. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. to aid the nation in understanding and accomplishingits mission. Duty to Elevate the Nation. — The height to which the nation is torise must always depend upon the elevation of view, character, andconduct to which its citizens attain. It depends especially upon theelevation of those citizens who have chiefly to do with the framing ofits policy, the management of its affairs, and the moulding of itsdestiny. Duty to Lead to its Mission. — It is therefore obviously the sacredduty of the citize
. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. to aid the nation in understanding and accomplishingits mission. Duty to Elevate the Nation. — The height to which the nation is torise must always depend upon the elevation of view, character, andconduct to which its citizens attain. It depends especially upon theelevation of those citizens who have chiefly to do with the framing ofits policy, the management of its affairs, and the moulding of itsdestiny. Duty to Lead to its Mission. — It is therefore obviously the sacredduty of the citizen, to gain if possible true views of the part assignedto the nation in the great plan of the world, and to do his utmost toinfluence it in acting that part. The obligation to this task evidentlyincreases with the breadth of view, the degree of power, the extent ofinfluence, and the rank and station of the individual; so that it reachesits utmost sacredness in the case of those who have the gift of genius,and who occupy the high places of society, in business and instruction,in church and DIVISION III. THEISTIC ETHICS. Statement and Subdivision. Theistic Ethics is that division of Practical Ethics whichtreats of the application of the principles of the moral lawto the regulation of mans conduct in his immediate relationsto God. As the requirements of the moral law toward God aresummed up in supreme devotion to God, Theistic Ethics issimply the unfolding and application of this germ of the law. The Sphere of Theistic Ethics. — This Division of Practical Etliicshas properly nothing to do with the demonstration of the being of God,or with the establishment of the fundamental principles of the morallaw. Its sphere is limited to the application of what it accepts as clearly-demonstrated or established. It accepts the truth of the being of Godfrom Theoretical Ethics, which again receives it from Theology Naturaland Revealed. It also accepts the principle of the law towar
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