Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ministry practicable in this 19th century? Some professions are incidental and transitory. This we cannot so consider. Men need good leadership to-day. The country will always feel the effects of the pusilanimity of the ministers of fifty years ago in the anti-slavery agitation. Many reforms await the hand of the minister of to-day. The value of the spiritual above the material life, and the brotherhood of humanity, are the two things for the minister to teach. A definite creed is not necessary, if he puts before men the things which he feels would benefit them if they...
...aspect of things has changed. Now, even those who themselves at tend prayers with pleasure, or who would attend them with pleasure, if they were voluntary, feel that this pleasure is tainted by the consideration that they are not free. Even these persons who look on prayers with a certain favor, feel that to make them compulsory is wrong; that there is nothing in public prayers so natural and so necessary that it should be a student's duty to attend them. It cannot be denied by one who tries to be sincere that, if all students were anxious...
...mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only those attend them whose sentiments they express. But above all, let them be prayers; let them be for someone the genuine expression of spiritual life...
...every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
...make such a feeling possible, it is necessary to use some traditional form of prayers, the older and more universal, the better. Thus each may feel that his prayer is the prayer of all; that it is not a selfish wish or capricious will that he utters, but the cry of all mankind. By using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest...