This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... THE RELIGION OF A YOUNG MAN; WITH WORDS BY THE WAY TO OLDER MEN. The Master Builder, in Ibsen's famous play, confesses to an over-mastering fear; he fears the young. Some day he foresees that the new generation will come knocking at the door, and the event terrifies him There is very much the same ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... THE RELIGION OF A YOUNG MAN; WITH WORDS BY THE WAY TO OLDER MEN. The Master Builder, in Ibsen's famous play, confesses to an over-mastering fear; he fears the young. Some day he foresees that the new generation will come knocking at the door, and the event terrifies him There is very much the same sort of feeling among many people who esteem themselves the exponents and custodians of religion. Nothing occasions them so much dread as the working of the modern spirit. They cannot comprehend that " God fulfils Himself in many ways lest one good custom should corrupt the world." They do not confess their terror in the same way as the Master Builder does; but if their condition of mind were analyzed, it would be found identical with his: they fear the young. Now what is there in the religious demands of the young that is novel, or is there anything to occasion legitimate fear? To answer the second question first: no man who believes in the real progress of the race ought to fear the young. Lack of faith in the young is simply lack of faith in human progress. Whatever work the aged have initiated for their generation, it is for the new generation to fulfil. There is at once a pathetic and profound truth in the saying of St. Paul, when he closes his great list of Hebrew worthies who received not the promise, by declaring that they received it not because without us they could not be made perfect. They had to wait for us. All that they did was an instalment. They did their own work with an entire belief in its finality, as a mason might who works upon one section of a great cathedral, but who does not see what is going on in other sections, and does not know the full plan which he is helping to complete. In cathedral building generations pass, ...
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