tribution. — Type of the Appetites and Passions. — Repentance and

Contrition. - Illustration of Contrition. — Confession of Faults.

Quickening Agency of Conscience.— Spiritual Renewal. — Persecu-

tion. -- Activity of Spirit. -- Unity of Spirit. -- Limitations of the

Flesh. — Paternity of Spirit. - Spiritual Renovation. - Retribution.

-- Subject,

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CONVERSATION XLVII.

UNITY OF SPIRIT.

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.

Review, -- Conversation of Jesus with the Jews after the Cure of the

Impotent Man, from the Sacred Text. -- Spiritual Insight. -- Spirit-

ual Blindness. -- Spiritual Evidence. -- Witness of Spirit. -- Immuta-

bility of Conscience. Voice of Conscience. -- Ubiquity of Con-

science. -- Practical Holiness. --Grounds of Faith. --- Evidence of

Consciousness. --- Invisibility of Spirit. - Record of Spirit. --- Duality

of Spirit. Subject,

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CONVERSATION XLVIII.

SABBATH OF SPIRIT.

HOLY TIME.

Review.-- The Disciples plucking the Ears of Corn, from the Sacred

Text. - Ideas of Labor. --- Sunday Employments. ---Sunday Readings.

--Church-going. -

-- End of Sunday or Sabbath. - Meditation. --- Idea

of Sunday Duties. --- Devotion. --- Cheerfulness. Prayer, spontane-

ous and formal. -- Lord's Prayer. – Spiritual Greatness. --- Emblem.

-- Holiness. --- Sabbath in the Soul.- - Subject,

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CONVERSATION XLIX.

SPIRITUAL AND CORPOREAL RELATIONS.

APPETITES AND PASSIONS.

Review. - Healing of the Withered Hand, from the Sacred Text.---

Anger and Indignation. --- Paralysis. - Awe of Holiness. Illustra-

tion. -- Self-Knowledge. - Self-Insight. Phases of Spirit. -- Self-

Indulgence. Countenance of Spirit. Emblems of the Passions. ---

Idea of the Scene. Emblem. --- Idea of the Cure. -- Centres of Ac-

tion. --- Physiology and Psychology. --- Identity of Spirit. --- Spiritual

Nurture. - Origin of Disease. Seat of Appetite. --- Hunger. --

Organs of Appetite. --- Seat of Hunger. - Opinions of the Children.

Subject. — Method of the Conversations,

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CONVERSATION L.

FORESIGHT OF SPIRIT.

PROPHECY.

Review. Multitudes follow Jesus, from the Sacred Text. Mira-

cles. --- Preaching. -- Prophecy. --- Idea of Prophets, --- Conditions of

Prophecy. Prophetic Instincts. Inspiration, -- Sympathy with

Suffering and Sorrow. --- Reformation. ---Gentiles. — Imperfection. –

Subject. -- Suspension of the Conversations. Synopsis of the pre-

ceding Conversations. - Close,

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Practical Value of the Conversations. — First Disciples of Jesus, from the

Sacred Text. — Faith in Spirit. — Example. - Affability. - Idea of Conversations. - Idea of Sermons and Ministers. - Fraternal Affection. Names of Jesus. — Emblem of Intrepidity. — Guilelessness. — Spiritual Phenomena. – Intuition of Spirit.

Mr. AlcoTT. Do you think that you feel Practical Value of the Conversa- the influence of these Conversations when you are at home and elsewhere, and that it

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makes you behave better than what you would do, if we did not have them ?

(Many raised their hands.) Do you think that you all understand them fully? Nathan. I understand a good deal.

(The rest raised their hands.) Mr. Alcott. What is the use of these Conversations?

Samuel T. They teach us about Jesus Christ, so that we may learn to be good ourselves.

Lucia. They teach us about Conscience.

MR. Alcott. Why do I wish you to understand Jesus Christ?

John B. Because Jesus Christ teaches us to obey our Consciences.

AUGUSTINE. We are restrained by the same reasons as restrained Jesus Christ.

Mr. Alcott. Is all the influence a restraint?
AUGUSTINE. No; we are encouraged by faith in him.

Mr. Alcott: What do we study and believe in, by studying and having faith in Jesus Christ?

AUGUSTINE. The Spirit.
MR. Alcott. Do you mean the Father?
AUGUSTINE. No; the Son-Spirit.
Mr. Alcott. Can your Spirit be a Son-Spirit?
AUGUsTine. Yes.
Mr. Alcott. How?

AUGUSTINE. By being like Jesus, acting as he did obeying Conscience.

MR. Alcott. Why do we make pictures of Jesus Christ's life and actions?

George K. So we may copy him.
CHARLES. We have his spiritual example.
Andrew. He teaches us to obey Conscience.
Mr. Alcott. Where is Conscience?

ANDREW. It is in me; it comes from God. Jesus had the best Conscience that ever was.