{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2719", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "v:*.^^\\n,-i-\\n^^-v.", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "A^ *J\\nVA.^", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON", "height": "2615", "width": "1455", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CHRISTMAS\\nSERMON\\nBY\\nRobert Louis Stevenson\\nNEW YORK\\nCharles Scribner s Sons\\n1900", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1900, by Charles Scribner s Sons\\ni\\n1\\n5B710\\nOCT 5 1900\\nstcowr con.\\nOROhH r V\u00c2\u00bbSION,\\nOCT 18 1900\\nD. B. Updike, TJie Merrymount Press, Boston", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A\\nCHRISTMAS SERMON\\nBY the time this paper appears,\\nI shall have been talking for\\ntwelve months and it is thought\\nI should take my leave in a formal\\nand seasonable manner. Valedictory\\neloquence is rare, and death- bed say-\\nings have not often hit the mark of\\nthe occasion. Charles Second, wit\\nand sceptic, a man whose life had\\nbeen one long lesson in human in-\\ncredulity, an easy-going comrade, a\\nmanoeuvring king remembered and\\nembodied all his wit and scepticism\\nalong with more than his usual good\\nhumour in the famous I am afraid,\\ngentlemen, I am an unconscionable\\ntime a-dying.\\n1", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\n./xN unconscionable time a-dying\\nthere is the picture I am afraid,\\ngentlemen, of your life and of mine.\\nThe sands run out, and the hours are\\nnumbered and imputed, and the\\ndays go by and when the last of\\nthese finds us, we have been a long\\ntime dying, and what else The very\\nlength is something, if we reach that\\nhour of separation undishonoured\\nand to have lived at all is doubtless\\n(in the soldierly expression) to have\\nserved. There is a tale in Tacitus of\\nhow the veterans mutinied in the Ger-\\nman wilderness of how they mobbed\\nGermanicus, clamouring to go home\\nand of how, seizing their general s\\nhand, these old, war-worn exiles\\npassed his finger along their tooth-", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nless gums. Sunt lacrymce rerum this\\nwas the most eloquent of the songs\\nof Simeon. And when a man has\\nlived to a fair age, he bears his marks\\nof service. He may have never been\\nremarked upon the breach at the head\\nof the army at least he shall have\\nlost his teeth on the camp bread.\\nThe idealism of serious people in\\nthis age of ours is of a noble char-\\nacter. It never seems to them that\\nthey have served enough they have\\na fine impatience of their virtues. It\\nwere perhaps more modest to be\\nsingly thankful that we are no worse.\\nIt is not only our enemies, those des-\\nperate characters it is we ourselves\\nwho know not what we do; thence\\nsprings the glimmering hope that\\nperhaps we do better than we think:\\nthat to scramble through this random\\n3", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nbusiness with hands reasonably clean,\\nto have played the part of a man or\\nwoman with some reasonable fulness,\\nto have often resisted the diabolic,\\nand at the end to be still resisting it,\\nis for the poor human soldier to have\\ndone right well. To ask to see some\\nfruit of our endeavour is but a tran-\\nscendental way of serving for reward\\nand what we take to be contempt of\\nself is only greed of hire.\\nAnd again if we require so much\\nof ourselves, shall we not require\\nmuch of others If we do not ge-\\nnially judge our own deficiencies, is\\nit not to be feared we shall be even\\nstern to the trespasses of others And\\nhe who (looking back upon his own\\nlife) can see no more than that he\\nhas been unconscionably long a-dy-\\ning, will he not be tempted to think\\n4", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nhis neighbour unconscionably long of\\ngetting hanged It is probable that\\nnearly all who think of conduct at\\nall, think of it too much it is certain\\nwe all think too much of sin. We are\\nnot damned for doing wrong, but for\\nnot doing right; Christ would never\\nhear of negative morality thou shalt\\nwas ever his word, with which he\\nsuperseded thou shalt not. To make\\nour idea of morality centre on for-\\nbidden acts is to defile the imagina-\\ntion and to introduce into our judg-\\nments of our fellow-men a secret ele-\\nment of gusto. If a thing is wrong\\nfor us, we should not dwell upon the\\nthought of it or we shall soon dwell\\nupon it with inverted pleasure. If we\\ncannot drive it from our minds\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one\\nthing of two either our creed is in\\nthe wrong and we must more indul-\\n5", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\ngently remodel it or else, if our mo-\\nrality be in the right, we are criminal\\nlunatics and should place our persons\\nin restraint. A mark of such unwhole-\\nsomely divided minds is the passion\\nfor interference with others the Fox\\nwithout the Tail was of this breed,\\nbut had (if his biographer is to be\\ntrusted) a certain antique civility\\nnow out of date. A man may have a\\nflaw, a weakness, that unfits him for\\nthe duties of life, that spoils his tem-\\nper, that threatens his integrity, or\\nthat betrays him into cruelty. It has\\nto be conquered but it must never\\nbe suffered to engross his thoughts.