Excerpt from The Gospel at Work in Modern Life We are not seeking quiet now, and few Of us are seeking solitude. Our very books have become the clamorous voices Of the unrest of our day. Our ideal of the saintly life has changed. We reverence the mystics, in art glass, but our own heart's saints are the men of strenuous life. We read the words of a Kempis somewhat as we look upon the window there, touched with the glory Of the westering sun, with a certain sensitive enjoyment of its rich color ing and artistic lines, ...
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Excerpt from The Gospel at Work in Modern Life We are not seeking quiet now, and few Of us are seeking solitude. Our very books have become the clamorous voices Of the unrest of our day. Our ideal of the saintly life has changed. We reverence the mystics, in art glass, but our own heart's saints are the men of strenuous life. We read the words of a Kempis somewhat as we look upon the window there, touched with the glory Of the westering sun, with a certain sensitive enjoyment of its rich color ing and artistic lines, feeling in a way the delicate hues of his words and the fine tracery of his thought. But we turn from it all to our tasks which are lighted after all by the colder light that flows in through unadorned windows, or perchance the nearer glow of the electric light. And sometimes the imitation Of Christ seems itself as unreal as the figures wrought in art glass yonder on the walls, and as far removed from the conditions Of our ordinary life as the glowing electric bulb from the shadowy cell of the medieval monk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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