Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew.Croly, George
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Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew.
Croly, George
Wandering Jew -- Fiction
This coming is in harmony with recognizable law; belief in it is logic,
is common sense. It would be extraordinary, miraculous, if He did not now
come. When it is our will to do His will, we become the reincarnation
of Christ, for “Christ is formed in us.” When the dominating ones in a
community, in a church, in a nation, in the world, are of this sort,
you see Christ reincarnated in all these. Moses, David, John, Plato,
Augustine, Savonarola, Bunyan, were great ideal dreamers, but they were
also geniuses of common sense. These men were primarily men of faith and
great good sense, not of credulity. They had the power and common sense
to know that there were voices within, and to withdraw their attention
from the voices without and give the real world a chance to be heard.
They knew that the universe would fall into chaos and that stars would be
ground to dust if these worlds were disobedient to law. They knew that
there was an inner universe, and that there were inner laws infinitely
more important. They knew it to be the A B C of common sense to conform
to these inner laws. Christ was and is the embodiment of common sense;
and so His followers become as they grow into the new creatures of the
kingdom of the spiritual man.
* * * * *
There are voices within distinct and clear to those who have ears to
hear; clearer than silver bells ringing up in air at midnight. One who
has grown this spiritual nature ceases to talk about the inward world
being silent or hid—yet there are clouds and doubts. These things must
needs be—these assailed Christ to the last. And if angels do not also
follow, ministering to us, it is because we have not reached the plane
of spiritual seeing. Help is always near, and it should not be necessary
for a prophet’s hand to touch our eyes to enable us to see the mountains
covered with heavenly allies, or to enable us to know the signs of the
times. There is no room for fear. Bismarck spoke with the accents of a
prophet when he said: “Germany fears nothing but God.” The cry is gone
out to the ends of the earth: “Great is the soul of man; make way, make
way!”
These signs of a mighty change are deepening and multiplying as we swing
into the new century. The Jewish people were to be trodden underfoot
until the inner kingdom of love should be established; that barbarism of
hate is now rapidly dying.
Were we wise enough, events all around us would be to us prophecies of
the coming of the triumphant God, of the kingdom of the spiritual man.
Watch! By watching we develop the ability to discern things beyond the
senses.
Above every cloud the light is now breaking; the earth is rolling into
the dawn of a marvelous day.
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