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The Life in Common, and Twenty Other Sermons Preached in the South Congregational Church, Boston
The Life in Common and Twenty Other Sermons Preached in the South Congregational Church Boston Author:Edward Everett Hale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Roberts Brothers Subjects: Sermons, American Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. Whe... more »n 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: LV/J SPIRITUAL EXERCISES. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BOSTON, JUNE 22, 1879, EDWARD E. HALE. BOSTON: GEO. H. ELLIS, PRINTER, 101 MILK STREET. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. -- ACTS xviii., 28. A thoughtful critic of the recent English novels says that the good people in them -- the people who have to meet trials and do right -- make no reference to religion as the source of this power. The trials and temptations of these modern novels are tremendous. A certain sombre and even lurid or stormy character sweeps over life as they describe it; and these trials and temptations are bravely borne. There would be no novel, there would be neither hero nor heroine, were there not some one who, on the whole, resists evil and overcomes evil with good. All the interest of any tale, from the very simplest, comes from such control and. such victory; but it is said that the victor does not now claim to triumph in the name of the Father or of the Son or of the Holy Spirit. In Dr. Watts' day it was different: -- " I asked them whence their victory came : With one united breath They owed their conquest to the Lamb, Their triumph to his death." And the experienced novel-reader will remember that the school of English fiction goes through a series of regular stages in this business. Defoe's stories, Robinson Crusoe, Col. Jack, and the rest, contain passages of distinct religious instruction and suggestio...« less