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Title: Milton's Tercentenary - An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of - Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday. Author: Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin), 1847-1926 Language: English As this book started as an ASCII text book there are no pictures available. Copyright Status: Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook. See comments about copyright issues at end of book. *** Start of this Doctrine Publishing Corporation Digital Book "Milton's Tercentenary - An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of - Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday." *** This book is indexed by ISYS Web Indexing system to allow the reader find any word or number within the document. MILTON'S TERCENTENARY An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday. By HENRY A. BEERS NEW HAVEN Yale University Press 1910 MILTON'S TERCENTENARY It is right that this anniversary should be kept in all English-speaking lands. Milton is as far away from us in time as Dante was from him; destructive criticism has been busy with his great poem; formidable rivals of his fame have arisen--Dryden and Pope, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Browning, not to speak of lesser names--poets whom we read perhaps oftener and with more pleasure. Yet still his throne remains unshaken. By general--by well-nigh universal--consent, he is still the second poet of our race, the greatest, save one, of all who have used the English speech. The high epics, the Iliad, the Divine Comedy, do not appear to us as they appeared to their contemporaries, nor as they appeared to the Middle Ages or to the men of the Renaissance or of the eighteenth century. These peaks of song we see foreshortened or in changed perspective or from a different angle of observation. Their parallax varies from age to age, yet their stature does not dwindle; they tower forever, "like Teneriffe or Atlas unremoved." _Paradise Lost_ does not mean the same thing to us that it meant to Addison or Johnson or Macaulay, and much that those critics said of it now seems mistaken. Works of art, as of nature, have perishable elements, and suffer a loss from time's transhifting. Homer's gods are childish, Dante's hell grotesque; and the mythology of the one and the scholasticism of the other are scarcely more obsolete to-day than Milton's theology. Yet in the dryest parts of _Paradise Lost_ we feel the touch of the master. Two things in particular, the rhythm and the style, go on victoriously as by their own momentum. God the Father may be a school divine and Adam a member of Parliament, but the verse never flags, the diction never fails. The poem may grow heavy, but not languid, thin or weak. I confess that there are traits of Milton which repel or irritate; that there are poets with whom sympathy is easier. And if I were speaking merely as an impressionist, I might prefer them to him. But this does not affect my estimate of his absolute greatness. All poets, then, and lovers of poetry, all literary critics and students of language must honor in Milton the almost faultless artist, the supreme master of his craft. But there is a reason why, not alone the literary class, but all men of English stock should celebrate Milton's tercentenary. There have been poets whose technique was exquisite, but whose character was contemptible. John Milton was not simply a great poet, but a great man, a heroic soul; and his type was characteristically English, both in its virtues and its shortcomings. Of Shakspere, the man, we know next to nothing. But of Milton personally we know all that we need to know, more than is known of many a modern author. There is abundance of biography and autobiography. Milton had a noble self-esteem, and he was engaged for twenty years in hot controversies. Hence those passages of apologetics scattered through his prose works, from which the lives of their author have been largely compiled. Moreover he was a pamphleteer and journalist, as well as a poet, uttering himself freely on the questions of the day. We know his opinions on government, education, religion, marriage and divorce, the freedom of the press and many other subjects. We know what he thought of eminent contemporaries, Charles I., Cromwell, Vane, Desborough, Overton, Fairfax. It was not then the fashion to write critical essays, literary reviews and book notices. Yet, aside from his own practice, his writings are sown here and there with incidental judgments of books and authors, from which his literary principles may be gathered. He has spoken now and again of Shakspere and Ben Jonson, of Spenser, Chaucer, Euripides, Homer, the book of Job, the psalms of David, the Song of Solomon, the poems of Tasso and Ariosto, the Arthur and Charlemagne romances, of Bacon and Selden, the dramatic unities, blank verse _vs._ rhyme, and similar topics. In some aspects and relations, harsh and unlovely, egotistical and stubborn, the total impression of Milton's personality is singularly imposing. His virtues were manly virtues. Of the four cardinal moral virtues--the so-called Aristotelian virtues--temperance, justice, fortitude, prudence; which Dante symbolizes by the group of stars-- Non viste mai fuor ch' alla prima gente-- Milton had a full share. He was not always, though he was most commonly, just. Prudence, the only virtue, says Carlyle, which gets its reward on earth, prudence he had, yet not a timid prudence. Of temperance--the Puritan virtue--and all that it includes, chastity, self-reverence, self-control, _Comus_ is the beautiful hymn. But, above all, Milton had the heroic virtue, fortitude; not only passively in the proud and sublime endurance of the evil days and evil tongues on which he had fallen; of the darkness, dangers, solitude that compassed him round; but actively in "the unconquerable will * * * and courage never to submit or yield"; the courage which "bates no jot of heart or hope, but still bears up and steers right onward." There is nothing more bracing in English poetry than those passages in the sonnets, in _Paradise Lost_ and in _Samson Agonistes_ where Milton speaks of his blindness. Yet here it is observable that Milton, who is never sentimental, is also never pathetic but when he speaks of himself, in such lines, e.g., as Samson's My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest." Dante has this same touching dignity in alluding to his own sorrows; but his hard and rare pity is more often aroused by the sorrows of others: by Ugolino's little starving children, or by the doom of Francesca and her lover. Milton is untender. Yet virtue with him is not always forbidding and austere. As he was a poet, he felt the "beauty of holiness," though in another sense than Archbishop Laud's use of that famous phrase. It was his "natural haughtiness," he tells us, that saved him from sensuality and base descents of mind. His virtue was a kind of good taste, a delicacy almost womanly. It is the "Lady of Christ's" speaking with the lips of the lady in _Comus_, who says --That which is not good is not delicious To a well governed and wise appetite." But there is a special fitness in this commemoration at this place. For Milton is the scholar poet. He is the most learned, the most classical, the most bookish--I was about to say the most academic--of English poets; but I remember that academic, through its use in certain connections, might imply a timid conformity to rules and models, a lack of vital originality which would not be true of Milton. Still, Milton was an academic man in a broad sense of the word. A hard student of books, he injured his eyes in boyhood by too close application, working every day till midnight. He spent seven years at his university. He was a teacher and a writer on education. I need not give the catalog of