Word: martineau
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...could hardly study Christ's life, he said, without being impressed with the importance which he placed in belief in God. What was meant by faith in God? Dr. Martineau said that it was hard for a man to avoid belief in God honestly, but that it was also hard to hold faith worthily. The sense of God was the greatest power of which man is possessed; faith was the appropriation and possession...
Objections have been raised to this explanation by Dr. Martineau, chiefly on the ground that it is not derived from our own self-consciousness; but observations of death in others must precede its experience by ourselves. At any rate the present validity of the belief is not affected by its origin, or by the process of its historical evolution...
...Stevens, the originator of the plan, occupied the chair. The meeting was in the nature of a protest against the rudely expressed objections to placing more tributes to foreigners in Westminster Abbey. Among those present were Sir Frederick Pellock and Messrs. Stevens, Linton, Besant, Gosse, Sidney, Lee, Maccoll and Martineau...
...James Martineau, the well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...