. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. g of the worship ofthe gods as a duty acknowledged everywhere, and received by all menas the first command. Cicero, in the De Officiis, makes those dutieswhich we owe to the immortal gods the first in importance. This is inaccordance with the teaching of Christ: Thou slialt love the Lordthy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thymind, and with all thy strength; this is the first commandment. The Supremacy of these Duties follows, because God is the actualembodiment o
. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. g of the worship ofthe gods as a duty acknowledged everywhere, and received by all menas the first command. Cicero, in the De Officiis, makes those dutieswhich we owe to the immortal gods the first in importance. This is inaccordance with the teaching of Christ: Thou slialt love the Lordthy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thymind, and with all thy strength; this is the first commandment. The Supremacy of these Duties follows, because God is the actualembodiment of the highest good for man, — the infinite thought, love,and power, in which alone the finite and progressive intellect, heart,and will can find complete development, satisfaction, and rest. Theheight and true glory of mans being can never be reached except as hedraws light and inspiration and motive from the one Source of truthand love and power. His knowledge of God, love for God, sympathywith Gods will, must measure the height and depth and length andbreadth of mans life of duty in the CHAPTER I. SUPREME DEVOTION OF INTELLECT TO GOD. AS mau was made to know, so he was made above all toknow God the source and centre and sum of all wisdomand truth. In short, it is the supreme duty of man, as anintellectual being, to strive with all his power to know Godand his revelation of his infinite thought. Activity of intellect toward God is moreover absolutelyessential to the highest manhood; and all atheism and scepti-cism sink man below the true height of his being. The Supreme Knowledge.— That man was made to know, and to knowGod has already been shown (p. 36). If it be true — as it undoubtedly is— that the objects upon which the human intellect is exercised decide itsbreadth and power, then atheism and scepticism, in withdrawing manfrom the contemplation of the grand idea of God to that of the lowerideas of man and material nature, must dwarf him intellectually. It
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