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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \nPersons are aware from the mere force of the doctrines of which the \ngospel consists\, that they ought to be variously affected\, and deeply and \nintensely too\, in consequence of them. The doctrines of original and actual sin\, \nof Christ’s divinity and atonement\, and of holy baptism\, are so vast\, that no one \ncan realize them without very complicated and profound feelings. Natural \nreason tells us this\, and that if we simply and genuinely believe the doctrines\, we \nmust have these feelings; and we profess to believe the doctrines absolutely\, and \ntherefore we profess the correspondent feelings. But in truth we perhaps do not \nreally believe them absolutely…and therefore our profession of feeling outruns \nthe real inward existence of feeling\, or we become unreal. Let us never lose sight \nof two truths\, – that we ought to have our hearts penetrated with the love of \nChrist and full of self-renunciation; but if they be not\, professing that they are \ndoes not make them so. \nAnother still more common form of the same fault\, yet without any \ndefinite pretense or effort\, is the mode in which people speak of the shortness \nand vanity of life\, the certainty of death\, and the joys of heaven. They have \ncommonplaces in their mouths\, which they bring forth upon occasions for the \ngood of others\, or to console them\, or as a proper and becoming mark of \nattention towards them. Thus they speak to clergymen in a professedly serious \nway\, making remarks true and sound\, and in themselves deep\, yet unmeaning \nin their mouths; or they give advice to children and young men; or perhaps in \nlow spirits or sickness they are led to speak in a religious strain as if it was \nspontaneous. \nOr when they fall into sin\, they speak of being frail\, of the deceitfulness of \nthe human heart\, of God’s mercy\, and so on: – all of these great words\, heaven\, \nhell\, judgment\, mercy\, repentance\, works\, the world that now is\, the world to \ncome\, being little more than “lifeless sounds\, whether of pipe or harp\,” in their \nmouths and ears\, as the “very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and \ncan play well on an instrument\,” – as the properties of conversation\, or the \ncivilities of good breeding. \nI am speaking of the conduct of the world at large\, called Christian; but \nwhat has been said applies\, and necessarily\, to the case of a number of well- \ndisposed or even religious men. I mean\, that before we come to know the \nrealities of human life\, it is not wonderful that our view of religion should be \nunreal. Young people who have never known sorrow or anxiety\, or the sacrifices \nwhich conscientiousness involves\, want commonly that depth and seriousness \nof character\, which sorrow only and anxiety and self-sacrifice can give. \nI do not notice this as a fault\, but as a plain fact\, which may often be seen\, \nand which it is well to bear in mind. This is the legitimate use of this world\, to \nmake us seek for another. It does its part when it repels us and disgusts us and \ndrives us elsewhere. Experience of it gives experience of that which is its \nantidote\, in the case of religious minds; and we become real in our view of what \nis spiritual by the contact of things temporal and earthly.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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