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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Meaning of Faith - -Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick - -Release Date: August 11, 2012 [EBook #40482] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEANING OF FAITH *** - - - - -Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chris Pinfield and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40482 ***</div> <div class="tnote"> @@ -950,8 +914,8 @@ that Matthew Arnold told the truth:</p> </div> -<p class="nodent">Accordingly by custom we call the mediæval centuries -the "Age of Faith." But even a cursory comparison between the mediæval +<p class="nodent">Accordingly by custom we call the mediæval centuries +the "Age of Faith." But even a cursory comparison between the mediæval people and ourselves reveals that among the many differences that distinguish us from them, none is more marked than the diversity and range of our faiths. One considers in surprise the things which they @@ -963,7 +927,7 @@ for Christ, that war could be abolished and human brotherhood in some fair degree established, that common men could be trusted with responsibility for their own government or with freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences—none of these -things did the mediæval folk believe. One of the most distinguishing +things did the mediæval folk believe. One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the so-called "Age of Faith" was its lack of faith. It lived in a static world; it was poor in possibilities except in heaven; it pitiably lacked those most certain signs of vital faith, @@ -1206,7 +1170,7 @@ in, the loftiest vision that man the lover ever saw, and the only hope that man the mortal ever had. So he must deny his faith in God. Before one thus leaves himself bereft of the faith that makes life's adventure most worth while he well may do what Carlyle, under the -figure of Teufelsdröckh, says that he did in his time of doubt: "In +figure of Teufelsdröckh, says that he did in his time of doubt: "In the silent night-watches, still darker in his heart than over sky and earth, he has cast himself before the All-seeing, and with audible prayers cried vehemently for Light."</p> @@ -2254,7 +2218,7 @@ demonstrate that this is a universe; <i>it positively does not look as though it were</i>. Opposing powers snarl at each other and clash in a disorder that gives to the casual observer not the slightest intimation that any unity is there. Thunder storms and little babies, -volcanoes and Easter lilies, immeasurable nebulæ in the heavens and +volcanoes and Easter lilies, immeasurable nebulæ in the heavens and people getting married on the earth—what indescribable contrasts and confusions! Still we insist on thinking unity into this seeming anomaly, and out of it we wrest scientific doctrines about the @@ -2791,7 +2755,7 @@ Rauschenbusch.</p> <p>Adoration springs from the deeps of man's spirit. We never can be content with looking down on things beneath us, nor with looking out on things that find our level. We always must look up to things above -us. As a mediæval saint said, "<i>The soul can never rest in things +us. As a mediæval saint said, "<i>The soul can never rest in things that are beneath itself.</i>" Worship, therefore, is an undeniable impulse in man's heart. Poets worship Beauty; scientists worship Truth; every man of honor worships Right. That is, the good, true, and @@ -3948,7 +3912,7 @@ professor in the class-room, discussing conflicting theories of life's origin, concludes that theism is the reasonable interpretation of the universe, the listener understands that the lecturer believes in God's existence. But if the professor could be followed home and overheard -in a private prayer, like Fénelon's: "Lord, I know not what I ought to +in a private prayer, like Fénelon's: "Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what I need; Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask," something incalculably more than the @@ -5437,7 +5401,7 @@ being. If so, it stands alone in man's experience, the only function of his life that grew without an originating Fact to call it forth. It does not seem reasonable to think that. The evidence of man's experience is overwhelmingly in favor of a Reality to which his spirit -has been trying to answer. Said Max Müller, "To the philosopher the +has been trying to answer. Said Max Müller, "To the philosopher the existence of God may seem to rest on a syllogism; in the eyes of the historian it rests on the whole evolution of human thought."</p> @@ -6150,7 +6114,7 @@ with thorns, nailed to a cross, with a spear wound in his side.