This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Luke 7:50. What is a Pharisee? One who observes the forms, but neglects the spirit of religion. Henry Ward Beecher said, "A Pharisee is one who worships instruments. Whoever believes that churches, or books, or institutions, or customs, are more valuable than men, is a Pharisee." How can we get the most profit out of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Luke 7:50. What is a Pharisee? One who observes the forms, but neglects the spirit of religion. Henry Ward Beecher said, "A Pharisee is one who worships instruments. Whoever believes that churches, or books, or institutions, or customs, are more valuable than men, is a Pharisee." How can we get the most profit out of this lesson? By applying it to our own mental condition. In analyzing our own character, that we may grow in grace, where do we find the Pharisee? In the intellectual domain. Where the woman that is a sinner? The affectional nature--here represented as repentant. Who is Jesus? The Spiritual man. Do these various personalities exist in everyone as separate entities? Yes; they form the consciousness of man, and under certain conditions may all be brought into conjunction and action, as here represented. What is the meaning of Jesus entering the Pharisee's house to eat with him? Eating is symbolical of mental appropriation of thoughts of substance. The intellect, like the Pharisees, possesses and controls the outer manifestation, and the Spiritual man enters into his house or state of consciousness, that he may appropriate a share, and at the same time instruct him in righteousness. Why should this strange woman take this liberty with Jesus in the Pharisee's house? When the Spiritual Consciousness enters the intellectual domain it opens the way for tenderness and love. The intellect "desired him that he would eat with him." This desire for the spiritual, though it be in its beginnings cold and ungracious, opens the door of the mind to the soul, and it pours the precious ointment of love out upon the understanding. The washing of the feet, the tears and the passionate evidence of tender regard, represent the readiness of the sou...
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