The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . hee,When hearts are pierced and thoughts all aimless stray,In thee the heart stands firm, the life moves free:Thou art the Way! Thou art the Light!Earth beyond earth no faintest ray can give;Heavens shadeless noontide blinds our mortal sight;In thee we look on God, and love and live:Thou art our Light! BELIEF in Christ as the manifestationof God in the flesh, is the one and onlydistinctive Christian belief. A belief inthe general existence of God may b
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . hee,When hearts are pierced and thoughts all aimless stray,In thee the heart stands firm, the life moves free:Thou art the Way! Thou art the Light!Earth beyond earth no faintest ray can give;Heavens shadeless noontide blinds our mortal sight;In thee we look on God, and love and live:Thou art our Light! BELIEF in Christ as the manifestationof God in the flesh, is the one and onlydistinctive Christian belief. A belief inthe general existence of God may be saidto be a universal religious sentiment. Notonly do all tribes and nations of men rec-ognize the Divine Existence, but this belief is alsocommon among the devils in hell, who are explicitlydeclared to believe and tremble. This belief is anineradicable instinct of mans religious nature; oneof those truths that find their way into the mind andheart of man through every avenue of informationincorporated in the structure and functions of hismoral being. More than this, the whole universeproclaims this truth ; the heavens above, the earth. GENERAL BELIEF. 741 beneath, each flower and leaf upon the earth, eachbird and insect that lives and moves, proclaim sea roars it, the winds whisper it, the storm thun-ders it. Mans own moral nature responds to thistruth ; reason demands and accepts it, conscience an-nounces and enforces it. Given a rational immortalsoul, made in Gods image, and a world around filledwith clear evidences of Divine power and skill, and abelief in Gods existence is inevitable. And this ac-counts for that ancient testimony of Plutarchs, givenabout the commencement of the Christian era, viz : Go over the earth and you can find cities withoutwalls, without temples of art, without culture, but acity without gods and sacrifices, no man ever saw. It would indeed be strange, God having createdthe world and left the imprints of his workmanshipupon it, and having c
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