the same thing. One way is as
good as another--only come.’... What we need is for some one to touch
the chord for us--to give us the key, as to an orchestra of different
instruments. We are all making different notes; and yet are ready for
the harmony--some of us intensely eager for the harmony. The great need
is for a Unifier.... It seems that we, here in the small boat, can see
America so much clearer, than when we were there----”
Bellair had felt this a thousand times.
“The greatest story in the world is the story of the coming of a
Messiah--the one who may chord for us. I think He will come. He will
come out of the East, his face like the morning sun turned to the West.
Don’t you see--we are all like atoms of steel in a chaos? You know what
happens when a voltage of electricity is turned upon a bar of steel?
Order comes to the chaos; the atoms sing, all turned the same way. That
Voice must come--that tremendous voltage of spiritual electricity--that
will set us all in harmony--all with our tails down stream.”
And Fleury finished it all by pointing out what had happened to them
in the small boat. They had lost separateness; they were each for the
others.
“That’s what must happen in America, in the world,--the pull of
each for the whole--the harmony. You have seen an audience in the
midst of great message or great music--they weep together. They cry
out together. They are all one. That’s the story. That is what must
happen. It will happen when the Unifier comes. It is the base of
all gospel--that we are all one in spirit. Don’t you see it--every
message from the beginning of time has told it? All one--all one--our
separateness is our suffering, our evil. To return to the House of Our
Father--that is the end of estrangement.”
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