 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1896 - 590 pages
...not find itself thrown completely out of that all-embracing Christian conception which declares that the chief end of man is to 'glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.' Given a right estimate of that in which happiness consists, Christian philosophy has nothing to say... | |
 | 1910 - 670 pages
...peace, and in righteousness of life. No better summary of his gospel could be found than this : — ' The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.' And Philo is himself a typical embodiment of the faith which he preached. Half-way through the first... | |
 | 1899 - 352 pages
...development of the full measure of man's highest possibilities. A new interpretation of the old truth, "That the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever," reads that the glorification of God is in the re-instatement of man to the likeness of God... | |
 | Lowell (Mass.). Trades and labor council - 1900 - 474 pages
...development of the full measure of man's highest possibilites. A new interpretation of the old truth, "That the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever," reads that the glorification of God is in the reinstatement of man to the likeness of God;... | |
 | Charles Brodie Patterson - 1901 - 228 pages
...Westminster confession of faith, the question is asked : "What is the chief end of man?" The answer given : " The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." How glorify and enjoy God, if man in his searchings has not found Him? — how glorify and... | |
 | George Albert Coe - 1902 - 456 pages
...give the first place in their catechism to the question, "What is the chief end of man?" The answer, "The chief end of man is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever," stood for generations as the accepted interpretation of the Christian view of life. Self-Regarding... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1902 - 476 pages
...a moral being? The different systems give somewhat different answers. Theistic ethics declares that "the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." Intuitional ethics wavers between perfection and happiness. Utilitarian ethics answers the... | |
 | George A. Birmingham - 1903 - 330 pages
...of Christianity, and not a philosophy. A great Protestant catechism1 opens with the statement that the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever. This is a religious aim. It is not the same thing as the aim of attaining a great civilisation, or of eliminating... | |
 | Charles Edward Osborne - 1903 - 382 pages
...repeated with profound and joyful agreement the grand words of the Catechism of the Kirk of Scotland : ' The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.' Hence he insists on the necessity of opportunities of virtue and goodness for all. He will not have... | |
 | Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
...that they are one with duty and with joy. What is that but to say with the Assembly's catechism that the chief end of man is to " glorify God and to enjoy him forever " ? Thank God if it be true that these are the eternal commonplaces, and that the humblest... | |
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Nevertheless, the chief end of man is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever. 
