>
> Notice how much our ways of looking at things have changed already!
> Who wonders today at the fact that every citizen demands political
> rights and receives them in ever greater degree? Who now is surprised
> when equal justice is demanded for all, both high and low? Is there
> anyone who wants to reintroduce slavery and indentured service? Or who
> would do away with representative government? These are genuinely new
> ways of looking at things.
>
In previous centuries, people who demanded the rights of freedom were
simply brought to justice and exterminated. And now, when Socialism sets
up
the goal that every person have an equal right to bread, that matters of
owner****p be so arranged that neither money nor property but the life of
man become the highest value, why should that be seen as a reprehensible,
revolutionary demand? It is clear to me that it lies within the Spirit of
Jesus Christ, that the course of these events leads toward his goal, and
that there is bound to be revolution until that goal is reached.
Resistance
will be of no avail, because it is God’s will that all men in every
respect
should be regarded equal and that they, rather than being plagued by the
earth, should be blessed creatures of God.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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