</i></p> associated with men of ease in fortunate circumstance. The voice that cried "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit" spoke in agonizing pain. And through history one finds those words best spoken with a -cross for a background. Thomas á Becket said them, martyred in his own +cross for a background. Thomas á Becket said them, martyred in his own cathedral; John Huss said them, going to the stake at Constance; George Wishart said them, roasted at the foot of the sea-tower of St. Andrews. Christian faith is not a dream that came in hours when human @@ -6446,7 +6410,7 @@ petulant entry in his journal: "Here I learned that Almighty God, for reasons best known to himself, had been pleased to burn down my house in the county of Durham." One must escape such narrow egoism if he is to understand the purposes of God; one must rise to look on a -creation, with character at all costs for its aim, and countless æons +creation, with character at all costs for its aim, and countless æons for its settling. In the making of this world God has <i>limited himself</i>; he cannot lightly do what he will. He has limited himself in creating a law-abiding system where his children must learn obedience @@ -7145,7 +7109,7 @@ to compare their truth; they are not contradictory; they approach the same fact with diverse interests, and seek in it different aspects of reality. Each has its rights in its own field. And so far is it from being true that science has a clear case in favor of its own superior -importance, that Höffding, the philosopher, remarks, "It well may be +importance, that Höffding, the philosopher, remarks, "It well may be that poetry gives more perfect expression to the highest Reality than any scientific concept can ever do."</p> @@ -8589,7 +8553,7 @@ affected by his faith.</p> <h4><a name="day09-1" id="day09-1">Ninth Week, First Day</a></h4> <p><b>I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the -church that is at Cenchreæ: that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily +church that is at Cenchreæ: that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever matter she may have need of you: for she herself also hath been a helper of many, and of mine own self.</b></p> @@ -8597,7 +8561,7 @@ of mine own self.</b></p> <p><b>Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles: and salute the church that -is in their house. Salute Epænetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits +is in their house. Salute Epænetus my beloved, who is the first-fruits of Asia unto Christ. Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you. Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before @@ -8646,7 +8610,7 @@ to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, he called his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom also he named apostles: Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, and Matthew -and Thomas, and James the son of Alphæus, and Simon who was called the +and Thomas, and James the son of Alphæus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.—Luke 6:12-16.</b><br /><br /></p> @@ -9287,7 +9251,7 @@ stand on the ship's bridge, and feel it sway and turn at the touch of a present Captain in control. They have not risen to the meaning of the Bible's reiterated phrase, "<i>the living God</i>."</p> -<p>Höffding tells us that in a Danish Protestant church, well on into the +<p>Höffding tells us that in a Danish Protestant church, well on into the nineteenth century, worshipers maintained the custom of bowing, when they passed a certain spot upon the wall. The reason, which no one knew, was discovered when removal of the whitewash revealed a Roman @@ -10180,7 +10144,7 @@ seers, regardless of religious prejudice, have tried to see into the human heart and truly to report their insights—its witness is overwhelming as to what man's problem is. No great book of creative literature was ever written without sin at the center. Macbeth, -Hamlet, Othello, Faust, Les Misérables, Romola, The Scarlet +Hamlet, Othello, Faust, Les Misérables, Romola, The Scarlet Letter—let the list be extended in any direction and to any length! Always the insight of the creative seers reports one inner peril of the race. Sin is no bogey erected by the theologians, no @@ -10918,7 +10882,7 @@ be a brass farthing, but must be a pearl of great price." To be loved by anyone is to enter into a new estimate of one's possible value; to be loved by God in Christ is to come into an experience where our possible value makes us alike ashamed of what we are and jubilant over -what we may become. We begin saying with Irenæus, "Jesus Christ became +what we may become. We begin saying with Irenæus, "Jesus Christ became what we are that he might make us what he is." And then, faith, ripening into fellowship, opening the life sensitively to the influence of the friend, issues in a character infused by the friend's @@ -13008,386 +12972,7 @@ DAILY READINGS</a></h2> </ul> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Meaning of Faith, by Harry Emerson Fosdick - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEANING OF FAITH *** - -***** This file should be named 40482-h.htm or 40482-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/4/8/40482/ - -Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chris Pinfield and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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