{"1": {"fulltext": "B 1 1 i i i 1 2 i 1 i i 1 1 i 1 i r I f 1 i\\n111!! 1\\nI tllliSll\\nk vsmmm m", "height": "4379", "width": "2828", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap, Copyright A T o..__\\nSheil\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE INNER LIFE", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4018", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Inner Life\\nA Study in Christian Experience j|\\nBy\\nBishop John H. Vincent\\ni\\nI\\nUnited Society of Christian Endeavor\\nBoston and Chicago\\ni", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "56420\\nl~.ibi**ury of Con\u00c2\u00abr M(\\nfcC lUPtlS Kttt!VED\\nOCT 4 1900\\nCnpyfigtit iwtry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDeftv6f\u00c2\u00abd to\\nOHOtR DIVISION,\\nOCT 18 1900\\nCopyright, 1 900,\\nby the\\nUnited Society of Christian Endeavor", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "AN OUTLINE.\\nI. A Picture of Land and Sea and Sky.\\nII. Mental Pictures.\\nIII. After Forty Years.\\nIV. A Moral Conflict.\\nV. A Laboratory Experiment.\\nVI. Two Worlds.\\nVII. The Inner World a Real World.\\nVIII. A World of Mystery.\\nIX. The Me and the Not Me.\\nX. The Ceaselessly Active World.\\nXL The Relation of Brain and Spirit.\\nXII. The Choosing Power.\\nXIII. The Feeling of Oughtness.\\nXIV. The Reality\u00e2\u0080\u0094 God.\\nXV. The Universal Inquiry.\\nXVI. The Inward Trend of Character.\\nXVIL The Important Question.\\nXVIII. The Study of One s Inner Life.\\nXIX. Jesus and the Inner Life.\\nXX. The Reality of the Inner Life.\\nXXI. The Power of the Inner Life.\\nXXII. The Christian Consciousness.\\nXXIII. Another Picture of Land and Sea and Sky.\\nXXIV. Studies in the Inner Life:\\nThe Philosophy of Subjective Experience.\\nThe Essence of True Religion.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "AN OUTLINE.\\nXXV. The Host of Witnesses:\\nThe Redeemed in Heaven.\\nThe Saints in Lowly Homes.\\nXXYI. A Glance at Illustrious Examples:\\nZachary Macaulay.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Duncan.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel\\nBudgett.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wilberforce\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Howard.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nElizabeth Fry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Stephen Grellet\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Fos-\\nter.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Frederick W. Robertson.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Hares.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Rutherford.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 McCheyne\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Woolman.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Madame Guy on.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Wesley.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Carvos-\\nso\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Fletcher.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward Payson.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John\\nBunyan.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ers kin e.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Pulsford.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mau-\\nrice.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Roux.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas aKempis.\\nXXVII. This Inner Life True to Human Nature.\\nXXVIII. How Promote the True Inner Life", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Prelude.\\nHE true inner life is the life of\\nthe spirit and it is the life of the\\nHoly Spirit within the human\\nspirit.\\nWhatsoever good is found in the heart\\nof man from the first throb of protest\\nagainst evil to the fullest witness of in-\\ndwelling peace and power is because of\\nthe presence and activity of the Holy\\nSpirit of God.\\nThe dispensation of the Father is fol-\\nlowed by the dispensation of the Son\\nand consummated and crowned by the\\ndispensation of the Holy Spirit.\\nThese things have I spoken unto you\\nwhile yet abiding with you. But the\\nComforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom\\nthe Father will send in my name, he shall\\nteach you all things, and bring to your\\nremembrance all that I said unto you.\\nJesus in John 14 25, 26, r. v.\\n7", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 PRELUDE.\\nThat ye maybe strengthened with\\npower through his Spirit in the inward\\nman that Christ may dwell in j r our\\nhearts through faith that ye may\\nbe filled unto all the fulness of God.\\nPaul in Eph. 3 16-19, e. v.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "The Inner Life:\\nA Study in Christian Experience.\\nI.\\nNDER a cloudy sky a landscape\\nof mountain and plain stretches\\ntoward a dark and stormy sea.\\nFrom far away inland a river\\nflows, having its source among the moun-\\ntains, broadening as it passes through the\\nplain, and entering the sea not far from\\nyonder bold headland on which stands\\nan ancient lighthouse. Ranges of moun-\\ntains, but for the clouds that crown them\\nto-day, would define the horizon line on\\nthe one side, while on the other the sea\\nis lost in a veil of mist. One hears the\\nroar of great breakers upon the shore,\\nand .now and then sees at the base of the\\nhigh promontory the dashing of the spray\\nagainst its rocky front. When night\\ncomes on and the darkness deepens, the\\n9", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 THE INNER LIFE:\\nheadland and the sea are lost to sight,\\nbut one hears the wild roar of the waters\\nand at intervals catches a glimpse of the\\nsharp light from the high tower that\\ncrowns the headland.\\nStanding upon a slight eminence in the\\ncentre of this dark landscape is a solitary\\nman, who, before the night falls, in\\nthoughtful mood sweeps with his eye the\\nlimited horizon, sees the low foot-hills be-\\nlonging to the mountain range, the val-\\nley, the plain, the surface of the river,\\nthe bold outjutting promontory, and hears\\nthe moaning of the waters at the bar as\\nthe great stream becomes a part of the\\ngreater sea. He lingers till the darkness\\nof night closes in about him. He listens\\nto the roar of the ocean, the sweep of the\\nwind, the restless murmur of the passing\\nriver, his face once in a while touched\\nwith the light from the great revolving\\nlantern on the lighthouse. One might\\ndetect on that face a fixed expression of\\nmingled sadness, awe, and alarm. If one\\nwere to catch the words he speaks in his", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 11\\nsoliloquy, uttered in that solemn and de-\\npressing darkness, he might hear a com-\\nparison between the life of the man him-\\nself and the landscape on which he\\nlooked, the hidden heaven, the moun-\\ntain solitude made doubly desolate by the\\nimpending clouds, and the vast waste of\\nthe turbulent and complaining sea.\\nThe landscape and the spectator are\\nthus brought before us.\\nII.\\nET us now in thought retire to a\\nwell-warmed room in a house\\nyonder among the hills far re-\\nmoved from the sound of the sea\\nand, as the same man sits by the flicker-\\ning light of an open fire, let us by some\\npsychic power look at another landscape,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094that on which his own inner eye rests\\nas he recalls the vision of the afternoon\\nand contrasts the warmth and cheer of\\nthe open fire with the chill and desolate-\\nness of the world on which he gazed a\\nshort time before down by the seaside.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 THE INNER LIFE:\\nWithin this man s mind we see the\\nsame landscape that spread out before\\nhim when he stood in the afternoon and\\nearly evening where first we saw him.\\nWith him we now see again the uplands,\\nthe mountains, the river, the valley, the\\nmisty sea, and now and then a flashing\\nlight from the lofty lighthouse.\\nBut in this mental picture thus open to\\nour inspection we see somewhat which he\\ndid not see before. Some mystic power\\nhas added to the picture in his mind, and\\nwith him we see a ship drifting out of the\\ndarkness toward the shore, and with him\\nwe hear the boom of the signal gun\\nfrom sailors who, fearing a dreadful\\ndoom, thus plead for help. The man\\nwho sees this, now sitting by the fireside,\\ndid not see it in reality as he stood by\\nthe shore to-day but the vision which\\nimagination has added to the picture\\nsends an involuntary shudder through his\\nframe.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 13\\nIII.\\nHE years go by, forty of them,\\nand five thousand miles to the\\neastward, beyond the sea and\\nacross the continent of Europe,\\nwe find our friend again. He sits an\\nidler on a bench in the public park of an\\nEastern city. He is an old man now.\\nHe has closed his eyes in meditation and\\nwe, again, gifted by clairvoyant power,\\nsee his thought and again we behold a\\nvision of sea and shore, river and moun-\\ntain line, deepening darkness and flashing\\nlight. We notice a slight shudder pass-\\ning through his frame as he recalls the\\nship drifting to the shore, and hears\\namidst the boom of breaking waves the\\ncall of the ship s gun. Forty years have\\npassed, and five thousand miles of space\\nintervene but after all this lapse of time\\nand leap of space he looks on the same\\npicture, imagines the same disaster, and\\nfeels the same sadness as memory recalls\\nthat impression of sympathy between the\\nmelancholy landscape and his more mel-\\nancholy spirit.