his acquirements further than to say that he was the best educated Englishman of his generation. Mark Pattison, indeed, who speaks for Oxford, denies that Milton was a regularly learned man, like Usher or Selden. That is, I understand, he had made no exhaustive studies in professional fields of knowledge such as patristic theology or legal antiquities. Of course not: Milton was a poet: he was studying for power, for self-culture and inspiration, and had little regard for a merely retrospective scholarship which would not aid him in the work of creation. Be that as it may, all Milton's writings in prose and verse are so saturated with learning as greatly to limit the range of their appeal. A poem like _Lycidas_, loaded with allusions, can be fully enjoyed only by the classical scholar who is in the tradition of the Greek pastoralists, who "knows the Dorian water's gush divine." I have heard women and young people and unlettered readers who have a natural taste for poetry, and enjoy Burns and Longfellow, object to this classical stiffness in Milton as pedantry. Now pedantry is an ostentation of learning for its own sake, and none has said harder things of it than Milton. "--Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior * * Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself." Cowley was the true pedant: his erudition was crabbed and encumbered the free movement of his mind, while Milton made his the grace and ornament of his verse. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." I think we may attribute Milton's apparent pedantry, not to a wish for display, but to an imagination familiarized with a somewhat special range of associations. This is a note of the Renaissance, and Milton's culture was Renaissance culture. That his mind derived its impetus more directly from books than from life; that his pages swarm with the figures of mythology and the imagery of the ancient poets is true. In his youthful poems he accepted and perfected Elizabethan, that is, Renaissance, forms: the court masque, the Italian sonnet, the artificial pastoral. But as he advanced in art and life, he became classical in a severer sense, discarding the Italianate conceits of his early verse, rejecting rhyme and romance, replacing decoration with construction; and finally, in his epic and tragedy modeled on the pure antique, applying Hellenic form to Hebraic material. His political and social, no less than his literary, ideals were classical. The English church ritual, with its Catholic ceremonies; the universities, with their scholastic curricula; the feudal monarchy, the medieval court and peerage--of all these barbarous survivals of the Middle Ages he would have made a clean sweep, to set up in their stead a commonwealth modeled on the democracies of Greece and Rome, schools of philosophy like the Academy and the Porch, and voluntary congregations of Protestant worshipers without priest, liturgy or symbol, practicing a purely rational and spiritual religion. He says to the Parliament: "How much better I find ye esteem it to imitate the old and elegant humanity of Greece than the barbaric pride of a Hunnish and Norwegian stateliness." And elsewhere: "Those ages to whose polite wisdom and letters we owe that we are not yet Goths and Jutlanders." So in his treatment of public questions Milton had what Bacon calls "the humor of a scholar." He was an idealist and a doctrinaire, with little historic sense and small notion of what is practicable here and now. England is still a monarchy; the English church is still prelatical and has its hireling clergy; Parliament keeps its two chambers, and the bishops sit and vote in the house of peers; ritualism and tractarianism gain apace upon low church and evangelical; the _Areopagitica_ had no effect whatever in hastening the freedom of the press; and, ironically enough, Milton himself, under the protectorate, became an official book licenser. England was not ripe for a republic; she was returning to her idols, "choosing herself a captain back to Egypt." It took a century and a half for English liberty to recover the ground lost at the Restoration. Nevertheless that little group of republican idealists, Vane, Bradshaw, Lambert and the rest, with Milton their literary spokesman, must always interest us as Americans and republicans. Let us, however, not mistake. Milton was no democrat. His political principles were republican, or democratic if you please, but his personal feelings were intensely aristocratic. Even that free commonwealth which he thought he saw so easy and ready a way to establish, and the constitution of which he sketched on the eve of the Restoration, was no democracy, but an aristocratic, senatorial republic like Venice, a government of the _optimates_, not of the populace. For the trappings of royalty, the pomp and pageantry, the servility and flunkeyism of a court, Milton had the contempt of a plain republican: "How poor their outworn coronets Beside one leaf of that plain civic wreath!" But for the people, as a whole, he had an almost equal contempt. They were "the ungrateful multitude," "the inconsiderate multitude," the _profanum vulgus_, "the throng and noises of vulgar and irrational men." There was not a popular drop of blood in him. He had no faith in universal suffrage or majority rule. "More just it is," he wrote, "that a less number compel a greater to retain their liberty, than that a greater number compel a less to be their fellow slaves," i.e. to bring back the king by a _plébescite_. And again: "The best affected and best principled of the people stood not numbering or computing on which side were most voices in Parliament, but on which side appeared to them most reason." Milton was a Puritan; and the Puritans, though socially belonging, for the most part, among the plain people, and though made by accident the champions of popular rights against privilege, were yet a kind of spiritual aristocrats. Calvinistic doctrine made of the elect a chosen few, a congregation of saints, set apart from the world. To this feeling of religious exclusiveness Milton's pride of intellect added a personal intensity. He respects distinction and is always rather scornful of the average man, the _pecus ignavum silentum_, the herd of the obscure and unfamed. "Nor do I name of men the common rout That, wandering loose about, Grow up and perish like the summer fly, Heads without names, no more remembered." Hazlitt insisted that Shakspere's principles were aristocratic, chiefly, I believe, because of his handling of the tribunes and the plebs in _Coriolanus_. Shakspere does treat his mobs with a kindly and amused contempt. They are fickle, ignorant, illogical, thick-headed, easily imposed upon. Still he makes you feel that they are composed of good fellows at bottom, quickly placated and disposed to do the fair thing. I think that Shakspere's is the more democratic nature; that his distrust of the people is much less radical than Milton's. Walt Whitman's obstreperous democracy, his all-embracing _camaraderie_, his liking for the warm, gregarious pressure of the crowd, was a spirit quite alien from his whose "soul was like a star and dwelt apart." Anything vulgar was outside or below the sympathies of this Puritan gentleman. Falstaff must have been merely disgusting to him; and fancy him reading Mark Twain! In Milton's references to popular pastimes there is always a mixture of disapproval, the air of the superior person. "The people on their holidays," says Samson, are "impetuous, insolent, unquenchable." "Methought," says the lady in _Comus_, "--it was the sound Of riot and ill managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose, unlettered hinds When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan And thank the gods amiss." Milton liked to be in the minority, to bear up against the pressure of hostile opinion. "God intended to prove