Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Services as Minister of the Second Church, and His Qualities as a Religious Teacher. A Discourse Preached in the Second Church, Boston, Sunday, April 30, 1882,

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Beacon Press, 1882 - 23 頁

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第 18 頁 - WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God ; — In heaven are kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod.
第 8 頁 - God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.
第 18 頁 - Mr. Emerson might think this or that, but he was more like Jesus Christ than any one he had ever known. He had seen him when his religion was tested, and it bore the test.
第 18 頁 - For faith, and peace, and mighty love, That from the Godhead flow, Showed them the life of heaven above Springs from the life below. They live with God, their homes are dust ; But here their children pray, And, in this fleeting lifetime, trust To find the narrow way.
第 9 頁 - We must have days and temples aud teachers. The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and the noblest society, to whatever means and aids of spiritual refreshment. Men may well come together to kindle each other to virtuous living.
第 15 頁 - God's truth ; if we have studied together the sense of any divine word; or striven together in any charity; or conferred together for the relief or instruction of any brother; if together we have laid down the dead in a pious hope ; or held up the babe into the baptism of Christianity; above all, if we have shared in any habitual acknowledgment of that benignant God, whose omnipresence raises and glorifies the meanest offices and the lowest ability, and opens heaven in every heart that worships him,—then...
第 13 頁 - A committee was appointed and reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : 1. That in the opinion of this church, after a careful consideration of the subject, it is expedient to maintain the celebration of the Lord's Supper in the present form. 2. That the brethren of this church retain an undiminished regard for the pastor, and entertain the hope that he will find it consistent with his sense of duty to continue the customary administration of the Supper.
第 9 頁 - I have sometimes thought, and indeed I always do think, that the sect of the Quakers in their best representatives appear to me to have come nearer to the sublime history and genius of Christ than any other of the sects.
第 15 頁 - ... account to us, by fixing our attention upon that which is unalterable. I find great consolation in the thought, that the resignation of my present relations makes so little change to myself. I am no longer your minister, but am not the less engaged, I hope, to the love and service of the same external cause, the advancement, namely, of the kingdom of God in the hearts of men. The tie...
第 17 頁 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...

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