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twg_000000033600 | of, by French of all classes Chinese ambassador, experience at dinner with Cialdini, General, Italian ambassador in Paris Clarence, Duke of, love affair of, with Catholic princess Comdie Franaise, finished style of artists of the Compigne, a scene at, during the Empire Conciergerie Mr. Gladstone at the interest of American visitors in the Conservatoire, Sunday afternoon concerts at the marriages | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033601 | made at the change effected in dress of chorus of the Monsignor Czascki at the Convent of the Soeurs Augustines in the rue de la Sant Corti Italian plenipotentiary to Congress of Berlin feeling of, over establishment of Tunisian protectorate by France Costumes, national, seen in Paris during exposition year Country people lack of interest of French, in form of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033602 | government attitude of, in election of enthusiasm of, aroused over Republic Croizette, Thtre Franais artist Cyprus, cession of, to England Czascki, Monsignor, papal nunzio Deauville, a vacation at Dcazes, Duc appointed to Foreign Office advice on social etiquette from Duc de Broglie contrasted with Denmark, Crown Prince of in Paris during exposition at ball at British embassy at ball at | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033603 | the Quai d'Orsay Desprey, Monseigneur, created a Cardinal Desprey, M. a plenipotentiary of France at Berlin Congress quoted on treatment of ambassadors in Russia named ambassador to Rome Diplomatists antagonistic attitude of, toward the Republic anomalous and mistaken behaviour of superficiality of majority of Dufaure, M. appointed Prsident du Conseil now cabinet formed by Dufferin, Lord Election of Elyse, ceremonies | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033604 | attending naming of Cardinals at English, Monsignor English visitors to Paris in Eugnie, Empress at Compigne description of, and reminiscences concerning Exposition Universelle of closing of good moral effect of Fan, an autographed, as souvenir of Berlin Congress Farmers, usual indifference of French, to form of government enthusiasm of, over the Republic Ferry, Jules Fitz-Maurice, Lord Edmond France, astonishing rapidity | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033605 | of recovery of, after Franco-Prussian War Frederick-Charles, Prince French people self-centred attitude of conventions in dress of girls interest of women in their children lack of regard for, on part of Northern races defence of fine qualities of difficulties of interpreting conversation, cramped lives of middle-class women religious question among Freycinet, M. de appointed Minister of Public Works ability displayed | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033606 | by, as a Republican statesman excellent qualities of succeeds M. Waddington as premier official changes made by Freycinet, Madame de author's visit to, at Quai d'Orsay Gambetta, Lon, manners and appearance of force of oratory of, in campaign of mentioned appreciation by, of value of Tunisian protectorate comparison of Grvy and General amnesty, discussion of the. Germans, want of tact | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033607 | characteristic; position of women among; advance in comfort and elegance among. Germany, feeling in, over radicalism in France, Grme, J. L., as a table companion. Gladstones, visits from the. Glynn, Admiral, school friend of M. Waddington. Gortschakoff, Prince, quoted on death of Thiers; at Berlin Congress; a diplomatist of the old-fashioned type. Grand Opera in Paris. Grange, Chateau de la, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033608 | home of Lafayette. Grant, President and Mrs., in Paris. Greek national dress. Grvy, election of, to presidency; good figure cut by, in society; hats bestowed upon two Cardinals by; disappointment of, in the Republic; rivalry between Gambetta and; Queen Victoria's meeting with; feelings of regard for one another held by M. Waddington and, Grvy, Madame; unknown to society upon husband's | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033609 | election to presidency; first reception held by; question of necessity of presence of, at the Elyse; receptions held by; author's last visit to; Grvy, Mademoiselle, at Prince Hohenlohe's reception. Halanzier, director of the Grand Opera. Hatzfeldt, Count, story of Liszt and; personal charm of, Hlne d'Orlans, Princess, love affair of Duke of Clarence and. Hoare, Sir Henry. Hohenlohe, Prince, German | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033610 | ambassador to France; pleasant manners of; at Berlin Congress; reception given to President Grvy by; reports by, concerning feeling in Germany over French radicalism. Hohenlohe, Princess, striking personality of; at Madame Grvy's first reception. Holland, Lady. Holland House, London, . Htel de Ville, ball at the, in . Houghton, Lord. Humbert, King. Ignatieff, General. Isabella, Queen, at Marshal de MacMahon's | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033611 | reception; Description of, and account of audience given author by; Dinner given Marshal and Madame de MacMahon by. Italians, author's doubts concerning. Japanese, reported intelligence of. Jockey Club, Paris, political talk at the. Karolyi, at Berlin Congress. Kellogg, Clara Louise, with the Waddingtons. King, General Rufus. Kruft, chef du matriel at Quai d'Orsay. Lafayette, Marquis de, interest of American visitors | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033612 | in things relating to. Lasteyrie, Count de. Layard, Sir Henry. Leo XIII, election of. Liszt, meetings with, and stories of. Longchamp, review of Paris garrison at. Lord Mayor of London at the Grand Opera, Paris. Louis Philippe, memories of. Lutteroth, M., uncle of M. Waddington; information concerning Royalist circles from; interesting friends of. Luxembourg, Palace of the; gardens of the. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033613 | Lyons, Lord, lesson in diplomatic politeness from; ball given by, during exposition year; at Madame Grvy's first reception; memories of Washington ministry by. MacMahon, Fabrice de. MacMahon, Marshal de, President of French Republic; at the Longchamp review; receptions of, at Versailles; attitude of, toward cabinet of ; official dinner given by, to diplomatic corps and the Government; dismissal of cabinet | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033614 | by (May ,); dislike of, for the Republic and the Republicans; official receptions and dinners of; Mrs. Grant and; visits M. Waddington at Deauville; dislike of, for office of president; preference of, for his military title; fete given by, at Versailles during exposition year; resignation of; delight at resumption of private life. MacMahon, Marchale de, description of visit to; visit | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033615 | to Madame Waddington from, upon dismissal of cabinet; chilly attitude of, toward things Republican. Madeleine, service at the, for King Victor Emmanuel. Marguerite de Nemours, Princesse, author's visit to. Marquis, anecdotes of a dictatorial. Marriages, made at the Conservatoire or the Opra Comique; Favourable criticism of arranged. Martin, Henri, senator of the Aisne. Mathilde, Princesse, meeting with; salon of. Mendes | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033616 | Leal, Portuguese minister. Molins, Marquise, Spanish ambassadress. Mollard, Introducteur des Ambassadeurs. Mommsen, Theodor. Morny, Duc de, a founder of Deauville; famous entertainments of. Morocco, mission from. Murat, Princess Anna (Duchesse de Mouchy). Napoleon III, Emperor, at Compigne, Napoleon's tomb, interest of American visitors in. National Assembly, description of sittings of. New Year's day reception at the President's. Ney, Marshal, execution | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033617 | of, recalled. Nuns, the life of. Oliffe, Sir Joseph, a founder of Deauville. Opera Comique, making of marriages at the; artists of the. Opposition leader, joys of position of, Orlans, Due d', at Countess de Sgur's salon, Orlans family, members of, at official reception given by the Waddingtons; members of, at Lord Lyons's ball. Orloff, Prince, Russian ambassador; attractive personality | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033618 | of; at Prince Hohenlohe's reception to President Grvy, Paris, reasons against holding of Parliament in; gaiety of, during exposition; return of the Parliament to. Pedro de Bragance, Emperor of Brazil. Pie, Monsignor, created a Cardinal, Pimont, Prince and Princesse de. Pius IX, death of and funeral observances. Poles, author's lack of confidence in. Pontcoulant, Comte de, chef de cabinet under | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033619 | M. Waddington. Pothnau, Admiral, appointed ambassador to Great Britain; Annoyance of, over offer of London embassy to M. Waddington. Protestants, views of, held by Catholics; isolated position of the French. Quai d'Orsay, description of house of Foreign Minister at the; removal of Waddingtons to; receiving and entertaining at; large ball given at; English visitors at; view from, on cold winter | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033620 | nights; departure from; formal visit to Madame de Freycinet at. Quartier Latin, the modern. Reay, Lord and Lady. Receptions, customs at official. Renan, Ernst, description of. Renault, Lon, prfet de police. Republic, strength of feeling against the, in Paris "society;" enthusiasm of farmers over the; disappointment of statesmen in the; moderation of feeling in society circles toward the, at present | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033621 | time. Republicans, proposed uprising of (); work of, in election of ; victory of. Reviews at Longchamp. Rome, early social life in; Account of reception in, where royalties were present. Roumanian woman's dress. Royalties, first social encounters with; present at opening ceremony of exposition; experiences with, at ball given by Lord Lyons at British embassy; risks run by, at fte | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033622 | at Versailles; present at the Waddingtons' ball at Quai d'Orsay. Rudolph, Archduke, crown prince of Austria. Russia, sadness of people of; Distance between princes and ordinary mortals in; pains taken to give ambassadors a pleasant impression of. St. Vallier, Count de; Senator of