The perfect life Author:William Henry Channing Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOD REVEALED IN THE UNIVERSE AND IN HUMANITY. Doth not Wisdom cry ? and Understanding put forth her voice ? . . . Unto you, 0 Men, I call; and my voice is to ... more »the sons of Man.— Pkovekoss viii. 1-4. The passage from which these words are taken is designed to teach that the Truth, which can guide us to Perfection and to Happiness, is teaching us always and everywhere; that God surrounds us constantly with His instruction; that wherever we go the voice of His Wisdom follows us ; that it is our own fault if we are not continually becoming wiser and better. This universal presence of Truth is the subject to which I ask your attention. To understand this will help us to understand our whole existence. For it will show us that under every lot we have exhaustless means of growth. And thus it will awaken us to new faithfulness in the use of our privileges, and to new efforts in the pursuit of Goodness. Wisdom is omnipresent. Everywhere it comes to meet us. It shines in the sun. It irradiates theheavens. It whispers through all sounds of nature. It beams resplendent from the characters of good and wise men, and more brightly still in our own souls. Our teachers are thus all around and within, above and beneath. Divine Wisdom is not shut up within any book. It is not heard from pulpits alone. It has better preachers than all ministers. And one great aim of the true minister is to help his hearers to understand wiser teachers than himself, and to open their ears to more harmonious voices. By turning their minds to the lessons of every day, he should make them feel that they are in a higher than any human school,—in God's own School, the School of the Universe,—where always and everywhere they may be gathering treasures of Truth. Jesus said: " I am the Light of the "World." And when...« less