John Adcock wrote a poem in which he speculates on how a child would react if his toy lion should come to life and how a Christian would react if Jesus should suddenly appear. In the poem, the child simply could not handle the situation. Adcock concludes the poem with these lines:
Leave us our toys then!
Happier we shall stay if they remain but toys,
and we can play with them,
and do with them as suits us best.
Reality would add to our unrest.
We want no Living Christ, whose truth intense
pretends to no belief in our pretense;
and flashing on all folly and deceit,
would blast our world to ashes at our feet.
We do but ask to see no more of Him below,
than is displayed in the dead plaything our own hands have made,
to lull our fears and comfort us in loss:
the wooden Christ upon the wooden…
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