The Christian Remembrancer
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781154430806
Paperback|9781154430806
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... exalting a system because we respect its high aims, and attributing every failure to individual error in its exponents--as an accidental aberration, something which a little good advice will easily remedy--is, we think, an injustice. An intellectual or moral error in a system will break out somewhere. It is all in vain to write as some do, --' It is disappointing when those 'whom we could wish to regard with unmixed admiration are 'content to imperil or disturb their success in what is great and 'good for the indulgence of a fancy, harmless or even pleasing 'in itself, but calculated to make their brethren offend.' But what if the system interferes with the discernment of what is immaterial and what important, and weakens the judgment on this point? What if minds, deprived of natural relaxations, fasten upon the trifles which are permitted to them with the greater tenacity, and cannot and will not let them go? We ought to have more sympathy with their peculiar position than hastily to pronounce that the error, if it was one, was easily to be avoided; it is asking them to forego all the poetry and grace of life. Another and more important question, which bears, we think, upon the same point--the system instead of the individual--is involved in the subject of Confession. We need not enter into the doctrine of Confession, because in our view the point lies not in Confession itself, but in the choice of a confessor. Now our abstract notion of a confessor is, that he should not be too sympathising. It should not be too easy to tell him our sins, or it will be apt to become a pleasant exercise. There should be a something about him always to keep up the first experience of its being a simple duty, without a shade of gratification, to own our errors and weaknesses...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154430806 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154430804 |
| Weight | 2.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.62 In |
| List Price | $55.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 828 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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