A Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class of the University of North Carolina (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class of the University of North Carolina

Allowing something for the softened lights of tradition in such cases, it certainly spoke well for'the preaching which your green and awkward mountain-boys had been listening to, and trained to recognize as the eternal truth of God, that he could on the spur of the moment have given such an utterance, and turned a farce into a sermon.

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Excerpt from A Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class of the University of North Carolina

The men to whom this question was put had a good excuse to offer; for no man had employed them. This also explains the righteous judgment of the man that was a householder, in giving them a full day's wages. He plainly was not encouraging pauperism or fostering the luxury of idleness. Free to do what he would with his own, but not free, as alas the rich men of our age often think themselves to be, to forget the claims of the bread-winners to a fair expectation of each day's living, as founded in the sense of universal justice, he atoned for their want of opportunity, and sent them home at evening satisfied, and with a higher conception of the mutual duties of the brotherhood of man. It was not the necessary inference from the parable of Christ that he was settling the rules that should prevail between capital and labor, when as an incident of the story He introduced this item of it. It is characteristic of His teaching that even in these little and accidental side-issues of His discourses we can trace that profound connection of the universal justice tempered by mercy that abounds in His Gospel, and gives to each age sufficient indications of His divine wisdom.

It is thus that God always deals with us all, if we are only wise enough to see it.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.