I do not know why there is this difference

[soso]

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I hope () no reader will suppose that ‘mere’ Christianity is here put forward /as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions. . .

It is more like a hall /out of which doors open /into several rooms.

If I can bring anyone /into that hall I shall have done what I attempted.

But it is in the rooms, not in the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals.

The hall is a place to wait in, a place /from which /to try the various doors, not a place to live in.

For that purpose the worst of the rooms (whichever that may be) is, I think, preferable.

It is true that some people may find () they have to wait in the hall /for a considerable time,

while others feel certain /almost at once which door they must knock at.

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure () God keeps no one waiting /unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do get into your room you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good //which you would not have had otherwise.

But you must regard it /as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and, of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules //which are common to the whole house.

And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling.

* which 절은 ask 의 목적으로 쓰인 명사절/의문사절

In plain language, the question should never be:

‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness here? Does my conscience move me towards this?

Is my reluctance to knock at this door /due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike of this particular door-keeper?’

When you have reached your own room,

be kind to those //who have chosen different doors and to those //who are still in the hall.

If they are wrong they need your prayers /all the more;

and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them.

That is one of the rules common /to the whole house.

* It is more like a hall /out of which doors open /into several rooms.

a hall /out of which doors open /into several rooms 에서 which = hall 이므로

 /out of which=hall /doors open /into several rooms

 doors open /into several rooms /out of which=hall

/out of hall 는 종절에서 부사역할의 전치사구고 which 는 전목인것을 알 수 있다

From Mere Christianity
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity. Copyright © 1952, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1980, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.