Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]: A discourse of matters pertaning to religion. v.2. Theism atheism and the popular theology. v.3. Sermons of religion. [v.14] Saint Bernard and other papersAmerican Unitarian Association, 1907 |
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Page 237 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! and ye would not...
Page 50 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 277 - In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Page 408 - And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation, than the loss of worship ? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them.
Page 95 - Pan, or Lord; or called by no name at all. Each people has its Prophets and its Saints; and many a swarthy Indian, who bowed down to wood and stone; many a grim-faced Calmuck, who worshipped the great God of Storms ; many a Grecian peasant, who did homage to...
Page 138 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties...
Page 419 - He that knew his Lord's will and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes?
Page 266 - Christianity came not to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them, and the answer is plain, their historic fulfilment was their destruction.
Page 323 - ... stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free, and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage;
Page 280 - And I will make thee like the top of a rock : thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon ; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.