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[AURELIA]
_The Church's one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is His new creation
By water and the Word:
From heaven He came and sought her
To be His Holy Bride;
With His own blood He bought her
And for her life He died.
Though with a scornful wonder
... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The Church--and by this word I here mean the organized body of both
clergymen and laymen--is meant to be the supreme spiritual leader of the
world. It is meant to possess vigor, decision, insight, hope, and
intellectual power. But before it can accomplish its high and holy work,
a great reconstruction must begin. To h... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
2. The Church needs a more business-like organization and way of work.
It needs a more military spirit and discipline. The Church is diffuse
and loosely strung. There are in the United States alone about two
hundred and fifty-six kinds of religious bodies. There is no centralized
interest or work; there is no economic... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The Church has reached a point where a vast constructive work is to be
done. Its scattered parts must be knit into a powerful and aggressive
whole, to turn a solid front upon the evil of the world. The times are
ripe for a successor of Peter the Hermit, of Luther, Knox, Calvin,
Zwingli, Savonarola, Whitefield, Finney,... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
In the Report of one of the missionary Boards, I have recently read the
following stirring words. They refer to the work of missionaries in the
far north, one of whom has lately travelled a thousand miles over the
snow in a dog-sled: "He who follows that mining crowd must be more than
the minister, who would do well f... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
4. The Church needs a better system for the proper placing of men. No
phase of the world's work can be carried on merely and simply because a
man is pious. In every phase of life, there is a constant shifting of
men according to temperament, ability, and general influence and power.
In the Church we must have a quick ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
6. We need a reorganization of preaching traditions. It is a tradition
that a minister must, in general, preach two set sermons every week,
give one informal week-day lecture, and be prepared to deliver, at any
moment, funeral addresses, anniversary speeches, "remarks," or to
perform other utterly impossible intellect... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
8. There is too little recognition of individual talent in the Church.
Too few workers are set at work which they know how to do, and the
untaught rush at tasks which angels fear to touch. We have myriads of
Sabbath-school teachers, but how many men or women really know how to
teach a little child? The man is asked to... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
9. We need, as a Church, a deeper spiritual life. We need the Power of
the Holy Ghost. In spite of all the sorrow of the world, sorrow both of
a personal nature and that which touches whole communities, there is
only one real burden upon the heart of earnest men and women: it is our
own inadequate representation of Ch... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The dreams of the Church are high and holy. There is the dream of
Freedom, of the Freedom of the Soul. It is an inspiring thought this,
the essential democracy of the race. We do not find intellectual
equality of souls. We see each man or woman differently circumstanced,
differently gifted, differently trained. Yet ea... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The dream of Redemption. It is not technical creeds for which the
Church as a whole stands, but for certain vital principles which concern
the life of the soul, and its relation to God and man. Virtue has always
been a dream of the heart. But how inaccessible is virtue, with a past
of unforgiven sin! The height of our... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
"_Swelling hills and spacious plains
Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-towers,
And spires whose silent finger points to heaven_."
Says Wordsworth also:
"_They dreamt not of a perishable home,
Who thus could build_."
Many an ideal state has been thought out, in which fellowship ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
2. The Church is the centre of a great circle of remembrance. One of
Constable's famous paintings represents the Cathedral of Salisbury
outlined against a storm-swept sky, with a lovely rainbow arched beyond
it. So stands the Church athwart the landscape of our lives. In each
community the church is like a living thin... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
In the press and stir of life we sometimes forget that the highest
emotions of which we are capable are those of joy, praise, and prayer.
Joy is a heavenward uplift of life--deep happiness of spirit. Praise is
an appreciation of the greatness and mercy of the Infinite. Worship is
the outpouring of the whole nature, an... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
This weak spot in the Church, which business men mock at, or fret at,
exactly reveals the work that is waiting for business men to do.
Business to-day takes intellectual grasp and insight--promptness,
energy, enterprise, and common-sense. These qualities are needed at once
in the conduct of the Church.
A second class ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
What work awaits the university man or woman? It is to help free the
Church from traditions and superstitions which scholarship cannot
uphold. It is to throw fresh vigor and intellectual vitality into the
services of the Church. It is to build up a hymnology which shall be
noble and poetic in expression; it is to cont... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
6. It is the militant force of time. We speak of the Church militant,
and of the Church triumphant. For us, to-day, the Church militant.
