Every man who led a great moral reform ahead of his time was a
dreamer. And these dreamers, whose lives are scattered through
history, each a tragedy and each a milestone on the path of
civilization, did for civilization what a frontiersman does for a
new country.
Jesus Christ was a dreamer. He saw the truth and preached it,
although it meant death, and He knew that it meant death. The
brotherhood that He preached nineteen hundred years ago has not
yet been realized, but it WILL be realized in His name, and
His teachings and His death will be eternal factors in its
realization.
Slowly through the centuries the men of imagination who do not
dream are working and striving, each doing his little part to
realize the prophecies of the Great Dreamer.
Each compared to Him is as a tiny tallow dip compared to the
noonday sun, but each is necessary.
THE ONE WHO NEEDS NO STATUE
A movement is started in Italy to celebrate religiously the close
of the nineteenth century.
The idea is to erect at different points on the Peninsula
nineteen colossal statues of Christ. The statues, one for each
century, are to be of cast-iron, gilded, heroic in size.
There can be no objection to the idea, since it gives expression
to proper religious feeling.
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