 This mode of commemorating Christ is not suitable to me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it. If I believed it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable...  Works - Page 24by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Religion - 1876 - 414 pages
...I think this difficulty, wherever it is felt, to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance. It is my own...reason enough why I should abandon it. If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this... | |
 | Charles Augustus Jenkens - Baptists - 1880 - 632 pages
...I should abandon it. If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus or his disciples, and that he ever contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration,...on trial, it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I would not adopt it." And so ho urged the members of his church to abandon the ordinance as hitherto... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...to the ordinance. It is my own objection." He adds emphatically: . AN APPROPRIATE COMMEMORATION. " This mode of commemorating Christ is not suitable...reason enough why I should abandon it. -If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 402 pages
...of thought in the East, where it originated, is foreign and unsuited to affect us." This alone is a sufficient objection to the ordinance. " It is my...reason enough why I should abandon it. If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 pages
...I think this difficulty, wherever it is felt, to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance. It is my own...enjoined, by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contem-. plated making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable to an Eastern mind,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Transcendentalism (New England) - 1883 - 344 pages
...of thought in the East, where it originated, is foreign and unsuited to affect us." This alone is a sufficient objection to the ordinance. " It is my...reason enough why I should abandon it. If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Slavery - 1884 - 376 pages
...tliiiik this difficulty, wherever it is felt, to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance. It is my own...Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to jny own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me,... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 322 pages
...reason was personal. He said in his sermon : " If I believed it was enjoined by Jesus and his disciples that he even contemplated making permanent this mode...disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. ... It is my desire in the office of a Christian minister to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - English literature - 1896 - 376 pages
...usual ; but Emerson refused to comply, and resigned his charge after a single explanatory sermon. " This mode of commemorating Christ is not suitable...me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it. " Henceforth Emerson was a religious outcast ; and we must not measure the significance of this situation... | |
 | Samuel James Andrews - Antichrist - 1898 - 396 pages
...of his action. He said in reference to the administration of the Lord's supper : "If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on His disciples, and that...contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration as in every way agreeable to an Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings,... | |
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