Never let it come to the surface never let him ask what he expected them to look like. His mind is full of togas and sandals and armour and bare legs and the mere fact that the other people in church wear modern clothes is a real-though of course an unconscious-difficulty to him. At his present stage, you see, he has an idea of “Christians” in his mind which he supposes to be spiritual but which, in fact, is largely pictorial. Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous. Your patient, thanks to Our Father below, is a fool. You may know one of them to be a great warrior on the Enemy’s side.
The Screwtape Letters PDF Book Download It matters very little, of course, what kind of people that next pew really contains. Make his mind flit to and fro between an expression like “the body of Christ” and the actual faces in the next pew. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbours. When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbours whom he has hitherto avoided.Ĭlick here to Download The Screwtape Letters PDF When he goes inside, he sees the local grocer with rather in oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands, and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics, mostly bad, and in very small print. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.Īll your patient sees is the half-finished, sham Gothic erection on the new building estate. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes I our boldest tempters uneasy. I do riot mean the Church as we see her spread but through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. LewisĪll the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour. Lewis Name of BookĪbout Book – The Screwtape Letters PDF Book Download by C. There is no need to despair hundreds of these adult converts have been reclaimed after a I brief sojourn in the Enemy’s camp and are now with us.
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