The Sympathy of Religions: An Address Delivered at Horticultural Hall, Boston, February 6, 1870Reprinted from the Radical, 1871 - 23 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 11 - What is now called the Christian religion has existed among the ancients, and was not absent from the beginning of the human race, until Christ came in the flesh ; from which time the true religion, which existed already, began to be called Christian.
Σελίδα 7 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ? " The Master said, " Is not RECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Σελίδα 7 - We are members of one great body. Nature has made us relatives when it begat us from the same materials and for the same destinies. She planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life.
Σελίδα 14 - Thus the Jesuit Father Ripa thought that Satan had created the Buddhist religion on purpose to bewilder the Christian church. There we see a creed possessing more votaries than any in the world, numbering nearly one-third of the human race. Its traditions go back to a founder whose record is stainless and sublime. It has the doctrine of the Real Presence, the Madonna and Child, the invocation of the dead, monasteries and. pilgrimages, celibacy and tonsure, relics, rosaries, and holy water. Wherever...
Σελίδα 2 - Every year brings new knowledge of the religions of the world, and every step in knowledge brings out the sympathy between them. They all show the same aim, the same symbols, the same forms, the same weaknesses, the same aspirations. Looking at these points of unity, we might say there is but one religion under many forms, whose essential creed is the Fatherhood of God, and the Brotherhood of Man, — disguised by corruptions, symbolized by mythologies, ennobled by virtues, degraded by vices, but...
Σελίδα 7 - Is this one of our tribe or a stranger ? " is the calculation of the narrow-minded : but to those of a noble disposition, the earth itself is but one family.
Σελίδα 11 - ... Christians, though you may call them atheists. . . . Such among the Greeks were Socrates and Heraclitus and the rest. They who have made or do make Reason (Logos) their rule of life are Christians and men without fear and trembling.' ' The same God,' said Clement, ' to whom we owe the Old and New Testament gave also to the Greeks their Greek philosophy by which the Almighty is glorified among the Greeks.
Σελίδα 17 - ... of the American Indians ! The delegation from the Society of Friends reported last year that an Indian chief brought a young Indian before a white commissioner to give evidence, and the commissioner hesitated a little in receiving a part of the testimony, when the chief said with great emphasis, "O you may believe what he says: he tells the truth; he has never seen a white man before!
Σελίδα 4 - The self-same holy days ; for Easter and Christmas were kept as spring and autumn festivals, centuries before our era, by Egyptians, Persians, Saxons, Romans. The same artistic designs, since the mother and child stand depicted, not only in the temples of Europe, but in those of Etruria and Arabia, Egypt and Thibet.
Σελίδα 15 - that continual struggle which, always extending further and further, seems destined to overpower the nations at the very Equator if Christianity does not presently step .in to dispute the ground with it.