me," he wrote, "whether I durst take up alone a rightful cause against a world of disesteem, and found I durst." The seraph Abdiel is a piece of self-portraiture; there is no more characteristic passage in all his works: "--The Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he * * * Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he past Long way through hostile scorn which he sustained Superior, nor of violence feared aught; And with retorted scorn his back he turned On those proud towers to swift destruction doomed." Milton was no democrat; equality and fraternity were not his trade, though liberty was his passion. Liberty he defended against the tyranny of the mob, as of the king. He preferred a republic to a monarchy, since he thought it less likely to interfere with the independence of the private citizen. Political liberty, liberty of worship and belief, freedom of the press, freedom of divorce, he asserted them all in turn with unsurpassed eloquence. He proposed a scheme of education reformed from the clogs of precedent and authority. Even his choice of blank verse for _Paradise Lost_ he vindicated as a case of "ancient _liberty_ recovered to heroic song from this troublesome and modern bondage of riming." There is yet one reason more why we at Yale should keep this anniversary. Milton was the poet of English Puritanism, and therefore he is our poet. This colony and this college were founded by English Puritans; and here the special faith and manners of the Puritans survived later than at the other great University of New England--survived almost in their integrity down to a time within the memory of living men. When Milton left Cambridge in 1632, "church-outed by the prelates," it was among the possibilities that, instead of settling down at his father's country-house at Horton, he might have come to New England. Winthrop had sailed, with his company, two years before. In 1635 three thousand Puritans emigrated to Massachusetts, among them Sir Henry Vane, the younger,--the "Vane, young in years, but in sage counsels old," of Milton's sonnet--who was made governor of the colony in the following year. Or in 1638, the year of the settlement of New Haven, when Milton went to Italy for culture, it would not have been miraculous had he come instead to America for freedom. It was in that same year that, according to a story long believed though now discredited, Cromwell, Pym, Hampden and Hazelrig, despairing of any improvement in conditions at home, were about to embark for New England when they were stopped by orders in council. Is it too wild a dream that _Paradise Lost_ might have been written in Boston or in New Haven? But it was not upon the cards. The literary class does not willingly emigrate to raw lands, or separate itself from the thick and ripe environment of an old civilization. However, we know that Vane and Roger Williams were friends of Milton; and he must have known and been known to Cromwell's chaplain, Hugh Peters, who had been in New England; and doubtless to others among the colonists. It is, at first sight, therefore rather strange that there is no mention of Milton, so far as I have observed, in any of our earlier colonial writers. It is said, I know not on what authority, that there was not a single copy of Shakspere's plays in New England in the seventeenth century. That is not so strange, considering the Puritan horror of the stage. But one might have expected to meet with mention of Milton, as a controversialist if not as a poet. The French Huguenot poet DuBartas, whose poem _La Semaine_ contributed some items to the account of the creation in _Paradise Lost_, was a favorite author in New England--I take it, in Sylvester's translation, _The Divine Weeks and Works_. It is also said that the _Emblems_ of Milton's contemporary, Francis Quarles, were much read in New England. But Tyler supposes that Nathaniel Ames, in his Almanac for 1725, "pronounced there for the first time the name of Milton, together with chosen passages from his poems." And he thinks it worth noting that Lewis Morris, of Morrisania, ordered an edition of Milton from a London bookseller in 1739.* * Mr. Charles Francis Adams informs me that a letter of inquiry sent by him to the _Evening Post_ has brought out three or four references to Milton in the _Magnalia_, besides other allusions to him in the publications of the period. Mr. Adams adds, however, that there is nothing to show that _Paradise Lost_ was much read in New England prior to 1750. The _Magnalia_ was published in 1702. The failure of our forefathers to recognize the great poet of their cause may be explained partly by the slowness of the growth of Milton's fame in England. His minor poems, issued in 1645, did not reach a second edition till 1673. _Paradise Lost_, printed in 1667, found its fit audience, though few, almost immediately. But the latest literature traveled slowly in those days into a remote and rude province. Moreover the educated class in New England, the ministers, though a learned, were not a literary set, as is abundantly shown by their own experiments in verse. It is not unlikely that Cotton Mather or Michael Wigglesworth would have thought DuBartas and Quarles better poets than Milton if they had read the latter's works. We are proud of being the descendants of the Puritans; perhaps we are glad that we are their descendants only, and not their contemporaries. Which side would you have been on, if you had lived during the English civil war of the seventeenth century? Doubtless it would have depended largely on whether you lived in Middlesex or in Devon, whether your parents were gentry or tradespeople, and on similar accidents. We think that we choose, but really choices are made for us. We inherit our politics and our religion. But if free to choose, I know in which camp I would have been, and it would not have been that in which Milton's friends were found. The New Model army had the discipline--and the prayer meetings. I am afraid that Rupert's troopers plundered, gambled, drank and swore most shockingly. There was good fighting on both sides, but the New Model had the right end of the quarrel and had the victory, and I am glad that it was so. Still there was more fun in the king's army, and it was there that most of the good fellows were. The influence of Milton's religion upon his art has been much discussed. It was owing to his Puritanism that he was the kind of poet that he was, but it was in spite of his Puritanism that he was a poet at all. He was the poet of a cause, a party, a sect whose attitude toward the graces of life and the beautiful arts was notoriously one of distrust and hostility. He was the poet, not only of that Puritanism which is a permanent element in English character, but of much that was merely temporary and local. How sensitive then must his mind have been to all forms of loveliness, how powerful the creative instinct in him, when his genius emerged without a scar from the long struggle of twenty years, during which he had written pamphlet after pamphlet on the angry questions of the day, and nothing at all in verse but a handful of sonnets mostly provoked by public occasions! The fact is, there were all kinds of Puritans. There were dismal precisians, like William Prynne, illiberal and vulgar fanatics, the Tribulation Wholesomes, Hope-on-high Bombys, and Zeal-of-the-land Busys, whose absurdities were the stock in trade of contemporary satirists from Jonson to Butler. But there were also gentlemen and scholars, like Fairfax, Marvell, Colonel Hutchinson, Vane, whose Puritanism was consistent with all elegant tastes and accomplishments. Was Milton's Puritanism hurtful to his art? No and yes. It was in many ways an inspiration; it gave him zeal, a Puritan word much ridiculed by the Royalists; it gave refinement, distinction, selectness, elevation to his picture of the world. But