{"id":1398,"date":"2008-09-07T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/09\/emerson-on-sunday-worship\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:12:20","slug":"emerson-on-sunday-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/09\/emerson-on-sunday-worship.html","title":{"rendered":"Emerson on Sunday Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SMRBB4QuT5I\/AAAAAAAABN0\/cnva7wPmBUo\/s1600-h\/Ralph+Waldo+Emerson.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SMRBB4QuT5I\/AAAAAAAABN0\/cnva7wPmBUo\/s320\/Ralph+Waldo+Emerson.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first; the Sabbath, the jubilee of the whole world; whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil, and into prison cells, and everywhere suggests, even to the vile, the dignity of spiritual being. Let it stand forevermore, a temple, which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore to more than its first splendor to mankind. And secondly, the institution of preaching,\u2013the speech of man to men, \u2014 essentially the most flexible of all organs, of all forms. What hinders that now, everywhere, in pulpits, in lecture-rooms, in houses, in fields, wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, you speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcendentalists.com\/1emerson.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a> in his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Divinity_School_Address\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Divinity School Address<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4159393733502595183?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first; the Sabbath, the jubilee of the whole world; whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil, and into prison cells, and everywhere suggests, even to the vile, the dignity of spiritual being. 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