True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' LibrariesKingsley, Charles
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True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries
Kingsley, Charles
Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English
For, believe me, my friends, rich and poor--and I beseech you to think
deeply over this great truth--that men will never be joined in true
brotherhood by mere plans to give them a self-interest in common, as the
Socialists have tried to do. No: to feel _for_ each other, they must
first feel _with_ each other. To have their sympathies in common, they
must have not one object of gain, but an object of admiration in common;
to know that they are brothers, they must feel that they have one Father;
and one way to feel that they have one common Father, is to see each
other wondering, side by side, at His glorious works!
Footnotes:
{80a} H.M.S. the Duke of Wellington.
{80b} Form of prayer to be used at sea.
{199} This was written and sent out to the army before Sebastopol in the
winter of 1855.
{222} Prescott's "History of the Conquest of Mexico." See Book v., ch.
1.
{230} Mr. Kingsley wrote these papers for London working-men, but his
words apply just as much to soldiers in London barracks, as to artizans.
He thought much of the good of pictures, and all beautiful things for
hard-worked men who could see such things in public galleries, though
they could not afford to have them in their own homes.
{243} Since this paper was written in 1848 many such institutions have
been opened, at South Kensington, and in several great towns.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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