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. 1847. Excerpt: ... THE IDENTITY OF RELIGION WITH GOODNESS, AND WITH A GOOD LIFE. IP A Van Sat, I Love God, And Hateth His Brother, He Is A Liar; pox HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS EROTHER "WHOM HE HATH SEEN, HOW CAN HI LOVE GOD WHOM HE HATH NOT SEEN 1--1 John IT. 24. If there is any mission for the true teacher to accomplish in this age, it is ...
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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. 1847. Excerpt: ... THE IDENTITY OF RELIGION WITH GOODNESS, AND WITH A GOOD LIFE. IP A Van Sat, I Love God, And Hateth His Brother, He Is A Liar; pox HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS EROTHER "WHOM HE HATH SEEN, HOW CAN HI LOVE GOD WHOM HE HATH NOT SEEN 1--1 John IT. 24. If there is any mission for the true teacher to accomplish in this age, it is to identify religion with goodness; to show that they are the same thing, manifestations, that is to say, of the same principle; to show, in other words and according to the Apostle, that no man is to be accounted a lover of God, who is not a lover of his brother. It is, I say again, to identify religion with morals, religion with virtue; with justice, truth, integrity, honesty, generosity, disinterestedness; religion with the highest beauty and loveliness of character. This, I repeat, is the great mission, and message of the true teacher to-day. What it may be some other day, what transcendental thing may be waiting to be taught, I do not know; but this, I conceive, is the practical business of religious instruction now. Let me not be misunderstood, as if I were supposed to say that this or any other mere doctrine, were the ultimate end of preaching. That is, to make men holy. But how shall any preaching avail to make men holy, unless it do rightly and clearly teach them what it is to be holy? If they mistake here, all their labour to be religious, all their hearing of the word, Sabbath keeping, praying, and striving, will be in vain. And therefore, I hold that to teach this, and especially to show that religion is not something else than a good heart, but is that very thing; this, I say, is the burden of the present time. I use now an old prophetic phrase, and I may remark here, that every time has its burden. In the times of the Old Testam...
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