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Hints on the Formation of Religious Opinions; Addressed Especially to Young Men and Women of Christian Education

Hints on the Formation of Religious Opinions; Addressed Especially to Young Men and Women of Christian Education

Palmer, Ray

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ISBN10: 021700153X
ISBN13: 9780217001533
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 9.02 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
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. 1860. Excerpt: ... THE VALUE OF A LIFE AS RELATED TO OUR TIME. Luke X. 23-4. And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, --Blessed are tlie eyes which see the things that ye see: for I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear t/wse things which ye hear, and have not heard them. What our blessed Lord wished his disciples to understand when he addressed to them these words was this: --that they ought to esteem it a great advantage to live in his time, to hear his words, and to see his mighty works. As compared with the ages in which the tings and prophets lived, who had predicted, and longed to see, the day when the Messiah the Hope of Israel should come, the era in which Christ appeared and exercised his ministry among men, was as the sunrise to the glimmer of early dawn --an era of preeminent light and opportunity, in which, rightly understood, it was indeed an inestimable privilege to live. Taken in this view, the text naturally suggests the thought that the value of any human life depends essentially on the circumstances under which that life is to be lived. It is for the sake of this thought that I have called your attention to the passage. Nothing better occurs to me, than to address you, as appropriate to this occasion on the value of a life as estimated in relation to this our time, and to the present condition of the world. Let the subject be distinctly understood. The value of any individual life, in given circumstances, will of course depend on the amount of natural capacity possessed; on the end proposed in living; and on the length to which the life extends. But it is not of these things that I desire to speak. I wish to take jxist the opposite view. I wish to show that w.

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