Bruderhof wrote:
> Is Social Democracy that which rightly should be demanded? Or is it
> rather—because it so energetically pursues “the state of the future”
> —that which, as so many assume, should by all means be opposed by
> every citizen and churchman?
>
A person must indeed be blind if he cannot see that, during the entire
century since the French Revolution, there have arisen movements of ever
increasing consequence directed toward a new ordering of society. Where is
there a country that has not been agitated by socialistic ideas? It is one
impulse, one forward-striving spirit, which seeks this new social order.
No
one can avoid this movement. Church and state must grant people freedom in
this regard. We have lived in a century of revolution and rapid change and
are living in the midst of radical movements—and this is in accord with
the
will of God!
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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