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 THE INNER LIFE:\\nIV.\\nNE thing that took place within\\nthis man s soul that same dark\\nevening forty years ago we did\\nnot at that time notice. We did\\nnot know of a fierce conflict between sin\\nand righteousness, a struggle between the\\ngenerous and the ignoble, the spiritual\\nand the sensual, elements within him.\\nAnd we did not see the defeat of right-\\neousness in the resolve formed that dread-\\nful night to do a deed against which the\\nvoice of the heavens within him entered\\nimperious protest but to-day, forty years\\nafter, as he sits five thousand miles away\\nfrom the scene of his defeat, a flush comes\\nto his cheek and his lips move as if to\\nconfess, deprecate, and denounce his own\\nfolly in that past crisis of his life.\\nIn this detailed and double picture ob-\\nserve first of all the persistent continu-\\nance of the man s personality. He is the\\nsame man. His memory remains. His\\npower of imagination remains. And\\nhis moral sense, which asserts itself after", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 15\\nall these years, accentuates his personal\\nresponsibility. Time and location, age\\nand circumstances, make no changes. He\\nmight still say I am I. The choices\\nand the deeds of the long ago and the far\\naway are mine.\\nCT us notice another singular fact\\nit is in itself a laboratory experi-\\nment. Tou who have read these\\npages and have seen this picture\\nnow hold it in your own minds, this\\npicture of the man by the sea, among the\\nhills, and in a foreign city. And it will\\nbe possible for you to recall it many years\\nhence. Indeed, circumstances might\\neasily occur and combine to make it im-\\npossible for you ever to forget it. The\\nincident, whether fictitious or historic, is\\nwith you, and you can easily believe its\\nfidelity to fact because of the mental\\nphenomena and powers and processes\\nwith which you are familiar.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nTHE INNER LIFE:\\ntion\\nVI.\\nE have thus been introduced to\\ntwo worlds first, that patch\\nof the outward and visible\\nworld and then the reproduc-\\nof it all in the inner world, the\\nmental picture of the landscape, the tem-\\npest, and the strong feeling of response\\nwithin our souls to the simple account of\\na struggle and a defeat. And we are\\nready to believe it all because of some\\nsorrowful experience of our own at some\\nperiod of our lives.\\nYII.\\nthis inner world and to certain\\nphenomena of the inner life we\\nare now to give some attention.\\nIt is a world about which we all\\nknow something, and what we know at\\nall we know as certainly as we know the\\nfacts of the world of sense. Indeed, Ave\\nare better acquainted with the former\\nthan with the latter. More real to us,", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 17\\nindeed, is this world of thought, of feel-\\ning, of moral conviction, in which desire\\nburns, guilt trembles, hope aspires, will\\nresolves, and character develops a\\nworld intellectual, aesthetical, ethical,\\nspiritual a world which sustains an inti-\\nmate relation to the outer universe, and\\nwhich in some mysterious way connects\\nus with the invisible and eternal Being,\\nFirst of all, Source of all, Father of all.\\nThis inner world is a world close at hand,\\nthe phenomena of which are in the pos-\\nsession of every man. To collect them he\\nneed not take a long journey or a short\\none he need not look out of his own\\nwindows to find the field for scientific re-\\nsearch in this department. He has\\nwithin himself his library and laboratory.\\nHe holds the stars as well as the tele-\\nscope within his own personality. Let\\nus think a little about this other\\nworld.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 THE INNER LIFE:\\nVIII.\\nHE inner world is a world of\\nmystery. We see only patches,\\nlimited areas of it at any one\\ntime. Fogs settle down and en-\\nshroud it, shutting out the wider horizon.\\nA thought arrests you. You cannot tell\\nwhence it came. You cannot account\\nfor the time of its coming, or for the in-\\ntensity of the feeling it excites. We are\\nall often surprised by the revelations\\nwithin ourselves, to ourselves, of our-\\nselves. At any moment the experiences\\nof a remote past in our lives may re-\\nturn, and with startling force and vivid-\\nness. The friend, the brother, the\\nmother, years ago parted from us, sits\\nagain at our side, or suddenly leaps into\\nview, smiling with new greeting and then\\nwaving a farewell with that vanished\\nhand we have missed so long. We have\\nvisions of landscapes, Alpine scenery\\nwith dizzy depths and lofty heights.\\nGreat things and little things come into\\nour minds thoughts base and thoughts", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 19\\nnoble puzzles that knit the brow trifles\\nthat cause the careless smile majesties\\nand tragedies that instantly and involun-\\ntarily express themselves on our features.\\nWe leap from theme to theme in a sec-\\nond. We think of self, of the next neigh-\\nbor, of somebody in India, of the moon,\\nof some remote star, and never wonder\\nat the speed or reach of our thoughts.\\nIX.\\nNE recognizes himself as a per-\\nsonality. He says, I am. He,\\nthe person who knows that he\\nis, knows also that there is some-\\nwhat besides and beyond himself. He\\nrecognizes this other existence, and says,\\nThat also w. The I and the other,\\nthe me and the not me, constitute\\nthe world of his actual and possible\\nknowledge. As he is sure of himself, the\\nI, he is sure also of the somewhat out-\\nside that also is. In the other that is\\nhe also finds other persons, each of\\nwhom says, I am. He says, I am.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 THE INNER LIFE:\\nThey say, We are. And he and they\\nsay: Besides us there is somewhat\\nwhich we know to be, but which is unlike\\nus somewhat we know, but which we\\nthink of as not knowing us and as not\\nbeing able to know us as we know it.\\nThus we find two forms of being, the\\npersonal and the non-personal.\\nThe person knows himself. He knows\\nthat he is. He knows to some extent\\nthe processes of his own activity. This\\npower of self-knowing is consciousness.\\nThus one comes to know some of the\\nfacts and laws of sensation, perception,\\nconception, memory, imagination, voli-\\ntion. He knows something of this inner\\nworld. What he sees, however, is like a\\npart of the sea overhung with mist. The\\nremote horizon line is never visible.\\nClouds and darkness hang about it. It\\nis only a portion of the actual life within\\nthat at any one time comes into view.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 21\\nX.\\nHIS inner life is ceaselessly active.\\nEven in sleep it may break in\\ndreams upon our consciousness.\\nIt moves onward like a stream,\\nnever still, now turbid and rough, now\\nclear and calm, but ever moving, now\\nshining in the light, now passing into\\ndarkness like the river Alph in Coleridge s\\nKubla Khan,\\nThrough caverns measureless to man\\nDown to a sunless sea.\\nThis subjective life is like a suspended\\nwire always quivering, a pulse always\\nthrobbing, a voice always speaking, a\\npanorama always unfolding. Professor\\nWilliam James speaks of the insensibly\\ncontinuous thought, the changes of\\nwhich are never absolutely abrupt. He\\nsays Consciousness does not appear to\\nitself in chopped seas and bits. Such\\nwords as chain and train do not de-\\nscribe it fitly. As it presents itself in the\\nfirst instance, it is nothing jointed it", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 THE INNER LIFE:\\nflows. A river or a stream are the\\nmetaphors by which it is most naturally\\ndescribed. Let us call it the stream\\nof thought, of consciousness, or of subjec-\\ntive life.\\nXI.\\nE cannot here discuss the scien-\\ntific explanation of the nature\\nand genesis of this inner life.\\nWe cannot enter into the ques-\\ntions started by the psychologist and the\\nphysiologist. Body and mind must be\\nstudied together. Brain and spirit are\\nmost intimately connected. It is claimed\\nby a specialist in physiological psychology\\nthat a passage of a cloud over the sun\\nwill change the rhythm in breathing and\\nthe pulse-rate of a sleeping child and, if\\nwe expose the brain, its whole bulk can be\\nseen to swell when a lamp is approached\\nto a patient s eye. It will be sufficient\\nfor our purpose to quote a strong state-\\nment of the distinguished psychologist of\\nHarvard University already named in\\nthese pages: All mental states are fol-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 23\\nlowed by bodily activity of some sort.\\nAlthough we affirm the coming to\\npass of thought as a consequence of me-\\nchanical laws, we clo not in the least\\nexplain the nature of thought by affirm-\\ning this, and in that latter sense our prop-\\nosition is not materialism. The fact\\nis inexplicable, and the immediate essence\\nof consciousness can never be rationally\\naccounted for by any material cause.\\nXII.\\nET us go one step further in the\\nstudy of this inner life. Its cen-\\ntral power is the choosing, the de-\\ntermining power. Dewey speaks\\nof it as connecting and conditioning all\\nmental activity. And this is the will.