Excerpt from Things Eternal
An old author, speaking of the journey of life, has quaintly described Sundays as the inns where the traveller rests for a little while and collects his thoughts, both of the road he has travelled and of the destination whither it is leading him. Such is the intention of these studies. They are not sermons, but fragments or abstracts of sermons. They are fugitive glimpses of eternal things.
While in a general way it has been found convenient to arrange them in the time-honoured sequence of the Christian year, only a few of the more important festivals, celebrated either on Sundays or on adjacent weekdays, have been selected. I have included the discarded festival of All Souls; for although it has been abused by superstition, it may well be allowed to remind us of our human brotherhood and of the claim of God upon all mankind. The first and last Sundays of the year are the only commemorative days which have been added to those of the Church Calendar.
Since the object of the book is practical rather than critical, questions of authorship and of literal or figurative interpretation have been rarely introduced. In so far as disputed doctrines are dealt with, my desire is to sound a reconciling rather than a contentious note. Far too much has been made of our differences in matters where all theories are necessarily incomplete.
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