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Jesus Christ (search for this): chapter 24
elf the servant of the weakness of your age. God in his Providence, to which Christ gave us the key, is the mover of the ages, has always been dragging down the grpreach the Gospel to every creature. The great agitator of the centuries is Jesus Christ of Jerusalem, who undertook to found his power on an idea, and at the same tdom condescending to the lowest ignorance. That is an insufficient statement. Christ intrusted his gospel to the poor, to the common-sense of the race, to the instio caste, no college, no inside clique of adepts, and no outside herd of dupes. Christ proclaimed spiritual equality and brotherhood. You see in the Bible that theence of Calais, struggling for rational religion, he was nearer to the heart of Christ than Jeremy Taylor when he wrote his eloquent and most religious essays, Holy Lhe Church will say, Did n't I tell you so? There is neither male nor female in Christ. Then we shall say: Yes, you did; but when it was vulgar and unpopular and iso
Jewish (search for this): chapter 24
seems impossible to measure the interval that separates them from the intellectual development around them. But if this Jewish boy in that era of the world, in Palestine, with the Ganges on one side of him and the Olympus of Athens on the other, eh. I think it a greater credulity to believe that there ever was a man so much superior to Athens and to England as this Jewish youth was, if he was a mere man, than it is to believe that in the fulness of time a higher wisdom than was ever vouchsafssisted brain of one uneducated Jew, while Shakspeare is admirable, and Plato is admirable, and Goethe is admirable, this Jewish boy takes a higher level; he is marvellous, wonderful; he is in himself a miracle. The miracles he wrought are nothing t other faith whose first teacher was not cherished and deified. The proof that some mighty power took possession of this Jewish mind, and lifted it up above, and flung it against its age, is that he himself and eleven of his twelve first disciples f
Socrates (search for this): chapter 24
the religious demonstrations of Asia. If you cross the Straits and come to the fair humanities of ancient Greece, to the classic mythology which gave us the civilization of Greece, the same general truth obtains. The mythology of the age was so literally and utterly a mere reflex of its earliest civilization, that the finest specimens of human life find no prototype at all in the religion of the classic epochs. Where in the Greek mythology do you find any prototype for the nobleness of Socrates or the integrity of Cato? If Athens and Rome had not been far better than Olympus, neither empire would have survived long enough to have given us Phocion, Demosthenes, or Cato. Religion is the soul of which society and civil polity are the body, and when you bring forward the exceptional lives of thoughtful men, living either in Greece or on the banks of the Ganges, as a measure of the religion of their age and country, I reject it; for I go out into the streets of both continents to a
1861 AD (search for this): chapter 24
n. Christianity marked slavery as sin one hundred years ago. You may go to England and find blue-books that might be piled up as high as Bunker Hill, which were written by intelligent committees, set to inquire whether it is safe to do right. The principle of truth was there carried out, however, and culminated with Wilberforce, as he carried up eight hundred thousand broken fetters to God. [Mr. Phillips read an extract from an article in one of the most religious of our daily papers, in 1861, in which it was stated that the struggle between the North and the South might go on with such bitterness that we should be obliged to emancipate the slaves. The article said: The ordeal was one in which hypocritical philanthropists and bigoted religionists might exult, but from which genuine Christianity would pray most earnestly that the nation might be saved. ] Every man in political life now will say that he knew for years that slavery was wrong, but he did n't think it best to say s
April 11th, 1869 AD (search for this): chapter 24
Christianity a battle, not a dream (1869). A discourse at the thirteenth Sunday afternoon meeting, Horticultural Hall, Boston, April 11, 1869. To tell the truth, the subject is one not very familiar to my beaten path of thought, and I am present rather at the urgency of the Committee to take a share in the discussion of the topics for which the doors were opened, than from any earnest wish of my own. But still I should be ashamed to say, after having lived thirty years of active life in a community stirred as ours has been, that I have not some suggestions to offer on a topic so vital as the one which I have named. Every man who has lived thoughtfully in the midst of the great issues that have been struggling for attention and settlement; every man who has striven to rouse to action the elemental forces of society and civilization which ought to grapple with these problems,--must have had his thoughts turned often, constantly, to the nature of Christianity itself, and to the
1869 AD (search for this): chapter 24
Christianity a battle, not a dream (1869). A discourse at the thirteenth Sunday afternoon meeting, Horticultural Hall, Boston, April 11, 1869. To tell the truth, the subject is one not very familiar to my beaten path of thought, and I am present rather at the urgency of the Committee to take a share in the discussion of the topics for which the doors were opened, than from any earnest wish of my own. But still I should be ashamed to say, after having lived thirty years of active life in a community stirred as ours has been, that I have not some suggestions to offer on a topic so vital as the one which I have named. Every man who has lived thoughtfully in the midst of the great issues that have been struggling for attention and settlement; every man who has striven to rouse to action the elemental forces of society and civilization which ought to grapple with these problems,--must have had his thoughts turned often, constantly, to the nature of Christianity itself, and to the
1554 AD (search for this): chapter 24
element, who took a hall and was decently surrounded. He was the sedition of the streets. He said to wealth, You are robbery, and Christendom stood aghast. He said to Judah, You are a tyranny. He arraigned unjust power at its own feet. If a man does so now we send him to the coventry of public contempt or the house of correction. But that is where Christianity goes. That is the way it entered the world, and that is the way it grapples with the world to-day. As the old Italian said in 1554, There has not a Christian died in his bed, for two hundred years. There will never a Christian die in his bed in the sense in which he meant it. The distinctive representative, the typical, advanced Christian of his age will never die in a respectable bed, because the society of to-day, though growing out of a Christian subsoil, struggles yet to defy its Master. I have endeavored to show the wise men at the State House that they are gravitating toward the despotism of incorporated wealth
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