To-morrow, triumph comes. Armies have been, and armies shall be, but the
hosts of this world fight against material foes, and largely for
material ends. It is the glory of the Church... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
These, you say, are the reasons why one's allegiance should be given to
the Christian Church. Let us now look back over the processional as it
marches across the dim years. Saints, martyrs, confessors, evangelists,
and singing children have joined its historic train. Is there any other
processional in the world's hist... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
IV. THE WORLD-MARCH: OF KINGS
[DIE WACHT AM RHEIN]
_Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Doth his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song;
And i... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Dominion is an inherent right of the soul. In all our hearts, did we but
listen and understand, there are adumbrations of kingly ancestors, and
the latent stirrings of kingly powers.
Which of us would want to be born at all, if we should be told in
advance, You shall never control anything? You shall never have the
sl... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
What Christianity has not emphasized in the past, but what it must now
begin to emphasize, is the reality of dominion--its value, and its
relation to the kingdom of God. For centuries, religion has too often
been thought of, too often spoken of, as if it were the last resource of
the heart, A brilliant young professor... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The power of a king is the power of control. All about us are moving the
great forces of the universe--physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual.
What we can do with them is a test of our power. Life is in many ways a
majestic trial of one's power to command.
Three men buy adjoining tracts of land. One man mines coal u... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Firmness is the true gentleness. There is a form of authority which must
be as implacable as the divine decree. Mercy is the requiring of
obedience to law; it is not a cajoling training in law-defiance, which
shall one day break the mother's heart and upset the social relations of
the world.
The next rule is personal:... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The next rule is social: the direction of personal energy that shall
leave a distinct impress on other lives. It is long before we realize
that for each exertion we are responsible; that what we do is held
against us in strict account, not only by fate, which builds our destiny
for us out of our own deeds, but by ever... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
2. There is a rule which is industrial. A man is sent into the world to
wield a hammer, a saw, and run an engine. If his rule over his hammer is
weak, if he does not know how to use it well, if its blow is uncertain
and its result unskilled, then he passes from the line of kings, and is
subject, instead of in authorit... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
4. Another rule is of concerted works: the rule of the Engineer. Back of
every advance in our country, in facilities of trade and transportation,
or of public health and safety, stands the man who thought it out. Take,
for instance, the development of the "Great American Desert." Who
projected its irrigation, by which... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The endless ages pass and go, but God abides. Little, daring man lifts
here and there a hand to mould the world which God has made--pricks the
earth for gold or silver, iron or coal--but GOD is everywhere immanent
and shines through every hour of change. Hence the March of Engineers is
the march of men whom God has tr... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Then it is that the real rule of a university--its spirit of humility,
and of reverence for antiquity--begins. The true university man, born
and bred in the century, not in the years, in the race halls, not those
alone in his Alma Mater, is neither a scoffer nor an atheist, nor a
critic, sceptic, or cynic. He is a man... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
In particular, he shall pass down from generation to generation the high
and noble learning of the past; he shall keep alive the flower of
courtesy and charity; he shall tell the dreams of past sages, and
interpret them; he shall review the thronging nations; and he shall so
imbue the mind with a love of truth, of ide... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The vital problem of municipal reform is not the shattering of the ring,
the overturning of the boss, the gagging of a few loud tongues. It is
the problem of the training of better bosses; the education of men and
women in social control; their enlightenment, from childhood up, in
civic duties, in national affairs, an... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
God leads us on. Said Lincoln: "I have been driven many times to my
knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My
own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day."
Like a vast Hand stretched against the sky of Time is the Hand of God--a
Hand writing, in these wondrous da... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
But as the empires of Buddha and Muhammad fall, a new Empire shall
prevail!
"_Kings shall bow down before Him,
And gold and incense bring;
All nations shall adore Him,
His praise all people sing.
