Author: Charles Pickering Clarke

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781230172880

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...be the sport of them that insult it? How sore punishment then shalt thou not deserve. If a man should bind the feet of the emperor with bonds and fetters, will he not be liable to the extremity of punishment? Dost thou expose the whole body to fierce monsters, and not shudder t"--(st. Chrysostom, Mom. Ephes. iii.) "TTTE know that we may receive purification from V V one another; that the tenderness and love and patience of one man act in a marvellous way upon another, when those qualities seem the furthest from him, when he most confesses that they do not belong to him. We do not set ourselves deliberately to follow examples. The examples get the mastery over us: there is a life in the men who exhibit them which awakens life in us. These are facts not to be gainsaid for the sake of any system. St. Paul's words: 'I fill up in my body the sufferings of Christ/ are both moral and godly; for they are grounded on the idea that Christ, the Divine Sufferer, is the source of all purification and of all life; and that all men, in their proper spheres, may share His sufferings, and transmit and communicate the purification and life that flow from them to their fellows. All difficulties about example are capable of that solution. If we are members of one body, if He is the Head, why should not there be a continual circulation of life from each member of the body to every other? How can the departure of men out of this world hinder that circulation, or cause us to feel it less? May not their power have become greater as the mortal fetters have been taken from them? May not we feel it more?"--(mauRice.) The Season urges us specially to communion and fellowship: Spiritual communion, happy thought; our spirits bound up with Jesus, our...