\\nBy the power of the will the soul con-\\ntrols and modifies things, or uses things\\nto get the most out of them and to avoid\\nthe greatest measure of possible harm\\nfrom them. Through the will man tills\\nthe soil, plants trees, grows grain, cuts\\ndown the native forests, bridges streams,", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 THE INNER LIFE:\\nbuilds walls, tunnels mountains, constructs\\nboats, crosses wide wastes of ocean, resists\\nthe influence of uncongenial climate, and\\nperforms a variety of acts to protect life,\\npreserve health, secure comfort, and in-\\ncrease his power of achievement.\\nIt is thus out of the heart of man\\nwhere dwells this power of purpose that\\nall the externals of civilization spring.\\nThe marble is hidden in Pentelicus. The\\nbare summit of the Acropolis shines in\\nthe sunlight. The soul of the artist\\ndreams and resolves. And lo, the Par-\\nthenon that slept in the unopened heart\\nof Pentelicus crowns the lofty heights of\\nthe Acropolis. Thus the inner power of\\nthe will transforms the outward world.\\nThought, courage, resolve, and hope over-\\ncome external barriers, and according to\\nthe measure of a man s ability is his suc-\\ncess. As a man thinketh in his heart,\\nso is he. 5 Here is the secret of life\\nwithin and not without. Therefore a\\ncontented mind is a continual feast.\\nWealth, luxury, palace, and throne can-\\nnot make a successful or a happy life.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE, 25\\nXIII.\\nS we look within, we find another\\npower the moral sense, the feel-\\ning of right and wrong. Pro-\\nfessor Ladd calls it the feeling\\nof oughtness. Darwin speaks of that\\nshort but imperious word ought.\\nThackeray described one as tingling\\nwith the consciousness of having done a\\ngood deed and we may add, there is\\nalso a stinging with the consciousness of\\nhaving done a wrong deed. This moral\\njudgment is present in all men, in all\\ncivilization, among barbarians as well as\\namong the most cultivated. It varies\\naccording to the kind and measure of\\neducation, but it waits alike upon igno-\\nrance and knowledge to utter its man-\\ndate and apply its goad.\\nThe voice of moral consciousness may\\nbe stifled, but it cannot be wholly si-\\nlenced. It is persistent in its demands.\\nWe may not be able to study the finer\\nprocesses of psychology and physiolog}^ as\\nthey bring to us the phenomena of con-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 THE INNER LIFE:\\nsciousness we may not always be able\\nto trace the line of separation between\\nthe physical reality and the inner sense\\nbut the convictions, feelings, assents, re-\\njections, of the moral nature are clear\\nand positive, so that the unlearned and\\nthe pagan as well as the Christian phi-\\nlosopher must concede that there is in\\nevery man an arbiter within him, decid-\\ning in favor of the right and against the\\nwrong.\\nHere is the mystery of moral being\\nand responsibility, the voice of an im-\\nperious and besetting God what\\nGeorge Washington called that little\\nspark of celestial fire recognized by\\nthe pagans of old and by students of\\nman and society everywhere hinting at\\nthe warmth and calm and light of the\\neternal harmonies, and also suggesting\\nthe wrath of righteousness against\\nwrong-doing.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 27\\nXIV.\\nJACK of the ethical sense in man\\nis a vast reality. That reality\\nis God\\nFrom whatever source the idea\\ncomes to man, by reason, by traditional\\nremains of earlier revelation, by intui-\\ntion, the idea is present everywhere of\\na great First Cause, who has created and\\nwho now governs all things. This great\\nFirst Cause we must think of as a person.\\nThe anthropomorphic conception is in-\\nevitable. Man has a sense of personal\\nresponsibility, the forward look to an ac-\\ncount and a consequence, the sense of\\nmoral defect and need, the consciousness\\nof a struggle between himself and a better\\nand higher power not himself, represented\\nwithin him. And often he has the feel-\\ning that this higher power is foreign, yet\\nfriendly, to himself. The soul cries out,\\nO that I knew where I might find\\nhim but it also exclaims, Behold I go\\nforward, but he is not there and back-\\nward, but I cannot perceive him. There", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 THE INNER LIFE:\\nis in man everywhere an uplook toward\\nthe great First Cause, with desire to wor-\\nship, to conciliate, to appease.\\nXV.\\nEN have alwa) T s in all parts of\\nthe world inquired after God.\\nTheir search has not been in\\nvain. Ideals embodied in max-\\nims, general convictions, intimations, con-\\nscience, have all lifted men toward God.\\nOne might quote from the sacred writ-\\nings of all the ages and of all people\\nand the more this subject is investigated,\\nthe more abundant are the proofs that\\nthe religious factor is always and every-\\nwhere active.\\nPlutarch said, If we traverse the\\nworld, it is possible to find cities without\\nwalls, without letters, without kings, with-\\nout wealth, without coin, without schools\\nand theatres but a city without a tem-\\nple, or that practises not prayer and the\\nlike, no one ever saw. From the jour-\\nnal and letters of David Livingstone read", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 29\\nthe record of human aspirations among\\nthe natives of Africa, sometimes almost\\nsuppressed by despair. Hear Sekomi,\\nchief of the Bamangwato tribe, after\\nbeing seated in deep thought in his hut\\nfor some time, he addressed Livingstone,\\nI wish you would change my heart;\\nfor it is proud, proud and angry, always\\nvery uneasy, and continually angry w x ith\\nsome one.\\nThis thirst for deliverance from self-\\ndiscouragement and failure, this quench-\\nless desire after God, we find every-\\nwhere.\\nThis religious sense the sense of need\\nand helplessness and longing after the\\ngreat First Cause is as much a part of\\nman s nature as is his imagination or his\\nwill. And yet we may search the skies\\nand the seas, exhaust the resources of\\nthis earth in its multitudinous forms of\\ninanimate and animate existence, and\\nfind no God. The telescope finds no\\nGod. The microscope shows no God.\\nThe crucible reveals no God. But\\nwithin, within, in the heart, although", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 THE INNER LIFE:\\nas hard as the stone on which Jacob pil-\\nlowed his head at the beginning of his\\nlong pilgrimage to Padan-Aram, within\\nwe may, if we will, and sometimes,\\noftentimes whether we will or not, hear\\na voice at first inarticulate, that we find\\nto be the voice of God and we may say\\nwith the patriarch, as we awake out of\\nour sleep Surely the Lord is in this\\nplace and I knew it not. How\\ndreadful is this place This is no other\\nbut the house of God, and this is the gate\\nof heaven.\\nThe development of what we call civ-\\nilization does not diminish the restless\\nlonging of the soul after a knowledge of\\nthe First Cause. In all civilization the\\nsame idea abides. In the higher civiliza-\\ntion it is more tenacious than in the\\nlower. It is based upon larger theories\\nand more adequate (always at the best\\ninadequate) conceptions of man and his\\nrelation to the First Cause and the char-\\nacter and purpose of that First Cause.\\nThe highest and most exalted men and\\nwomen of every race and of every age", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 31\\nare essentially religious. Mr. Matthew\\nArnold says, As all roads lead to Kome,\\nso all questions lead to religion. 5 And\\nhe says again, Eeligion is the voice of\\ndeepest experience and Carlyie, It is\\nwell said in every sense that a man s re-\\nligion is the chief fact with regard to\\nhim. Herbert Spencer says, Religion\\neverywhere present as a weft running\\nthrough the warp of human history ex-\\npresses some eternal fact. Even the\\nmost sceptical of men, says John Stuart\\nMill, have an inner altar to the Unseen\\nPerfection, while waiting for the true\\none to be presented to them. We may\\nagain quote Herbert Spencer, who is\\noften unjustly spoken of as either atheist\\nor agnostic One truth must ever grow\\nclearer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the truth that there is an in-\\nscrutable existence everywhere manifest\\nto which he [man] can never find nor\\nconceive either beginning or end. Amid\\nthe mysteries which become the more\\nmysterious the more they are thought\\nabout, there will remain the one absolute\\ncertainty that he is ever in the presence", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 THE INNER LIFE:\\nof an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from\\nwhich all things proceed.\\nThis Energy is the entity having\\nintellectual and moral quality, and we\\ncall him God, and he is the Unseen\\nPerfection to which to whom John\\nStuart Mill introduces us.\\nDarwin in 1873 writes, The impossi-\\nbility of conceiving that this grand and\\nwondrous universe with our conscious\\nselves arose through chance seems to me\\nthe chief argument for the existence of a\\nGod and in 1879 he again wrote, In\\nmy most extreme fluctuations, I have\\nnever been an atheist in the sense of de-\\nnying the existence of a God.\\nWe have a light which we call con-\\nscience, which every man in some meas-\\nure possesses. Byron calls it, The\\noracle of God, the vicegerent of God,\\nand Browning, God s beacon-light\\nand Kant says, My belief in God and\\nin another world is so interwoven with\\nmy moral nature that I am as little under\\napprehension of having the former torn\\nfrom me as of losing the latter.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 33\\nThus it is that the consciousness of\\nmorals, and, indeed, the very conscious-\\nness of self \u00e2\u0080\u0094carries with it the capability\\nof being conscious of God. Man sees\\nthe world beyond him. He sees the self\\nwithin him. He may see the God about\\nand above him. Conscience is that sig-\\nnal-bell in the soul which the heavens\\nring to remind man of obligation, of\\nGod, of destiny. If man will not heed\\nthe call and put forth the hand of faith,\\nsuperstition will take the place of truth\\nand possess the inner life. Man must\\nworship. Conscience must speak. The\\nsoul cannot live in itself and by itself.\\nIt must have something to do with the\\nthings of a moral and spiritual realm.\\nSome guest must come in.\\nGod and duty are acknowledged by the\\npagan philosophers. They express the\\nhope of a better and of a future life.\\nBut their hope is mixed with doubt and\\nuncertainty.\\nThe conflict between two natures in\\nman is universal, and every whore we hear\\nthe cry for help, and there is a recogni-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 THE INNER LIFE:\\ntion of a realm invisible whence help may\\ncome.\\nXVI.\\nN the study of the inner life we find\\nnot merely activity within, but in\\nevery man a dominating trend of\\ncharacter. He is always thinking,\\nbut he is also always thinking toward one\\nruling end of life. What a man desires,\\nhe thinks about and plans for. The con-\\ntrolling desire determines the direction\\nof all subordinate desires. The creeks\\nall run down toward the river, that they\\nmay become a part of the river.\\nEvery man by the study of his inner\\ntendency may tell what is likely to be the\\nfinal make-up of his character. The true\\nsoul may drop into the vortex of self as\\ninto a whirlpool, thinking of self, caring\\nfor self, planning for self, serving self.\\nOr it may spring heavenward like a foun-\\ntain, and against the natural tendency\\nmaintain a steady and eternal movement\\ntoward righteousness and the God of\\nrighteousness, delighting in him, turning", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 35\\naway from the lower and ever aspiring\\nafter the things that are above.\\nXVII.\\nT is an important question, which\\nevery man should often ask, and\\nto which he should find true an-\\nswer What is the ruling tendency\\nof my nature What do I most care\\nfor What do I most naturally, easily,\\nand habitually think about and choose\\nAll men, even those who are at times\\nextremely sceptical, have now and then\\na sense of relationship to an invisible, all-\\nencompassing spiritual world. One at\\nsuch a time is not surprised at the thought\\nof intelligences who give secret help in\\nthe inward struggles of life. It does not\\nsurprise him to be told that temptations\\nto evil and help in righteousness come\\nto him from these invisible sources. He\\nknows full well that he needs help from\\nwithout. He at times feels almost con-\\nfident that he is one of the vast multitude\\nof unseen beings, and that his doings are", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 THE INNER LIFE:\\nknown by them, and that forces of\\nstrength and consolation come to him\\nfrom or through friendly energies and\\nspiritual allies.\\nXVIII.\\nHE study of the inner life becomes\\nthe duty of every thoughtful soul.\\nIntrospection may sometimes be\\nharmful, but again it is in some\\ncases indispensable. There are three\\nforms of introspection.\\nThe first is scientific. Large service is\\nrendered in these days by the students\\nof what is called the new psychology,\\nwho as psychologists and physiologists\\ninvestigate normal and morbid conditions\\nand seek to know society the better\\nthrough the study of the individual.\\nThe immediate object of such self -scru-\\ntiny is educational. It promotes the\\nhabit of attention, which is more difficult\\nwhen fixed upon one s own self in his in-\\nterior processes, and all the more valu-\\nable when it is at all successful. This", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 37\\nhabit cultivates the analytic power\\nmeasures one s own intellectual quality\\naids in the study of literature; contrib-\\nutes to the better education of the mor-\\nbid, unfortunate, and vicious representa-\\ntives of the race tends to self -culture\\nbroadens the fields of consciousness and\\nincreases their extent and the student s\\ncommand of them and there is no\\nprocess by which one s own soul is so\\nstimulated to self -activity and produc-\\ntiveness.\\nSelf-scrutiny has a religious value.\\nOne may thus increase his interest in\\nboth ethical and spiritual phenomena,\\ntest his personal and religious condition,\\nprotect himself, if his work be wisely\\nwrought, against self-deception, develop\\nsympathy with other people, and increase\\nhis power to harmonize and discharge\\nthe varied duties which his multiplied re-\\nlations impose. There may be utter self-\\nishness in religious self-examination. This\\nis especially the danger if it be conducted\\nunder pressure of fear and superstition or\\nof excessive personal solicitude. Dr.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 THE INNER LIFE:\\nHorace Bushnell in a very able sermon\\nwarns against the unprofitable type of\\nreligious self-scrutiny. He says that\\ngenerally in noting things that pass in\\nus we have only a look at the huddle of\\ntheir transition. He condemns the man\\nwho is always boring into one s life,\\nwho is always trying to study and\\ncipher over himself and he wisely\\nmakes appeal in behalf of discrimination,\\nand insists upon prayer to God that His\\nHoly Spirit may examine and reveal us\\nto ourselves.\\nIn self-examination we may detect\\nmovements, tendencies, and prevailing\\nforces within us. We may study chains\\nof association by which we are led from\\nstep to step through a given mental\\nprocess. We may learn how our senti-\\nments and moral faculties are affected by\\nboth fact and fancy. We may compare\\npersonal impressions and experiences with\\nothers who, engaging in the same studies,\\nseek to know themselves.\\nIt was the habit of the old Stoic Sextus,\\nas he went to his bed at night, to ask of", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 39\\nhimself, What evil thing have I con-\\nquered this day what vice resisted or in\\nwhat way might I have become a better\\nman? Seneca tells how at night his\\nwife would keep silent while he for a\\ntime looked back over the day, calling up\\nhis deeds, hiding nothing from himself,\\nremembering the words he had spoken\\nand he insisted that we should daily com-\\npel the soul to give an account of itself.\\nHe says Anger will cease or become\\nmore moderate which knows it will daily\\nhave to come before a judge. What then\\nmore beautiful than this habit of beating\\nout a whole day What a sleep is that\\nwhich furnishes opportunity for such an\\nexamination How tranquil and pro-\\nfound and free when the soul has thus\\nbeen commended and admonished\\nThe day has not yet gone by when wise\\nChristians may learn useful lessons from\\nwise pagans.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 TEE INNER LIFE:\\nXIX.\\nUT there is One whose knowledge\\nof the inner life transcends the\\nhuman knowledge of all the days.\\nLet us inquire concerning him.\\nAbove all teachers concerning the inner\\nlife is Jesus Christ Christ as set forth in\\nthe New Testament not the Christ of\\nStrauss, nor the Christ of Penan, but the\\nChrist reported by his four biographers,\\nMatthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and\\nrepresented by his four apostles, Paul,\\nPeter, James, and John the exponent of\\nthe divine ideal of human character and\\nconduct his life unique, universal in its\\nadaptation and mission, setting forth the\\ndivine attitude toward the human race\\nthe exponent of the inner life possible to\\nhumanity, a life of strength, conflict,\\npeace, purity, and power.\\nChrist himself is the all and in all of\\nChristianity. His character transcends all\\ncharacters known to human history. He\\nwas a man of matchless purity, wisdom,\\ngood sense, good will, reverence, and", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 41\\nrighteousness. His character, teachings,\\nand influence meet the universal demand\\nin human nature for guidance, for de-\\nliverance from all unseen sources of peril,\\nfor the attainment of a complete and en-\\nduring personal character, and for the\\nrealization of a final social order which\\nshall bring the race of man into harmony\\nwith God.\\nIt is impossible that Jesus Christ should\\nhave been either deceived or he himself a\\ndeceiver. Therefore all who enter into\\nhis spirit, and embrace with consenting\\nwill and warmed affections the inner life\\nwhich he sets forth as possible to men,\\nare ready to accept the supernatural and\\ndivine elements which enter into it and\\ncan alone explain the amazing results of\\nits presence in human history. The\\ndivine element is so inwrought into the\\ntexture of the history which reports the\\nhuman and easily apprehensive part of it\\nthat if one goes all goes; and we may\\nsay with Luther, If Jesus be not God,\\nhe is not good.