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I Saw the City - His Servants Shall Serve - I Saw No Temple There - Contents

a citizen, if Heaven is a cathedral and not a City, then these things do fit for Heaven. But if life means action, and Heaven service: if spiritual graces are acquired for use and not for ornament, then devotional forms have a deeper function. The Puritan preachers were wont to tell their people to "practise dying." Yes: but what is dying? It is going to a City. And what is required of those who would go to a City? The practice of Citizenship the due employment of the unselfish talents, the development of public spirit, the payment of the full tax to the great brotherhood, the subordination of personal aims to the common good. And where are these to be learned? Here: in Cities here. There is no other way to learn them. There is no Heaven to those who have not learned them.

No Church however holy, no priest however

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