it would be uncritical to deny that it also gave a certain narrowness and rigidity to his view of human life. It is curious how Milton's early poems have changed places in favor with _Paradise Lost_. They were neglected for over a century. Joseph Warton testifies in 1756 that they had only "very lately met with a suitable regard"; had lain "in a sort of obscurity, the private enjoyment of a few curious readers." And Dr. Johnson exclaims: "Surely no man could have fancied that he read _Lycidas_ with pleasure, had he not known its author." There can be little doubt that now-a-days Milton's juvenilia are more read than _Paradise Lost_, and by many--perhaps by a majority of readers--rated higher. In this opinion I do not share. _Paradise Lost_ seems to me not only greater work, more important, than the minor pieces, but better poetry, richer and perfecter. Yet one quality these early poems have which _Paradise Lost_ has not--charm. Milton's epic astonishes, moves, delights, but it does not fascinate. The youthful Milton was sensitive to many attractions which he afterwards came to look upon with stern disapproval. He went to the theatre and praised the comedies of Shakspere and Jonson; he loved the romances of chivalry and fairy tales; he had no objection to dancing, ale drinking, the music of the fiddle and rural sports; he writes to Diodati of the pretty girls on the London streets; he celebrates the Catholic and Gothic elegancies of English church architecture and ritual, the cloister's pale, the organ music and full voiced choir, the high embowed roof, and the storied windows which his military friends were soon to smash at Ely, Salisbury, Canterbury, Lichfield, as popish idolatries. But in _Iconoclastes_ we find him sneering at the king for keeping a copy of Shakspere in his closet. In his treatise _Of Reformation_ he denounces the prelates for "embezzling the treasury of the church on painted and gilded walls of temples, wherein God hath testified to have no delight." Evidently the Anglican service was one of those "gay religions, rich with pomp and gold" to which he alludes in _Paradise Lost_. A chorus commends Samson the Nazarene for drinking nothing but water. Modern tragedies are condemned for "mixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons"--as Shakspere does. In _Paradise Lost_ the poet speaks with contempt of the romances whose "chief mastery" it was --to dissect, With long and tedious havoc, fabled knights In battles feigned." And in _Paradise Regained_ he even disparages his beloved classics, preferring the psalms of David, the Hebrew prophecies and the Mosaic law, to the poets, philosophers and orators of Athens. The Puritans were Old Testament men. Their God was the Hebrew Jehovah, their imaginations were filled with the wars of Israel and the militant theocracy of the Jews. In Milton's somewhat patronizing attitude toward women, there is something Mosaic--something almost Oriental. He always remained susceptible to beauty in women, but he treated it as a weakness, a temptation. The bitterness of his own marriage experience mingles with his words. I need not cite the well-known passages about Dalilah and Eve, where he who reads between the lines can always detect the figure of Mary Powell. There is no gallantry in Milton, but a deal of common sense. The love of the court poets, cavaliers and sonneteers, their hyperboles of passion, their abasement before their ladies he doubtless scorned as the fopperies of chivalry, fantastic and unnatural exaggerations, the insincerities of "vulgar amourists," the fume of "--court amour, Mixt dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain." To the Puritan, woman was at best the helpmate and handmaid of man. Too often she was a snare, or a household foe, "a cleaving mischief far within defensive arms." _L'Allegro_ and _Il Penseroso_ are the only poems of Milton in which he surrenders himself spontaneously to the joy of living, to "unreproved pleasures free," with no _arrière pensée_, or intrusion of the conscience. Even in those pleasant Horatian lines to Lawrence, inviting him to spend a winter day by the fire, drink wine and hear music, he ends with a fine Puritan touch: He who of these delights can judge, yet spare To interpose them oft, is truly wise." "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" inquires Sir Toby of Shakspere's only Puritan. "Yes," adds the clown, "and ginger shall be hot in the mouth, too." And "wives may be merry and yet honest," asserts Mistress Page. It is not without astonishment that one finds Emerson writing: "To this antique heroism Milton added the genius of the Christian sanctity * * * laying its chief stress on humility." Milton had a zeal for righteousness, a noble purity and noble pride. But if you look for saintly humility, for the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus, the spirit of charity and forgiveness, look for them in the Anglican Herbert, not in the Puritan Milton. Humility was no fruit of the system which Calvin begot and which begot John Knox. The Puritans were great invokers of the sword of the Lord and of Gideon--the sword of Gideon and the dagger of Ehud. There went a sword out of Milton's mouth against the enemies of Israel, a sword of threatenings, the wrath of God upon the ungodly. The temper of his controversial writings is little short of ferocious. There was not much in him of that "sweet reasonableness" which Matthew Arnold thought the distinctive mark of Christian ethics. He was devout, but not with the Christian devoutness. I would not call him a Christian at all, except, of course, in his formal adherence to the creed of Christianity. Very significant is the inferiority of _Paradise Regained_ to _Paradise Lost_. And in _Paradise Lost_ itself, how weak and faint is the character of the Savior! You feel that he is superfluous, that the poet did not need him. He is simply the second person of the Trinity, the executive arm of the Godhead; and Milton is at pains to invent things for him to do--to drive the rebellious angels out of heaven, to preside over the six days' work of creation, etc. I believe it was Thomas Davidson who said that in _Paradise Lost_ "Christ is God's good boy." We are therefore not unprepared to discover, from Milton's _Treatise of Christian Doctrine_, that he had laid aside the dogma of vicarious sacrifice and was, in his last years, a Unitarian. It was this Latin treatise, translated and published in 1824, which called out Macaulay's essay, so urbanely demolished by Matthew Arnold, and which was triumphantly reviewed by Dr. Channing in the _North American_. It was lucky for Dr. Channing, by the way, that he lived in the nineteenth century and not in the seventeenth. Two Socinians, Leggatt and Wightman, were burned at the stake as late as James the First's reign, one at Lichfield and the other at Smithfield. Milton, then, does not belong with those broadly human, all tolerant, impartial artists, who reflect, with equal sympathy and infinite curiosity, every phase of life: with Shakspere and Goethe or, on a lower level, with Chaucer and Montaigne; but with the intense, austere and lofty souls whose narrowness is likewise their strength. 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The hotel's location within the Aviapolis business district puts you a stone's throw from local businesses and 15 minutes' drive from trade fairs at Messukeskus convention centre. With space for up to 30, the hotel's eight naturally-lit meeting rooms are the ideal setting for your seminar or training event. The sprawling Jumbo shopping mall and huge Flamingo entertainment and dining complex are both an easy walk from the hotel. It's a 20-minute drive to Helsinki city centre, where you can see beautiful Art Nouveau buildings and interesting museums. In summer, borrow a bike from the hotel and explore the city at your own pace.
