The Gifts of Civilisation And Other Sermons And Lectures Delivered At Oxford a
The Gifts of Civilisation And Other Sermons And Lectures Delivered At Oxford a
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We look back to the early acts and policy of the Church towards the new nations, their kings and their people ; the ways and works of her missionaries and lawgivers, Ulfilas among the Goths, Augustine in Kent, Eemigius in France, Boni- face in Germany, Anschar in the North, the Irish 280 CHRISTIANITY AND THE TEUTONIC RACES in Columban in Burgundy and Switzerland, Benedict at Monte Cassino ; or the reforming kings, the Arian Theodoric, the great German Charles, the great English Alfred. Measured... by the light and the standards they have helped us to attain to, their methods no doubt surprise, disappoint it may be, revolt us ; and all that we dwell upon is the childishness, or the imper- fect morality, of their attempts. But if there is any- thing certain in history, it is that in these rough communications of the deepest truths, in these often questionable modes of ruling minds and souls, the seeds were sown of all that was to make the hope and the glory of the foremost nations. They im- pressed upon men in their strong, often coarse, way that truth was the most precious and most sacred of things, that truth seeking, truth speaking, truth in life, was man's supreme duty, the enjoyment of it his highest blessedness on earth; and they did this, even though they often fell miserably short of the lesson of their words, even though they sometimes, to gain high ends, turned aside into the convenient, tempting paths of untruth.
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We look back to the early acts and policy of the Church towards the new nations, their kings and their people ; the ways and works of her missionaries and lawgivers, Ulfilas among the Goths, Augustine in Kent, Eemigius in France, Boni- face in Germany, Anschar in the North, the Irish 280 CHRISTIANITY AND THE TEUTONIC RACES in Columban in Burgundy and Switzerland, Benedict at Monte Cassino ; or the reforming kings, the Arian Theodoric, the great German Charles, the great English Alfred. Measured... by the light and the standards they have helped us to attain to, their methods no doubt surprise, disappoint it may be, revolt us ; and all that we dwell upon is the childishness, or the imper- fect morality, of their attempts. But if there is any- thing certain in history, it is that in these rough communications of the deepest truths, in these often questionable modes of ruling minds and souls, the seeds were sown of all that was to make the hope and the glory of the foremost nations. They im- pressed upon men in their strong, often coarse, way that truth was the most precious and most sacred of things, that truth seeking, truth speaking, truth in life, was man's supreme duty, the enjoyment of it his highest blessedness on earth; and they did this, even though they often fell miserably short of the lesson of their words, even though they sometimes, to gain high ends, turned aside into the convenient, tempting paths of untruth.
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