not even succeed. I only wrote a book about it. Yet in my very failure, I have created a cathedral of thought in which the common man may once again pray to the living God, and one hopes find his prayers answered.
It is God who prompts people to pray; and it is certainly God alone who answers prayer. My contribution to that consummation is negligible, but yet it is necessary to express old truths in modern language. Not so much in a new translation of the Bible, which I am not competent to do; but in a new translation of Christianity in terms of modern English conduct. And to inspire anyone else, that conduct must be a translation which shows that I was unbroken by evil, or if broken that I still did not change sides. Even if an indwelling between people is not the only way, it is so obviously one way forward to salvation in this world, that the wonder is that no one has said so already. Now that the initial message has for some inexplicable reason lost its momentum, it is plain in my opinion that God desires his people to complete the salvation begun by Christ.
After all, what most of the world wants is to be shown the way forward; one must try to hope either for oneself or others. But today it is not so easy. One can disparage all the prophets of doom, the ecologists and the social scientists, but still the atomic bomb stares us all in the face. It is not easy nowadays to have hope for the future, unless one believes in salvation, and better still thinks one sees the way to it. Yet the whole tenor of modern thought from Marx onwards has been to destroy the useful but artificial barriers of class, of traditional right and wrong, of team spirit and patriotism, which at least pointed to a way forward. And it would be quite hopeless now to try to revive these things in the old traditional sense, without accepting that there must be some modification. I accept that ultimately these things may well have to go, but I refuse to accept the permissive philosophy of no standards; instead I insist…