The Academy for Princes Author:Olaf Morgan Norlie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Augsburg Pub. House Subjects: Religious education Religion / Christian Education / General Religion / Education 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 ... more »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: Chapter One. THE SONSHIP OF THE PRINCES. [Note. Morgan, Boby and Willis, guests at Danielson's. l Morgan : "What do you think of the sermon this morning, Mr. Danielson?" Danielson : "It was very good. According to custom I had looked over the Gospel text last week, and had meditated on it and wondered what the pastor was going to say this morning from the pulpit. I prayed that he might give us all a good hearty Gospel message, and I was not disappointed. This is, in fact, the way I feel every time I hear Pastor Halm preach." Morgan : "You are right; Halm is a splendid preacher." Willis : "Oh, he will do; but he is rather too much of a dreamer to speak on practical subjects for busy every-day people. His sermon today was sweet and idealistic. It was what I would call taffy. We need solid food, too." Boby: "I do not quite agree with you there, Mr. Willis. As a man of affairs there is nothing that suits me so much as practical topics and practical things; but I am broad enough to admit the ideal is of more importance; therefore, I like to hear it, and I, myself, try to hold it forth in season and out of season." Willis : "You are welcome to it." Danielson : "If you will excuse me I will ask you to examine the sermon a moment to see whether it was not highly practical as well as thoroughly ideal. What does ideal mean, Professor Boby?" Boby: "Ideal comes from a word which means to see. It is a form we have in our mind, the productof our thought and imagination, a...« less