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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 become known. It is by this same truth that God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty, and he who makes mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks
• 2: The whole subject of selfishness
• 3: It does intensify his selfishness
• 4: The sign of consecration and obedience
• 5: For their sakes I sanctify myself
• 6: You can furnish one Christian life
• 7: But where is the sceptical soul
• 8: I don't know much about the millennium
• 9: So only shall you be independent of their whims
• 10: That it is the freest of all lives because it is the highest
• 11: That he must give up the very noblest part of his life
• 12: To man to be his fullest being
• 13: This absolute simplicity of the Christian faith
• 14: The personal evidence of Jesus Christ himself
• 15: Thinking that they were done miraculously
• 16: Then you were your truest self
• 17: And Jesus Christ believed in Him
• 18: I am no scorner of the man who
• 19: That God is pleading with every soul
• 20: And which are going on everywhere
• 21: And the communion with God's life
• 22: What shall I say to my friend who is an atheist
• 23: Nicodemus the amateur in religions
• 24: At least stop doing licentious things
• 25: It smote on the eastward windows
• 26: Regenerates their institutions
• 27: Be men in the power of Jesus Christ
• 28: Thou shalt not commit adultery
• 29: As prohibition and imprisonment and restraint
• 30: They are a part of his enfranchisement
• 31: The more liberally he believes
• 32: And let the sunlight come streaming down upon it
• 33: To get rid of the glamour of sin
• 34: The sinlessness of the life of Jesus
• 35: Feeling the fetters on our hands and feet
• 36: It is our Christ in whom we Christians believe
• 37: Very often it blundered strangely and sadly
• 38: He gave His life in crucifixion for them
• 39: So far as he comprehends Jesus Christ
• 40: All the weaknesses of speculation
• 41: Can Jesus really be my teacher
• 42: In that which came before His crucifixion
• 43: We talk about Christ the Saviour
• 44: Men outgrow many dogmas which they hold
• 45: If you be not ready to be Christian
• 46: In the mental structure as sagacity
• 47: It is that glorified childlikeness
• 48: There was the horrible sacrament of slavery
• 49: Catching their spirit and asserting it firmly
• 50: It is the barbarism of Slavery
• 51: Slavery armed with Treason was their murderer
• 52: Sterner to execute the justice of the Lord upon his enemies
• 53: He fed us faithfully and truly