Levels of Living - Essays on Everyday Ideals

Henry Frederick Cope

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Title: Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals
Author: Henry Frederick Cope
Release Date: June 29, 2006 [eBook #18712]
Language: English
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LEVELS OF LIVING
Essays on Everyday Ideals
by
HENRY FREDERICK COPE
Author of "The Modern Sunday-School in Principle and Practice"
New York —— Chicago —— Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London And Edinburgh
Copyright, 1908, by
Fleming H. Revell Company
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
To My Wife
Not in the sentiment of dedication alone, offering to you what I may have done, but in simple acknowledgment of
obligation to you
Elizabeth
best gift of God and inspiration of man
Under the title of "A Sermon For To-day" these short essays, on the art of every-day living in the light of eternal life, were
published by The Chicago Sunday Tribune, through a series of years, and were regularly printed in the Sunday editionsof a group of the great dailies. The short sentences were also published with the Sermons under the head of ...

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LEVELS OF LIVING Essays on Everyday Ideals by HENRY FREDERICK COPE Author of "The Modern Sunday-School in Principle and Practice"

Title: Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals

Author: Henry Frederick Cope

E-text prepared by Al Haines

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEVELS OF LIVING***

Release Date: June 29, 2006 [eBook #18712] Language: English

To My Wife Not in the sentiment of dedication alone, offering to you what I may have done, but in simple acknowledgment of obligation to you Elizabeth best gift of God and inspiration of man

New York —— Chicago —— Toronto   Fleming H. Revell Company London And Edinburgh Copyright, 1908, by Fleming H. Revell Company New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

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CONTENTS

 I. THE HIGHER LEVELS  The Real and the Ideal—The Bread of Life—Life's  Unvarying Values.

 II. INVISIBLE ALLIES  More than a Fighting Chance—The Unseen  Hand—The One in the Midst.

 III. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF SERVICE  Self and Service—My Soul or My Service?—The  Satisfaction of Service.

 IV. THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS  The Power of Happiness—The Secret of  Happiness—The Folly of Anxiety.

 V. THE CURRICULUM OF CHARACTER  The Great School—The Purpose of the  Course—The Price of Perfection.

 VI. THE AGE-LONG MIRACLE  The Sufficient Sign—Behold the Man—The  Life that Lifts.

 VII. SEEING THE UNSEEN  The Sense of the Unseen—The Brook in the  Way—That Which Is High.

 VIII. SOURCES OF STRENGTH AND INSPIRATION  Strength for the Daily Task—The Sense of  the Infinite—The Great Inspiration.

 IX. FINDING FOUNDATIONS  The Passing and Permanent—Facing the  Facts—The Real Foundation.

 X. THE PASSION FOR PERFECTION  The Great Search—The Hunger of the Ages—The  Sole Satisfaction.

 XI. THE PRICE OF SUCCESS  The Law of Selection—The Fallacy of  Negation—The Secret of All.

 XII. DIVINE SERVICE  The Ideal Service—The Orthodox Service—The  Heavenly Service.

 XIII. OUR FATHER AND OUR FELLOWS  The Primary Reconciliation—Faith in Our  Fellows—The Law of Forgiveness.

 XIV. MEN AND MAMMON  Riches and Righteousness—Religion and  Business—The Moral End of Money-Making.        

 XV. THE EVERY-DAY HEAVEN  The Beauty of Holiness—The Gladness of  Goodness—The True Paradise

 XVI. TRUTH AND LIFE  Religion of a Practical Mind—The Head  and the Heart—New Truths for New Days.

 XVII. THE FRUITS OF FAITH  Root and Fruit—The Orthodox Accent—The  Business of Religion.

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 XX. DOES HE CARE?  The One at the Helm—The Shepherd and  the Sheep—The Father's Care.

 XIX. HINDRANCES AND HELPS FROM WITHIN  Worry—A Cure for the Blues—The Gospel of Song.

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I The Higher Levels The Real and the Ideal   The Bread of Life   Life's Unvarying Values

THE REAL AND THE IDEAL

The ideal is the mold in which the real is cast. Half of success is in seeing the significance of little things. He finds no weal who flees all woe. You do not make life sacred by looking sad. Sympathy is a key that fits the lock of any heart. Soul health will not come by taking religion as a dose. Many a cloud that we call sorrowis but the shadowof our own selfishness. To live wholly for possessions is to paralyze the life to the possibility of permanently possessing anything. It takes more than willingness to be nothing to make you amount to something. This is never a wrong world to him who is right with its heart.

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