id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 25894 Walker, James The Spirit Proper to the Times A Sermon preached in King's Chapel, Boston, Sunday, May 12, 1861 .txt text/plain 3009 149 74 sacrifices for the public good. to do so, is he not sacrificing every thing which makes life worth people have never been otherwise than public spirited, and hence the It is, as I have said, a great moral force, a reverence for sacrifice will really have on this new outbreak of public spirit. those times when men were religious at the greatest sacrifices. the sacrifices in which they express their public spirit, instead of sacrifices for the public good, it might almost be supposed that the language of Scripture, "without natural affection." "Public spirit," The sacrifices which the country asks for in time of war are those of I doubt whether it is common for rich men to think any better of Others are manifesting their public spirit by sacrifices of _time_ and sacrifices God is well pleased." I have given a definition of public ./cache/25894.txt ./txt/25894.txt