Identifier: howtoeducatefee00bray (find matches)
Title: How to educate the feelings or affections, and bring the dispositions, aspirations, and passions into harmony with sound intelligence and morality
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bray, Charles, 1811-1884. (from old catalog) Sizer, Nelson
Subjects: Phrenology Emotions
Publisher: New York, S. R. Wells & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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at exerciseof the feeling which is purely instinctive and directedtoward a determinate object, distinct and bright, thoughdistant, with that arising from its cultivation as a moralfeeling. The former will create a sanguine and cheer-ful temper, prone to rise when the immediate pressure O Lord, that hate thee? I hate them with a perfecthatred. Do we ever think that the same idea of God pervadessacred poetry of a later date? Take the popular and fami-liar stanza, Before Jehovahs aviful throne,Ye nations how with sacred joy ;Know that the Lord is God alone,He can create and He destroy / The prevalent idea of God seems to be Sovereignty,power! But other sentiments here and there find expres-sion, which are more in harmony with true veneration andthe spirit of the other moral and rehgious faculties. Forinstance, *As a father pitieth his children, so the Lordpitieth them that fear him. In a semi-barbarous people, to whom war and conquestwere the high ideal of government and nationality, the
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THOMAS RIVERS. HOPE. PLATE XIX. I Hope. 145 of suffering is taken off—and this is in a measure valu-able ; but the latter alone will enable the mind to seekfor objects of consolation in the midst of pain and dis-tress, to turn the attention from what has been takenaway to what is left, and to remember that thoughsorrow may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morn-ing. It is only when cultivated that the natural feel-ing of hope, which gives vigor and animation to theseason of childhood and youth, can become a permanentand elevating principle of mind. The first practical lesson which a mother can give toher child on this subject is her own habitual cheerful-ness ; long before it can be understood in words it canbe felt by sympathy; her cheerful tone and mannerwill often dispel the infants rising tear and convert it sovereignty and power of kings would color their religiousas well as social and governmental ideas. So long as the young are taught first and chiefly of thepower, majest

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