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of the Chinese dwarfing the foot or of the Indians flattening the head. Now it is giving a round full Enlargement to the character. Truth to be seen aright must have a perfect character. Christ as a perfect man | of the Chinese dwarfing the foot or of the Indians flattening the head. Now it is giving a round full Enlargement to the character. Truth to be seen aright must have a perfect character. Christ as a perfect man saw truth as we never can see it. Hence the pure in heart only can see God. A very little thing may be the starting point of a prejudice. It is wonderful how some casual word manner or circumstance is caught up like driftwood in the current of Character forming a ripple or new Channel in all afterlife. If is said of Dr. Channing the great Unitarian divine that when a little child he went to meeting with his father where the doctrine of endless punishment was very solemnly preached. his father being a believer in that doctrine. After the sermon his father left the meeting house whistling and that whistle was the seed of the boy's subsequent theology. To him it was a mockery of the fearful words he had just heard. He could not. |
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10 of the Chinese dwarfing the foot or of the Indians flattening the head. Now it is giving a round full Enlargement to the character. Truth to be seen aright must have a perfect character. Christ as a perfect man saw truth as we never can see it. Hence the pure in heart only can see God. A very little thing may be the starting point of a prejudice. It is wonderful how some casual word manner or circumstance is caught up like driftwood in the current of Character forming a ripple or new Channel in all afterlife. If is said of Dr. Channing the great Unitarian divine that when a little child he went to meeting with his father where the doctrine of endless punishment was very solemnly preached. his father being a believer in that doctrine. After the sermon his father left the meeting house whistling and that whistle was the seed of the boy's subsequent theology. To him it was a mockery of the fearful words he had just heard. He could not.