Religious Demands of the Age: A Reprint of the Preface to the London Edition of the Collected Works of Theodore Parker |
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Page 23 - We wander to and fro hopelessly through the wilderness of doubt ; and if any come to tell us of a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands...
Page 56 - Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas...
Page 56 - Thou hast midst Life's empty noises Heard the solemn steps of Time, And the low mysterious voices Of another clime.
Page 5 - There are periods of comparative calm and stagnation, and then times of gradual swelling and upheaving of the deep, till some great billow slowly rears its crest above the surface, higher and still higher to the last ; when, with a mighty convulsion, amid foam and spray, and
Page 56 - Earnest toil and strong endeavor Of a spirit which within Wrestles with familiar evil And besetting sin ; And without, with tireless vigor, Steady heart, and weapon strong, In the power of truth assailing Every form of wrong.
Page 4 - Bible itself, but to realize more truly the blessedness of knowing that He Himself, the Living God, our Father and Friend, is nearer and closer to us than any book can be, — that His Voice within the heart may be heard continually by the obedient child that listens for it, and that shall be our Teacher and Guide, in the path of duty, which is the path of life, when all other helpers — even the words of the Best of Books — may fail us.
Page 56 - Early hath life's mighty question Thrilled within thy heart of youth, With a deep and strong beseeching, — What, and where, is truth...
Page 4 - walked with God ' of old, though there was then no Bible in existence, than it does now. And it is, perhaps, God's Will that we shall be taught in this our day, among other precious lessons, not to build up 'our faith upon a Book, though it be the Bible itself, but to...
Page 18 - That Truth I see with my spirit's eyes, once opened to the light of it, as plainly as I see the Sun in the heavens. And that Truth, I know, more or less distinctly apprehended, has been the food of living men, the strength of brave souls that ' yearn for light,' and battle for the right and the true, the support of struggling and sorrow-stricken hearts, in all ages of the world, in all climes, under all religions.
Page 21 - ... their persecutors to be only partially mistaken in their own creed, — the creed for which they were enduring torture and agony, — only one of the thousand " little systems " of earth, — " Which have their day, and cease to be," — a " broken light " from the inaccessible Sun of Truth.