College Sermons

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE DOMINANT NOTE OF THE REAL RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE DAY Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. 1: 27. MY purpose this morning is to discuss what I esteem to be the dominant note of the real religious life of the day. There are of course other religious notes besides the one I mean to strike, but there...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE DOMINANT NOTE OF THE REAL RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE DAY Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. 1: 27. MY purpose this morning is to discuss what I esteem to be the dominant note of the real religious life of the day. There are of course other religious notes besides the one I mean to strike, but there is none I believe so regnant, clear, and broadly diffused as that selected for our consideration. Having thus announced my subject it only remains for me to remind you as we stand upon its threshold, and before we enter upon its more detailed and analytic treatment, that the religious life is not by any means bounded by ecclesiastical forms or organizations, and that it should therefore be no matter of surprise to any thoughtful man to hear that it has other modes of utterance than those which are hallowed by the traditions and conventions of the church. With these brief words of introduction I shall at once proceed to the topic before us, the dominant note of the religion of today. Now a note, as every one knows, is a written or printed symbol of a musical tone. And musical tones in their turn are in the majority of cases recognizably composite. In other words they are plainly made up of several partial tones of which the lowest in pitch is called the undertone, while the others are denominated overtones or harmonics. It becomes us therefore first of all to ask what is the fundamental tone or the undertone of thedominant religious note of our day. To my mind we may best describe it by the word inwardness. And what do I mean by inwardness? Let us see. When we examine the more habitual and widespread religious attitude of our time we find that it does not face toward the stars but in the direction of the soul or spirit of man. People do not look nowadays to see t...