The Potter and the ClayWinnington Ingram, Arthur F. (Arthur Foley)
Religion
The Potter and the Clay
Winnington Ingram, Arthur F. (Arthur Foley)
Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Sermons
You see, therefore, that this doctrine or truth about the HOLY GHOST
is the most practical thing in the world. Resolve to-day that you
will really make your bodies temples of the HOLY GHOST. The boy
who is filled with the HOLY GHOST will be the merriest boy in the
School and the pluckiest at games; he will always be chivalrous and
unselfish, and there will be a something about him, besides, that
will really breathe the presence of the Heavenly Spirit, who dwells
in him. You must have a little more spiritual ambition, and all of
you make your prayer that you may be, like St. Barnabas, "good men,
full of the HOLY GHOST and of faith."
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THE WAR AND RELIGION
THE WAR AND RELIGION
It was not until I had had a little correspondence with the
Secretaries that I decided upon the subject for my address as "The
War and Religion." I was very anxious not in the slightest degree
to violate any canon expressed or unexpressed with regard to the
subject of these addresses, and I think I can assure any in this
audience who may have their doubts upon this matter that they will
leave the hall without having their consciences offended in the
slightest degree, even if they may profoundly disagree with the
conclusions to which I may come. And I am encouraged in saying
this by a little incident which occurs every year. I am Visitor of
Queen's College in Harley Street, founded entirely by the influence
of Frederick Denison Maurice, and it is my pleasant duty to give
the girl members of it an annual address. My subject, at their
special request, is always Religion; and although quite a large
proportion are Jewish girls, I find that they look upon me in after
life as quite as much their friend as the others, and come to me in
their troubles, and they prefer that I shall speak to them out of
the deepest convictions of my heart, rather than offer them some
trite and colourless observations which mean nothing.
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