\\nThe Christianity in which we believe", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 THE INNER LIFE:\\naccepts the gospel according to John as\\nwell as that of the Synoptists. It finds\\nthe subjective life of Christ as set forth\\nby this evangelist full of true religious\\nconsciousness, charm, and power. It\\nsees in the Old Testament a gradual un-\\nfolding of the divine ideal and neces-\\nsarily imperfect, as the apparatus of the\\nkindergarten must be imperfect in the\\neye of the collegian. But in that old\\nkindergarten system of the tabernacle,\\nwith its Shekinah, bending cherubim,\\nenfolding cloud, and hidden fire, there is\\nmanifested the God of the race as re-\\nvealed in the wisdom, mercy, love, life,\\nand power of Christ. Chrysostom says,\\nThe true Shekinah is man. This is the\\nflower and fruit of the whole Christian\\nsystem God dwelling and reigning\\nthrough Christ by his Holy Spirit in the\\nhuman soul. This is the divine inner life\\nmade possible to humanity.\\nChrist is to the individual the sun of\\nrighteousness, the atmosphere, a foun-\\ntain of living water, a vine holding the\\nbranches and supplying them with life and", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 43\\nstrength, our shepherd, friend, brother,\\nnearer and dearer than brother, sister,\\nfather, mother\\nWhat is the mystical bond, that holds\\nchild and father together, quickening\\ntheir heart-beat and joy at their mutual\\napproach? What is the bond between\\nlovers where glances speak volumes,\\nwhich in absence binds them together in\\nconfidence and affection that may be ac-\\ncounted perfect\\nS this inner life a reality of human\\nexperience\\nChristianity sets forth and in-\\nsists upon the possibilities of an\\ninner spiritual life, more tender, more\\ntrue, more positive in its ministrations\\nand inward witnessings than any phe-\\nnomena of human confidence, affection,\\nand delight. The human soul is thus\\nsubject to divine influence direct spirit\\nupon spirit, life within life.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 THE INNER LIFE:\\nXXI.\\nHE inner life under the strength\\nand illumination of Christ is the\\nvery centre and soul of Chris-\\ntianity, and is true to the facts\\nof human nature. The Old and the ISTew\\nTestament characters represent nine-\\nteenth-century human nature with all of\\nits infirmities. We find there the same\\nstruggle over righteousness; the same\\nconflict between the two natures re-\\nvealed in Paul s letter to the Eomans;\\nDavid on one hand a man after God s\\nown heart, and vet left to himself basest\\nof the base. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\\nrepresent in fiction facts of human nature\\nset forth with plainest speech in the reve-\\nlation of God.\\nOur contention is that the play of the\\ndivine life on the inner life transforms,\\nexalts, purifies, glorifies, the human soul,\\nas an honorable lover s love, with its\\nquickening power, character, motives,\\nmemory, conscience, and purposes. Said\\nNapoleon s soldier, under the surgeon s", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 45\\nknife, Probe a little deeper, and you\\nwill find the emperor.\\nThe ocean rolls in at high tide into\\nevery creek until the marsh is submerged.\\nAs Sidney Lanier sings\\nAnd the sea lends large, as the marsh. Lo, ont of\\nhis plenty the sea\\nPours fast. Full soon the time of the flood-tide\\nmust be\\nLook how the grace of the sea doth go\\nAbout and about through the intricate channels\\nthat flow\\nHere and there,\\nEverywhere,\\nTill his waters have flooded the uttermost creeks\\nand the low-lying lanes,\\nAnd the marsh is meshed with a million veins,\\nThat like as with rosy and silvery essences flow,\\nIn the rose-and-silver evening glow. 7\\nWe have thus represented in the strong-\\nest manner possible to us the positive\\ntheory of Christianity, teaching the rela-\\ntion of Christ to the individual soul. We\\nclaim what Paul and John claimed con-\\ncerning the new creation effected un-\\nder the Christian scheme by the Holy\\nSpirit of God. We have accepted what", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 THE INNER LIFE:\\nis called orthodoxy, and claim for it\\nall that Christ and Paul and Peter and\\nJames claimed from the Advent to Pen-\\ntecost and from Pentecost to the glorious\\nEpiphany on Patmos.\\nXXII.\\nHEEE is a religious, a Christian\\nconsciousness. It is not one thing\\nwith the pagan and another thing\\nwith the Christian, save in this,\\nthat the cravings of the latter are satis-\\nfled with the fulness of the revelation\\nmade in Christ. The consciousness of\\nhumanity as concerning God and duty,\\nguilt and need, is universal. You find it\\nin heathen lands. You find it in Chris-\\ntian lands. The religious pagan longs\\nafter God, and gropes in darkness, albeit\\nthere comes to him a measure of strength\\nwhen his moral nature responds to the\\nbest light that is in him. But the re-\\nsponse which the Christian receives, as\\nhe yields to the voice of revelation inter-\\npreted by the Spirit of God, is definite,", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 47\\ndistinct, and full of cheer and power.\\nThe Christian conscience is full of light.\\nThe earnest pagan lives where midnight\\nreigns a large part of the year, where\\nfields of ice form, and desolate moun-\\ntains frown and verdure is rarely seen;\\nnevertheless, he lives and enjoys life, and\\nloves and is loved, and would rather live\\nthan die. But the Christian lives in\\nother zones, where spring comes with its\\nhope, summer with its promise, and au-\\ntumn with its fulfilment, and where win-\\nter, through the munificence of autumn\\nand the confidence in a coming spring,\\nis made more than endurable, even full\\nof delight.\\nThe comprehensive study of the world\\nreligions discloses an inter-relation and\\nharmony which give proof of a divine\\npurpose in pagan and partial religious\\nsystems as well as in Christianity. But\\nthis as the latest and highest of all is\\ncompletely adapted to the needs of hu-\\nmanity.\\nIf we look with wide and comprehen-\\nsive vision, we shall see that the various", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 THE INNER LIFE:\\nreligious systems have contributed their\\nshare toward final perfection. The calm-\\nness, stoicism, and submissiveness of one\\npeople the loyalty and righteousness\\nand reverence for Jehovah in another;\\nthe culture, the flexibility, the sensitive-\\nness, and refinement of a third; the ag-\\ngressive and administrative and civilizing\\npower of a fourth, have all centred in\\nthe Christianity represented by the Anglo-\\nSaxon, and Christ has been present and\\npotent in all.\\nThere is an inner life, Christian and\\nspiritual, in men who are not wholly\\nwhat is called evangelical. We find in\\nthis school such men as Channing, Mar-\\ntineau, the elder Peabody, to say noth-\\ning of representative Unitarians, who still\\noccupy a place in this generation good\\nmen and just, reverent and philanthropic.\\nThrough the universal grace of Christ\\nthere is a measure of good in every man.\\nEverywhere you will find an ideal, an\\nimpulse, a resolve, a regret over fail-\\nure, and a measure of earnest endeavor.\\nSuch men may not make the full response", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 49\\nto what the evangelical believer calls the\\nhighest power of Christianity but what\\nall such men have is Christ, the Light\\nwhich lighteth every man that cometh\\ninto the world and whatever diversities\\nof opinion they and we may hold con-\\ncerning Christ, certainly the Father whom\\nboth they and we worship is the Father\\nof Jesus Christ set forth by him in com-\\nmand, in parable, in figure, in conduct,\\nand in life. And God is now being more\\nand more understood by the interpreta-\\ntive power of Jesus himself.\\nXXIII.\\nOES our reader remember the pic-\\nture at the beginning of this\\nbooklet, of landscape, moun-\\ntain, plain, river, promontory,\\nboundless sea, veiled with a cloud of mist\\nand darkened with the darkening night,\\nuntil only one light shone out from the\\nsummit of the lofty lighthouse? Do\\nyou remember the deeper shadow resting\\non the face of a troubled man, hanging", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 THE INNER LIFE\\nfor forty years over him Such is hu-\\nman experience without the light of the\\ngospel of Christ.\\nMay we present to you the same land-\\nscape, a cloudless sky overarching it, the\\nglorious sun pouring its wealth of light\\nand splendor upon land and sea? The\\ncoming night makes little difference for,\\ninstead of one sun, thousands of worlds\\nlook down with benediction, reflecting\\ntheir light in the dancing waves, and the\\nmoon in her beauty gilds with silver\\nsheen the world below. The man stands\\nas he stood before. But now everything\\nof the outer world is changed. No ex-\\nternal glory could be greater, no breath\\nfrom the sea more stimulating, no glory\\nof the sun more dazzling. But he still\\nwears that look of anxiety and trouble.\\nMemory does her work as faithfully, and\\nsadness reigns as darkly, when the sun\\nshines as when the clouds cover the sky.