Discipline and Other Sermons

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Charles Kingsley. Discipline and Other Sermons

SERMON I. DISCIPLINE

SERMON II. THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM

SERMON III. PRAYER AND SCIENCE

SERMON IV. GOD’S TRAINING

SERMON V. GOOD FRIDAY

SERMON VI. FALSE CIVILIZATION

SERMON VII. THE NAME OF GOD

SERMON VIII. THE END OF RELIGION

SERMON IX. THE HUMANITY OF GOD

SERMON X. GOD’S WORLD

SERMON XI. THE ARMOUR OF GOD

SERMON XII. PAUL AND FELIX

SERMON XIII. THE GOOD SAMARITAN

SERMON XIV. CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD

SERMON XV. THE JEWISH REBELLIONS

SERMON XVI. TERROR BY NIGHT

SERMON XVII. THE SON OF THUNDER

SERMON XVIII. HUMILITY

SERMON XIX. A WHITSUN SERMON

SERMON XX. SELF-HELP

SERMON XXI. ENDURANCE

SERMON XXII. TOLERATION

SERMON XXIII. THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST

SERMON XXIV. THE LIKENESS OF GOD

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This allegory has been a favourite one with many deep and lofty thinkers.  They mixed it, now and then, with Greek fancies; and brought Phœbus, Apollo, and the Muses into the Temple of Wisdom.  But whatever they added to the allegory, they always preserved the allegory itself.  No words, they felt, could so well express what Wisdom was, and how it was to be obtained by man.

The stately Temple, built by mystic rules of art; the glorious Lady, at once its Architect, its Priestess, and its Queen; the feast spread within for all who felt in themselves divine aspirations after what is beautiful, and good, and true; the maidens fair and pure, sent forth throughout the city, among the millions intent only on selfish gain or selfish pleasure, to call in all who were not content to be only a more crafty kind of animal, that they might sit down at the feast among the noble company of guests,—those who have inclined their heart to wisdom, and sought for understanding as for hid treasures:—this is a picture which sages and poets felt was true; true for all men, and for all lands.  And it will be, perhaps, looked on as true once more, as natural, all but literally exact, when we who are now men are in our graves, and you who are now boys will be grown men; in the days when the present soulless mechanical notion of the world and of men shall have died out, and philosophers shall see once more that Wisdom is no discovery of their own, but the inspiration of the Almighty; and that this world is no dead and dark machine, but alight with the Glory, and alive with the Spirit, of God.

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And they beheld her, and loved her, and obeyed her, each according to his powers: and now they have their reward.

And what is their reward?

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