Life of Ahmad — Page 318
JESUS as IS DEAD as 318 But the learned writer does not say what the spiritual force is which is supposed to be streaming forth from Jesus as. If he lives only in the imagination of the people like all other legendary figures and Christians are compelled to look upon him only as an excellent character in fiction, we are afraid there is nothing left of Christianity as a religion. Perhaps critical scholars will do well to revise their position in regard to the historicity of Jesus Christ as. The spiritual force supposed to be coming from him is a still more evasive thing. It will simply melt into nothing at the very touch of modern criticism. Falsehood has no legs. The Promised Messiah as has 'come like the dawn with a flood of light, that darkness may flee away!' The old heathen gods who had crept back and who had dug themselves in once more are already being thrown out of the churches; it will not take long to disillusion the minds of the people of this will-o’-the- wisp of an imaginary spiritual force. A lot of intelligent Christians already realise that there is something essentially wrong with their Faith. It has indeed disappeared to a very great extent from Russia and Germany. About Britain Dr. W. R. Mathews, Dean of St. Paul’s, speaking at a conference of the Modern Christians Union at Cambridge in 1935, said: 'I do not believe that more than 20 per cent of the people of this country are in any possible sense of the word Christians. ' Now the percentage is far less.