the Aisne; Plenipotentiary to Berlin Congress; ambassador to Germany; reports brought from Germany by. Salisbury, Lord, at | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033623 | Berlin Congress. Salon rserv, passing of the. Salons, political. Sartiges, Comte and Comtesse de. Sartiges, Vicomte de. Say, Lon, as a speaker in the National Assembly; Minister of Finance; attitude of, toward French protectorate of Tunis. Say, Madame. Schouvaloff, Count; at Berlin Congress. Sgur, Countess de, political salon of. Seine, freezing of the. Shah of Persia, experiences with the. Shooting | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033624 | expeditions. Shops, trading at small. Sibbern, Swedish minister. Simon, Jules, dismissal of cabinet of. Singing, comments on French. Skating experiences in Paris in . Soeurs Augustines, Convent and Hospital of the. Sullivan, Arthur, in Paris. Thtre Franais, nights at the. Thiers, M; superseded as President of Republic by MacMahon; receptions at house of; comment of Prince Gortschakoff upon; condition in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033625 | and sudden death of. Thiers, Madame. Thorndike, Miss (Comtesse de Sartiges). Tiffany, success of, with French, at exposition of . Travelling, a Frenchwoman's views of. Troubetskoi, Princess Lize. Trouville, vogue of, as a watering-place. Tunis, French protectorate of, arranged by M. Waddington. Versailles, meetings of National Assembly at; terraces and gardens at; Marshal de MacMahon's receptions at; compared with Paris | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033626 | as a meetingplace of Assembly; badly managed fte given by Marshal de MacMahon at; removal of Parliament to Paris from. Victor Emmanuel, death of, and service at the Madeleine for. Victoria, Princess, charming character of; strong English proclivities of. Victoria, Queen, M. Waddington received by, in Paris; prestige of, in France; expresses approval of M. Waddington. Vienna, stiffness of court | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033627 | at. Vogtio, Marquis de, a visit from, at Deauville. Waddington, Francis, son of Madame Waddington. Waddington, Richard, senator of the Seine Infrieure; family life at country home of; early career of; story of the Prince of Wales and. Waddington, Madame Richard. Waddington, William, marriage of Madame Waddington and; Deputy to National Assembly from Department of the Aisne; brief term as | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033628 | Minister of Public Instruction; method of speaking in National Assembly; criticisms of, by opposition newspapers; second appointment as Minister of Public Instruction (); life of, as minister; dismissal of, from the ministry; fears of arrest of; attitude toward proposed Republican uprising; electoral campaign of; elected senator in ; named to the Foreign Office in new cabinet formed by Dufaure; life | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033629 | of, as Foreign Minister; named plenipotentiary to Berlin Congress; activities of, at the Congress; French protectorate of Tunis arranged by; remains at Foreign Office upon accession of Grvy, and becomes prime minister; onerous life of; reception of, by Queen Victoria; interview with Grand Duke Alexander of Russia; determines to quit office; last days as premier and Foreign Minister; mild attacks | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033630 | on, by political opponents; shooting parties at Grvy's and Casimir Prier's; gives over ministry to Freycinet; offered the London Embassy, but declines; President Grvy's regard for. Waddington, Madame, mother of William Waddington. Waddington, Madame William, marriage; early experiences in Paris after Franco-Prussian War; anecdote of Count Herbert Bismarck's telegram to; story of early attempt to arrange a marriage for; at | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033631 | first big dinner at the Ministry of Public Instruction; first social meetings with royalties; experience in thanking the artists at reception; visit of Marchale de MacMahon to, upon dismissal of cabinet; feelings on moving into foreign ministry; trials over reception days; experience with Chinese ambassador at Marshal de MacMahon's dinner to General Grant; audience given to, by Queen Isabella of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033632 | Spain; at Lord Lyons's ball, and meeting with Princesse Mathilde; received by Empress Eugnie; does not accompany husband to Berlin Congress; meeting with the Shah of Persia; in crush at ball at Htel de Ville; exciting adventures at fte at Versailles; ball given by, at the Quai d'Orsay; attends Madame Grvy's first reception; at naming of Cardinals at the Elyse; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033633 | conversations of, with Catholic friends; growing fondness of, for the rive gauche; skating experiences of; crosses the Seine on the ice; visits of farewell received by, upon leaving Quai d'Orsay; pays formal visit to Madame de Freycinet at Quai d'Orsay; visit to Madame Grvy; departure from Paris and short stay at Bourneville. Wales, Prince of, story of Richard Waddington and; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033634 | liking of Parisians for; Madame Waddington