The Moving Power: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, Feb, 9, 1851, After the Occurrence of a Fugitive Slave Case (Classic Reprint)
The Moving Power: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, Feb, 9, 1851, After the Occurrence of a Fugitive Slave Case (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Moving Power: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, Feb, 9, 1851, After the Occurrence of a Fugitive Slave Case Accordingly the appeal of Christianity is directly and mainly, not to our reason, but to the heart. While it requires us to do certain things and forbids us to do others, still its first and great com mandment is Love, the Love of God and man and Love is, not an exertion of the muscles, not a conclusion of the understanding, but a ...
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Excerpt from The Moving Power: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, Feb, 9, 1851, After the Occurrence of a Fugitive Slave Case Accordingly the appeal of Christianity is directly and mainly, not to our reason, but to the heart. While it requires us to do certain things and forbids us to do others, still its first and great com mandment is Love, the Love of God and man and Love is, not an exertion of the muscles, not a conclusion of the understanding, but a feeling, an affection, a passion. It is the affection, in and through which we are to find all the strength requisite for doing and for refraining to do. When, therefore, the aim is our own improvement or the good of others, the indispensable preliminary is that we should cherish it with enthusiasm. We can do nothing for it, we are as helpless as the dead in their graves, we may talk and reason about it till the day of doom, and flatter ourselves that we understand all about it, that no one understands it better, and we may, in fact, understand it as completely as it can be under stood, and yet ifwe do not feel, if we are not in a glow here at the heart, it is all to no purpose. Not an effort can be made, not a step taken, not a finger stirred. We end where we began. We remain just as we were, fastened to the spot, with nothing to overcome the dead force of gravitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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