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In no critical nor legitimate sense is the subject 

 •charged with emotional religion, who weeps, 

 Langhs, and shouts under divine inspiration, and 

 •consequently ''gives his body to be burned and 

 his goods to feed the poor." If he refuses so to 

 •do he may be an enthusiast. The body may be 

 sacrificed and the goods given when the inspira- 

 tion and result are foreign to holiness. But this 

 thought cannot be ridden both ways. There 

 must be emotion to an effective end, there can be 

 no effective end without it. Joseph Cook says: 

 " It would be a sad whim in the art of metallurgy 

 if men should take up with the notion that a 

 white heat is not useful in annealing metals; and 

 .so it is a sad whim in religious life when we 

 think that the white heat we call a religious 

 excitement is not useful in annealing character 

 -and society." 



Every branch of theosophy may not kindle 

 ■emotion, but one thing is true, Christianity 

 always gives birth to it. Its truths are not 

 usual nor commonplace. Does a man really 

 believe he shall live forever in Heaven or hell, 

 and that this finality is dependent upon sin or 

 holiness ? Do these thoughts have no effect upon 

 the emotions ? Does a man keep sensibly before 

 him the fact that the way is "narrow" and 

 " few" there be that find it, and yet sluggishly 

 give himself to the " perseverance of the saints ?" 