presented to Princesse Mathilde by; at ball at the Quai d'Orsay. Washington, D. C., characteristics of; Lord Lyons's reminiscences of life at; a French conception of. William I, Emperor, attempted assassination of. Winter of , severity and hardships of. Wittgenstein, Prince. Women, adaptability of American; cramped lives of middle-class French; more uncompromising than men | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033635 | Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE WARRIORS BY ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN LINDSAY PH.D. AUTHOR OF WHAT IS WORTH WHILE? CULTURE AND REFORM THE VICTORY OF OUR FAITH PREFACE This work was begun nearly five years ago. Since then, the whole face of American history has changed. We have had the Spanish-American War, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033636 | the opening-up of our new possessions. In this period of time Gladstone, Li Hung Chang, and Queen Victoria have died; there has also occurred the assassination of the Empress of Austria and of President McKinley. There has been the Chinese persecution, the destruction of Galveston by storm and of Martinique by volcanic action. Wireless telegraphy has been discovered, and the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033637 | source of the spread of certain fevers. In this time have been carried on gigantic engineering undertakings,--the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Trans-Balkan Railroad, the rebuilding of New York. We have also looked upon the consolidation of vast forces of steel, iron, sugar, shipping, and other trusts. We have witnessed an extraordinary growth of universities, libraries, and higher schools,--the widespread increase of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033638 | commerce, the prosperity of business, the rise in the price of food, and the great coal-strike of . Perhaps never before in the world's history have there been crowded into five years such dramatic occurrences on the world-stage, nor such large opportunities for the individual man or woman. It is interesting for me to notice that since the first outlines | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033639 | of the book were written, many things then set down as prophecy have now been fulfilled. It was my purpose, in projecting the essays at what seemed to me to be the dawn of a great religious era, to help the onward movement by a few earnest words. History itself has swept the world far beyond one's dreams, and in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033640 | completing them, I only ask that they may stand a further witness to the overwhelming majesty and influence of the Christian faith. ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN LINDSAY _Philadelphia, November_ 1_st_, TABLE OF CONTENTS I. CHORDS OF AWAKENING: THE HIGHER CONQUEST II. PRELUDE: THE CALL OF JESUS III. PROCESSIONAL: THE CHURCH OF GOD IV. THE WORLD-MARCH: OF KINGS OF PRELATES AND EVANGELISTS | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033641 | OF SAGES OF TRADERS OF WORKERS I. CHORDS OF AWAKENING: THE HIGHER CONQUEST [CUTLER] _The Son of God goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain: His blood-red banner streams afar: Who follows in His train? Who best can drink his cup of woe, Triumphant over pain; Who patient bears his cross below, He follows in His train! They | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033642 | met the tyrant's brandished steel, The lions gory mane; They bowed their necks the death to feel: Who follows in their train? They climbed the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain: O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train!_ REGINALD HEBER The universe is not awry. Fate and man are not altogether | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033643 | at odds. Yet there is a perpetual combat going on between man and nature, and between the power of character and the tyranny of circumstance, death, and sin. The great soul is tossed into the midst of the strife, the longing, and the aspirations of the world. He rises Victor who is triumphant in some great experience of the race. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033644 | The first energy is combative: the Warrior is the primitive hero. There are natures to whom mere combat is a joy. Strife is the atmosphere in which they find their finest physical and spiritual development. In the early times, there must have been those who stood apart from their tribesmen in contests of pure athletic skill,--in running, jumping, leaping, wrestling, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033645 | in laying on thew and thigh with arm, hand, and curled fist in sheer delight of action, and of the display of strength. As foes arose, these athletes of the tribe or clan would be the first to rush forth to slay the wild beast, to brave the sea and storm, or to wreak vengeance on assailing tribes. Their valor | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033646 | was their insignia. Their prowess ranked them. Their exultation was in their freedom and strength. Such men did not ask a life of ease. Like Tortulf the Forester, they learned "how to strike the foe, to sleep on the bare