At this hotel you can enjoy:
- A free airport shuttle
- On-site parking for a daily fee
- A Fitness Centre
- Free Wi-Fi
At this Helsinki hotel, kids stay and eat free and a choice of pillows ensures restful nights. Got an early flight to catch? Take advantage of the early breakfast service and the Park, Stay & Go package, leaving your car at the hotel until you return. Savour local dishes in the bright and airy Bistro Fiore, and sink into a sofa with a drink in the lounge.
Kids Stay and Eat Free
Kids ages 17 and under stay for free when sharing their parents' room. Up to four kids ages 12 and under eat free any time of the day in any Holiday Inn® on-site restaurant.
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Children's Activities Available.
You can play croquet game, badminton and other outdoor plays in the summer at our court yard. Or just enjoy of the sun.Flamingo Entertainment center just in 500m away from the hotel. Flamingo offers restaurants, Spa, Day Spa, bowling, movie theater, minigolf and many many more interesting places to spend whole day.We offer bicycles to borrow on summertime to our guests.
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Free High-Speed Internet
- Wired Internet Available in Rooms, Suites, Business Centre, Public Areas and Meeting Spaces.
- Standard wired internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
- Standard Wired Fee: 0 EUR
- Wireless Internet Available in Rooms, Suites, Business Centre, Public Areas and Meeting Spaces.
- Standard Wireless internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
- Standard Wireless Fee: 0 EUR
Shuttle/ Parking
- Car Parking Available
- Self-Parking Fee: 10 EUR
- Our hotel offers large parking facilities. Parking fee applies to all parking. EUR 5 / day time, EUR 10 / overnight, EUR 35 / week, EUR 60 / 2 weeks. Parking is only allowed for hotel guests. Sheduled complimentary shuttle bus runs to and from airport.
Pet Policy
- Pets allowed
- Guide Dogs Allowed
- Pets Walking Area Available
- Pet Fee per Night: 15 EUR
- Pets are welcome at the Holiday Inn Helsinki Vantaa Airport hotel. Additional fee for pets is 15 eur per room per night. Guide, assistant and service dogs free of charge. Additional fee for pets is room specific.
Credit Cards
- American Express
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Diners Club
- China Union Pay
- Smoke-Free Facility
- Number of Floors: 5
- Total Number of Rooms: 281
- Number of Suites: 1
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 280
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 2
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Current Renovation: 2009 To 2009
- All Guestrooms, public areas, restaurant, gym and sauna has been fully renowated in 2009.
- Public Spaces Renovated in: 2009
- Guest Rooms Renovated in: 2009
- Public Entrance
- Guest Rooms
- Lifts
- Public Restrooms
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Ramp Access
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
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You can be assured that when you stay at an IHG Green Engage Hotel, you are participating in an advanced, world-wide sustainability effort. We understand that it is important for you to have an active role in protecting our environment and that's why we've made it easier for you to choose a hotel that matches your sustainable values.

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Bitcoin price tracker: live chart
The rise of digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been spectacular. Defying dire warnings from governments, regulators and central banks the price has accelerated in recent weeks as an ever-growing base of buyers have piled in.
The resulting volatility has been extreme: the price frequently moves by more than 10pc within hours - sometimes less. It is not the only cryptocurrency, but is by far the best known.
The chart below shows how the price of Bitcoin (as measured in US dollars) has changed during the past 12 months.
Investors from all walks of life have caught the bug. The Winklevoss twins Tyler and Cameron, made famous after successfully suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, are thought to be the first Bitcoin billionaires after buying $11m worth in 2013 – now worth more than $1.6bn.
Speculators of more modest means also made thousands last year as the price climbed by more than 1,500pc since January, smashing through $18,000 in December.
Holders are attracted not only by the potential of making an enormous return in a short space of time, but the challenge the digital currency represents to governments, central and commercial banks.
This latter group appear to have abandoned gold, the traditional "safe haven" asset.
The online search term "buy Bitcoin" is now many times more popular than the equivalent "buy gold" term.
According to historic data, which accounts for total search volumes, "buy bitcoin" is now three times more popular than "buy gold" was even during the 2008-09 market crash - when consumers feared for the safety of their cash.
Commentators, professional investors and senior bankers have issued warnings over a Bitcoin bubbles. Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Sir Howard Davies told Bloomberg: "All the authorities can do is put up the sign from Dante's Inferno – 'abandon hope all ye who enter here'."
The Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, has issued three separate Bitcoin warnings since 2013. Last month the European Central Bank vice president said Bitcoin was a "speculative asset" where investors were "taking that risk of buying at such high prices".
Among investment bankers, JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon has been among the most vocal. In September he said Bitcoin was a "fraud" and anyone "stupid enough to buy it" would eventually pay the price.
Legendary index investor Jack Bogle also told an audience in New York to "avoid Bitcoin like the plague".
Their fears were born out through a turbulent run during the start of 2018.
Although, Bitcoin's march into mainstream finance continued with it being listed on important futures markets its value has fallen repeatedly through 2018.


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Professional services include a range of different occupations which provide support to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors. People who work in professional services provide specialist advice to their clients. This includes things like providing tax advice, supporting a company with accounting or providing business advice or ideas to generate growth. The kinds of services provided mean that the professional services sector helps to improve productivity and growth across the economy.
Browse through our website to find daily updated job opportunities in the social Associations/professional industry. We have a number of features to make your search for any jobs in professional/social associations industry easier and faster. Check out the career advice section for guidance and suggestions when applying for jobs. You can also customize your jobs by selecting a sub-category, state and industry. Simply click on 'view all jobs' for each category to find the best opportunity for you today.
I've always surfed this web for jobs, finally june 2017 i saw a post for a PA role, and applies, was called for interview 2 days after and resumed work on the 20th of that same month.. well done guys. Personal assistanat at Electronic Payplus Limited


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The AgOtter allows you to see, monitor and record all the sprayer's essential information. See your speed, acres, gallons and rate (for left boom, right boom and total output of the sprayer)
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Washing machine agitator repair kit. Includes agitator cam and 4 directional cogs (also called dog ears). If the upper section of the agitator isn't turning properly, then the agitator cam and dog ears are likely worn-out and require replacement.
