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To Infidelity and Back by Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz
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"feel-so's," and let us turn to the revelation that comes from above,
that our intellects may be flooded with light and our emotions may be
submerged in God's love, so that our entire being--body, mind and
soul--may be filled, occupied and sanctified to the glory of Christ.

With the Unitarian movement that started at the beginning of the last
century, with so many human instrumentalities back of it, let us
compare the Apostolic church which was started in the first third of
the first century by a handful of poor, illiterate and despised
Galileans. Although the wealth and culture and political power of the
world were all against them, at the end of the century we are told
that they numbered five hundred thousand.

Again let us compare with Unitarianism, this modern movement for the
restoration of primitive Christianity which started somewhat later
than Unitarianism. Its reproach in the eyes of men--that it has no
literature--is its glory in the eyes of God; for the Bible is its
literature. Its work has been done chiefly among and through the
common people. At the end of the century it numbered among its
adherents more than a million and a quarter. While sectarian churches
numerically much stronger report meager increases and even decreases,
it reports an average of over forty thousand increase for the last
several years.

The experiences narrated in this chapter have made real to me the
belief that God is in every act of our life. That through his loving
care, "all things work together for good to them that love God." When
I think of how, in his providence, he took me away from the community
and religion of my early neighbors and brought me in a mysterious way
to a religion and people I had never heard of, I am overwhelmed with
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