This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...devil," a good deal of Machiavelli, and a modicum of the sermon on the mount, to make a mixture sufficiently practical for the consent of society, surely have little reason for complacency. Behold these continual wars, these overturnings of governments, this antagonism of classes, these destructive competitions, these ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...devil," a good deal of Machiavelli, and a modicum of the sermon on the mount, to make a mixture sufficiently practical for the consent of society, surely have little reason for complacency. Behold these continual wars, these overturnings of governments, this antagonism of classes, these destructive competitions, these crises in business; with sorrows for honest men, and crimes for dishonest ones, and temptations for all; this frightful proportion of personal ruins, this great mass of humanity surging along with shocks and manifold wrecks; all directed by shrewd men who smile at christian morality being the rule of actual conduct, and that because it is not practical. They have not tried full christianity. Suppose they do! Does it need much to prove that justice and benevolence are particularly fitted to adjust human affairs, and that society can only fulfill its idea when it receives the morality which Christ taught? To be like Christ is, indeed, to be fitted for heaven, but it is because of being fitted for earth. And this morality, christianity seeks to produce by supernatural provision and influence. A living faith in Christ, identifies man with him. Guilt is removed and the soul brought into right relations to God. Under the divine energy of the Spirit, by the word of God and the discipline of Providence, this moral character is formed. Our judgment of christianity should be determined by this aspect of it. By this we should test its various modifications. As one wanders in Rome, with recollections of the old worship, he sees continually, characteristics of paganism glaring out from beneath the christian surface, and he is impressed with startling evidence, that as in ancient, so in modern Romanism, morality has no necessary connection with religio...
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