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They may not stand in need of my preaching, perhaps, but they ought to have some preaching. And I cannot help thinking of what is the duty of the church in this place to the great crowd outside. Something ought to be done." "Philip, I am sure your work here will be blessed, don't you think so?" "I know it will," replied Philip, with the assurance of a very positive but spiritually-minded man.
For though there may be degrees of happiness in Heaven to reward the varying degrees of virtue on earth, all these are dwarfed to nothing by the unimaginable abyss of difference which yawns between Heaven and Hell; and the practical upshot of the current eschatology is that all men the self-sacrificing equally with the self-indulgent, the kind and compassionate equally with the hard-hearted, the spiritually-minded equally with the worldly, the aspiring equally with the indifferent are to reap the same reward.
Every real spiritual doctrine had first been denied, then expunged from the essay that had largely taken the place of the old-time sermon. Again, all spiritual restraints had now been taken away the true believers, the Holy Spirit, every spiritually-minded, born-again pastor and clergyman. The powers of the Priest-craft had invented a religion of the Flesh, fleshy to a degree.
Our Lord said, 'Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. To be carnally-minded is death, but to be spiritually-minded is life and peace. The vulture of insatiate minds Still wants, and wanting seeks, and seeking finds New fuel to increase her rav'nous fire. The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire. A full purse and a lean soul, is a sign of a great curse.
My dear mother thinks that the persons you meet with must be more spiritually-minded than Christians in this country.
As soon as we discovered the piety of her mind, and her sweet and open disposition, I said to her: Now, tell us who there are in this place who are really spiritually-minded persons. She said, I will; and instantly took the pen, and put down about six or seven names, among which was the name of the Countess Stynum.
Strange that, after his long experience, my grandfather should have learned so little of the attitude and even the dialect of the spiritually-minded; that after forty-four years in a most religious circle, he could drop without sense of incongruity from a period of accepted phrases to "trust his wife was getting up her spirits," or think to reassure her as to the character of Captain Wemyss by mentioning that he had read prayers on the deck of his frigate "agreeably to the Articles of War"! Yet there is no doubt and it is one of the most agreeable features of the kindly series that he was doing his best to please, and there is little doubt that he succeeded.
And I will be bold enough to promise you that if you will but join our Young Men's Class to-night, and will buy and read our mystical books, and will resolve to put in practice what you hear and read in the class, I will promise you, I say, that by the end of our short session you will not only be ten times more open and hospitably-minded men, but also ten times more spiritually-minded men, ten times more Christ-like men, and with your joy in Christ and His joy in you all but full.
And if these letters were by an exception cherished and preserved, it would be for one or both of two reasons because they dealt with and were bitter-sweet reminders of a time of sorrow; or because she was pleased, perhaps touched, by the writer's guileless efforts to seem spiritually-minded.
The few crumbs that have been dropped during the reign of Protestantism have been eagerly gathered up by the spiritually-minded; but, thank God! the time has now arrived when the messengers appear with food from heaven, and the multitudes of earth's starving millions can "eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord God." Joel 2:26. Halleluiah!
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