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collection of stale acorns ? You would stare at him in
amazement, and say :
" Sir ! I want trees !
" Imagine
your feelings if he replied :
" In New Testament times
acorns possessed the extraordinary and miraculous
faculty of being transformed into oaks : that was ’
for
the benefit of others ’ ! These acorns are oaks ’
in an
abiding and ordinary state.’ To remain unde-
veloped is quite compatible with the welfare of the
plant."
Would you not, in silence, turn your back on that
nurseryman and think :
" You are either a knave or a
fool ! If those acorns had been submitted to proper
treatment, the great miracle of growth would have
occurred NOW, as well as two thousand years ago
!
"
Great will be the confusion of the tens of thousands
of so-called Christian Priests,—who imagine that they
have received the Holy Sacrament of Ordination,
—
when, on the Day of Judgment, they bring forth their
flocks of 350 millions of so-called " Christians," who
IMAGINE that they have been admitted into the True
Church of Christ by the administration of water and
empty words on their unconscious heads.
At the sight of this colossal sham the Spirit of Truth
will sternly say: " I know ye not : he only is a Christian
who leads the Christ-life." Thousands upon thou-
sands of so-called Pagans are members of the Invisible
Church : they may possibly never upon this earth have
heard even the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, but the
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