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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... SERMON V. THE FOUNDATION OF MORAL COURAGE AND SOME OF THE EXIGENCIES THAT CALL FOR ITS EXERCISE IN THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL. "As an adamant harder than flint, have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house."--Ez. iii. 9. In the earlier and ruder ages of the world, feats of physical strength and displays of mere animal prowess were held in high esteem, and much admired. These were the foundation of that superiority and controlling influence, which certain individuals held over their fellows. But advancing intelligence, civilization and refinement have introduced a different taste, and brought into esteem a higher order of power. Divine revelation has been in advance of all other causes, in effecting this result. The model of character which the Bible presents--the deeds to which it urges, and the display of powers which it demands, are far more exalted than those of the gladiator or the wrestler, the hero of romance, the knight of chivalry, or the modern warrior. The Bible has had no slight agency in rendering the distinction between mind and matter broad and palpable, and in showing the superiority of the former over the latter. Pagan Greece, and Rome, in the palmiest days of their civilization and refinement, seem to have had no just conceptions of what constituted the highest and noblest display of human power. Hence the savage pleasure which they derived from witnessing the conflict of infuriated brutes, the dexterous death-blow of the gladiator, or the mere muscular superiority of the wrestler and the racer. It was reserved for revelation to point out to man a higher and nobler sphere of exertion, to define what Kind of power is destined to have a permanent ascendency in the economy of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... SERMON V. THE FOUNDATION OF MORAL COURAGE AND SOME OF THE EXIGENCIES THAT CALL FOR ITS EXERCISE IN THE MINISTRY OF THE GOSPEL. "As an adamant harder than flint, have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house."--Ez. iii. 9. In the earlier and ruder ages of the world, feats of physical strength and displays of mere animal prowess were held in high esteem, and much admired. These were the foundation of that superiority and controlling influence, which certain individuals held over their fellows. But advancing intelligence, civilization and refinement have introduced a different taste, and brought into esteem a higher order of power. Divine revelation has been in advance of all other causes, in effecting this result. The model of character which the Bible presents--the deeds to which it urges, and the display of powers which it demands, are far more exalted than those of the gladiator or the wrestler, the hero of romance, the knight of chivalry, or the modern warrior. The Bible has had no slight agency in rendering the distinction between mind and matter broad and palpable, and in showing the superiority of the former over the latter. Pagan Greece, and Rome, in the palmiest days of their civilization and refinement, seem to have had no just conceptions of what constituted the highest and noblest display of human power. Hence the savage pleasure which they derived from witnessing the conflict of infuriated brutes, the dexterous death-blow of the gladiator, or the mere muscular superiority of the wrestler and the racer. It was reserved for revelation to point out to man a higher and nobler sphere of exertion, to define what Kind of power is destined to have a permanent ascendency in the economy of ...
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