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16833As a specimen of historical forecast this is very deficient; for are there not the masses as well as the leaders of industry?
16833By what means, then, had the cultivated minds of the Roman Empire been educated for Monotheism?
16833If the imagination were not taught its prescribed lesson equally with the reason, where would be Unity?
16833The regimen of a blockaded town should be cheerfully submitted to when high purposes require it, but is it the ideal perfection of human existence?
16833Two questions meet us at the outset: Is there a natural evolution in human affairs?
16833We are taught the right way of searching for results, but when a result has been reached, how shall we know that it is true?
16833What, in truth, are the conditions necessary to constitute a religion?
16833Why is it necessary that all human life should point but to one object, and be cultivated into a system of means to a single end?
16833Would the mariner''s compass ever have been found by direct efforts for the improvement of navigation?
16833Yet day and night are not the causes of one another; why?
16833and is not theirs also a growing power?
16833and is that evolution an improvement?
37651''But where is he?
37651''But,''pleaded Virginia,''can not we enjoy both?''
37651''Do you believe, said Paul,''in solemn, significant, and unspeakably happy Humanity?
37651''I was once in orders, it is true,''said Paul, reluctantly;''but how did you find out my miserable secret?''
37651''Is this egg(_ from which the human being springs_) matter?
37651''Oh, Paul,''she said at last,''is this more rational than the Lord''s Prayer?''
37651''Tell me, my dear, do I look significant?''
37651''What event,''he asked,''could be more charming more unspeakably holy?
37651''What has come?''
37651''Will you never,''said Paul, by this time a little irritated,''will you never listen to exact thought?
37651''You do n''t mean to say that we are rescued, are we?''
37651And what is Humanity?''
37651Are the additions made during this period of gestation drawn from matter?
37651Are you sure that he is living?''
37651But,''she added, sinking her voice to a whisper,''are you quite sure, Paul, that it is perfectly moral?''
37651Do n''t you see her name engraved on the collar?''
37651Do not you see them?''
37651Do you know that till I have caught the missing link the cause of glorious truth will suffer grievously?
37651Have you seen him?
37651How can Humanity ever be unspeakably holy so long as one half of it grovels in dreams of an unspeakably holy God?
37651How dare you upset that which Professor Huxley tells us must be for ever strong enough to hold its own?''
37651How then can you talk to me about religion?''
37651How would progress be possible if one half of Humanity misunderstood the other?
37651If there be anything besides matter in the egg, or in the infant subsequently slumbering in the womb, what is it?''
37651Is it not solemn, and sublime, and awful?
37651She confessed her sin to Paul, and inquired, with some anxiety, if he thought she would go to hell for it?
37651Tell me, Virginia, what truths have you been discovering?''
37651The question is, how were they introduced?...
37651What have we got to make us happy?''
37651What on earth is the good of it?''
37651What shall we do if one half of Humanity has no feeling of honour?''
37651When, when, I wonder, will the sublimity begin?''
37651Why is the reality less ennobling than the imagination?
37651You will not persecute me for my opinions?''
37651and is it indeed you?
37651cried Paul,''and how have you been able to forego the pleasures of the intellect?''
37651cried Virginia,''and would not you like to kiss me?''
37651exclaimed Paul, aghast with fright and horror,''do you dare to abuse truth, by turning it to such base purposes?''
37651she cried,''and have I really come to this?
37651what is the use of all this talking?
32006''Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?
32006''Do I not fill heaven and earth?
32006''He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?
32006''Is it not just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion?
32006''Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
32006''What do I see in all{ 78} Nature?''
32006''What if some did not believe?
32006''What if some do not believe?
32006''What think ye of Christ?
32006''When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him?
32006''Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit?
32006''[ 12] What shall we say to these accusations?
32006''[ 13] Where these distinctions are lost, where this confusion exists, what logically must be the consequence?
32006''[ 15] But is this to admit that the hope of the world lies in renouncing Christianity?
32006''[ 9] What are the facts?
32006''_ What then have I gained in these nine foundation pillars_?
32006--GOLDWIN SMITH:_ Guesses at the Riddle of Existence_(''Is There Another Life?'').
32006And the Abyss shouts from her depth laid bare''Heaven, hast thou secrets?
32006And where else should God dwell than in the human heart?
32006Are we to believe, it is asked, that only the comparatively few to whom the knowledge of Jesus Christ has come can possibly be accepted of the Father?
32006Are we to_ worship_ the self- ideality?
32006Bousset, W.,_ Jesus; What is Religion?
32006But we can not help also asking,''Whence have you drawn those lofty ideas?
32006But what does this prove with regard to Christianity?
32006But what is meant by Personality?
32006But what is the All, or the Good, or the True, or the Beautiful?
32006But what is the superstructure which Dr. Stanton Coit proceeds to build upon this foundation?
32006But what is to prevent the withdrawal of the traditional sanction from producing its natural effect upon the morality of the mass of mankind?
