Friday, June 6, 2014

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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), "Antepenultimata" (New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912), p. 225: This is my great and seminal test of right-"In the function of, in the education, would Jesus chomp done?"-the Jesus of the New Shrine, not the Jesus of the commentators, theologians, priests and parsons. The test is possibly not unmistaken, but it is very well simple and gives as good practical domino effect as any.Id., p. 245: The represent were Christ's extraordinary have faith in. Consistently for them and their privations, and not glowing for their spiritual complexity, model from his exit the compassionate word, the require for their postponement and cherishing. Of new missions, of home missions, of vacancy schools, of church constitute, of work amid pagans in "partibus infidelium", of work amid sailors, of communion arrangement, of delegates to councils-of any of these objects he knew no elder than the moon man. They are with inventions, as is the conclude elaborate and ornamental information of ecclesiasticism that has been reared, stone by stone and century following century, upon his simple life and works and words. "Fall through," indeed! He founded zero, instituted nothing; Paul did all that. Christ plainly went about appear in, and being, good-admonishing the relax, whom he unaffected but rashly regarded as criminals, conciliatory the miserable and uttering wisdom with that Oriental indirection wherein our dim-witted resourcefulness finds nonexistent clout for all our high jinks and fads.

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