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Dystonia is a type of movement disorder that affects nerves, resulting in muscle spasms that can't be controlled and are often painful. While there's no cure, neurologists at Dignity Health Central California offer the latest treatments and therapies to ease symptoms and make daily life more comfortable.
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I have been thinking over the last 24 hours, why do people blog?
For me, it started as a way to get my thoughts and feelings across at a very transitional time in my life. I had lost the man I thought I would marry, I moved home with my father and I was turning 30. All these things lead me to blogging.
I didn't know who would actually read my blog? Friends – some. Family – probably not for the most part. Strangers – possibly. I don't know who I started my blog for. Me mostly. My beautiful aunt reads my blog and posts regularly, I have a couple of friends that read it through my Facebook page, but I would guess that most people who read it are strangers. I would care to guess also that some people who read my blog are people who don't like me or respect me yet they read my blog – for the wrong reasons, so they can find out what I am up to, whats going on in my life, who I am dating and why I am dating them etc etc. I thought about it and really – I am okay with this.
I am okay with blogging for people who don't like me, maybe they will continue to hate me, maybe – just maybe, they will realize that I am not a bad person, that I am not a bitch. I have done and said bad things I am sure – but who doesn't? No one I know is a saint and most people deserve forgiveness and understanding, not hatred and ill-will.
For those of you who actually take time to read my blog, thank you, I appreciate you taking YOUR time – which I recognize as precious – to read something I happen to write.
I am starting a new segment for 2012 – a question every time I blog. I would love to get to know those who read my blog. So please respond!!
My question for today: Do you blog (if so please add your blog link here too), why do you blog and if you don't what makes you choose a blog to follow!
My wish for you all – health and peace in 2012
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October 2012 – October 2013
Funding from Awards For All has facilitated the creation of the Heartbeater digital installation. Created following a special brief from the Nilupul team, Heartbeater is a novel, fully interactive, mobile, audio-visual installation, designed by digital artists Matthew Collings and Erik Parr, for use in Nilupul Foundation's charitable activities and outreach projects.
Heartbeater is a facility which promotes a strong physical and mental connection with sensory experience which instils the technology with great therapeutic as well as artistic merit. The benefits for improved physical and mental wellbeing are rich and diverse.
Heartbeater was showcased at the NEoN digital arts festival in Dundee in 2012 with a choreographed dance performance by Lizzie Rawes and as part of a mindful movement workshop with Joan Cleville of the Scottish Dance Theatre. Since this time the technology has been used by autistic and disabled schoolchildren, adults with complex needs, addicts in recovery and in Nilupul classes and workshops.
Heartbeater focuses on physicality and the human body, using the physical movements of the users to manipulate sounds and visuals around them. As the user explores the installation, the minds attention gradually shifts to focus on the senses producing a meditative state of mind. By encouraging actual physical movement to produce sensory feedback the user can experience full body relaxation and can achieve a heightened ability to control focus and attention. Digital imagery and sounds are based on the theme of water, selected for it's ability to relax and engage the user.
Interaction is multi-sensory which makes Heartbeater completely accessible to all including wheelchair users, the visually impaired, the deaf and hard of hearing and those with severely limited communication. The sensitivity and structure of the technology, alongside the guidance of a trained workshop facilitator, means that even those with the most extensive mobility issues can take part and benefit from this experience.
"The hypnotic, soothing experience of the Heartbeater was an interesting new experience for all of the children and a thoroughly engaging one for some."
"This technology fits in perfectly with our vision of helping children without making them helpless."
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2018 Elected a Fellow, Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance
2017 Elected a Fellow, The English Association (est. 1906)
2015 The Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, USA
2015 Triangle Awards: Ferro-Grumley Award (USA) for Mr Loverman
2014 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Mr Loverman
2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (USA) – finalist for Blonde Roots
2010 Poetry Book Society Special Commendation: Ten poetry anthology
2009 Int. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – nominated for Blonde Roots
2009 The Big Red Read Award: fiction & overall winner for Blonde Roots
2009 Awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List
2009 Orange Prize Youth Panel Award for Blonde Roots
2009 Orange Prize for Fiction – nominated for Blonde Roots
2006 Made a Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (est. 1754)
2006 British Council Creative Writing Fellow, Georgetown University
2004 Elected a Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (est. 1820)
2003 NESTA* Fellowship Award for The Emperor's Babe
2002 Creative Writing Fellow, University of East Anglia
2000 The Arts Council of England Writers Award 2000
1999 EMMA Best Book Award for Lara
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Academic – Brunel University London
2017 Teach Brunel Awards
2015 Award for Excellence,
2014 Appointed The Public Orator
Notable Book of the Year plaudits 13 times in newspapers & magazines.
Mr Loverman
An Observer Book of the Year
Blonde Roots
A Financial Times Book of the Year
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A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year
A Telegraph Pick of the Paperbacks
The London Paper Top Choice
Soul Tourists
An Independent Book of the Year
An Independent on Sunday Book of the Year
The Emperor's Babe
A Times Book of the Decade, 2009
A Sunday Times Pick of the Week
A Telegraph Book of the Year
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Honoring Saratoga Veterans,
The History Channel prize, awarded in conjunction with the Institute for Museum and Library Services, recognizes libraries which created local programs, exhibits or media projects to tell about the role of their communities in the larger American story.
The contest was created in conjunction with the History Channel series: "America: The Story of Us." It was open to libraries around the country and recognized 13 winners, which shared $35,000 in prize money. The Grand Prize Winner-the Lower Macungie Library in Macungie, PA-received a $15,000 prize for an exhibit on the impact of the Apollo 13 flight, on the local community.
The Saratoga Springs Public Library will receive $5,000 in prize money which library director Issac Pulver says will be shared by the museum. The other First Prize Winner was the Erie Community Library of Erie, Colorado, with a project called " Erie: From Working Coal Town to Suburban Boom Town."
Ten second prize winning libraries received ten $1,000 prizes.
The New York State Military museum houses over 10,000 artifacts dating from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that relate to New York State's military forces, the state's military history and the contributions of New York's veterans. The artifacts include uniforms, weapons, artillery pieces, and art. A significant portion of the museum's collection is from the Civil War.
