Tides of the Spirit Selections From the Writings of James Martineau
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323. [»S3] Digitized by VjOOQIC LOSS AND GAIN Scripture must find you Just as no critic — be he even infallible — can show you the majesty of a statue, the pathos of a poem, the expressiveness of a human face, if you do not feel it; so can ex- ternal authority make nothing sacred which does not in itsdfjlnd you and wake up some sleeping piety. £ss. rv. 325. It is the unwritten oracles of God that have most deeply stirred the hearts of the devout, — the beauty of the heavens and the earth, the s...ecret heroism of duty, the mystery of sorrow, the solemnity of death, and Scrip- ture itself is only so fer the ** Word of God " as it truly plants us face to face with these, his silences. Ess. iv. 326. Perennial inspiration Our attitude towards scripture thus be- comes the same which has long been familiar to the Society of Friends : simply assuming that the Spirit of God, which in old time wrought their elements of sanctity into the pages of the Bible, lives and operates for- ever in the human soul, renewing the light of Divine truth, and kindling eternal aspi- [iS4] Digitized by VjOOQIC ^^ IN RECENT THEOLOGY rations ; so that the day of Pentecost is never past, and there is a tongue of fire for every evangelist.
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