ground, to bear hunger and toil, summer's heat and winter's frost,--how to fear nothing but ill-fame." They courted danger, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033647 | asked only to stand as Victors at the last. Hence we read of old-world warriors,--of Gog and Magog and the Kings of Bashan; of the sons of Anak; of Hercules, with his lion-skin and club; of Bewulf, who, dragging the sea-monster from her lair, plunged beneath the drift of sea-foam and the flame of dragon-breath, and met the clutch of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033648 | dragon-teeth. We read of Turpin, Oliver, and Roland,--the sweepers-off of twenty heads at a single blow; of Arthur, who slew Ritho, whose mantle was furred with the beards of kings; of Theodoric and Charlemagne, and of Richard of the Lion-heart. There are also Victors in the great Quests of the world,--the Argonauts, Helena in search of the Holy Rood, the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033649 | Knights of the Holy Grail, the Pilgrim Fathers. There are the Victors in the intellectual wrestlings of the world,--the thinkers, poets, sages; the Victors in great sorrows, who conquer the savage pain of heart and desolation of spirit which arise from heroic human grief,--Oedipus and Antigone, Iphigenia, Perseus, Prometheus, King Lear, Samson Agonistes, Job, and David in his penitential psalm. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033650 | And there are the Victors in the yet deeper strivings of the soul--in its inner battles and spiritual conquests--Milton's Adam, Paracelsus, Dante, the soul in _The Palace of Art_, Abt Vogler, Isaiah, Teufelsdrckh, Paul. To read of such men and women is to be thrilled by the Titanic possibilities of the soul of man! The world has come into other | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033651 | and greater battle-days. This is an era of great spiritual conflicts, and of great triumphs. To-day faith calls the soul of man to arms. It is a clarion to awake, to put on strength, and to go forth to Holy War. If there were no fighting work in the Christian life, much of the intense energy and interest of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033652 | race would be unaroused. There are apathetic natures who do not want to undertake the difficult,--sluggish souls who would rather not stir from their present position. And there are cowards who run to cover. But there is in all strong natures the primitive combative instinct,--the let-us-see-which-is-the-stronger, which delights in contests, which is undismayed by opposition, and which grows firmer through | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033653 | the warfare of the soul. It is this phase of the Christian life which is most needed to-day,--the warrior-spirit, the all-conquering soul. In entering the Christian life, one must put out of his heart the expectation that it is to be an easy life, or one removed from toil and danger. It is preminently the adventurous life of the world,--that | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033654 | in which the most happens, as well as that in which the spiritual possibilities are the greatest. It is a life full of splendor, of excitement, of trial, of tests of courage and endurance, and is meant to appeal to those who are the very bravest and the best. There are two forms of conquest to which the soul of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033655 | man is called--the inner and the outer. The inner is the conquest of the evil within his own nature; the outer is the struggle against the evil forces of the world--the constructive task of building up, under warring conditions, the spiritual kingdom of God. The real world is far more subtle than we as yet understand. When we dive down | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033656 | into the deep, sky and air and houses disappear. We enter a new world--the under-world of water, and things that glide and swim; of sea-grasses and currents; of flowing waves that lap about the body with a cool chill; of palpitating color, that, at great depths, becomes a sort of darkness; of sea-beds of shell and sand, and bits of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033657 | scattered wreckage; of ooze and tangled sea-plants, dusky shapes, and fan-like fins. Or if we look upward we reach an over-world, where moons and suns are circling in the heights. What draws them together? What keeps a subtle distance between them, which they never cross? How do they, age after age, run a predestined course? We drop a stone. What | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033658 | binds it earthward? Under our feet run magnetic currents that flow from pole to pole. In the clouds above, there are electric vibrations which cannot be described in exact terms. Thus also, in spiritual experiences, there are currents which we cannot measure or describe. The psychic world is the final world, though its towers and pinnacles no eye hath seen. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033659 | If we try to shut out for an hour the outer world, and descend into the soul-world of the life of man, we find ourselves in a new environment, and with an outlook over new forms and powers. We find ourselves in a world of images and attractions, of impulses and desires, of instincts and attainments. It is not only | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033660 | a world of separate and individual souls, but each soul is as a thousand; for within each man there is an inner host contending for mastery, and everywhere is the uproar of battle and of spiritual strife. What is the Self that abides in each man? Is it not the consciousness of existence, together with a consciousness of the power | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033661 | of choice? Our individuality lies in the fact that we can decide, choose, and rule among the various contestant impulses of our souls. Herein is the possibility of victory and also the possibility of defeat. Looking inward, we find that Self began when man began. We inherit our dispositions from Adam, as well as from our parents and a long | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033662 | ancestral line. When the first men and women were created, forces were set in action which have resulted in this Me that to-day thinks and wills and loves. Heredity includes savagery and culture, health and disease, empire and serfdom, hope and despair. Each man can say: "In me rise impulses that ran riot in the veins of Anak, that belonged | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033663 | to Libyan slaves and to the Ptolemaic line. I am Aryan and Semite, Roman and Teuton: alike I have known the galley and the palm-set court of kings. Under a thousand shifting generations, there was rising the combination that I to-day am. In me culminates, for my life's day, human history until now." Individuality is thus a unique selection and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033664 | arrangement of what has been, touched with something--a degree of life--that has not been before. To rise above heredity is to rise above the downward drag of all the years. It is not escaping the special sin of one ancestor, but the sin of all ancestors. _This is the first problem that is set before each man: to rise above | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033665 | his race--to be the culmination of virtue until now_. _The second problem is not greater, but different. It is to mould environment to spiritual uses_. The conditions of this struggle and the opportunities of this conquest are the content of this book. It is meant to deal with the more heroic aspects of the Christian life. What is environment? Is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033666 | it the material horizon that bounds us? If so, where does it end? Our first environment is a crib, a room, our mother's eyes. Sensations of hunger, heat, and motion beat upon the baby-brain; there is a vague murmur of sound in the baby-ears. Yet it is this babe who, in after days, has all the universe for his soul's | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033667 | demesne! His environment stretches out to towns and rivers, shore and sea. Looking upward into space, he can view a star whose distance is a thousand times ten thousand miles. Beyond the path of his feet or of his sight, there is the path of thought, which leads him into new countries, new climes, new years! His meditations are upon | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033668 | ages gone; his work competes with that of the dead. In his reveries and imaginings, he can transport himself anywhither, and can commune with any friend or god. Hence to be master of one's environment is really to have the universe within one's grasp. We are too much afraid of customs and traditions. We are put into our times, not | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033669 | that the times may mould us, but that we may mould the times! Ways? Customs? They exist to be changed! The _tempora_ and the _mores_ should be plastic to our touch. The times are never level with our best. Our souls are higher than the _Zeitgeist_. Why should we cringe before an inferior essence or command? But society seals our | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033670 | lips: we walk about with frozen tongues. Each asks himself at some time: How shall I become one of the Victors of the race? Is it in me? Mankind is weighted by every previous sin. Where am I free? How am I free? Can I do as I choose? Or are there bourns of conduct beyond which I can never | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033671 | go? Am I foreordained to sin? Do the stars in their courses lay limitations on free will? There are in man two forces working: a human longing after God, and, in response, God inly working in the soul. The Victor is he who, in his own life, unites these two things: a great longing after the god-like, which makes him | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033672 | yearn for virtue,--and the divine power within him, through which and by which he is triumphant over time and death and sin. Whatever our trials, sorrows, or temptations, joy and courage are ever meant to be in the ascendant; life, however it may break in storms upon us, is not meant to beat down our souls. Unless we are triumphant, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033673 | we are not wholly useful or well trained. Will and heart together work for victory. As there flashes and thrills through all nature a subtle electric vibration which is the supreme form of physical energy, so there runs through the history of mankind a current of spiritual inspiration and power. To possess this magnetism of soul, this heroism of life, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033674 | this flame-like flower of character, is to be Victor in the great combats of the race. It is the spirit of courage, energy, and love. Nothing is too hard for it, nothing too distasteful, nothing too insignificant. Through all the course of duty it spurs one to do one's best. Its essence is to overcome. This is the indwelling Holy | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033675 | Spirit, wherein is freedom, power, and rest. To its final triumph all things are accessory. To joy, all powers converge. II. PRELUDE: THE CALL OF JESUS [VOX DILECTI] _I heard the voice of Jesus say Come unto Me and rest; Lay down, thou weary one, lay down Thy head upon My breast. I came to Jesus as I was, Weary | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033676 | and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting-place, And He has made me glad._ _I heard the voice of Jesus say Behold I freely give The living water; thirsty one, Stoop down and drink, and live. I came to Jesus, and I drank Of that life-giving stream; My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, And now I live | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033677 | in Him._ _I heard the voice of Jesus say I am this dark world's light; Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise, And all thy day be bright. I looked to Jesus, and I found In Him my star, my sun; And in that light of life I'll walk, Till travelling days are done._ HORATIUS BONAR It is a world | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033678 | of voices in which we live. We are daily visited by appeals which are ministering to our growth and progress, or which are tending to our spiritual downfall. There are the voices of nature, in sky, and sea, and storm; the voices of childhood and of early youth; the voices of playfellows and companions,--voices long stilled, it may be, in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033679 | death; the voices of lover and beloved; the voices of ambition, of sorrow, of aspiration, and of joy. But among all these many voices, there is one which is most inspiring and supreme. When the _Vorspiel_ to _Parsifal_ breaks upon the ear it is as if all other music were inadequate and incomplete--as if a voice called from the confines | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033680 | of eternity, in the infinite spaces where no time is, and rolled onward to the far-off ages when time shall be no more. Even so, high and clear above the voices of the world, deeper and tenderer than any other word or tone, comes the voice of Jesus to the soul of man. Look, if you will, upon the World | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033681 | of Souls, many-tiered and vast, stretching from day's end to day's end,--a world of hunger and of anger, of toiling and of striving, of clamor and of triumph,--a dim, upheaving mass, which from century to century wakes, and breathes, and sleeps again! Years roll on, tides flow, but there is no cessation of the march of years, and no whisper | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033682 | of a natural change. Is it not a strange thing that one voice, and only one, should have really won the hearing of the race? What is this voice of Jesus, so enduring, matchless, and supreme? What does it promise, for the help or hope of man? There are some who say that Jesus has held the attention and allegiance | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033683 | of the race by an appeal to the religious instinct; that all men naturally seek God, and long to know Him. But if we try to define the religious instinct, we shall find it a hard task. What might be called a religious instinct leads to human sacrifice upon the Aztec altar; directs the Hindu to cast the new-born child | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033684 | in the stream, the friend to sacrifice his best friend to a pagan deity. There are others who say that Christ appeals to the gentler instincts of man,--to his unselfishness, his meekness and compassion. Yet some of the most admirable Christians have been ambitious and aggressive. Others say, He appeals to our need of help. But self-reliance is a Christian | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033685 | trait. Others say, He appeals to our sense of sin--our need of pardon. But many a Christian goes through life like a happy child, scarcely conscious at any time of deep guilt, and never overwhelmed by intense conviction or despair. The truth seems to be that Christ appeals to our whole selves. He calls us by an attraction which is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033686 | unique. In the universe there exists a force which we must recognize--though we do not yet in the least understand it--which is gradually drawing the race Christward. The law of