\\nThe true duties lie all upon the far-\\nther side, and must be attended to\\nwith a whole mind so soon as this\\npreliminary clearing of the decks has\\nbeen effected. In order that he may\\n6", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nbe kind and honest, it may be need-\\nful he should become a total ab-\\nstainer let him become so then, and\\nthe next day let him forget the cir-\\ncumstance. Trying to be kind and\\nhonest will require all his thoughts\\na mortified appetite is never a wise\\ncompanion in so far as he has had\\nto mortify an appetite, he will still\\nbe the worse man and of such an\\none a great deal of cheerfulness will\\nbe required in judging life, and a\\ngreat deal of humihty in judging\\nothers.\\nIt may be argued again that dis-\\nsatisfaction with our life s endeavour\\nsprings in some degree from dulness.\\nWe require higher tasks, because we\\ndo not recognise the height of those\\nwe have. Trying to be kind and hon-\\nest seems an affair too simple and too\\n7", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\ninconsequential for gentlemen of our\\nheroic mould we had rather set our-\\nselves to something bold, arduous,\\nand conclusive; we had rather found\\na schism or suppress a heresy, cut off\\na hand or mortify an appetite. But\\nthe task before us, which is to co-\\nendure with our existence, is rather\\none of microscopic fineness, and the\\nheroism required is that of patience.\\nThere is no cutting of the Gordian\\nknots of life each must be smilingly\\nunravelled.\\nTo be honest, to be kind to earn\\na little and to spend a little less, to\\nmake upon the whole a family hap-\\npier for his presence, to renounce when\\nthat shall be necessary and not be\\nembittered, to keep a few friends but\\nthese without capitulation above\\nall, on the same grim condition, to\\n8", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nkeep friends with himself here is a\\ntask for all that a man has of forti-\\ntude and delicacy. He has an ambi-\\ntious soul who would ask more he\\nhas a hopeful spirit who should look\\nin such an enterprise to be success-\\nful. There is indeed one element in\\nhuman destiny that not blindness it-\\nself can controvert whatever else we\\nare intended to do, we are not in-\\ntended to succeed failure is the fate\\nallotted. It is so in every art and\\nstudy it is so above all in the con-\\ntinent art of living well. Here is a\\npleasant thought for the year s end or\\nfor the end of life Only self-decep-\\ntion will be satisfied, and there need\\nbe no despair for the despairer.", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nII\\nX5UT Christmas is not only the\\nmile-mark of another year, moving\\nus to thoughts of self-examination\\nit is a season, from all its associations,\\nwhether domestic or religious, sug-\\ngesting thoughts of joy. A man dis-\\nsatisfied with his endeavours is a man\\ntempted to sadness. And in the midst\\nof the winter, when his life runs low-\\nest and he is reminded of the empty\\nchairs of his beloved, it is well he\\nshould be condemned to this fashion\\nof the smiling face. Noble disappoint-\\nment, noble self-denial are not to be\\nadmired, not even to be pardoned, if\\nthey bring bitterness. It is one thing\\nto enter the kingdom of heaven maim\\nanother to maim yourself and stay\\nwithout. And the kingdom of heaven\\n10", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nis of the childlike, of those who are\\neasy to please, who love and who give\\npleasure. Mighty men of their hands,\\nthe smiters and the builders and the\\njudges, have lived long and done\\nsternly and yet preserved this lovely\\ncharacter and among our carpet in-\\nterests and twopenny concerns, the\\nshame were indehble if we should\\nlose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness,\\nthese come before all morality they\\nare the perfect duties. And it is the\\ntrouble with moral men that they\\nhave neither one nor other. It was\\nthe moral man, the Pharisee, whom\\nChrist could not away with. If your\\nmorals make you dreary, depend upon\\nit they are wrong. I do not say give\\nthem up, for they may be all you\\nhave but conceal them like a vice,\\nlest they should spoil the lives of bet-\\n11", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nter and simpler people.\\nA strange temptation attends upon\\nman to keep his eye on pleasures,\\neven when he will not share in them\\nto aim all his morals against them.