A Royal Life (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIIL TRUE MANHOOD. Man was framed to co-operate in his aspirations and endeavors with the Sovereign Wisdom and Love. This is his distinguishing function, and conscience and faith are the indwelling principles which guide him in executing it. In the consciousness of tending toward this end, and of conforming to this law, there is a sense of fulfilled obligation and quiet respect, a peace within, which no accumulation of outward advantages, no gratification of selfish desires and worldly ambition, can possibly replace, and which though it may not take the name of happiness, no man actually possessing it would deliberately exchange it for what is often called happiness. Hugh Miller says: "The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty--'the kingdom'--not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form of man. In the doctrine of the two conjoined natures, human and Divine, and in the further doctrine, that the terminal dynasty is to be peculiarly the dynasty of Him in whom the natures are united, we find that required progression beyond which progress cannot go." There is one proposition concerning man which few, if any, will care to dispute, viz.: That he has a relationship to matter and to spirit. The testimony of the Bible being accepted, he is found formed from the dust of the ground, but his spirit is divinely inbreathed; "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul" There is thus a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding; so that he is taught more than the beasts of the earth, and made wiser than the fowls of heaven, for he hath put wisdom in t...