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Religious Instruction 293
reverence for the absolute conjunction of
cause and effect—a connection which no grace
can remove. Man’s actions will really be di-
rected by this certainty. He will not rock
himself to sleep in any sort of hope, based
on providence or a reconciliation, able to de-
fer surely fixed effects. This new morality,
strengthened by the realities of life, admits of
logical consequences. No single command of
this teaching needs to remain an empty phrase.
In its system, too, there will be a place to ap-
ply all the eternal profound words uttered by
Jesus or by other great human souls. These
words will ever furnish further material for
application, which is the same as saying ma-
terial for self-application. Yet the applica-
tion will be worked out in complete freedom.
Each word will be used as furnishing the
material just suited to that style which men
wish to apply to the architecture of their per-
sonality. Yet neither the words nor the ex-
amples of one or the other teacher will be
taught as absolutely binding.
The soul of the child will not be stained by
tears of repentance for sins nor by the fear of
hell. It will not be stained by a realism
without ideas and without ideals, by the con-
temptuous mistrust, which the mouldering
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