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Title: The uplifted hands and other sermons
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Lewis Gilbert, 1858-1928. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Unitarian churches Sermons, American
Publisher: (Hopedale, Mass.) The Women's alliance of the Hopedale memorial church
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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fitting in with a beneficent order oflife, where not an atom of being shall ever 42 The Uplifted Hands be allowed to be lost. It was too great achange, too wonderful a revelation, to beaccepted all at once. But a few have seenwhat he revealed, and we may hope thatin Gods good time the pure in heart theworld over may see the image of his facein the purposes and conduct of an illumi-nated humanity. (3) And then, too, Jesus was the Lightof the World as an inspirer. This pointscarcely needs elaboration. Jesus was nota mere entertainer. He was not a sensa-tionalist. He did not resort to tricks andexpedients to attract the people. That hestirred and thrilled those who heard him isplain enough from the wonder and the awewhich his presence and his words produced.But the people, when they heard himpreach, did not go away thinking of theway he said things so much as they didfeeling that there was something for themto do. The story is told of Cicero that hishearers went away praising him and his
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The Light of the World 43 orations, saying, What a beautiful oration !But, when they went to hear Demosthenes,they went away apparently forgetting theorator and oration, and shouting, Letsgo fight the Thracians ! In a spiritual sense this must have beenan illustration of Jesus power. He in-spired men to action. As soon as his fewshort years of work were over, he suddenlyhad a thousand resurrections. Theworks that I do, said he, shall ye doalso; and greater works shall ye do, be-cause I go to the Father. People re-ceived a new life motive. The monotony ofthe old existence was broken up. Thereis little pleasure in life if we do not havesomething above ourselves to reach, some-thing difficult to attain to. Men love tosee power in other men, and they love toexert power themselves. Life is foreverseeking expression in the accomplishmentof difficult deeds. That is what gaveglory and interest to the conquests of 44 The Uplifted Hands Alexander. That was the essence of thepoems of Homer. All

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