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. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... RELIGION. Reverence-- The Three Stages of Religion. Healthy children, born under favourable influences, bring much into the world with them. Nature has given to every one all he needs for time and eternity; the duty of the educator and trainer is to develop this; and most frequently it develops best ...
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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. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... RELIGION. Reverence-- The Three Stages of Religion. Healthy children, born under favourable influences, bring much into the world with them. Nature has given to every one all he needs for time and eternity; the duty of the educator and trainer is to develop this; and most frequently it develops best when left to itself. But there is one thing no one brings with him into the world, and it is a thing on which everything else depends; that thing by means of which every man that is born into the world becomes truly manly. This thing is Reverence; of which there are three kinds, or, if you will, three stages. These we endeavour to implant in the minds of our pupils, with the symbolical accompaniment of three attitudes or postures. The first kind is reverence for that which is above us; and the attitude connected with this is that in which, with the arms crossed over the breast, our pupils are taught to look joyfully towards the heavens. By this we ask from them an acknowledgment that there is a God on high who reflects and reveals Himself in the person of parents, teachers, and superiors. The second type is reverence for that which is .beneath us. The hands clasped as though bound, behind the back, the downward, smiling look, in the attitude belonging to this type, indicate that we should look upon the earth graciously and cheerfully; for it is the earth that affords us the means of subsistence, and is the source of innumerable joys, though, along with these, it no doubt brings not seldom disproportionate sufferings. When a man receives any physical hurt, whether by his own fault or innocently; or when another injures him, either of set purpose or accidentally; when in any way harmful terrestrial forces and influences invade him harshly;--let...
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