the suffering world for which Christ sighed, you may (I suppose)
hear fifty on passing ecclesiastical controversies and five thousand
about individual efforts for personal salvation. And yet one pure,
self-sacrificing deed, one word of generosity to an opponent, one
kindly act to aid another, may have been better for you in God's
sight and far harder for you to do, than to attend in the year
the 730 daily services which this Abbey provides. Yes, I am glad
that I have preached to you to-day the duty of what some would call
secular work--as tho secular work were not often the most profoundly
religious work!--for the amelioration of the world. And I say, it
were better for you to have made but two blades of grass grow where
one grew before, than if, with the hollow, hateful, slanderous heart
of some false prophets of modern religionism, you were every morning
to do whatever modern thing may be analogous to binding your fringes
with blue, and broadening your phylacteries,--to making the hilltops
blaze with your sacrificial fires, building here seven altars, and
offering a bullock and a ram on every altar. And so, my brethren,
let us leave this Abbey to-day with conceptions of duty larger and
more hopeful; with more yearning both after the sympathy of Christ
and after His activity; with more faith to see that the world would
not be so utter a ruin but for our perversity; with more hope to be
convinced that even we can help to redeem its disorders, and restore
its pristine perfectness. Let us obey the command, "Ephphatha, Be
opened!" Let us lift up our eyes to see that, tho the air around us
is colorless, the far-off heaven is blue. Let us see and be thankful
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discovery by the crude infallibilities of our ignorant dogmatism.
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charity, and the ultimate results of each are alike important and
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Transcriber's note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as
printed.
Missing page numbers are page numbers that were not shown in the
original text.
Mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where
the missing quote should be placed.
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soul, in those tempests and terrors of the heart), "Lord, save us
... The transcriber has supplied the closing parenthesis.