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Henry Drummond, major early teacher of Christian New Thought

Serving New Thought is pleased to present

Henry Drummond's

The City Without A Church

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


Try to restore the natural force of the expression --- suppose John to have lived to-day and to have said London? "I saw a new London?" Jerusalem was John's London. All the grave and sad suggestion that the word London brings up to-day to the modern reformer, the word Jerusalem recalled to him. What in his deepest hours he longed and prayed for was a new Jerusalem, a reformed Jerusalem. And just as it is given to the man in modern England who is a prophet, to the man who believes in God and in the moral order of the world, to discern a new London shaping itself through all the sin and chaos of the City, so was it given to John to see a new Jerusalem rise from the ruins of the old.

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