\\nThe same memory of unworthy motive\\nand dishonorable deed oppresses him. It\\nis not in any gift of landscape nor in any\\nbreath wafted over the sea to lift the", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 51\\ncloud of discouragement, lighten the load\\nof guilt, or illuminate with smiles the face\\nthat remorse has shadowed.\\nThe outer world has been transformed,\\nbut the inner world remains the same.\\nHe may lose the vivid apprehension of\\nthe reality but it will be only for a time,\\nand underneath a temporary elation of\\nspirit there will be the undertone of sad-\\nness, breaking now and then into a note\\nof despair.\\nWhat the outward world cannot do,\\nthe declaration of divine pity, sympathy,\\nlove, strength, forgiving grace, and re-\\nnewing power may do. If John Bunyan s\\nEvangelist could come to the man in his\\ndesolation, and tell him the story we\\nmight all tell him of the patient Christ,\\nthe abounding pardon, the measureless\\nlove of God, wider than the wideness of\\nthe sea if the man could be taken a\\npoor pilgrim to the house of the Inter-\\npreter, and receive lessons of grace from\\nministers of mercy, we might then see\\nhim stand in the midst of this familiar\\nlandscape with bare brow, his face aglow,", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 THE INNER LIFE:\\nin his heart strength of purpose, the love\\nof righteousness, the loathing of evil, the\\nlight of hope, and a definite consciousness\\nof harmony with the universe of which\\nhe is a part. And whether the mist and\\nthe night settle over him, or the glory of\\nthe heavens shine upon him, the inner\\nworld, being transformed by the infinite\\nlove of God, would make outward things\\nof little account, giving brightness even\\nin the darkness, and making brightness\\nbrighter because of the clearer light of\\nthe eternal day.\\nThis is what Christianity can do for\\nthe inner life of men of all races, of all\\nsorts and conditions. This is what Chris-\\ntianity has done for ages where it has\\nbeen tested. This is what Christianity\\nis doing to-day more widely and more\\neffectively than ever before.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 53\\nXXIY.\\nT would be very interesting to study\\nthe inner life of the apostles, who\\nwere the immediate successors of\\nJesus Christ and most of them\\npersonally conversant with him while he\\nwas on the earth. The study of the in-\\nner life of Christ is in itself a subject suf-\\nficient to occupy a whole volume. And\\nmost interesting would be the study of\\nthe life-experience of Christians of every\\nage from the days of St. John to the\\ndays of Matthew Simpson, Henry Drum-\\nmond, and D wight L. Moody.\\nChristianity presents a philosophy of\\nsubjective experience. Then it says\\nTrust, test, demonstrate. Believe, and\\nthou shalt be able to know, to do, to be.\\nOpen the windows, and the light will\\ncome in.\\nHere is opportunity for experiment.\\nThe saints by the ten thousand have\\nmade the experiment. It has never once\\nfailed.\\nThe essence of religion is the divine", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 THE INNER LIFE:\\nindwelling God in the individual soul.\\nThis religious consciousness any one may\\nhave. Of course it is a testimony con-\\ncerning personal thought, feeling, expe-\\nrience. But this test medical science uses.\\nEven the sceptical physician will ask the\\npatient how he feels. He puts great\\nstress on the patient s testimony. If he\\nfinds that he must discount it for the time\\nbeing, he nevertheless asks the question\\nagain and again, How do you feel\\nHe aids the patient by indicating symp-\\ntoms. But even this depends upon the\\npatient s prompt, emphatic, and intelli-\\ngent declaration as to a subjective expe-\\nrience corresponding with the physician s\\nsuggestions. As normal conditions re-\\nturn to his patient, he continues to ask,\\nHow do you feel? He listens with,\\npleasure to his patient s later account of\\nthe processes by which the physician\\nwrought the good work of healing, and\\nthe same physician who smiles with ill-\\ndisguised contempt at a Christian s testi-\\nmony asks permission to record and pub-\\nlish in some medical journal the expe-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 55\\nriences of the restored invalid. And more\\nthan once he sends a marked copy of the\\ntestimony as proof of his own skill and\\nsuccess.\\nXXV.\\nMIGHTY host of witnesses might\\nbe summoned to sustain the claim\\nof Christ to heal the soul of its\\nworst maladies, to give light for\\ndarkness, peace for unrest, love for hate\\nor apathy, life for death.\\nNames of multitudes forgotten on earth\\nare writ large in the house of the King\\nabove, names of slaves, of colliers, of\\nsoldiers, of artisans, of miners, of shep-\\nherds, of busy housekeepers, of plough-\\nboys and peasants, of people of all sorts\\nand conditions, who, hearing the truth,\\naccepted it, loved it, lived it, and now\\nlive the eternal life through faith in\\nChrist. If the representatives of this\\ninner life and experience could now give\\nwitness out of the heavens, the glory of\\ntheir presence would at this moment daz-\\nzle our eyes to blindness, the melody of", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 THE INNER LIFE:\\ntheir voices would ravish our souls, and\\nwe should find ourselves surrounded by a\\ngreat multitude whom no man can num-\\nber, who are eager everywhere and al-\\nways to sing of Him who giveth life to\\nthe souls of men.\\nWe have spoken of Christian expe-\\nriences in lowly homes. We recall a\\nsweet and patient child who nearly fifty\\nyears ago worked in a New Jersey fac-\\ntory, held family prayer by her non-pro-\\nfessing father s consent in their little\\nhome, won her mother and her brother\\nto Christ, taught in the Sunday-school,\\ntoiled at the loom, belonged to a little\\ncountry church, and by her simple, fer-\\nvent, intelligent piety filled the whole\\ncommunity and fills that little church to\\nthis day with the sweet perfume of re-\\nmembered gentleness, purity, and devo-\\ntion.\\nEvery church has its representatives of\\nthis inner, higher, holier life. They may\\noccupy humble places in the public wor-\\nship. Their voices are heard only now\\nand then in the social meeting. The car-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 57\\nriages of the rich never stop at their\\ndoors but they combine to form divine\\nmosaics of personal and social Christian\\ncharacter, which adorn the church of the\\nliving God far more beautifully than the\\nmost brilliant works of art. We write\\nhuge biographies of the renowned saints\\nhut how many lives unwritten on earth\\nare recorded on the immortal pages\\nabove In our library firmament we see\\na few stars but what wealth of spiritual\\nbeauty shines in the heavens of our his-\\ntory, representing all conditions pov-\\nerty, wealth, weakness, power, and all\\nstages of experience startled apathy, in-\\ntense anxiety, restful faith, divine peace,\\nand spiritual power\\nXXYI.\\n0\u00c2\u00a5 glad we should be to unfold\\nat length some of the lives\\nwhich Christian literature pre-\\nsents Take, for example, the\\nabsolute faith, the perfect humility, the\\nunruffled calmness, of Zachary Macaulay", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 THE INNER LIFE:\\nthe truth-loving and truth-living of John\\nDuncan, of Scotland, of whom Dr. Camp-\\nbell says, He lives in the truth of\\nthings. Think of the frank, affection-\\nate, honest, persistent, generous Samuel\\nBudgett, the successful merchant\\nwhom William Arthur has immortalized,\\nwho from behind a grocer s counter rose\\nuntil as the great Budgett he built his\\nwarehouses and extended his trade over\\nEngland and over the seas. On his\\ndeathbed he said, Eiches I have had\\nas much as my heart could desire but I\\nnever felt any pleasure in them for their\\nown sake, only so far as they enabled me\\nto give pleasure to others. Again he\\nsaid to a friend I sent for you to tell\\nyou how happy I am not a wave, not a\\nripple, not a fear, not a shadow of doubt.\\nI did not think it was possible for man\\nto enjoy so much of God upon earth. I\\nam filled with God I like to hear of the\\nbeauties of heaven, but I do not dwell\\nupon them no, what I rejoice in is this,\\nthat Christ will be there. Where he is,\\nthere shall I be also. I know that he is", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 59\\nin me and I in him. I shall see him as he\\nis. I delight in knowing that.\\nLook at Wilberforce, living solely for\\nothers, devoting himself to the suppres-\\nsion of the slave-trade and the reforma-\\ntion of manners. He was fascinating in\\nsociety but, as Bayne forcibly says,\\nhe escaped from being a character of a\\nsort which is surely one of the most piti-\\nful human life can show, a fashionable\\nwit and jester. Wilberforce was a dili-\\ngent, critical, spiritual student of the\\nWord of God. He recognized himself\\neverywhere as a child of God, capable of\\nentering any sphere of public life, shining\\nbrilliantly in society, surrendering him-\\nself to the service of humanity, and al-\\nways abiding in the peace of God.