And yet Jesus taught His disciples to pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.” But the Kingdom of God itself has been confined in our minds to purely spiritual affairs and has almost been relegated to heaven. The will of God on earth is treated as purely hypothetical and chimerical if taken seriously. The result has been that we have practically ruled Christ out of a large part of our life whereas He asserts authority over all of it. It is this divided fealty that makes
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