The Life and Writings of Theodore ParkerSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1865 - 201 oldal |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
abolitionism abolitionist American Anthony Burns beauty Bible bless bosom Boston called century character Christ Christianity church Committee of Vigilance conscience death discourse divine doctrine dogmas duty earth England eternal Europe eyes faith Faneuil Hall father favour feel felt freedom friends Fugitive Slave Law God's Gospel hand heart heaven honour hope human ideas inspiration Jesus kidnappers labour less letter liberal liberty ligion live look Melodeon mind minister miracles monotheism moral nation nature negro never North Old Testament opinion pass perfect piety political prayer preached preacher price 68 priest principles prophets Protestantism pulpit Reformation religion religious Rome sentiment sermon side slavery society soul South spirit Theodore Parker theology things Thomas Sims thou thought tion to-day took truth Union Unitarian United voice West Roxbury words young
Népszerű szakaszok
165. oldal - Christian world might well be summed up in one word of the evangelist — "and there they crucified him," for there has never been an age when men did not crucify the Son of God afresh. But if error prevail for a time and grow old in the world, truth will triumph at the last, and then we shall see the Son of God as he is. Lifted up he shall draw all nations unto him. Then will men understand the Word of Jesus, which shall not pass away. Then shall we see and love the divine life that he lived. How...
128. oldal - Lord, if this man is a subject of grace, convert him, and bring him into the kingdom of Thy dear Son ! But if he is beyond the reach of the saving influence of the Gospel, remove him out of the way, and let his influence die with him.
111. oldal - I will serve as head, as foot, or as hand to any body of serious and earnest men, who will go with me, with no weapons but their hands, in this work. I will do it as readily as I would lift a man out of the water, or pluck him from the teeth of a wolf, or snatch him from the hands of a murderer. What is a fine of a thousand dollars, and jailing for six months, to the liberty of a man? My money perish with me, if it stand between me and the eternal law of God...
185. oldal - Let not your heart be troubled ; ye believe in God, believe also in me." " Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
169. oldal - ... the measure of a man's total growth in wisdom, virtue, and piety, and since men will always differ in these respects, so religious doctrines and forms will always differ, always be transient, as Christianity goes forth and scatters the seed she bears in her hand. But the Christianity holy men feel in the heart, the Christ that is born within us, is always the same thing to each soul that feels it. This differs only in degree, and not in kind, from age to age, and man to man. There is something...
184. oldal - Generations not her own rise up and call her blessed. To this man's father her patient toil gave the first start in life. That great fortune — when it was a seed she carried it in her hand. That wide river of reputation ran out of the cup her bounty filled. Now she is old; very old. The little children, who cling about her, with open mouth and great round eyes, wonder that anybody should ever be so old; or that Aunt Kindly ever had a mother to kiss her mouth. To them she is coeval with the sun,...
187. oldal - The last stick on his andirons snaps asunder, and falls outward. Two faintly smoking brands stand there. Grandfather lays them together, and they flame up ; the two smokes are one united flame. "Even so let it be in heaven,
185. oldal - She opens the paper. There is a little brown dust in it ; perhaps the remnant of a flower. She takes the precious relic in her hand, made cold by emotion. She drops a tear on it, and the dust is transfigured before her eyes : it is a red rose of the spring, not quite half blown, dewy fresh. She is old no longer.
9. oldal - I held my uplifted stick in wonder at the new emotion — the consciousness of an involuntary but inward check upon my actions, till the tortoise and the rhodora both vanished from my sight. I hastened home and told the tale to my mother, and asked what was it that told me it was wrong?
185. oldal - No, they are not passed by; for they are in the memory of the dear God, and every good deed she has done is treasured in her own heart. The bulb shuts up the summer in its breast, which in winter will come out a fragrant hyacinth. Stratum after stratum, her good works are laid up, imperishable, in the geology of her character. It is near noon, now, and she is alone.