LEVELS OF LIVING***
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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 "Sentence Sermons." The courtesy of _The Chicago Daily Tribune_ in permitting the publication of these "sermons," with such changes as have seemed best, is gratefully acknowledged.
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.
XVIII. THE FORCE OF FAITH "The Victory that Overcometh"--Fear and Faith--Faith for the Future.
