From The Programme of Christianity, by Henry Drummond
Christianity, you will observe, really works. And it succeeds not only because it is divine, but because it is so very human—because it is common-sense.
We measure great movements by the loudness of their advertisement, or the place their externals fill in the public eye. This Kingdom has no externals.
Men, only men, can carry out this work. This humanness, this inwardness, of the Kingdom is one reason why some scarcely see that it exists at all.
He was not indifferent to observances, but the practices of the people bulked in His thoughts before the practices of the Church.
The tendency of the religions of all time has been to care more for religion than for humanity; Christ cared more for humanity than for religion—rather His care for humanity was the chief expression of His religion.
His immediate work was to enlist men in His enterprise, to rally them into a great company or Society for the carrying out of His plans.
The name by which this Society was known was The Kingdom of God.
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