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To: newsperson999
All honor due those men...
Honor Due All Men
In particular, a pertinent part...The sense of duty is the greatest gift of God. The idea of right is the primary and the highest revelation of God to the human mind, and all outward revelations are founded on and addressed to it. All mysteries of science and theology fade away before the grandeur of the simple perception of duty which dawns on the mind of the little child. That perception brings him into the moral kingdom of God. That lays on him an everlasting bond. He in whom the conviction of duty is unfolded becomes subject from that moment to a law which no power in the universe can abrogate. He forms a new and indissoluble connection with God, that of an accountable being. He begins to stand before an inward tribunal, on the decisions of which his whole happiness rests; he hears a voice which, if faithfully followed, will guide him to perfection, and in neglecting which he brings upon himself inevitable misery. We little understand the solemnity of the moral principle in every human mind. We think not how awful are its functions. We forget that it is the germ of immortality. Did we understand it, we should look with a feeling of reverence on every being to whom it is given.
While some may disagree with parts of the article I thought this most appropriate today.
298 posted on 09/12/2001 6:34:52 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36
Thanks for #298. Been weeping off and on all day,
sometimes for the extreme ugliness of the destruction,
and sometimes for the extreme beauty of the present-day disciples -
shining like bright stars in this dark time.
Nice to see you again, philman. God bless you.
339 posted on 09/12/2001 7:34:28 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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