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. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... sadly feels how little, in any touch of spontaneous emotion, it varies from the metallic note, in which the bird called a mino salutes us with the amiable, wearisome, and hundred-fold repetition, from the perch of his gilded cage. An eyewitness tells me he saw in St. Petersburg little children, taught to go ...
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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. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... sadly feels how little, in any touch of spontaneous emotion, it varies from the metallic note, in which the bird called a mino salutes us with the amiable, wearisome, and hundred-fold repetition, from the perch of his gilded cage. An eyewitness tells me he saw in St. Petersburg little children, taught to go through a manual of devotion of which they could have no sense, who, as they rose from the forced bodily conformity of prayer, fell to playing with the silver and malachite railing of the temple. Which was most acceptable to God, --their ignorant homage, or their innocent play? We have been told that the impersonal sort of utterance--after the peculiar, well-known style of the set periods of praj'er--strains the voice itself more than the natural tones of any preaching. What could more decisively prove it vicious? Doubtless, solemn recitation of hallowed texts and clauses, to some extent, especially on the recurrence of great experiences of human life, may actr like a galvanic series, to confirm, by multiplication, the deepest feeling. It would, however, seem almost as though the sentences themselves, when so perpetually brought forth after uniformly equal periods of time, might complain, like tired soldiers, of being too often put upon duty! Of course, we must not deny the proportion and choice of comparative good and evil from opposite modes in this matter. The advocate of the spiritual way should not blink the arguments that still remain for a liturgy: its re-acting from the people to the priest; uniting all in the same words; with its easy-chair equalizing the clergy, in their gifts or without gifts; coming a precious heirloom from the past, and spinning on the thread of religious unity to new generations; familiarizing the young early...
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Add this copy of The Word of the Spirit to the Church to cart. $32.12, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2023 by Anatiposi Verlag.
Add this copy of The Word of the Spirit to the Church to cart. $48.23, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2023 by Anatiposi Verlag.