To Him shall prayer unceasing
And dally vows ascend;
His kingdom still incre... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Each man's life is proved by some Sword of Assay. The test of a man's
call to the ministry is his power to seize the Sword of the Spirit:
wield the spiritual forces of the world, insight, conviction,
persuasion, truth. To do this successfully at least five things appear
to be necessary: a sterling education, marked ab... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Wherever, to-day, there is a young man in whose heart is stirring a
great devotional dream for the race, who longs to project his life into
the most enduring and far-reaching influence, who craves the exercise of
great gifts and powers, there is a man whose heart God is calling to
possibilities such as no one can meas... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Life is not monastic. It is very lively. We scarcely get, in all our
post-collegiate life, a chance to sit and muse. We go through
sensations, experiences, and incongruities, which stir a sense of fun. A
man reads (I notice) in his seminary, St. Leo, _Ad Flaeirmum_, and makes
his first pastoral call on a woman who pro... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The plan of education must be of principles, not of facts. The
university research-men gather facts, and scientific men everywhere
collect, analyze, and classify them. But each small department of human
learning--each minute branch in that department--needs a lifetime for
the mastery of that one theme. Hence the work ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Homiletics is not a series of nursery-rules for man--formal, didactic
droppings of a pedant's tongue. Homiletics is the appeal of man to man,
for the welfare of his soul, and the true progress of mankind. Exegesis
is not a matter of Hebrew or Greek alone. It includes the spiritual
interpretation of the great problems ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Literature is one of the best tools a minister can have. He should be
read in the great literary and sermonic literature, the work of Bossuet,
Massillon, Chrysostom, Augustine, Fénelon, Marcus Aurelius, mediaeval
homilies, Epictetus, Pascal, Guyon, Amiel, Vinet, La Brunetière, Phelps,
Jeremy Taylor, Barrows, Fuller, W... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
In art, the religious spirit broods over the great work of the world. In
Angelo, Francesca, Veronese, Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Tintoretto,
and Correggio, the brush of the painter has set forth the adoration of
the Church of God.
Thus, taken all in all, to be educated as a minister should be to be
educated in the H... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The life itself is arduous. After all is said, it is not quite the same
task to examine and classify either protoplasm or the most highly
organized forms of nature, that it is to analyze and understand the
mysterious workings of the heart, the intricacies of conscience and
conduct, the possibilities of spiritual devel... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Sin is. To-day, sin is thought a somewhat brusque word, lacking in
polish. To use it frequently is a mark of lack of '_savoir-faire_!
Indeed to speak of it at all is as archaic as to speak of the
Ichthyosaurus. But sin is a root-fact of the life of man. It is the
office of the spiritual teacher to pluck out sin; to pi... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The scientific vista opening to the eye of man is impressive and
appalling. Each man has within himself a future of joy or sadness for
the race. Do you remember the sermon of Horace Bushnell on the
"Populating Power of the Christian Faith"? Do you recall the history of
the infamous Jukes family? That of the seven devo... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
"Once, however," she continues, "one of my friends, a minister, knelt
down by me and prayed. It was a simple and ordinary occasion--others
were present. But every word of that prayer was meant for the uplifting
of my heart. In that hour, I was as if overshadowed by the Holy Ghost;
new aims and purposes were born withi... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Or again, he may have had a worried and troubled week, full of personal
anxiety and sorrow. He has not had full time to study--he feels quite
unprepared, and enters the pulpit with a halting step, and a choking
fear of failure at his heart.
In a moment, the world changes. Something imperceptible, but sweet and
comfort... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The Crusades were a magnificent revival. The Reformation was a revival.
The Salvation Army movement is a revival. But the greatest revival of
all times is even now upon us: it is a revival in the scientific
circles of the race. Time was when science and religion were supposed to
be at odds; to-day the intellectual pha... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The true minister is a reformer. A reformer is one who re-crystallizes
the social ideals of man, who breaks up idols and bad customs, and
sweeps away abuses. But we must first ask: What is an idol? What is a
bad custom? What is an abuse? They are social standards which are out of
harmony with true concepts of God, lif... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The reformer must not only be a man of energy, he must be a man of
patience. Great reforms come slowly. As man has advanced, idleness,
indolence, brutality, tyranny, drunkenness, cant, and social scorn are
gradually being cast out. But behind these simple words lie hid
centuries of strife and endeavor, and limitless d... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
It is a noble and serious office to hand down from generation to
generation the faith and traditions of the Church of God. But this
handing-down must be upright. "You must bind nothing upon your charges,"
says Jeremy Taylor, "but what God hath bound upon you." Conviction is at
the root of the lasting traditions of the... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The building-up of doctrine is superb. Into doctrine are woven the
intellectual beliefs, the emotional experiences, and the spiritual
struggles of mankind. Doctrine is an attempt to classify the spiritual
problems of the race and to present a theory of redemption which shall
be adequate, spiritually progressive, and t... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Doctrine does not save from hell, but it does save from many a snare
that besets the feet of man. It is a steadier of life, a strengthener of
hope, a stalwart aid to a practical, devout, and duty-doing life. A
catechism is a system of doctrine expressed in its simplest form.
