Ethical Addresses and Ethical Record, Volume 19

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Ethical Addresses, 1912
 

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Page 68 - We bless Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Page 58 - For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.
Page 160 - If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 98 - The love of goodness and the love of one's fellows are the true motives for right conduct ; and self-reliance and co-operation are the true sources of help. (c) Knowledge of the Right has been evolving through the experience of the human race ; therefore the moral obligations generally accepted by the most...
Page 99 - For each individual, after due consideration of the convictions of others, the final authority as to the right or wrong of any opinion or action should be his own conscientious and reasoned judgment.
Page 115 - I ASK not wealth, but power to take And use the, things I have aright, Not years, but wisdom that shall make My life a profit and delight. I ask not, that for me, the plan Of good and ill be set aside ; But that the common lot of man Be nobly borne, and glorified.
Page 98 - ... young; the promotion of continued self-education among adults; general educational reform, with stress on the formation of character; the earnest encouragement of all practical efforts tending to elevate social conditions. It is added that the supremacy of the moral end is implied as a truth; and that, interpreting the word " religion " to mean fervent devotion to the highest moral ends, the society is distinctly a religious body; while toward religion as a confession of faith in things superhuman,...
Page 130 - What, then, is the central aim of teaching ? Confessedly it is the impartation of knowledge. Whatever furthers this should be eagerly pursued ; and all that hinders it, rejected. When schoolmasters understand their business it will be useless for the public to call to them, " We want our children to be patriotic. Drop for a time your multiplication table while you rouse enthusiasm for the old flag.
Page 98 - The General Aim of the Union is: "To assert the supreme importance of the ethical factor in all relations of life — personal, social, national and international— apart from any theological and metaphysical considerations.
Page 106 - Justice being destroyed, will destroy; being ' preserved, will preserve : it must never, therefore, * be violated. " Beware, O judge, lest justice, being ' overturned, overturn both us and thyself.

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