 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 418 pages
...a religion of forms. The Pagan was a religion of forms ; it was all body — it had no life — and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance — really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form, whether that form be agreeable... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...religion of forms. The Pagan was a religion of forms : it was all body, — it had no life, — and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance — really a duty — to commemorate him by a certain form, whether that form be agreeable... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...of forms ; it was all body — it had no life ; and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify aud seud forth a man to teach men .that they must serve him with the heart; that only that I life was religious which was thoroughly good ; that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows.... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...Jewish was a religion of forms. The Pagan was a religion of forms; it was all body—it had no life; and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance, really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form, whether that form be agreeable to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 pages
...of idols and ordinances. The Jewish was a religion of forms ; it was all body, it had no life, and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance, — really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form, whether that form be agreeable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 438 pages
...of idols and ordinances. The Jewish was a religion of forms ; it was all body, it had no life, and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance, — really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form, whether that form be agreeable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...of idols and ordinances. The Jewish was a religion of forms ; it was all body, it had no life, and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...This man lived and died true to this purpose ; and new, with his blessed word and life before us, Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 440 pages
...of idols and ordinances. The Jewish was a religion of forms ; it was all body, it had no life, and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance, — really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form, whether that form be agreeable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...a commemoration. The whole world, he said, had been full of idols and ordinances and forms, when ' the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to that purpose ; and now with his blessed word and life before us, Christians must contend that ifc is... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...the formation of the soul. The Jewish was a religion of forms; it was all body, it had no life, and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth...serve him with the heart ; that only that life was religions which was thoroughly good; that sacrifice was smoke and forms were shadows. This man lived... | |
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The Jewish was a religion of forms; it was all body, it had no life, and the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart ; that only that life was religious which was thoroughly good; that... 
