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If he must be judged of by his parents, let him rather have the advantage of the thorough loyalty and religiousness of his mother, a most zealous old lady, in high repute in the neighbourhood of Sicca for her theurgic knowledge, a staunch friend of the imperial government, which had before now been indebted to her for important information, and as staunch a hater of the Christians.
All other things which may be still connected with religious life and reasoning, are but a misty veil. The acknowledgment of the indiscernibleness of the final cause of all things alone is the quintessence of religion. But such a religiousness, which expressly forbids imagining any quality or any state of the highest being, certainly would be, as Prof.
Hold on till I git my internal machine to work on the fence. Dad! Where's that ole morepoke? O, you're there, are you? A low groan from Bum's mare followed the heavy stroke of the ruffian's spurs. Up! you Red Roverite! " No use... The mare had had enough for one day; she stumbled, and fell, rolling heavily over her rider. "Come on agen, an' don't gimme no more o' your religiousness."
Of the earth earthy genuine red earth of the old Adam it was an ideal very different from that which the sacred Italian painters had evoked from the life of Italy, yet, in its best types, was not without a kind of natural religiousness.
It is incontestible and will become still clearer and more certain to us through all farther investigation of the subject that the acknowledgment of the idea of miracles as a necessary and a justified part of religiousness stands and falls with the acknowledgment of a teleological view of the world.
One reason is the fact, that faith in a special providence of God, in a hearing of prayer, and in a connection of the human history of salvation with miracles, forms a very essential part of the Christian view of the world and of Christian religiousness.
Now, that this faith in a special providence, in a hearing of prayer, and in divine miracles, forms an essential part of Christian religiousness, we do not need to show more in detail; it is an established historical fact, and an object of direct Christian knowledge.
First and foremost, it must be said truth demands it, and no conventional reticence must withhold it that the predominant feature of his character is his religiousness. He belongs to a higher world than this. His "citizenship is in Heaven." Never can I forget an address which, twenty years ago, he delivered, by request, in Stepney Meeting-House. His subject was "Other-worldliness."
His soul was aflame for Righteousness and Truth; it was inevitable that He should come into conflict with these representatives of a traditional and external religiousness, which consisted in a number of formal rules and rites from which the life had long since fled. This Gospel specially narrates the progress of the quarrel in the holy city.
How can we explain such a state of affairs? Just as we would explain the religiousness of early days of America and England associated with the monstrous cruelty of the slave traffic.
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