WORDS OF TRUTH AND WISDOM.
Author: Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903
Subject: Church of England; Theology -- 19th century
Publisher: Edinburgh, J. Grant
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 482142
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Book contributor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Collection: americana
Scanfactors: 52
To the Semitic race, and pre-eminently to the Jew, God en-
trusted the religious education of the ancient world. To
this race it was mainly given to keep alive in the world a
belief in the Unity of God, and the Eternal Majesty of
the moral law. To the Aryan race, to which we belong,
was entrusted mainly the civilisation of mankind ; from it
sprang mainly the arts of war and peace ; the glory that
was Greece belongs to it, and the grandeur that was
Rome ; it has been the parent of the lofty spiritualism of
India, the deep philosophy of Germany, the glorious art
of Italy, the dauntless energy of England. But its destiny
did not culminate until, in the crucifixion of our Lord, the
Semitic race, knowing not the day of its visitation, proved
false to its function and its heritage. Then the torch of
the Christian Revelation, which would have been ex-
tinguished for ever in the hands of the Semitic, was
transferred into the hands of the race of Japhet, and
soon burst into a lustre which was intended to illuminate
the world. Of all the families of that Aryan race we,
the English of to-day, have the grandest history and the
most magnificent, yet also the most perilous responsi-
bilities. We have colonised the western world, we are
undisputed lords of the great southern continent. Our
language is already more widely disseminated than any
tongue that was ever spoken by the lips of man. It seems
likely to become the almost universal language of the...
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