\\nThere, too, is John Howard, and after\\nhim come Elizabeth Fry and the dear\\nGurney. What brave, godly, gentle,\\npotent spirits they were In the midst\\nof his practical ministries in behalf of\\nprisoners, John Howard writes to a\\nfriend Commune with thy own heart\\nsee what progress thou makest in thy re-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 THE INNER LIFE:\\nligious journey. Art thou nearer the\\nheavenly Canaan, the vital flame burning\\nclearer and clearer? Or are the con-\\ncerns of the common engrossing thy\\nknowledge A little while and the\\njourney shall be ended. Be thou faithful\\nunto death. According to the sweet\\nrecord of his death, after his intercession\\nfor his son and for the afflicted with\\nwhom he always sympathized, he said to\\nhis old friend Admiral Priestman Let\\nme beg of you, as you value your old\\nfriend, not to suffer any pomp to be\\nused at my funeral, nor any monument\\nor monumental inscription whatever to\\nmark where I am laid. But lay me\\nquietly in the earth, place a dial over my\\ngrave, and let me be forgotten. And\\nthen, with a smile of peace, he passed\\naway.\\nMrs. Fry, at the end of her life, made\\nthis remarkable statement I can say\\none thing since my heart was touched\\nat seventeen years old, I believe I have\\nnever wakened from sleep, in sickness or\\nin health, by day or by night, without", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 61\\nmy first waking thought being how best\\nI might serve the Lord.\\nThe life of Stephen Grellet was a life\\nfilled with inner peace. And John Fos-\\nter, who as few men knew the agony of\\ndoubt, exclaimed in his earlier years,\\nOh, what a difficult thing it is to be a\\nChristian I feel the necessity of reform\\nthrough all my soul. But within him a\\nlamp was lighted. Earnestness was his\\npeculiar endowment. He felt the awful-\\nness and the reality of life. His man-\\nhood was most serious. At the last he\\nspoke of his increasing weakness, and\\nadded, But I can pray, and that is a\\nglorious thing.\\nThere, too, was Frederick W. Robert-\\nson, cultivated, consecrated, struggling\\nfor years against doubt, clinging through\\nthe later years of his life, as he said, to\\nthe one great certainty to which, in the\\nmidst of darkest doubt, I never cease to\\ncling, the entire symmetry and loveli-\\nness and the unequalled nobleness of the\\nhumanity of the Son of man.\\nHear that gifted preacher of Brighton", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 THE INNER LIFE:\\nas he prays Bring into captivity every\\nthought to the obedience of Christ. Take\\nwhat I cannot give, my heart, body,\\nthought, time, abilities, money, health,\\nstrength, nights, days, youth, age, and\\nspend them in thy service, O my cruci-\\nfied Master, Redeemer, God O let not\\nthese be mere words.\\nThere, too, is that delightful circle of\\ncultivated souls, the Hares, Augustus,\\nJulius, Marcus, Francis. What pictures\\ndo The Memorials of a Quiet Life\\nbring us of those delightful people, who\\nenjoyed the incidental pleasures of so-\\nciety, but the tone of whose lives came\\nfrom heaven. As Mrs. Augustus Hare\\nwrote, What we can do for God is\\nlittle or nothing, but we must do our lit-\\ntle nothing for his glory. She says:\\nThe happy Christian is no enthusiast.\\nHe is one of the most reasonable men in\\nthe world. Our own frames and feelings\\nmay change, but our consolations are\\nbased on God s Word, and those who en-\\njoy them can trust for them. Of her\\ndeath her gifted and beloved nephew", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 63\\nwrote Though I can tell the words\\nshe said, I can never give no descrip-\\ntion can an idea of the unearthly\\nbeauty of her face, of her uplifted eyes,\\nof her trembling hands clasped solemnly\\nin prayer or raised in blessing. It was\\nin that last night that in a moment of in-\\ncomprehensible glory, in which all who\\nwere watching seemed carried up with\\nher in spirit to the very gates of God,\\nshe seemed to see the heavens opened,\\nand spoke with rapture of a beautiful\\nwhite dove that floated down toward\\nher.\\nBut time would fail me to tell of all\\nthe illustrious souls who have loved and\\nlived, suffered and borne about in their\\nbodies the marks these marks of pa-\\ntience, grace, and beauty of the Lord\\nJesus, and whose names are on earth as\\nwell as in heaven.\\nHow ecstatic was the joy of Euther-\\nford! What hunger after righteousness,\\nloathing of sin, exultation of divine holi-\\nness and spiritual ravishment in the ex-\\nperience of Eobert Murray McCheyne!", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 THE INNER LIFE:\\nWhat spirit of philanthropy, what energy\\nof reform, what saintliness of manhood,\\nin the noted and humble John Woolman\\nThen there are Madame Guyon, Thomas\\na Kempis, John Wesley, Carvosso, John\\nFletcher, the Tennents, Edward Payson\\nbut there is no end to the list\\nDo you remember John Bunyan s ex-\\nperience when he said If Satan and\\nI ever strived for any word of God in all\\nmy life, it was for this food-word of\\nChrist. He at one end and I at the\\nother. O what work we had He pulled\\nand I pulled but, God be praised, I over-\\ncame him I got sweetness out of it.\\nAt another time he says, I saw more in\\nthe words, heirs of God, than ever I\\nshall be able to express while I live in\\nthis world. Again: I had not sat\\nabove two or three minutes but there\\ncame bolting in upon me an innumer-\\nable company of angels, 5 and with all the\\ntwelfth chapter of Hebrews of Mount\\nZion was set before my eyes, that with\\njoy I told my wife, O now I know. It\\nwas a blessed Scripture to me for many", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 65\\ndays, and through this sentence the Lord\\nled me over and over, and first to this\\nword, and then to that, and showed me\\nwonderful glory in every one of them.\\nThe revelations of the inner life are\\nnot so much revelations of new truth as\\nilluminations of the old. As Erskine\\nonce wrote I have had one revela-\\ntion it is now, I am sorry to sa} T a mat-\\nter of memory with me. It was not a\\nrevelation of anything that was new to\\nme. After it I did not know anything\\nwhich I did not know before. But it was\\na joy for which one might hear any sor-\\nrow. I felt the power of love, that God\\nis love, that he loved me, that he had\\nspoken to me, that he had broken silence\\nto me.\\nO, there is an indwelling of Christ in\\nthe heart of the believer which is as\\nwhen water penetrates to every part of a\\nsponge, or the sun pours its light and\\nwarmth through our entire bodies, as\\nJohn Pulsford says, through and\\nthrough every muscle, every nerve, every\\ndrop of our blood. It is as when the", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 THE INNER LIFE:\\nhigh tide rolls up through the marsh, fill-\\ning every stream with his presence, that\\nthe Spirit of the living God possesses a\\nhuman soul, and Christ through his Holy\\nSpirit enters, permeates, dominates, the\\nentire personality, and answers the\\nprayer of Tennyson,\\nO f or a man to arise in me\\nThat the man that I am may cease to be\\nPaul says, I live, yet not I, but Christ\\nliveth in me justifying Luther s state-\\nment, Should any one knock at my\\nbreast and say, Who lives here? I\\nshould reply, Not Martin Luther, but\\nthe Lord Jesus.\\nMaurice declares, I have been taught\\nby proofs which have overcome all my\\nnatural unbelief and despondency, that\\nthe Spirit does speak in us and through\\nus. He also speaks of being a joyful\\nfellow worker with the Holy Spirit, hav-\\ning a dispensation intrusted to me.\\nA Roman priest, Joseph Eoux, ex-\\nclaims Since in possessing you we\\npossess all if we had nothing else, and in\\nLife.", "height": "3951", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 67\\nnot possessing you we had nothing if we\\nhad all the rest, O my God, I will love\\nyou, that I may possess you upon earth,\\nand I will possess you, that I may love\\nyou one day in heaven.\\nAnd Thomas a Kempis All the\\nglory and beauty of Christ are manifested\\nwithin, and there he delights to dwell.\\nHis visits are frequent, his condescension\\namazing, his conversation sweet, his com-\\nforts refreshing, and the peace that he\\nbrings passeth all understanding.\\nWe might quote whole pages from the\\nwritings of the saints of God in all the\\ngenerations.\\nXXVII.\\nND how true is all this to human\\nnature Has the reader never\\nsaid, under the pressure of some\\nanxiety, some sense of incom-\\npetency, some weariness of spirit, some\\nheavy burden I was perfectly\\nwretched All the light went out of\\nmy life It seems as if I had a load of", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 THE INNER LIFE:\\nlead upon me I could not sleep\\nI wanted to die\\nAgain, how often, amidst the comforts\\nof life, there come unutterable raptures,\\nas when a long-absent friend returns,\\nsome dear one recovers from severe ill-\\nness, and despair is driven out that hope\\nmay sing her song again\\nHow often have you listened to the\\nrendering of some fine musical composi-\\ntion, and have said: I was carried\\naway I never enjoyed anything so\\nmuch in my life I was so full of joy\\nthat my very gladness became oppress-\\nive\\nDo you wonder that, when a human\\nsoul has submitted to God, and his Holy\\nSpirit has entered to give witness of par-\\ndon and sonship and the assurance of\\neternal fellowship with God, do you\\nwonder that the human heart will some-\\ntimes be too full for utterance", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 69\\nXXVIII.