CONVERSATION GENIUS OF SPIRIT. CHILDHOOD. XIV. - Jesus with the Doctors in the Temple, from the Sacred Text. - Wisdom Childhood. 111 CONVERSATION XV. INTEGRITY OF SPIRIT. FILIAL PIETY. Jesus at Nazareth Fourteen Years, from the Sacred Text. - Maternal Prudence. Filial Love and Obedience - Motives to Obedience.- Authority of Holiness. — Liability to Temptation. -- Mission of Life, 121 CONVERSATION XVI. ORGANIZATION OF SPIRIT. CORPOREAL RELATIONS. Genealogy of Jesus, from the Sacred Text. Transmission of Life. -- - - Spirit. Eternity of Spirit. - - Organic Law of Longevity of Body. - Laws of Life. Transfiguration of Spirit. - 127 CONVERSATION XVII. BAPTISM OF SPIRIT. TEMPERANCE. The Ministry of John Baptist from the Sacred Text. Idea and Emblem of Purification. - - Spiritual and Physical Purification. Mission of C * - Emblem of Inno- cence. Emblem of Humility. - Spiritual Insight. - Voice of Con- 139 149 CONVERSATION XIX. SPIRITUAL SUPREMACY. SELF-SUBORDINATION. Review. - Temptation of Jesus, from the Sacred Text. - Personality of - -Self-Sacri- 157 CONVERSATION XX.. SPIRITUAL SUPREMACY. SELF-CONTROL. Temptation of Jesus, from the Sacred Text. - Idea of Temptation. Vain Glory. John's Testimony to Jesus, from the Sacred Text. - Sentiment of Sacrifice. CONVERSATION XXII. CONCILIATION OF SPIRIT. SELF-SACRIFICE. - John's Testimony to Jesus, from the Sacred Text. - Emblem of Love Mission. APPENDIX, 187 INTRODUCTION. THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF HUMAN CULTURE. Idea of Man. creatures. MAN is the noblest of the Creator's works. He is the most richly gifted of all his His sphere of action is the broadest; his influence the widest; and to him is given Nature and Life for his heritage and his possession. He holds dominion over the Outward. He is the rightful Sovereign of the Earth, fitted to subdue all things to himself, and to know of no superior, save God. And yet he enters upon the scene of his labors, a feeble and wailing Babe, at first unconscious of the place assigned him, and needs years of tutelage and discipline to fit him for the high and austere duties that await him. Idea of Education. The Art, which fits such a being to fulfil his high destiny, is the first and noblest Human Culture is the art of revealing to a of arts. |