The American Scholar, in Professional Life: Annual Address, Delivered Before the Association of the Haverford Alumni, in Alumni Hall, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1889 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The American Scholar, in Professional Life: Annual Address, Delivered Before the Association of the Haverford Alumni, in Alumni Hall, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1889

On Sunday next, throughout the length and breadth of our country, millions of people will come together to be addressed by learned men upon the truths of a religion distinguished alike by its simplicity and its grandeur. From Maine to Oregon, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, there is scarcely a village so small or so poor as not to contain at least one upward-pointing spire to speak the soul's eternal want of God, the inmost friend. The pul pit, as Carlyle says in Past and Present, is a vantage ground whose greatness even its occupants do not appre ciate. Its theme is the loftiest: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise; think on these things. Its promise is the most beneficent: He that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth on me Shall never die. Its truths strengthen and save States, for Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

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