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The Light of the East May 1938

1938

But what would a body be that were 8 THE LIGHT OF THE EAST"share they contribute to the progress of hof their unassailable dignity ; not hatred but manity and thus to the glory of God they pity for the idle rich do Christ and the Church fill those hearts with dissatisfaction and instil into the heart of the workers. [...] the Professor fancies the way in which the The Professor evidently makes much capsoul gives life to the body very much on tal out of the fact that the 'phenomena the analogy of the way in which electricity which he mentions as creating difficulty gives `life' to a dead wire '. It is plain with regard to the indivisibility of the in other words that lie imagines life as human soul are new [...] THE LIGHT OF THE EAST 86"Now if this be the way in which the body from the dead body ? This and this soul sets matter alive the two objections alone that in the living body all the parts of the Professor seem unanswerable. [...] Our life is therefore and ever the When the sickness is in the soul ( which unstable equilibrium between two forces— can hardly happen unless the body is also the force of disruption represented by the diseased ) the disorganisation comes from weakness or centrifugal tendency of mathe shepherd and not from the sheep. [...] all the self-forgetting love of unrestricted devotedness the holiest undying yearning for the virtue and the progress of a child's soul the heroic acceptance of an excruciating sacrifice demanded by God because of an all-conquering trust in the Lord's Goodwill and Wisdom the amazing humility of the implied prfession: "We are unprofitable servants' the absolute...
philosophy religion
Pages
22
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120063
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i D. Dandoy view
A Programme of Christian Charity
82-82 unknown view
Joseph the Cappenter
83-85 unknown view
Death Inch by Inch
85-91 unknown view
Recent English Converts
92-95 E. Verstraelen view
The Missing Gem
95-96 unknown view
Worth Remembering
97-97 unknown view
The Bookshelf
98-99 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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