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...tonight. What I want to do in the time which I may occupy with this sermon is to remind myself and you that this great being whom we reverence and love, must stand in some concise relation and obedience to universal being, must feel her life included in some larger life, or else she fails; of her best growth and good, and to see how that large life in which hers must be inclosed and out of which it is to be fed, is expressed in these words of the Old Epistles of the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday...
...little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action - Solvitur ambulando - and grows more conscious and more receptive of the true element of its existence, the larger and more fully it does its work...
...narrow life to the great human world by which it was surrounded. The years have brought perpetual enlargement. That narrowness and specialness of the 17th century Puritanism, has shown how healthy it was, even in its separation, by the capacity which it has developed to bind once more with larger human life, and make itself more and more truly human...
...this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning. It may signify, we believe that it does signify, the partial gradually reconciling itself to the universal; the temporary little by little fulfilling itself with the eternal. There was a discipline of the Christian Church larger than the discipline of the Puritans, in which the discipline of the Puritans had floated as the part floats in the whole. The discipline of the Puritans felt that which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience...
...clear. How can we better close than with these words out of the same epistle to the Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast into the end." There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever...