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It is quite true that, according to the thought of the New Testament
writers, the mystic Jerusalem is not a city built by mortal men upon
this earth, but something which is wholly the gift of GOD, a city not
made with hands, descending from GOD out of heaven. The Kingdom of GOD
in its fulness is no product of human striving. It is the achievement
of a Divine purpose, the manifestation in the end of the days of the
completed mystery of the Divine Will.
Nevertheless it is the mission of the Church to prepare the way of the
Kingdom, and it is for Christian men to live as sons of the Divine
Kingdom even now, that is, as men in whose hearts and lives GOD and
none other is enthroned as King and Lord. This means that everything
that is good in human life is to be redeemed by being offered to GOD,
and that everything that is vile and evil is to be eliminated and cast
out. "The Son of Man shall send forth His messengers, and they shall
gather out of His Kingdom all things that offend." "There shall in no
wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
abomination, or maketh a lie.
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