FOLLOWING CHRIST BY CHARLES LEWIS SLATTERY, D. D. Bishop of Massachusetts NEW EDITION, ENLARGED BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1929 CONTENTS I. THE DEFINITE DECISION i II. CHARACTER 24 III. THE CREED 43 IV. THE CHURCH 78 V. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 101 VI. THE HOLY COMMUNION 120 VII. KNOWING CHRIST FACE TO FACE 144 APPENDIX 59 FOLLOWING CHRIST i THE DEFINITE DECISION THE Lord Jesus makes His appeal to humanity in our time with all the power with which He has appealed to men and women all down the ages. History, ...
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FOLLOWING CHRIST BY CHARLES LEWIS SLATTERY, D. D. Bishop of Massachusetts NEW EDITION, ENLARGED BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1929 CONTENTS I. THE DEFINITE DECISION i II. CHARACTER 24 III. THE CREED 43 IV. THE CHURCH 78 V. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 101 VI. THE HOLY COMMUNION 120 VII. KNOWING CHRIST FACE TO FACE 144 APPENDIX 59 FOLLOWING CHRIST i THE DEFINITE DECISION THE Lord Jesus makes His appeal to humanity in our time with all the power with which He has appealed to men and women all down the ages. History, biography, and our own experience tell us what efficiency, beauty, and joy come into lives which answer Yes, when He sum mons them to follow Him. Any man who has made this supreme discovery of the fellowship of Christ longs to have the whole world understand the gift which Christ holds for everyone. This book is written to tell one way in which Christ is being loyally followed, and in which His power is being received. I do not for a moment think that it is the only way in which people are consciously enter ing His radiant discipleship. It is the one way which I happen to know best. It is the way of confirmation. FOLLOWING CHRIST Therefore I venture to put to you certain definite questions. Why should you wish to be confirmed What demands has Con firmation upon you as a member of the Christian Church What good would it do you What is required of one who desires Confirmation These are very common questions. They deserve frank, clear an swers. I shall try to give them to you. You do not become a member of the Church at Confirmation. The Sacrament of Baptism is the formal initiation into the Church. Every baptized person is a mem ber of the Church. Confirmation is thecompletion of Baptism. In the Eastern Church the infant is confirmed by the priest immediately after his baptism, the two services being united. In the Western Church an interval of several years inter venes, and the child, having reached years of discretion, 1 is brought to the Bishop, and the Bishop confirms him. In the Church of England and in the Episcopal Church of America, the period of adolescence is gen erally the time when a boy or a girl seeks 2 THE DEFINITE DECISION Confirmation. We have discovered that this is the time when religious aspiration and responsibility awake the spirit within craves expression and seeks the outward and visible assurance of Gods help. Good Christian people have found other ways of sealing the discipleship of the members of Christs Church. But Con firmation is the old way. We find its use continuous through Church history, from the time of the New Testament. The eighth and the nineteenth chapters of the Book of the Acts record instances of Con firmation in the first century. To people whom others had baptized the Apostles came, and laid their hands upon them these people so confirmed are declared then to have received the Holy Spirit. Not the most important reason why you should be confirmed, but the first reason, is that Confirmation is the time-honoured way in which boys and girls, men and women, have all through Christian history come into the full fellowship, responsi bility, and privilege of Christs disciple ship. FOLLOWING CHRIST ii Among other things, Confirmation means decision. One of the most serious defects in character is drifting with the stream, whatever the stream may be. Even if the stream be a good stream, the man who simply floatsin it fails to be any thing but a colourless, innocent nonentity. If the stream be bad, the badness of one who drifts in it is in some ways even worse than the badness of one who deliberately chooses badness. A man can lose his soul through drifting. If you decide to be confirmed, you defi nitely choose your leadership and your company. You are an independent, self determining character...
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SLATTERY, Charles Lewis. FOLLOWING CHRIST. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. 12mo., black cloth, stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Slattery on front endpaper: "For Mrs. Blagden, with the affectionate remembrance of her old friend, Charles L. Slattery. Lent 1928." Very Good (spine dull). $50.00.
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