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Discourses and Poems of William Newell, Minister of the First Parish in Cambridge; A Memorial Volume
William Newell
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-16.
ISBN 9781150108495
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: Geo. H. Ellis Subjects: Unitarianism History / General Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOURSE AT THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW MEETING-HOUSE. " This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." -- Gen. xxviii., 17. It is true -- we learn it from the gospel of Christ, as well as from the teachings of reason -- that "God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands"; that he does not confine the influences of his Spirit within the walls of any earthly sanctuary; that "his temple is all space, his altar, earth, sea, skies"; and that every part of his boundless dominion is filled with the glories of his power and the brighter splendors of his goodness. We learn it from the gospel of Christ, as well as from the teachings of reason, that God's eye of holiness and love is looking down upon us in the closet, where we pray to him in secret, no less than in the public assembly; that " he is not far from every one of us, since in him we live and move and have our being"; that it is only by faith, by an act of the mind, not of the body, that we bring ourselves into his presence; that to the holy all places are holy; and that Jesus, when he lifted up his eyes to heaven in the open fields of Judea, was heard with no less acceptance than when he spake and worshipped in the temple at Jerusalem. But, true asthis is, it is equally true that, as men, as finite beings, creatures of sense, we all need certain times and places and forms to aid us in the fit expression and exercise of devout f
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