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Mrs Margaret would not have put it quite in that plain form of words, for no idolater will ever admit that he addresses the piece of wood or stone; but it was what she really did without admitting it. Alas for the worshipper whose god has to be carried about, and requires dusting like any other ornament! "They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them."
What did he say? What a warning it is, gentlemen. He wrote, in the year 1836: "At the single town of Hooghly 1,400 boys are learning English. The effect of this education on the Hindus is prodigious.... It is my firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.
Paul to the Jews became as a Jew, that he might gain the Jews: I, by a false process of reason, thought it allowable to become as an idolater to the idolaters, that I might gain the idolaters. An awful, presumptuous sin!
No one can conceive a supernatural Being, and what none can conceive none ought to worship, or even assert the existence of. Who worships a something of which he knows nothing is an idolater. To talk of, or bow down to it, is nonsensical; to pretend affection for it, is worse than nonsensical.
It is true that he also developed polytheistic ideas and beliefs, and that he cultivated them at certain periods of his history with diligence, and to such a degree that the nations around, and even the stranger in his country, were misled by his actions, and described him as a polytheistic idolater.
But as man is nomadic before he is agricultural, and a maker of tents and wigwams before he builds houses and temples, in like manner he is an architect and an idolater before he becomes a student of wisdom; he is a sacrificer in temples and a priest at their altars, before he is a teacher of philosophy or an interpreter of Nature.
"I furthermore order that Count Neroweg pursue the Vagres without let, that he capture and put them to death all of them, but especially their chief and a relapsed hermit, a renegade, an idolater who accompanies the accursed men.
Her father was the first to relent, and was finally brought, by Lottie's irresistible witchery, quite over on her side. But, in her mother's case, there was only partial resignation to a great but inevitable misfortune. Mrs. Marsden was a sincere idolater of the world for which she lived. In Aunt Jane, Lottie had a stanch ally, and a sympathizing and comforting helper.
A tree is a thing which he may prepare for his own purposes, for fuel, for tools, or for a dwelling, as he pleases. Isaiah ridiculed the idolater in his time, who made an idol of wood and worshiped it, while with another part of the same tree he built a fire and warmed himself. A part he served and a part served him. The whole tree was subject to him; in itself it had no rights.
This also is plain from the Word, because it setteth covetousness and the fear of God in direct opposition. Besides, the covetous man is called an idolater, and is said to have no part in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Hearken to this, you that hunt the world to take it, you that care not how you get, so you get the world.
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