A Sermon Preached in Charter House Chapel London On Founders Day 1880 volume
A Sermon Preached in Charter House Chapel London On Founders Day 1880 volume
Charles Perry Scott
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But does not the Service of to-day, with all its deep interest for us Carthusians, find some illustration from the subject of our text? Surely it does. It seems to me that the Old and the New, — the Past and the Present, — yes, and even the budding promise of the Future, are in a peculiar manner wrapped up in the associations which gather round "Sutton's Hospital. " We trace its history back into the dim past, by means of that unfailing guide, nomenclature. We find the earliest Carthusians, und...er the leadership of the good Bruno, planting themselves down amidst the bare mountains of Grenoble, in a spot already sanctified by the name of " God's seat. " It was a foundation characteristic of the days in which it originated. The highest and best aspira- tions of those times found expression in the dedication of property to God, and of self to the life of the recluse. The very language of the day which has come down to us tells, all too plainly, that the cloister was the only place where a man or woman could earn the title of " Religious.
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