32006Can there be any doubt, we are triumphantly asked, that of these two, the religious is inferior to the irreligious?
32006Could anything be more pathetic or, at the same time, more self- refuting?
32006Does it in the least degree indicate that the masses of the European nations have weighed Christianity in the balance and found it wanting?
32006Drawbridge, C. L.,_ Is Religion Undermined_?
32006For who hath{ 90} known the mind of the Lord?
32006Gladden, Washington,_ How Much is Left of the Old Doctrines_?
32006HUNT, B.D.,_ Good without God: Is it Possible_?
32006Harnack, Adolf,_ What is Christianity?
32006Have we not reason to confess that, if the commandment be not new, universal obedience to it would be new indeed?
32006How can I look up to myself as the higher that reproaches me?
32006How can any one meaning be affixed to the word so that one person can be said to use it properly and another to abuse it?
32006How can anything be greater than the Infinite, more enduring than the Eternal, better than the All- Pure and All- Perfect?
32006How can he in any way combine these people into a single object of thought?
32006How far are these semblances, these battles in the clouds, to carry their mimicry of reality?
32006IV In the face of such tremendous indictments, what is the duty incumbent on us who profess and call ourselves Christians?
32006If God be such, and our relations to God be such, as Theists describe, would not that Son of Man be the confirmation of their thoughts?
32006Is God not Infinite?
32006Is it not the fact that the whole realm of Nature is explored by him, is compelled to minister to his wants or to unfold its treasures of knowledge?
32006Leaving the name of our Lord out of the discussion, why should a prayer to Serenity have more moral influence than a prayer to the Sea?
32006Monod, Wilfrid,_ Aux Croyants et aux Athà © es; Peut- on rester Chrà © tien_?
32006Now it is Lord Tennyson: The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains, Are not these, O Soul, the vision of Him Who reigns?
32006One in a certain place testified, saying,''What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that Thou visitest him?
32006Sen, Keshub Chunder, India asks,_ Who is Christ_?
32006So we persist in asking, not"Is it true?
32006The comment is eminently just, but does it not apply with equal force to Miss Cobbe herself?
32006Then Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
32006They believe in God: why should it, on their own showing, be so hard to believe in Christ?
32006They have a pantheistic tinge: what is there to dread in Pantheism?
32006Warschauer, J.,_ The New Evangel; Jesus: Seven Questions; Anti- Nunquam; Jesus or Christ?_ Watkinson, W. L.,_ Influence of Scepticism on Character_.
32006Was Earth too small to be of God created?
32006What can any one definitely assert or deny about it?
32006What has human law to do with our hearts?
32006What is the explanation of the horrors which have been perpetrated in the Name of God?
32006What legislation can deal with''envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness,''unless they manifest themselves in outward acts?
32006When the sceptical physician, in Tennyson''s poem, murmured:''The good Lord Jesus has had his day,''{ 213} the believing nurse made the comment:''Had?
32006Whether of them twain did the will of his father?
32006Why is Christianity after all these centuries only beginning to be manifested?
32006Why should a prayer to the Stars be less efficacious than a prayer to Milton, whose soul was like a star and dwelt apart?
32006Why then too small to be redeemed?
32006Would He Himself not be the radiant illustration, the eagerly longed for proof of the truth for which they contend?
32006Would not His testimony be of infinite value on their side?
32006Yet where rather should the weak rest than on the strong, the creature of the day than on the Eternal, the imperfect than on the Centre of Perfection?
32006[ 15] Can it be doubted that the claim of Humanity to worship is less credible if we exclude the Perfect Man, Christ Jesus, from our view?
32006_ Do we Believe_?
32006_ Is Christianity True_?
32006and so through all the drama of moral conflict and enthusiasm between myself in a mask and myself in_ propria persona_?
32006and the son of man that Thou visitest him?
32006and they, too, seem to be infinite in their cravings: who but He can satisfy them?
32006ask forgiveness from myself for sins which myself has committed?
32006but,"What say the learned men, the influential men, the eloquent men?"
32006can only, with heartfelt conviction, give the answer,''Lord, to whom shall we go?
32006has it come?
32006issue commands to myself which I dare not disobey?
32006or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?''
32006or who hath been His counsellor?
32006or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again?
32006or,"Has the Lord said it?"
32006shall their unbelief make the faith of God of none effect?
32006shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?''
32006surrender to myself with a martyr''s sacrifice?
32006that in confining ourselves to the seen and the temporal, we shall best elevate mankind?
32006to trust in sorrow a creature of thought which is but a phenomenon of sorrow?
32006to_ pray_ to an empty image in the air?
32006true to our souls?"
32006{ 230} APPENDIX X''Without prejudice, what would be the effect upon modern civilisation if the Divine Ideal should vanish from modern thought?
32006{ 262} Picard, L''Abbà ©,_ Christianity or Agnosticism?
32006{ 64} III THE RELIGION OF THE UNIVERSE''Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?