The museum also owns the largest collection of state battle flags in the country and the largest collection of Civil War flags in the world. Of the over 1700 flags in the collection, more than 60% are from the Civil War.
The library and archive holdings in the Veterans Research Center include a 2000 volume library of military and New York State history, over 6,000 photographs, unit history files, broadsides, scrapbooks, letters and maps.


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South Africa's apartheid-era police minister Adriaan Vlok was handed a 10-year suspended jail sentence yesterday after pleading guilty to the attempted murder of a leading black activist 18 years ago.
In a plea bargain reached with prosecutors, Vlok, his former police chief Johann van der Merwe and three other former security officials, all admitted seeking to kill Frank Chikane, currently a senior aide to South African President Thabo Mbeki, by having his clothes laced with poison. The poison attacked his nervous system, making him violently ill.
At the time, Chikane was secretary general of the South African Council of Churches -- one of the bodies leading the fight against the apartheid system.
Vlok and van der Merwe were given 10-year prison sentences, suspended for five years. The three lower-ranking policemen were given five-year terms, suspended for four years.
State advocate Anton Ackermann stressed the case, which comes 13 years after apartheid fell, was not driven by revenge and said that was reflected by the sentence, which came after Vlok and his co-accused struck a plea bargain under which charges of conspiracy to murder were withdrawn.
"This is not a Nuremberg trial," Ackermann said referring to the 1940s trial of Nazi war criminals. "This case is not about retribution, even less has this case been motivated by revenge."
Vlok last year washed Chikane's feet in an act of contrition -- a hugely symbolic act in a country where many people count themselves as devout Christians, and where the wounds of the recent past remain raw.
Chikane was present in court when the men pleaded guilty.
Protesters outside the Pretoria High Court demanded Vlok be prosecuted for other abuses when he was in charge of police during apartheid.
"We want justice to be done to these guys ... We suffered a lot [and] people were shot and killed by police at that time," Lenni Makhiwame said before the sentences were handed down.
Makhiwame was one of several protesters holding placards reading "Apartheid is a crime against humanity."
Yesterday's trial was widely seen as a test case for the prosecution of apartheid-era officials who were not granted an amnesty by the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Vlok was the only apartheid-era minister to appear before the commission, and received an amnesty for a series of bombings but he did not ask for immunity for Chikane's poisoning.


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About Mobile Innovations
Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing law enforcement with the most advanced mobile data products on the market.
Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over forty agencies across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Mobile Innovations is a BlackBerry Alliance partner with seven years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerryTM. Working with Android since 2011, and iOS since 2013. As a world leader in mobile data, we are proud to help law enforcement personnel work faster, better and safer by putting the sum total of police knowledge at their fingertips, where and when they need it most. For demo clients, trial installations, product manuals and deployment media, click on the Wiki tab at the top of this page, or visit our Questions section to fill out your request, and we'll be happy to get back to you with the answers you need.
About the Team
Seeing the need for mobile data for law enforcement, we formed Mobile Innovations, in 2006.
We are a closely knit team, with a tight customer focus. We started with BlackBerry smartphone access to NicheRMS as our core product, and with each successive customer, we added some further capabilities. GPS tracking, reporting to dispatch, Command and Control interfaces, national computer systems, various legacy silos via composite search screens and queues of results, GIS photo, video, audio, and form completion. We've added peripherals like magnetic stripe readers, 1D/2D bar codes, and printers. Under the leadership of founder and President Gary Bauer, and CTO Ian Bowles, we get the opportunity to enjoy successes with clients all over the world. With deep knowledge and experience in enterprise data, security, and mobility, we are particularly well suited to work with enforcement clients. Working with BlackberryTM from the outset, Android since 2011, and iOS since 2013, on smartphones and tablets, to bring innovative solutions to the public safety and enforcement market, our team has worked hard and won many successes, notably in Canada the United Sates and the United Kingdom.
Mobile Innovations is a Niche RMS Partner, and works closely with mobile technology innovators including Xenium Solutions and DARTA. We are SEAP Partners, iOS developers, BlackBerry Alliance Partners, and Windows Phone Developers.
The Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP) is Samsung's official enterprise mobility partnership program. SEAP is an ecosystem for Samsung's Global B2B Partners and serves as a window to work with Samsung Mobile. SEAP guides partners throughout the development lifecycle and provides them with access to Samsung's B2B resources to get in front of customers, increase sales and receive technical support.
iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. and distributed exclusively for Apple hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's iDevices. Originally unveiled in 2007 for the iPhone, it has been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod Touch (September 2007), iPad (January 2010), iPad Mini (November 2012) and second-generation Apple TV onward (September 2010). As of June 2014, Apple's App Store contained more than 1.2 million iOS applications, 500,000 of which were optimized for iPad.
BlackBerry is a global leader in wireless innovation, BlackBerryTM revolutionized the mobile industry when it was introduced in 1999. Today, BlackBerryTM aims to inspire the success of our millions of customers around the world by continuously pushing the boundaries of mobile experiences. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. The company trades under the ticker symbols "BB" on the Toronto Stock Exchange and "BBRY" on the NASDAQ. For more information, visit www.blackberry.com.
Windows Phone is a smartphone operating system developed by Microsoft. It is the successor to Windows Mobile, although it is incompatible with the earlier platform. With Windows Phone, Microsoft created a new user interface, featuring a design language named "Modern" (which was formerly known as "Metro"). Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7.
Niche Technology Inc. is a private corporation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with branch offices in Toronto, Ontario; Calgary, Alberta; and Victoria, British Columbia. Niche was founded in 1992 and is wholly owned by its senior management. Installations of Niche law-enforcement software began in 1995. Since 1995, Niche has focused entirely on developing and selling Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) law-enforcement software.
Xenium Solutions is a premier reseller of business enabling mobile data solutions that operate on Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Window Mobile devices. The Xenium customer base includes UK police agencies, UK government departments, security firms, field marketing, retail, finance and manufacturing. Xenium Solutions operates from offices in Surrey UK and Melbourne Australia.
DARTA is a Canadian family owned company that services the Police, Fire, EMS, Municipal Vehicle market. Our competitive pricing and in-house manufacturing of high quality Canadian made products and software positions us well to serve all of our clients needs.
