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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... WORK AND REST. Onging for rest has created a literature of --' its own in the course of human history. It is the burden of innumerable hymns and songs. Christian hymnology is full of it. The idea of rest is the most central and conspicuous idea of the Christian's heaven. "There remaineth a rest for the people ...
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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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... WORK AND REST. Onging for rest has created a literature of --' its own in the course of human history. It is the burden of innumerable hymns and songs. Christian hymnology is full of it. The idea of rest is the most central and conspicuous idea of the Christian's heaven. "There remaineth a rest for the people of God." There is no promise of the scriptures that has been dearer to the hearts of men than this, and it has been even dearer to the hearts of women than to the hearts of men. The doctrine of Nirvana is the central doctrine of the Buddhist faith. In their interpretation of Nirvana the critics are not well agreed. But that the heart of the idea is rest--rest from the round of change, rest from the fever of desire--of this there is no doubt. "It is better to walk than to run; it is better to lie down than to walk; it is better to sleep than to lie down; it is better to die than to sleep"--this is the Buddhist feeling, whether to die imports complete annihilation or only the annihilation of all passion and unrest. It does not speak well for humanity, this widespread yearning for inaction, this lotus-eater's disposition "to live and lie reclined On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind!" Not rest but action is the noblest capability of man. Not longing for rest but longing for action is man's noblest longing. But what are we to infer from the Buddhist longing for Nirvana, from the perpetual cry for rest which goes up out of the hymns and homilies of the Christian world? That man is naturally inactive, naturally indolent? No: rather that he has been sadly overworked. The Buddhist longing for Nirvana was the spawn of an existence made intolerable by burdensome and crushing toil. I go into the village church hard by my country home, ...
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