must come from ab extra. No nature-force can possibly be conceived as producing them. All that remains of interest for Eschatology in such circles can spring from a “historicizing” curiosity only. Piety it is no longer capable of kindling. And yet, there was and may still further appear to be something good from the Lord in this modernistic setback. Driven by such a storm of denial from the old pastures, not a few of the pious sought refuge out of this chill-grown world into anticipations of the
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