Therefore, for the intellectual and moral t... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
In the academic world, we do not cast a man out of his mathematical
chair because he can also work in astro-physics or in psycho-physics. If
he can pursue advanced research in an allied or applied field, it will
help him in his regular and prescribed work. We do not cast an English
professor out of his chair, because ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The question, Where is the line between ecclesiastical integrity and
individual freedom? is therefore one which the common-sense of
Christendom is left to solve--not to-day, not to-morrow, but gradually,
generously, and conscientiously, as the centuries go on.
THIRD: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITY
It is said that a minist... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
What does he find? He soon discovers that the battle is not always to
the strong, the educated, or the well-bred. Too often he is at the mercy
of rich men who can scarcely put together a grammatical sentence; of
poorer men who are, in church affairs, unscrupulous politicians; of
women who carp and gossip; and of all s... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
There are other difficulties, seldom spoken of, of which one must write
frankly, though with the keenest sympathy, if one is to look deeply into
the modern church problem. First: Is a minister's environment favorable
to his best personal development? Does he not miss much from the lack of
the world's hearty give-and-t... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Again, too often a minister is spoiled in his first charge by flattery,
polite lies, and gushing women. He is sadly overpraised. A bright young
fellow comes from the seminary. He can preach; that is, he can prepare
interesting essays, chiefly of a literary sort, which are pleasant to
listen to, though, in the nature o... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The question of a minister's relation to the women of his congregation
and the community is not only curious and complex--it is a perpetual
comedy. How do other men in public life deal with this problem? They
have a genial but indifferent dignity, quite compatible with courtesy
and friendly ways. They shoulder respons... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The lawyer and the capitalist are together adjusting the industrial
relations of the country. We have trusts, syndicates, and
corporation-problems handled with a firm intellectual grasp and a wide
outlook over human affairs.
The reading of the world is in the hands of editors of enterprise and
sagacity. They daily bri... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Suppose that New York City should suddenly be invaded by the bubonic
plague or yellow fever. Would any one be to blame? Certainly! Such an
outcry would go up as would echo across the country. Where were the
quarantine officers? Where was the port physician? Where were the
specialists who attend to sanitation and disin... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Moral evil must be studied in an energetic and intellectual way. The
variations of humanity from righteousness must be deeply understood.
Look at Booker T. Washington, or at Jacob A. Riis! What daring, what
indefatigable toil, what insight, patience, and swerveless hope have
been put into their task! Edison is said to... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Rise! Let some man, earnest and endowed, look forward into the future,
and with the courage that comes from inborn power, assert himself among
the nations! Allay, O World-Evangelist, not only neighborhood disputes,
but international dissensions; project a creed that shall be profound
and universal; sweep sects togethe... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Thinking is the power to take up life where the race has left off
attainment, and to lead the race one step farther on, by a new concept
or idea. It is a curious thing, this little turn in the brain, a
thought. We cannot see it, or touch it, or handle it. Yet we can give
it, one to another, or one man to the race. It ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
By thinking, we pass from the gossip of the neighborhood into the
conversation of the years. We do not know what Alcibiades said to his
man-servant about the care of his clothes, baths, perfumes,--nor what
his man-servant retailed to other retainers of the eccentricities and
vanities of his master. But we know what Pe... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
We lose much because we lose avidity out of our lives, the eagerness to
grasp what spiritually belongs to us,--to share the universal
enthusiasm, the universal hope. Day by day the world wheels about
us--sunset and moonrise, wind, hail, frost, snow, vapor, care, anxiety,
temptation, trial, joy, fear. Whatever touches ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Out of that leaf-writing, and bark-etching, and later rune, have grown
the printed writings of mankind. Homer, Dante, Milton, and Shakespeare
are the lineal descendants of the man who made holes in a leaf, or lines
on a wave-washed sand. Out of the finger-counting have grown up
book-keeping, geometry, mathematical ast... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
So each man goes to the dictionary. He takes a word here, a word there,
common words that everybody knows. He puts them together: the result is
a presentation of the life of man, and lays hold of his inmost spirit.
"_Our birth is but a deep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Thus knowledge is not permanent. It reels. It proceeds, it changes, it
is iridescent with new significance from day to day.
What is true of a word, and what we make of it, is true of every phase
of learning. The black-board is not all. Learning is not tied to it, or
to any one person, demonstration, interpretation, ev... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The sea-sage was the one who could toss upon the swan-road without fear.
He knew the strength of oak and ash; the swing of oar, the curve of
prow, the dash of wave, and the curling breaker's sweep. He knew the
maelstroms and the aegir that swept into northern fiords; the thunder
and wind and tempest; the coves, safe h... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Education is the taking to one's self, so far as one may in a lifetime,
all that the race has learned through these six thousand years.
