tribution.- Type of the Appetites and Passions. - Repentance and Contrition. - Illustration of Contrition. Confession of Faults.- Quickening Agency of Conscience. - Spiritual Renewal. - Persecu- tion. Activity of Spirit. -- Unity of Spirit. --Limitations of the Flesh. Paternity of Spirit. - Spiritual Renovation. Retribution. Review. Conversation of Jesus with the Jews after the Cure of the Impotent Man, from the Sacred Text. -— - Spiritual Insight. -- Spirit- ual Blindness. -- Spiritual Evidence. -- Witness of Spirit. - Immuta- bility of Conscience. - Voice of Conscience. -- Ubiquity of Con- science. Practical Holiness.-- Grounds of Faith. Evidence of Consciousness. -- Invisibility of Spirit. Record of Spirit. --- Duality Review. - The Disciples plucking the Ears of Corn, from the Sacred Text.- Ideas of Labor. -- Sunday Employments. - Sunday Readings. ---Church-going. - End of Sunday or Sabbath. Meditation. Idea of Sunday Duties. --- Devotion. Cheerfulness. Prayer, spontane- ous and formal. Lord's Prayer. Spiritual Greatness. --- Emblem. - Healing of the Withered Hand, from the Sacred Text.--- Anger and Indignation. - Paralysis. Awe of Holiness. --- tion. Self-Knowledge. - Self-Insight. Phases of Spirit. Indulgence. Countenance of Spirit. - Emblems of the Passions. --- Idea of the Scene. Emblem. - Idea of the Cure. - Centres of Ac- tion. Physiology and Psychology. --- Identity of Spirit. -- Spiritual Suffering and Sorrow. -- Reformation. -- Gentiles. - Imperfection. - Subject. Suspension of the Conversations. Synopsis of the pre- 267 Practical Value of the Conversations. First Disciples of Jesus, from the Sacred Text. Faith in Spirit. Example. - Affability. - Idea of Conversations. Idea of Sermons and Ministers. Fraternal Affection. Names of Jesus. Emblem of Intrepidity. - Guilelessness. - Spiritual Phenomena. Intuition of Spirit. Practical Value MR. ALCOTT. Do you think that you feel of the Conversa- the influence of these Conversations when you are at home and elsewhere, and that it tions. makes you behave better than what you would do, if we did not have them? (Many raised their hands.) Do you think that you all understand them fully? (The rest raised their hands.) MR. ALCOTT. What is the use of these Conversations? SAMUEL T. They teach us about Jesus Christ, so that we may learn to be good ourselves. LUCIA. They teach us about Conscience. MR. ALCOTT. Why do I wish you to understand Jesus Christ? JOHN B. Because Jesus Christ teaches us to obey our Consciences. AUGUSTINE. We are restrained by the same reasons as restrained Jesus Christ. MR. ALCOTT. Is all the influence a restraint? AUGUSTINE. No; we are encouraged by faith in him. MR. ALCOTT: What do we study and believe in, by studying and having faith in Jesus Christ? AUGUSTINE. The Spirit. MR. ALCOTT. Do you mean the Father? MR. ALCOTT. Can your Spirit be a Son-Spirit? MR. ALCOTT. How? AUGUSTINE. By being like Jesus, acting as he did obeying Conscience. MR. ALCOTT. Why do we make pictures of Jesus Christ's life and actions? GEORGE K. So we may copy him. CHARLES. We have his spiritual example. ANDREW. He teaches us to obey Conscience. MR. ALCOTT. Where is Conscience? ANDREW. It is in me; it comes from God. Jesus had the best Conscience that ever was. |