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Updated: May 18, 2025
In attacking selfishness, hypocrisy, and corruption; in preaching the value of a life of good deeds; in showing how men ought to progress toward higher ideals; in teaching that "Love is the physician of life and nearest our Lord himself, " Piers Plowman proved itself a regenerating spiritual force, a stepping-stone toward the later Reformation.
The man may choose between enforced continence and its effects, or he may resort to an unmarried relationship or to prostitution. Neither of these people the one schooled directly or indirectly by the church and the other trained in the sex ethics of the gutter can hope to lift the other to the regenerating influences of a pure, clean, happy love life.
With shaking hands he lit the lamp on his study table; the wick sputtered, and the light in his head jigged horribly with the jigging of the flame. It was as if he was being stabbed with little knives of light. He plunged his head into a basin of cold water, threw open his window and leaned out into the pure regenerating night.
The school would also possess many attractions for adults of both sexes, and by the co-operation of the wise and the good, its refining, purifying, and regenerating influences may be brought effectually to bear upon every family and every individual within the boundaries of the district.
The people provided a plain breakfast in their several homes for over eighty of our visitors, who therefore stayed over the forenoon. It made our Christian population look fairly formidable, and certainly very reputable as a force for uplifting and regenerating society.
And this lost power is to be restored, we may expect, by the regenerating force of conversion."
All that was good in Puritanism has been retained by the modern spirit, while its narrowing and numbing features, its anti-human, self-mortifying, provincial side have passed or are passing in the regenerating sunlight of what one might call a spiritual paganism, which conceives of natural forces and natural laws as inherently pure and mysteriously sacred.
"If we go down into the deep I will cling to her pure skirts; then if I cannot save her life, possibly she can save my soul!" Evidently, there was need of regenerating grace here; but even his puerile thought may prove it had already begun.
Nothing but a general revolution of mind and hand against the prevalent system, nothing but some great destructive but regenerating catastrophe, could redeem the people. And it is the condition of the people which ought always to be the prominent subject of interest to those who study the records of the Past.
Anecdotes of particular passages, as in affliction or in joy; his son lamed for life, or his house half burnt down, his attack by highwaymen, or election for parliament. The squire's general confidence in man, sympathy with frailties, and success in regenerating long-lost characters.
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