Witnesses to the Unseen, and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - 309 pages |
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Agnostic Agnosticism Anglican argument Ashley attitude Cardinal Newman Catholic certainty character Christ Christian Church clothes conclusion confidence conviction criticism danger Darlington Dean Church difficulty discovery divine doubt effect endeavour Essay evidence explained expressed fact faith father feeling felt force give Grammar of Assent Harrison hope human idea impartiality importance indifferent individual inquiry instance intellectual interest keen ledge living logical look matter ment Merton mind miracles monomania moral nature object Oxford Oxford Movement passion philosopher Positivism Positivist Positivist Calendar practical principles profess proof prove public opinion question realise reality reason recognised religion replied Walton Robert Elsmere Rome scepticism seems sense Sextus Empiricus speak spirit suppose sure Tertullian Theism theory things thought tion Tractarian true trust truth Unknowable whole WILLIAM GEORGE WARD wish for knowledge wish to believe witness words writer Zeitgeist
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Page 14 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Page 14 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 28 - ... truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes ; the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary, hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race so fearfully yet exactly described in the...
Page 134 - But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Page 14 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 27 - What is it all, if we all of us end but in being our own corpse-coffins at last? Swallow'd in Vastness, lost in Silence, drown'd in the deeps of a meaningless Past?
Page 28 - To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship ; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of long-standing facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths ; the progress...
Page 19 - Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith ! She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of 'Yes
Page xxi - No thoughts that to the world belong Had stood against the wave Of love which set so deep and strong From Christ's then open grave.
Page 231 - Now when the dead man come to life beheld His wife his wife no more, and saw the babe Hers, yet not his, upon the father's knee. And all the warmth, the peace, the happiness, And his own children tall and beautiful, And him, that other, reigning in his place, Lord of his rights and of his children's love, — Then he, tho...