Bruderhof wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
That this struggle of the oppressed classes has not always gone
pleasantly and that many imperfect things have been thought and done does
not discountenance me. The basis of the movement, the energetic will, and
the spiritual creativity of the goal are enough for me, so that I can
feel myself an ally—and that, indeed, in the Spirit of Jesus Christ who
had led me all along...
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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