spiritual gravitation is, that by all the changing impulses of our nature we are drawn upward unto Him. Spohr's lovely anthem voices this cry of the soul: "_As pants the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033687 | hart for cooling streams, When heated in the chase, So longs my soul, O God, for Thee, And Thy refreshing grace. "For Thee, my God, the living God, My thirsty soul doth pine; Oh! when shall I behold Thy face, Thou Majesty divine_?" . Jesus calls us by the mystery of life. There are hours of silence and meditation when | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033688 | the great thought _I am_ beats in upon the soul. But what am I? Whence came I? A heap of atoms in some strange human semblance--is that all? And so many other heaps of atoms have already been, and passed away! Blown hither and thither--where? The universe reels with change. Star-dust and earth-dust are alike in ceaseless whirl. Little it | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033689 | profits to build the spire, the sea-wall, the dome, the bridge, the myriad-roofed town. A new era shall dawn upon them, and they shall fall away. Not only that, but each man who lives to-day has less possible material dominion than he had who preceded him. Only so many square feet of earth, and now there are more to walk | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033690 | upon them! The ground we tread was once trodden by the feet of those long dead. I am taking up their room, and in due time I must myself depart, that there may be footway for those who are to come after me. Only the under-sod is really mine--the little earth-barrow to which I go. There is no question more | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033691 | baffling than this simple, ever-recurring one: What am I? If I should decide what I am to-day, I discover that yesterday I was quite a different person. To-day I may be six feet in height, and climb the Alps; yesterday I lay helpless in swaddling clothes. Yesterday I was a thing of laughter and frolic; to-day I am grave, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033692 | brush away tears. As a babe, was I still I? What is Myself? When did I come to Myself? How far can I extend Myself? My feet are here, but in a moment my spirit can flee to Xanadu and Zanzibar. There is no spot in the universe where I may not go. Where, then, are the limits of Myself? | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033693 | Personality is never for a single moment fixed: it is as changing and evanescent as a cloud. We are whirlwind spirits, swept through time and space, bearing within our souls hopes, fears, joys, sorrows, which are never twice the same. Every aspect of the universe leaves new impressions on us, and our wills, in their world-sweep, daily desire different things. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033694 | Incompleteness lies on life--restlessness is in the heart. True love has no final habitation on earth; there is no abiding-place for our deepest affection, our most tender yearning. It is curious how deeply one may love, and yet feel that there is something more. In all our journeys, skyward and sunward, we never reach the End of All. Over against | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033695 | this vague and changing self, there stands out the figure of the changeless Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. In Him we find the environment of all our lives, and the sum of all our dreams. . Jesus calls us by our earth-born cares. In Mendelssohn's _Elijah_, there is a voice which sings: "O rest in the Lord!" This | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033696 | angel's message is the voice of Jesus to the human race. The voice of Jesus calls us to awake to toil. We sometimes forget this, and imagine that if we follow Jesus, we shall never have anything to do. Christ does not still the machinery of the world, nor shut the mine, nor take away the sowing and the reaping. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033697 | The call of Jesus is not a call to rest from work, but to rest in work. The rest we receive is that of sympathy, of inspiration, of efficiency. Christ really increases the toil-capacity of man. Man can do more work, harder work, and always better work, because of the faith that is in him. What makes the confusion and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033698 | fatigue of life is, that men are everywhere scrambling for themselves, and trying to manage their own undertakings, instead of falling into harmony with God, and through Him, with all that is. What wears the soul out is not the work of life itself--it is its drudgery, its monotony, its blind vagueness, its apparent purposelessness. We do not wish to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000000033699 | scatter our lives and spend our years in nothingness. Christ comes into the world and says: Over-fatigue is abnormal. There is not enough work in the universe to tire every one all out. There is just enough for each one to do happily, and to do well. I am come as the great industrial organizer. My mission is not to | 60 | gutenberg |
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