 | Theodore Parker - Unitarianism - 1859 - 424 pages
...he trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...or only on the surfaces of things as they come up be- [ fore us, there is reason to fear; for we confound the truth of God with the word of man. So at... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1864 - 638 pages
...never outgo the night of Truth and Christianity. It will always be above them. It is as if we wore to fly towards a Star, which becomes larger and more bright the nearer we approach, till wo enter into and are absorbed in its glory." * * * "No doubt an age will come in which ours shall... | |
 | Christianity - 1864 - 626 pages
...never outgo the flight of Truth and Christianity. It will always be above them. It is as if we wore to fly towards a Star, which becomes larger and more bright the nearer wo approach, till we enter into and are absorbed in its glory." * * * " No doubt an ago will come in... | |
 | Bible - 1865 - 736 pages
...love, they can never 1 Discourse of Religion, p. 296 seq. * Parker's Miscellaneous Writings, p. 175. outgo the flight of truth and Christianity. It will...approach, till we enter and are absorbed in its glory." l When we analyze more particularly the adaptations of Christianity to our times, we find, in the first... | |
 | Bible - 1865 - 734 pages
...love, they can never 1 Discourse of Religion, p. 296 scq. 1 Parker's Miscellaneous Writings, p. 175. outgo the flight of truth and Christianity. It will...approach, till we enter and are absorbed in its glory." 1 When we analyze more particularly the adaptations of Christianity to our times, we find, in the first... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Religion - 1885 - 490 pages
...trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, — cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...more bright the nearer we approach, till we enter and arc absorbed in its glory. If we look carelessly on the ages that have gone by, or only on the surfaces... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Antislavery movements - 1900 - 460 pages
...trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them — cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...approach, till we enter and are absorbed in its glory. This theme recurs many times throughout the sermon in various forms, but never with uncertain stress.... | |
 | William E. Barton - 1920 - 416 pages
...trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, — -cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...approach, till we enter and are absorbed in its glory." — THEODORE PARKER: The Transient and Permanent in Christianity, p. 31. curious shells of former life... | |
 | George Hochfield - Literary Collections - 2004 - 438 pages
...the flight of truth and Christianity. It will always be above them. It is as if we were to fly toward a star which becomes larger and more bright the nearer...approach, till we enter and are absorbed in its glory. . . . Let then the transient pass, fleet as it -will; and may God send us some new manifestation of... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 444 pages
...he trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them,—cannot pass away. Let men improve never so far in civilization, or soar...we approach, till we enter and are absorbed in its glory."—THEODORE PARKER: The Transient and Permanent in Christianity, p. 31. curious shells of former... | |
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Galilean peasant ; which transforms his cross into i ,an emblem of all that is holiest on earth ; which makes sacred the ground he trod, and is dearest to the best of men, most true to what is truest in them, cannot pass away. Let men improve never so... 