About Entrust Datacard Consumers, citizens and employees increasingly expect anywhere-anytime experiences — whether they are making purchases, crossing borders, accessing e-gov services or logging onto corporate networks. Entrust Datacard offers the trusted identity and secure transaction technologies that make those experiences reliable and secure. Solutions range from the physical world of financial cards, passports and ID cards to the digital realm of authentication, certificates and secure communications. With more than 2,000 Entrust Datacard colleagues around the world, and a network of strong global partners, the company serves customers in 150 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.entrustdatacard/com.
Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, that provides speech and imaging applications.


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PopTent Raises $5.5M For Video Ad Crowdsourcing
San Clemente-based PopTent has raised $5.5M from MK Capital. We are big fans of video advertising. It makes sense for advertisers as their pay per view works better than paying for most TV advertising and if they have a hit with the video they get viral growth. PopTent allows advertisers to commission creatives to create video ads. Many of the video ads that we see are repurposed ads from TV but for may smaller companies in particular that don't have TV ads PopTent makes sense. What makes the PopTent story impressive is that lDell, Intel, Jaguar, and Walgreens have paid for video ads.
Poptent says it has paid out more than $5M to videographers since being founded in 2007. That doesn't strike us as a huge number but suspect that maybe Poptent gets to keep a few million dollars as well. And given the growth rate for online video ads we feel that there is green field ahead.
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Editor's Note: The Classic Gold Collection is a Ben-Amun staple. Constantly being updated and re-imagined, this sleek array of gold plated pieces is both versatile and timeless, suitable for the street chic wearer and the elegant, understated fashionista alike. From traditional gold links to the more modern slider necklace you'll find yourself turning to these must-have classics time and time again.
We hand pack all our shipments securely to insure a safe delivery. If you receive a shipment that has obvious damage, please contact us immediately in order to receive an RA (Return Authorization) number which you will need to include in your return package. You can then send the product back to us wrapped in its original packaging and we will be happy to replace the damaged item.


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A sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, June 26, 2016
Trinity Church of Morrisania, Bronx, New York
"When the days drew near for Jesus to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem."
Today's gospel reading is the beginning of the large middle section of the Gospel of Luke. Basically before this, Jesus has been preaching, teaching and healing in and around his home district of Galilee, but now, after the Transfiguration, when Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus in God's glory on the mountaintop, Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem." In other words, he made his firm decision to bring his ministry to Jerusalem, the seat of the temple and the spiritual heart of Judaism.
This passage sets the tone. Jesus is not just wandering around, seeing what will happen or making occasional pronouncements. This journey is serious business. Much of the imagery is derived from the scriptural descriptions of the prophet Elijah, even when what Jesus says contrasts with the earlier prophet. Elisha says to Elijah, "Let me kiss my father and my mother; and then I will follow you." Elijah's response was, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?" But Jesus' response was, "Let the dead bury their own dead." I don't think Jesus was undermining respect for family, and family obligations in this. However, his journey to Jerusalem, which clearly included his own crucifixion, was nonetheless an urgent journey to life. There was no turning back to focus on death.
Jesus had sent out messengers in advance to prepare the way for his journey. And some came to a Samaritan village, and that village rejected this journey to Jerusalem. Most people don't know much about the Samaritans. A small group of them still exists in Israel. The Samaritans were the descendants of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Israel—the northern part of the Kingdom of David that split off after the reign of Solomon. During the time of Jesus, there was a pretty substantial population of Samaritans in Palestine, definitely a minority in an area that was predominantly, but not exclusively Jewish. The Samaritans regarded themselves as descendants of Abraham who worshiped God properly, in the place and manner that Moses had spelled out. For the Samaritans, that place was Mount Gerizim, where they still offer sacrifices to this day, NOT in Jerusalem. The Samaritans had definite opinions about Jerusalem and most of them were unfriendly at best. So it isn't that surprising that when these advance men for a trip to Jerusalem came into town, the Samaritans gave them the heave-ho.
James and John, the brothers also known as "the Sons of Thunder," wanted to rain fire down on the Samaritan village and destroy it. After all, can't those stupid Samaritans see the truth? Don't they know that this is the Savior and he's going to Jerusalem to save everybody? Shouldn't we teach them a lesson? Jesus turns around and says, "No!" This is not a show of power, the Kingdom of God is about life, not about force and punishment and death.
And with Jesus, they moved on to the next village. His remarks make clear this is not a casual journey; it's not a camping trip just for fun. This is a journey to life, and for life—but that life encompasses all the difficulties of real life, including danger and death. "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head," Jesus said to someone who glibly said he would follow him anywhere. This journey is serious business and it's not about following some celebrity or hero around.
I love the final saying in this lesson, but it doesn't make sense unless you've worked on a farm. When you plow a field or plant seeds, whether you are using a tractor, or a mule to pull your plow, it is important to plow straight furrows, next to one another or the ground won't be thoroughly or completely cultivated, or planted or mowed. Doing this is relatively simple—you look at a point ahead of you at the end of the field and keep going straight toward it. If you turn your head, you won't go straight, usually you will veer off toward the direction you are looking. Just like driving a car in traffic without paying close attention. So Jesus says, "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
The Kingdom of God is God's life-giving compassion for God's people, which is to say—us, living in that compassion and living out God's compassion in the world. In this whole lesson, Jesus is making clear that focusing on life is not trivial or easy. You can't take your eye off the goal of abundant life, or turn around into self-indulgence or arrogance. There is no compassion or life in fire-bombing the Samaritans, or playing at following Jesus while being unprepared for Christian life in the long haul.
Here at Trinity, I have experienced life in the Kingdom. Remembering God's compassion for all of us, mourning with those who mourn, and rejoicing with those who rejoice. We walk with Jesus, and offer him our hospitality, he who has no place to lay his head. With him we carry in us the gift of life and of love which we have received from those who have gone before us, and those with whom we share this day, and those who will continue to grow in Christ into the future. We share with him the path of life. Let us be thankful. Let us receive his generosity.
From today's psalm:
O Lord, you are my portion and my cup;
it is you who uphold my lot.
My boundaries enclose a pleasant land;
indeed, I have a goodly heritage.
I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
my heart teaches me, night after night.
I have set the Lord always before me;
because he is at my right hand I shall not fail.
My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices;
my body shall rest in hope.