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Excerpt from Happiness and Goodwill and Other Essays, on Christian Living
If there were but one disciple of Jesus on earth there could be no kingdom. As soon, however, as there were two disciples the kingdom had appeared. The comradeship between them would immediately initiate a new kind of force, operating powerfully to determine what manner of persons they should become. Their class-consciousness, as it were, would be born and set itself in con?ict with the world. These two would begin to grow like unto each other, their private peculiarities being pared down or lopped ofi by the social forces now set going. The advantages of mutual counsel, encour agement, caution, warning, and a division of labor would begin to appear. Agreement in belief would make the beginnings of a creed. Mutual arrangement of tasks would initiate the organization of a church. Mem ory of previous successes or failures would begin the formation of a tradition. In this simple Christian friendship, had it existed in such an elementary form, we should find the embryonic kingdom, which in time should rule the earth.
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