Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 123
... society . As we are , so we as- sociate . The good , by affinity , seek the good ; the vile , by affinity , the vile . Thus of their own voli- tion , souls proceed into heaven , into hell . These facts have always suggested to man the ...
... society . As we are , so we as- sociate . The good , by affinity , seek the good ; the vile , by affinity , the vile . Thus of their own voli- tion , souls proceed into heaven , into hell . These facts have always suggested to man the ...
Page 125
... society , and successively creates all forms of worship . The principle of veneration never dies out . Man fallen into superstition , into sensuality , is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment . In like manner , all the ...
... society , and successively creates all forms of worship . The principle of veneration never dies out . Man fallen into superstition , into sensuality , is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment . In like manner , all the ...
Page 127
... society ; but , when sug- gested , seem ridiculous . Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight , and man becomes near - sighted , and can only at- tend to what addresses the senses . These general ...
... society ; but , when sug- gested , seem ridiculous . Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight , and man becomes near - sighted , and can only at- tend to what addresses the senses . These general ...
Page 132
... es- tablished teaching in society . Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done , as if God were dead . The injury to faith throttles the preacher ; and the goodliest of institutions 132 ADDRESS .
... es- tablished teaching in society . Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done , as if God were dead . The injury to faith throttles the preacher ; and the goodliest of institutions 132 ADDRESS .
Page 134
... society . The soul is not preached . The Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . On this occasion , any complaisance would be crim- inal which told you , whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of ...
... society . The soul is not preached . The Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . On this occasion , any complaisance would be crim- inal which told you , whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of ...
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