The Unitarian Review Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...than he that he can do them little good, though he may be exalted by looking in their faces as he tries to talk worthily of the better life. Others may be now as good as they can be made in this world, at all events, cannot be changed by any form of sound or splendid words. Most of them are so driven by the world that the most faithful minister can but seldom meet them, and in his loftiest preaching is like the keeper of a turnpike gate, shouting himself hoarse after a party of rough riders that are tearing across the country. This world is not ruled by words or abstract ideas, but by ideas incarnate in men and institutions; and the child is the corner-stone of every man and every institution on earth. No religion can permanently convert a people while it is only a spoken word, a theory, a vision in the prophet's soul. It must descend among men and embody itself in a church, which can keep step with their common life, and bind them together by common worship of God and common service to man. And a church can only be made by the religious education of the children, their education together in a common faith and hope in God and Christ and a common service to man. The Catholic Church owes its prodigious power to the training of its children. The Protestant Evangelical Church is a mighty force through the persistence with which it trains its children in its own religious faith. And every church of Christ will grow or decay as it works faithfully or neglects to work at this corner-stone. Last December the Congress of the United States assembled and began its session by a final act of political amnesty. The last, rebel is now forgiven, and the great gates of the Republic stand open, that the most wayward of its children may enter in and be at...