Category: Religion/Spirituality

Conscience and Sin: Daily Meditations for Lent, Including Week-days and Sundays

It is advisable that all should have a clear understanding as to the nature of Conscience, the dangers to which Conscience is liable, the Nature of Sin, and the Effects of Sin. Too many people go on easily from day to day making no spiritual advance, because they do not know w...

Chapters

1. Part 1

It is advisable that all should have a clear understanding as to the nature of Conscience, the dangers to which Conscience is liable, the Nature of Sin, and the Effects of Sin....

2. Part 2

(_a_) Conscience, when certain as to the moral right of a course of action, utters its peremptory command that it shall be done. We often are satisfied with a negative obedience...

3. Part 3

Prudence looks to the near future, and to the remote future. It considers what are likely to be the consequences in this world, and whether the course of conduct will receive th...

4. Part 4

(_c_) The world endeavours to draw away our allegiance from God to it. The world has formed its own moral code, an easy one, indulgent to our corrupt nature, it glosses over fau...

5. Part 5

(_d_) _Inadvertence_, or excusable want of attention. It does often happen that a wrong act is done before we really know what we are about. It is done without premeditation. We...

6. Part 6

All sin is a violation of God's Commandments, and God is a righteous Judge Who will call every man to account for what he has done; but not only _will_ He do so, He _does_ so no...

7. Part 7

Man is sent into this world to do some good to others, to fill some social gap, and to educate his mind, discipline his body, and cultivate his soul. But luxury bids him distrac...

8. Part 8

His offering was a _free will_ one. He came down from Heaven to redeem men. "Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life that I might take it again. No man take...