\\nOW may we promote a normal in-\\nner life I answer Let us daily\\nmake close, candid, intelligent\\nself-inspection. Let us find the\\nruling motive, and condemn and seek\\nto overcome every tendency to self-\\nishness. Let us fix our thought persist-\\nently and with strength of purpose on\\nthe character and office and words of the\\nLord Jesus, and rest with confidence in his\\npromise of transforming power. Let us\\nwith consenting will open our souls to\\nthe free play and dominion of the Holy\\nSpirit of God. Let us study closely and\\nwith prayer the Holy Scriptures, espe-\\ncially the testimony therein contained of\\ndevout souls who put their trust in God.\\nLet us read habitually the lives of earnest\\nsouls who since the days of the apostles\\nin all ages of the church have believed in\\nChrist and have sought to live under his\\npersonal guidance. Let us surrender\\nourselves to the highest at any present", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 TEE INNER LIFE:\\ntime attainable. If one cannot begin\\nwith transfiguration or resurrection, let\\nhim begin with righteousness. Let him\\ndeal with duty and not with difficulties\\nexercising w r holesome self-restraint; cul-\\ntivating more and more a sense of per-\\nsonal responsibility for social and polit-\\nical conditions cultivating the sense of\\nobligation looking race ward, not wholly\\nheavenward living the altruistic life\\ncommitting one s self in the presence of\\nman to the service of Christ openly\\navowing before the world the measure of\\nfaith we already have giving oppor-\\ntunity to the inner life force listening\\nfor the voice that tells of duty suspend-\\ning activity to give opportunity in silence\\nfor the Spirit of power within; regulat-\\ning our environment in the interest of\\npersonal growth and usefulness putting\\nourselves into conditions favorable to the\\nend we seek.\\nWhen Carlyle began to write the life\\nof Frederick the Great, he tried to real-\\nize all the conditions of Prussian life. He\\nused a desk brought from Germany. His", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "A STUDY IN CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 71\\ninkstand was from Germany. The paper\\nupon which he wrote was from Germany.\\nThe ink he used was from Germany.\\nAnd the very pictures on the wall were\\nGerman pictures. Let us seek the Chris-\\ntian environment.\\nTo secure the true inner life, one must\\ncultivate both will power and faith. He\\nmust say, I will believe. He must\\nstruggle, as Thomas Erskine said, to\\ntake part with God against himself. He\\nmust cultivate and study serenity. He\\nmust sing with Bonar, Calm me, my\\nGod, and keep me calm. He must ac-\\nquire a responsive moral sense, spiritual\\nsensitiveness, and make his religion a\\nthing of every day.\\nWe have often thought we should like\\nto see Thomas a Kempis a trolley-car con-\\nductor or a motorman. Why not The\\ntrue Christian must think of God, delight\\nin God, live for God, in all things, al-\\nways, at the table, in the parlor, in\\ntravel, in the study of art and science, in\\nthe pursuit of business, in sickness, in\\ndeath. He must be religious and ra-", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 THE INNER LIFE.\\ntional, following Livingstone s rule, Fear\\nGod and work hard.\\nHe must seek the type of piety defined\\nof Augustus Hare, To be ardent with-\\nout affectation, enthusiastic without in-\\nconstancy, vigorous without assumption,\\ncheerful without irreverence, equal to all\\noccasions without courting either ap-\\nplause or opposition.\\nInto this deeper, larger, loftier, nobler\\nlife lead each one of us, O Holy Spirit of\\nthe Eternal God, through Jesus Christ\\nour Saviour Amen.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Our Latest Publications*\\nLincoln at Work* b y waiiam o. stoddard.\\nFinely illustrated by Sears Gallagher. 173 pages, cloth, embel-\\nlished cover design. Price, $1.00.\\nProbably no one is better acquainted with the every-day life of\\nAbraham Lincoln than William O. Stoddard, one of his secretaries at\\nthe White House during the greater part of the war. In a series of\\nfascinating and most graphic chapters, Colonel Stoddard pictures the\\ngaunt, ungainly young politician, his rapid and marvellous rise to\\npower, and that strange life in the White House, so appealing in its\\npathos, its quaint humor, and the profound tragedy that lay under-\\nneath it all. The author makes us feel as if we ourselves had been per-\\nmitted to sit by the side of the great President in his dark workroom,\\nor to be present at his momentous and striking conferences with his\\ngenerals. Many anecdotes are told, throwing a flood of light upon the\\ntimes and the man, and the whole closes with a powerful picture of\\nthe impression produced by Mr. Lincoln s death, even in the South,\\nwhere Colonel Stoddard was at the time. Mr. Stoddard is an accom-\\nplished story- writer as well as a skilful historian, and both qualities\\ncome into play in making this delightful and important book.\\nFrOm Life tO Life* By Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D.\\n200 pages, cloth. Price, $1.00.\\nA collection of anecdotes, stories, incidents, poems, and other\\nillustrative material drawn from many sources and touching many\\ntopics. A leading feature of the book is the large number of incidents\\ntaken from life and carrying their own lessons. The compiler, well\\nknown as one of the foremost evangelists, gathered the matter for his\\nown use from his own observation and the choicest parts have been\\nselected for this volume. It will therefore be of great interest and\\nvalue to Christian workers generally, whether for their own help or as\\nan aid in winning others.\\nDoings in Derry ville* b y Lewis v. 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D,\\nA study in Christian experience which shows\\nhow the life of the soul is the true reality, and what\\nstriking results are wrought when the power of Christ\\nand the indwelling of the Holy Spirit become the\\ncontrolling forces in a life.\\nThe Loom Of Life* ByRev.RN,Peioubet,D,D,\\nThe threads our hands in blindness spin,\\nOur self-determined plan weaves in.\\nThe Loom of Life, and If Christ were a Guest\\nin our Home, which is also included in this volume,\\nare two very helpful sketches by the author of that\\nwell-known publication, Peloubet s Select Notes.\\nMany new and forceful truths are presented, such as\\nwill give the reader thought for serious consideration\\nfor many a day. The book abounds in apt illustra-\\ntions and anecdotes, in the use of which Dr. Peloubet\\nis so skilful.\\nThe Improvement of Perfection*\\nBy Rev. William E. Barton, D. D.\\nThis is not a treatise on the higher life, but is meant\\nto help young Christians to a higher life by showing\\nwhat kind of perfection God expects, and how it is to\\nbe gained, at the same time furnishing an incentive\\nto attain it. The aim is practical rather than theo-\\nretical, and the style is clear and attractive.\\nI Promise* By Rev. F. B. Meyer*\\nThe book is appropriately called I promise. Its\\nchapters deal with matters of the utmost importance\\nto every Christian, such themes as Salvation and\\nTrust, Winning God s Attention, and What\\nWould Jesus Do In strong, sensible, winsome\\nwords the path of duty is pointed out, and conscience\\nis spurred to follow it.\\nUNITED SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR,\\nBoston and Chicago.", "height": "3718", "width": "2231", "jp2-path": "innerlifestudyin00vinc_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "The How Series.\\nBy AMOS R. WELLS*\\n7 1-4 by 4 1-2 inches in size. Uniformly bound in cloth with illuminated\\ncover design. About 150 pages each. Price, 75 cents each.\\nHow To Work*\\nThis is a working nation, and yet few among its millions of\\nworkers know how to work to the best advantage and with the\\nbest results. The fundamental principles of wise labor are set\\nforth in these chapters in a familiar, conversational style.\\nMuch of the book consists of actual talks given to young men\\nand women starting out in life. Puttering, Putting Off,\\nHurry Up! Taking Hints, A Pride in Your Work,\\nCan Conquers, The Bulldog Grip, The Trivial Kound,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094these are specimen titles of the thirty-one chapters. The\\nbook is not didactic, but presents truth in illustrations, so that\\nit sticks.\\nHow To Play,\\nThe author of this book evidently believes in recreation.\\nThe very first chapter is entitled, The Duty of Playing. Sepa-\\nrate chapters are devoted to the principal indoor amusements,\\nconversation and reading being the author s preferences, and\\nalso to the leading outdoor sports, especially the bicycle and\\nlawn tennis. There are many practical chapters on such themes\\nas how to keep games fresh, inventing games, what true recrea-\\ntion is, and how to use it to the best advantage. Flabby Play-\\ning, Playing by Proxy, Fun that Fits, Overdoing It,\\nthese are some of the chapter titles. In one section of the book\\nscores of indoor games are described, concisely, but with suffi-\\ncient fulness.\\nHow To Study*\\nThese chapters, on a very practical theme, deal with the\\nmost practical aspects of it,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 such topics as concentration of\\nmind, night study, cramming, memory-training, care of the body,\\nnote-taking, and examinations. 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