Religion and Art, and Other EssaysA.C. McClurg, 1905 - 235 pages A father's drinking causes pain and embarrassment to his family, until he begins to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. |
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A. C. MCCLURG Asepsis atheistic awaken beauty become believe blessed born bubonic plague cease Christ Christian Church civilization collectivism conscience consciousness create death disease divine earth ence eternal evil exalted existence faith feel gives God's greed grow harmony heart heaven heavenly higher highest holy hope human ideal immortal individual industrial infinite influence inspired intelligent justice knowledge labor Laocoön liberty light ligion live Lope de Vega man's means mind misery moral mother multitude nature never nineteenth century noble noblest nomic numbers organism passion pathy Plato poet poetry possession power to believe presence principle progress puerperal fever purity race Real Presence religion religious ribs of death rich righteousness sacred Saint Saint Paul sense social socialistic soul spirit suffer sweet symbol teach teacher temple things thought tion true truth universe virtue vital voice wealth wisdom women worth
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Page 9 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 10 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly : yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 40 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 33 - MOTHER ! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied ; Woman ! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature's solitary boast...
Page 38 - Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me ! Enter from below a CHAMOIS HUNTER CHAMOIS HUNTER.
Page 120 - Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It means, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls.
Page 68 - THE history of the education of a people or an age is the history of its civilization, of its intellectual, moral, and religious life, its material progress being incidental and subordinate. Intelligence, virtue, and industry give man power over himself and all things; and it is education that makes him intelligent, virtuous, and industrious. The riches of nature and the wealth of human life are inexhaustible, but only those whom education stimulates to persevering self-activity make them their own....
Page 121 - It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual, and difficult work ; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
Page 47 - A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.
Page 45 - What but this, The universal instinct of repose, The longing for confirmed tranquillity, Inward and outward ; humble, yet sublime : The life where hope and memory are as one ; Earth quiet and unchanged ; the human soul Consistent in self-rule ; and heaven revealed To meditation in that quietness...