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    Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
    Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
    Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
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    Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning

    By Henry Van Dyke

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    Written as a sort of declaration of love to Christianity, "Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning" by Henry Van Dyke explores faith through the lenses of joy and power. Van Dyke draws comparisons to other religions, displaying his faith in full view. His dedication and the joy he feels from his devotion is palpable. No matter what the reader's religious beliefs may be, his words inspire the sort of devotion we all wish to have.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2019
    ISBN4064066165215
    Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
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    Henry Van Dyke

    Henry van Dyke was an American religious writer, lecturer, and clergyman. Educated at the Theological Seminary at Princeton University, van Dyke returned to the school after his graduation as a Professor of English Literature and became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1913 he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson, his former classmate, as the ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, a job that he maintained throughout the First World War. His most famous short stories include "The Story of the Other Wise Man" and "The First Christmas Tree", which, like many of his other works, centered around moral and religious themes. After a lifetime of public service and religious leadership, Henry van Dyke died in 1933 at the age of 80.

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      Joy and Power - Henry Van Dyke

      Henry Van Dyke

      Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066165215

      Table of Contents

      JOY AND POWER

      THE BATTLE OF LIFE

      THE GOOD OLD WAY

      JOY AND POWER

      Table of Contents

      St. John viii. 17: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

      I ask you to think for a little while about the religion of Christ in its relation to happiness.

      This is only one point in the circle of truth at the centre of which Jesus stands. But it is an important point because it marks one of the lines of power which radiate from Him. To look at it clearly and steadily is not to disregard other truths. The mariner takes the whole heavens of astronomy for granted while he shapes his course by a single star.

      In the wish for happiness all men are strangely alike. In their explanations of it and in their ways of seeking it they are singularly different. Shall we think of this wish as right, or wrong; as a true star, or a will-o'-the-wisp? If it is right to wish to be happy, what are the conditions on which the fulfilment of this wish depends? These are the two questions with which I would come to Christ, seeking instruction and guidance.

      I. The desire of happiness, beyond all doubt, is a natural desire. It is the law of life itself that every being seeks and strives toward the perfection of its kind, the realization of its own specific ideal in form and function, and a true harmony with its environment. Every drop of sap in the tree flows toward foliage and fruit. Every drop of blood in the bird beats toward flight and song. In a conscious being this movement toward perfection must take a conscious form. This conscious form is happiness,—the satisfaction of the vital impulse,—the rhythm of the inward life,—the melody of a heart that has found its keynote. To say that all men long for this is simply to confess that all men are human, and that their thoughts and feelings are an essential part of their life. Virtue means a completed manhood. The joyful welfare of the soul belongs to the fulness of that ideal. Holiness is wholeness. In striving to realize the true aim of our being, we find the wish for happiness implanted in the very heart of our effort.

      Now what does Christ say in regard to this natural human wish? Does He say that it is an illusion? Does He condemn and deny it? Would He have accepted Goethe's definition: religion is renunciation?

      Surely such a notion is far from the spirit of Jesus. There is nothing of the hardness of Stoicism, the coldness of Buddhism, in Christ's gospel. It is humane, sympathetic, consoling. Unrest and weariness, the fever of passion and the chill of despair, soul-solitude and heart-trouble, are the very things that He comes to cure. He begins His great discourse with a series of beatitudes. Blessed is the word. Happy is the meaning. Nine times He rings the changes on that word, like a silver bell sounding from His fair temple on the mountain-side, calling all who long for happiness to come to Him and find rest for their souls.

      Christ never

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