Education is not a thing of books alone, or schools; it is a process of
intellectual assimilation of what is about us, or what we put about
ourselves. At every step we have a choice. ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The really impractical man is not he who reaches out to the intellectual
and ideal aspects of life; it is he who lives as if this life were all.
There are women who make pets of their clothes, as men make pets of
horse or dog. They have just time enough in life to dress themselves up.
Looking back over their years, th... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Another ideal is social adjustment, and social service. We must do
something for some one, or we cast current sagacity behind the back.
People crowd each other to the wall. The weak of communities and nations
are too often crushed. Redress is in the air. The longed-for wisdom of
to-day shows a kaleidoscopic front, in ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Hence, even scientifically considered, the final aim of thinking must
be, to arrive at some thought which will take hold of this primary fact
of sin and uproot it; which will show how the world may be purged
of sin.
Slowly but inevitably we are moving to this great Thought. It is summed
up in one word: Redemption. The... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Thus when the world has breathed to us the holy name of Christ, it has
told us the highest that it knows. The March of Sages is toward a
Redeemer! The banner of Wisdom is furled about the Cross!
IV. THE WORLD-MARCH: OF TRADERS
[AMSTERDAM]
_Lo, my soul, look forth abroad
And mark the busy stir:
W... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
But in a restricted sense, we think of trade as the exchange of produce
which is material and mobile,--which may be touched, handled, weighed,
transported, bought, and sold. The substance of the earth is constantly
taking new shape before our eyes, being rearranged in kaleidoscopic
combinations, and transported from p... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
A great merchant is the real Kris Kringle. He stands at the centre of
exchange, distributes from the tropics and the arctic zones. He deals
out fur and feathers, books, toys, clothing, engines; ribbons, laces,
silks, perfumes; bread-stuffs, sugar, cotton, iron, ice, steel; wheat,
flour, beef, stone; lumber, drugs, coa... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
With all this demand, the business man still stands largely in a class
by himself, a class apart from the great leaders of the world. He is not
yet received into the spiritual circles of the race. He goes about the
world, sits on boards and committees, fills directorships and
trusteeships, pays pew-rent, and runs town... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Lack of appreciation of the life of business is sinful and unjust. A
high-principled businessman may be one of the noblest leaders of
mankind. The world needs great business men--men who will know how to
use the resources of a country, how to plan for its industry,
manufactures, and commerce: men who understand the pr... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Imagination is the faculty of perceiving the higher and final relations
of life, the relation of one's work to the progress of the world, and of
one's conduct: to spiritual history. What the ideal-maker tries to do is
to set holy standards that shall not pass away: to do abiding work, in
thought, deed, word; work phil... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
To buy at the least, and sell at the most, regardless of the conditions
under which least and most are attained--the man who enters life with
this idea of trade in his mind might just as well be born a shark and
live to prey. Every free dollar in the world will tease and fret him,
until he sees it on its way to his ow... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Take the case of a specially helpful and paying book. The author
receives a royalty, and has an income. The publisher receives his
profits, and makes a living. The public gains inspiration and ideals.
Who is loser? This is sheer business, yet it means loving service for
all concerned.
To illustrate further: A physicia... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The Law of Equity is the final law of trade. But in whose hands is
equity? Who appraises value? Who sets price? In whose hand is the final
price of the necessaries of life--wheat, rice, sugar, soap, cotton,
wool, coal, milk, iron, lumber, ice? The man who puts a price on an
article, as buyer or seller, enters an arena... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
_Gain is that which permanently enriches the life._ By every act of
charity, or justice, or insight, or right barter, the soul is made more
grand. True trade everywhere may be made a new method of inspiration,
growth, and power.
Money is a makeshift of the race. God is the only real appraiser, and we
never get back a ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Human love is not all. There is yet a higher impulse. The most
business-like question that ever touches the heart of man is this: For
what shall I trade my soul? We hold our souls high: we perceive that
eternity itself is not too much to ask. And hence the highest barter is
that of the earthly for the spiritual; of th... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Work is the open-sesame of success. It is curious to see how uneasily
some men will roam from one end of the earth to the other, trying to
find an easy place, a place where work will not be needed or required.
There is no such place. The higher the honor, the harder the work. The
power to work is ordinarily the measur... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
In order to be contented and happy, each normal adult human being must
have at least the chance of doing these two kinds of work. Unless he or
she can do income-work, he or she is not economically independent;
unless he can do universal work, he is not socially and
spiritually free.
