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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: imitative. This time there has been no revelation here or there;
there is no claim to a revelation but simply that God has become
visible. Men have thought and sought until insensibly the fog of
obsolete theology has cleared away. There seems no need therefore
for special teachers or a special propaganda, or any ritual or
observances that will seem to insist upon differences. The
Christian precedent of a church is particularly misleading. The
church with its sacraments and its sacerdotalism is the disease of
Christianity. Save for a few doubtful interpolations there is no
evidence that Christ tolerated either blood sacrifices or the
mysteries of priesthood. All these antique grossnesses were
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