\\nThis very year a lady (singular icon-\\noclast proclaimed a crusade against\\ndolls and the racy sermon against\\nlust is a feature of the age. I venture\\nto call such moralists insincere. At\\nany excess or perversion of a natural\\nappetite, their lyre sounds of itself\\nwith relishing denunciations but for\\nall displays of the truly diabolic\\nenvy, malice, the mean lie, the mean\\nsilence, the calumnious truth, the\\nbackbiter, the petty tyrant, the pee-\\nvish poisoner of family life their\\nstandard is quite different. These are\\nwrong, they will admit, yet somehow\\nnot so wrong there is no zeal in their\\n12", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nassault on them, no secret element of\\ngusto warms up the sermon it is for\\nthings not wrong in themselves that\\nthey reserve the choicest of their in-\\ndignation. A man may naturally dis-\\nclaim all moral kinship with the Rev-\\nerend Mr. Zola or the hobgoblin old\\nlady of the dolls for these are gross\\nand naked instances. And yet in each\\nof us some similar element resides.\\nThe sight of a pleasure in which we\\ncannot or else will not share moves\\nus to a particular impatience. It may\\nbe because we are envious, or because\\nwe are sad, or because we dislike noise\\nand romping being so refined, or\\nbecause being so philosophic we\\nhave an overweighing sense of life s\\ngravity at least, as we go on in\\nyears, we are all tempted to frown\\nupon our neighbour s pleasures. Peo-\\n13", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\npie are nowadays so fond of resisting\\ntemptations here is one to be re-\\nsisted. They are fond of self-denial\\nhere is a propensity that cannot be\\ntoo peremptorily denied. There is an\\nidea abroad among moral people that\\nthey should make their neighbours\\ngood. One person I have to make\\ngood myself. But my duty to my\\nneighbour is much more nearly ex-\\npressed by saying that I have to\\nmake him happy if I may.\\nr\\n14\\nV I", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nIII\\nHappiness and goodness, ac-\\ncording to canting moralists, stand\\nin the relation of effect and cause.\\nThere was never anything less proved\\nor less probable our happiness is never\\nin our own hands; we inherit our\\nconstitution we stand buffet among\\nfriends and enemies;** we may be so\\nbuilt as to feel a sneer or an asper-\\nsion with unusual keenness, and so\\ncircumstanced as to be unusually ex-\\nposed to them we may have nerves\\nvery sensitive to pain, and be afflicted\\nwith a disease very painful. Virtue\\nwill not help us, and it is not meant\\nto help us. It is not even its own re-\\nAvard, except for the self-centred and\\nI had almost said the unamiable.\\nNo man can pacify his conscience if\\n15", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nquiet be what he want, he shall do\\nbetter to let that organ perish from\\ndisuse. And to avoid the penalties of\\nthe law, and the minor capitis dimi-\\nnutio of social ostracism, is an affair\\nof wisdom of cunning, if you will\\nand not of virtue.\\nIn his own life, then, a man is not\\nto expect happiness, only to profit\\nby it gladly when it shall arise he is\\non duty here he knows not how or\\nwhy, and does not need to know he\\nknows not for what hire, and must\\nnot ask. Somehow or other, though\\nhe does not know what goodness is,\\nhe must try to be good somehow or\\nother, though he cannot tell what\\nwill do it, he must try to give happi-\\nness to others. And no doubt there\\ncomes in here a frequent clash of\\nduties. How far is he to make his\\n16", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nneighbour happy How far must he\\nrespect that smihng face, so easy to\\ncloud, so hard to brighten again\\nAnd how far, on the other side, is\\nhe bound to be his brother s keeper\\nand the prophet of his own moraHty?\\nHow far must he resent evil\\nThe difficulty is that we have little\\nguidance Christ s sayings on the\\npoint being hard to reconcile with\\neach other, and (the most of them)\\nhard to accept. But the truth of his\\nteaching would seem to be this in\\nour own person and fortune, we should\\nbe ready to accept and to pardon all\\nit is our cheek we are to turn, ouj coat\\nthat we are to give away to the man\\nwho has taken our cloak. But when\\nanother s face is buffeted, perhaps a\\nlittle of the lion will become us best.\\nThat we are to suffer others to be\\n17", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\ninjured, and stand by, is not conceiv-\\nable and surely not desirable. Re-\\nvenge, says Bacon, is a kind of wild\\njustice its judgments at least are\\ndelivered by an insane judge and in\\nour own quarrel we can see nothing\\ntruly and do nothing wisely. But in\\nthe quarrel of our neighbour, let us\\nbe more bold. One person s happiness\\nis as sacred as another s when we\\ncannot defend both, let us defend\\none with a stout heart. It is only in\\nso far as we are doing this, that we\\nhave any right to interfere the de-\\nfence of B is our only ground of\\naction against A. A has as good a\\nright to go to the devil, as we to go\\nto glory and neither knows what he\\ndoes.