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Title: Addresses

Author: Phillips Brooks

Release Date: December 28, 2004 [EBook #14497]

Language: English

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ADDRESSES

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND

PHILLIPS BROOKS

BISHOP OF MASSACHUSETTS

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS

1895

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. THE BEAUTY OF A LIFE OF SERVICE 9

II. THOUGHT AND ACTION 34

III. THE DUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN BUSINESS MAN 63

IV. TRUE LIBERTY 88

V. THE CHRIST IN WHOM CHRISTIANS BELIEVE 110

VI. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 140

I. THE BEAUTY OF A LIFE OF SERVICE.

I should like to read to you again the words of Jesus from the 8th
chapter of the Gospel of St. John:--

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, if ye
continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered
him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man;
how sayest Thou, ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the
servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house forever,
but the Son abideth ever. If the Son, therefore, shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed."

I want to speak to you to-day about the purpose and the result of the
freedom which Christ gives to His disciples and the freedom into which
man enters when he fulfils his life. The purpose and result of freedom
is service. It sounds to us at first like a contradiction, like a
paradox. Great truths very often present themselves to us in the first
place as paradoxes, and it is only when we come to combine the two
different terms of which they are composed and see how it is only by
their meeting that the truth does reveal itself to us, that the truth
does bec