Much of the present-day discontent ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Is it not also the source of the discontent to-day, among almost all
classes of women, except the most highly educated and efficient? Women
say--our modern daughters, wives, and mothers: "In the home, we do
income-work for which we do not receive income. When strangers do this
work, they are paid, and we are not." In ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
WILLIAM MORRIS
SECOND
The trade of toil for money has led to many problems and discussions.
To-day the trenchant question: "What More than Wages?" is a matter of
eager talk. Is this a living-wage?--Just enough warmth, not to freeze.
Just enough clothing to be decent. Just enough food to go through the
day... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
This appears to be a fundamental economic law: _Every physical, mental,
or spiritual advantage offered to an honest working man or woman
increases his economic efficiency_. Therefore even the selfish policy of
shrewd corporations to-day is to screw up, and not down; while the more
philanthropic are beginning to see, i... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
We need not pay--we ought not to pay--for incompetence, for
impertinence, for disobedience of orders, for laziness, for shirking,
for cheating, or for theft. To do so is a social wrong. It is the wrong
that lies back, not only of sinecures and spoils, but of employing
incompetent and wasteful cooks and dressmakers.
Wh... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Third, loyalty has a high mercantile value. Disloyalty is a sin.
The fourth point is control. Does it not strike wonder to think how some
men have under them, either in their industrial plant, or in their
railway systems, or in their syndicate-work, anywhere from a few hundred
to ten, fifteen, or twenty thousand men? ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
A fine story is told that long ago, when the cholera once broke out in
Philadelphia, the hospitals fell into a fearful state. One day, a plain,
quiet little man stepped into the chief hospital, looked about a moment,
and set to work. No task was too dirty or disagreeable for him; no
detail was too disgusting. He did a... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Again, good work is born of affection. Love teaches more art than all
the schools. What we love, we instinctively beautify. The artist
beautifies the material on which he works. He loves his task, and from
his love there begins a gradual shaping of the ideal. The product gains
a touch of beauty. The needlework of Egyp... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
The worker should have change of work. Nature never intended that a man
should do one thing all his life. This is in harmony neither with man's
infinite capacity, nor with her inexhaustible variety. Change is
cultural, and a man's work Should, from time to time, engross every
working-power he has.
Working-surroundings... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
And those we love shall work beside us! Here is another thought: Shall
all association in work be arbitrary? Is there not a more human way than
the chain-gang way? Could not friends work more together, so that one's
daily work should be, not a time of separation from all we love most,
but a time of intellectual sympat... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
This is the great hardship of the children of great wealth: they are not
taught to work. To avoid this difficulty, in two very wealthy families
that I know, the boys were even obliged to darn their own stockings and
mend their own clothes. One young hopeful once tore his clothes
a-fishing, and mended his trousers with... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Household service is personal service. It cannot be made a thing of set
hours, and of measurably set tasks, as office-work maybe. We may talk of
"eight-hour shifts," but they are scarcely practicable. Not every baby
would go to successive "shifts"! House-demands vary, not only with every
household, but with every day.... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
Universities should have, in their faculties, men and women who
represent the best social as well as the best intellectual life of the
world--who are not only, in the highest sense of the word, society men
and women, but who are social leaders, inspiring truth, inculcating
larger social ideals of the best sort.
The pr... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
This would not necessarily change the curriculum of our colleges in any
way; it would change the spirit and atmosphere of some of them at once.
Instead of the spirit being: "My mind is just as good as a man's. What a
man can study, I can learn! What a man can do, I can do!"--the spirit
would be this: "I am going out i... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
3. Personal income and its use. What we buy marks our own individuality,
as well as what we do. The woman whose father or husband adjusts her
expenses and expenditures cannot by any possibility be the kind of woman
that the one is who chooses her own things, and spends her money
absolutely to suit herself. When a man ... | The Warriors | Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown | 1864 | 1948 | ['en'] | 28 | {'Christianity'} | PG10004 | |
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A
VOYAGE TO THE MOON:
WITH
SOME ACCOUNT
OF THE
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY,
OF THE
PEOPLE OF MOROSOFIA,
AND
... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
CHAPTER IX.
The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the
finger nails: his visiters--Another philosopher,
who judged of the character by the hair--The
fortune-teller duped--Predatory warfare.
CHAPTER X.
The travellers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great
projector: his breed of cattle: his ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 |
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