Word: sin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...service is Christ's test of character, his conception of life. The greatest man is he who does his fellow-man the greatest good. Christ did not measure men by their ceremonial observances. He never once told a man to offer a sacrifice. He simply said "Go and sin no more." His one measure of character was service. He who helped are apostate was in Christ's eyes greater than he who offered the most elaborate sacrifice. Service was the touchstone which Christ applied even to His own life. He lived simply that He might serve...
...demonstrated that the mind grows by activity; but there is alimit to mental exertion. Over-mental strain is a sin against the laws of health...
There are three causes which can be shown in extenuation of this fault of Whitman: his sympathy with man, an immoral way of looking at the universe, and a peculiar theory of the functions of a poet. His sympathy led him to participate in and celebrate the sin of men. He looked at nature believing that it should be accepted in its entirety. And Whitman's motto in poetry was "Nature without check...
...fallen, Adam and Eve had many sweet communings face to face with God. How happy must they have been, as the evening twilight was falling, with their loving Lord shedding blessings upon their innocence. But another hour came, when man trembled before God in the first consciousness of his sin and degradation. The heavenly harmonies were broken. There was no joy in that vesper hour-the last in Eden...
...Lowell was no more thoroughly convinced that the Mexican war was a sin against humanity than we are that a war with England about the Venezuelan frontier would be the great crime of the age. No one pretends that we ought to threaten war merely in defence of Venezuela; but we are told that we must rally to the defence of the "Monroe! Doctrine." This doctrine is now more than seventy years old, and it is its spirit rather than its letter with which we are concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect...