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. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...the _schflojs, but have been the overflow of the freshness and wealth of the natural life. ' God believes in nature, where he lives, and in the natural man, where he loves, even when man is blinded and bound by passions.) God has been able to move even the fiercest natural passions under the power of great ...
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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. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...the _schflojs, but have been the overflow of the freshness and wealth of the natural life. ' God believes in nature, where he lives, and in the natural man, where he loves, even when man is blinded and bound by passions.) God has been able to move even the fiercest natural passions under the power of great moral inspirations; but little has he been able to do with institutions which have become organs of conservatism. The Son of Man realized the unity of the heart of nature and the heart of man and the heart of God when he walked the ripening fields and flowering hills with his Galilean disciples, whose minds had not been crystallized by artificial civilization; whose affections had not been jpetrified by customs and fictions. It was childlike simplicity, open-minded, wondering and unartificialized human nature, which the moral authority of Jesus led into the kingdom of God. What we call civilization is infinitely short of the goal of progress. It bruises the divine life in man, even when you have said all you can in civilization's behalf. Polished manners, systematic theologies, fashionable clothes, the sciences of the universities, electric street cars, towering temples of trade, are not life; in fact they are/ not civilization. They shame the natural faith of the divine soul oT'man, and repress more than educate his natural instincts to nobleness. They obscure our vision of God and his world, fastening our faith to things rather than righteousness; to values stamped on paper and anarchies of commercial architecture. God will keep bringing man's civilizations to naught till we have a civilization that is the order of his providence; a civilization as natural as the lily, as beneficent as the wheat field. And when civilization finds the heart of...
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Very good. No dust jacket. 158 p. Not a modern reprint. Gilt lettering and design on front board is bright, lettering on spine mildly faded, corners and top and bottom of spine lightly frayed; text is clean and unmarked.
