The Upper Way; An Open-Air Discourse of the Path of Life, and the Process of Walking Therein - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV Voices That Must Be Heard In which It Appears that, while Men Try Many Things which are Not the Way, They Cannot be Saved by them: The Will Cannot Overcome the Ingrained, the Teaching of the Shadow-makers is Futile, We Cannot Drift into Salvation, We Cannot be Swept Upward with the Crowd Following Inclination, nor be Carried in the Papal, or Ecclesiastical, or Credal Coach; for All These Ways are Not God's One Way. "You may run from creature to creature, and from duty to duty, and from ordinance to ordinance, and when you have wearied yourselves and tired yourselves in seeking ease and rest, satisfaction and remission, justification and salvation, in one way and another, you will be forced after all . . . to cry out, 'No works, no duties, no services, no prayers, no tears, no righteousness, no holiness, but Christ's alone.'"--BROOKS. Some fresher wind blew across our path in the moment when we lifted up our heads and began to utter the invincible "I can!" But when the wind passed, and it was calm in all the meadows, we thought jnore about it: How? For except ways and means wait on resolution we get nowhere. As for us, our talk will be ended when we have considered How? It was for this alone we came out on the open journey. But face to face with this question we are beset again with our paradox. "I must" and "I can" are straightway attacked. They are will words, resolution words, late born in human vocabularies. Man's long history has been but a labored learning of these will words. Scarcely can he learn them from any beast below him. Well, your horse has a will, and your dog, but mostly they run under inexorable law and know not how to be free. In their slow passage ages of human discipline have but taught us to swell up a little with a truly human pr...

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