\\nThe truth is that all these inter-\\nventions and denunciations and mili-\\n18", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\ntant mongerings of moral half-truths,\\nthough they be sometimes needful,\\nthough they are often enjoyable, do\\nyet belong to an inferior grade of\\nduties. Ill-temper and envy and re-\\nvenge find here an arsenal of pious\\ndisguises this is the playground of\\ninverted lusts. With a little more\\npatience and a little less temper, a\\ngentler and wiser method might be\\nfound in almost every case; and the\\nknot that we cut by some fine heady\\nquarrel-scene in private life, or, in\\npubhc affairs, by some denunciatory\\nact against what we are pleased to\\ncall our neighbour s vices, might yet\\nhave been unwoven by the hand of\\nsympathy.\\n19", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nIV\\n1 O look back upon the past year,\\nand see how little we have striven\\nand to what small purpose and how\\noften we have been cowardly and\\nhung back, or temerarious and rushed\\nunwisely in and how every day and\\nall day long we have transgressed the\\nlaw of kindness it may seem a para-\\ndox, but in the bitterness of these dis-\\ncoveries, a certain consolation resides.\\nLife is not designed to minister to a\\nman s vanity. He goes upon his long\\nbusiness most of the time with a\\nhanging head, and all the time like\\na blind child. Full of rewards and\\npleasures as it is^ so that to see the\\nday break or the moon rise, or to\\nmeet a friend, or to hear the dinner-\\ncall when he is hungry, fills him with\\n20", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nsurprising joys this world is yet for\\nhim no abiding city. Friendships fall\\nthrough, health fails, weariness assails\\nhim year after year, he must thumb\\nthe hardly varying record of his own\\nweakness and folly. It is a friendly\\nprocess of detachment. When the\\ntime comes that he should go, there\\nneed be few illusions left about him-\\nself. Here lies one who meant well,\\ntried a little, failed much: surely\\nthat may be his epitaph, of which he\\nneed not be ashamed. Nor will he\\ncomplain at the summons which calls\\na defeated soldier from the field de-\\nfeated, ay, if he were Paul or Marcus\\nAurelius but if there is still one\\ninch of fight in his old spirit, undis-\\nhonoured. The faith which sustained\\nhim in his life-long blindness and life-\\nlong disappointment will scarce even\\n21", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nbe required in this last formality of\\nlaying down his arms. Give him a\\nmarch with his old bones there, out\\nof the glorious sun-coloured earth,\\nout of the day and the dust and the\\necstasy there goes another Faithful\\nFailure\\nFrom a recent book of verse, where\\nthere is more than one such beautiful\\nand manly poem, I take this memo-\\nrial piece it says better than I can,\\nwhat I love to think let it be our\\nparting word.\\nlate lark tzoitters^/rom the quiet skies\\nAndjrom the west,\\nWhere the sun, his day s work ended,\\nLingers as in content.\\nThere Jails on the old, gray city\\nAn injluence luminous and serene,\\nA shining peace.\\n22", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A CHRISTMAS SERMON\\nThe smoke ascends\\nIn a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires\\nShine, and are changed. In the valley\\nShadows rise. The lai k sings on. The sun.\\nClosing his benediction,\\nSinks, and the darkening air\\nThrills with a sense of the triumphing night\\nNight, with her train of stars\\nAnd her great gift of sleep.\\n^^So he my passing\\nMy task accomplished and the long day done,\\nMy ivages taken, and in my heart\\nSome late lark singing.\\nLet me he gathered to the quiet west.\\nThe sundown splendid and serene.\\nDeath:\\n[1888.]\\n23", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "NOTES\\ni. e. In the pages of Scribner s Magazine\\n(1888).\\nFrom A Book of Verses by William Ernest\\nHenley. D. Nutt, 1888.", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "X^^\\n77* A\\n^^^4 A,\\nV\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Vj/ f3* ^Ut Deacidified using the Bookkeeper proces\\njArb /k* ^f rs Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: May 2009\\nA^ PreservationTechnologiej\\nt*- A A WORLD LEADER IN COLLECTIONS PRESERVATIO\\n111 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Townstiip, PA 16066\\n(724)779-2111", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "o V^\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iSlfe /A\\n0^ :-^M ^o f\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00c2\u00a3\u00c2\u00ab;55:vk^ A\\ncf JAN 1989", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2615", "width": "1502", "jp2-path": "christmassermon00stev2_0038.jp2"}}