ABSTRACT
Christianity in its beginning belonged neither to the East nor the West; it was born where they met and its subsequent development was greatly governed by the direction of the dominant tides of historical development. Chesterton has both hit and missed the immense difference between the East and the West in one of his brilliant paragraphs. Western devotion has been caught by the mystic and poetical character of Pantheism and is, on the whole, strangely blind to its actual outcome in the life of its devotees. This chapter discusses the opportunity in our present existence for a true balancing of the scales of justice, and if some future existence be needed to make things right, then the Christian doctrine of immortality has an immense advantage over the reincarnations of Theosophy. Orthodox Christianity has been content to affirm the facts of creation without asking any questions at all as to its methods.
