No doubt the tone of the whole is somewhat prosaic, and indicative of an age in which the externals of worship bulked largely; but still the central point of the narrative was really the centre-point of the events.
But it is a blunder and an injustice to a noble character if we forget that the stage of revelation at which he stood necessarily made him more dependent on externals than Christians are or should be.
We must remember, too, how strong a hold the externals of worship had on the devout Jew.
He who depends on outward circumstances for his joy is the slave of externals and the sport of time and chance.
Here we have Joash busy with the externalsof worship and actually deceiving himself thereby.
The position which a man fills, the tasks which he has to perform, and the whole host of things which make up the externals of his life, depend upon far other conditions than any that he brings to them.
So far asexternals went she was even a better mother to him than to Richard.
She would not look at Richard before she went, for in externals she forced herself to be loyal to Roger.
It appears as if influx were from externals into man's internals, but this is a fallacy, no.
The externals of life are kept closed after death, and the internals of life are opened, nos.
They dealt mainly with the externals of life,--with outward actions; and the internal motives of the several actors were not always adequately implied.
It may win praise by its possession of the mere externals of literature, by sheer style.
They cared nothing for politics, they cared nothing for science, they were none of them book lovers, and it was against their sense of etiquette to speak of anything but the externals of religion.
But, though the mere externals were soon familiar enough, she found that every day increased the difficulty she felt in becoming accustomed to the atmosphere of this family.
That the civil power should dare to assume any control over the externals of the Church fills him with astonishment and rage, all the greater in view of the suffering which it inflicted, especially on the regulars.
It is too wistful and stricken; too deficient in those externals that conduce to comfort.
His conclusions had been formed upon the teachings of the elder Anglican divines, and his predilections for the externals of worship upon the most reverent and beautiful forms to which he had been accustomed before he left home.
The real disadvantage of the work is my own very slight personal acquaintance with the externals of the man, and my ignorance of the scenes in which the chief part of his life was passed.
But the happy blessed services themselves, they gradually absorbed the mind, and withdrew it from all relative and comparative ideas of externals of worship.
I dread the imposition from without of some formal compliances with the externals of religion while I know that the meaning and spirit of them cannot as yet be understood.
For these were external things, and the bishops belonged to the authorities whom God had placed over the externals of life.
The Armenians, especially the women, pay great attention to the externals of their religion.
The current of European influence, which is affecting externals in Tihran, is not likely now to be stemmed.
From art and literature we expect more lightness, more agility, and more joy in life; they should conduct life from too great an attention to externals to self-consciousness, and in this way give life a soul.
The fact that endeavour is centred not upon externals but primarily upon our own being must make our activity far more significant and more intense; and this leads to a higher estimate of history as well as of a historical treatment.
We ask what the theories based chiefly on externals make of man, and what they achieve for his soul.
Thus the matter is one of making all the relations and all the externals of life as individual as possible.
The exertion of the greatest energy upon externals and the most revolutionary transformation of human conditions cannot protect us from becoming inwardly destitute, or lead us beyond mere appearance to genuine reality.
This struggle was being fought in all his cares, in all thought for natural and social well-being, all utilitarian considerations in regard to the externals of life.
Culture necessarily becomes superficial and empty when it directs human striving to external objects and does not lead through all occupation with externals to its own development and to the advance of its own being.
Like the Stoic, the Cynic held that externals were of no value, and therefore he contented himself with a piece of bread, a wallet full of beans, and a jug of water.
In none of the tragedies is the story told with more breathless directness, or with more effective presentation of the externals of the action.
The charge bids us remember that the more sedulously our hands and thoughts are employed about the externals of religious duties, the more must we see to it that our inmost spirits are baptized into fellowship with God.
So here this Psalmist, because his soul was filled with true longings after God, passes clear through the externals and says, 'Here am I with no incense, but I have brought my prayer.
Varying conditions of health and other externals will affect the buoyancy and clear-sightedness and vivacity of the spiritual life.
God will keep all real evil from us if we keep near Him; but He will not keep the externals that men call evil from us.
These externals are as dead to us as so many formalities, and speak a dead language in our eyes and ears.
What a miraculous change passes onexternals when faith looks at them!
We don't want misleading photographs of externals any more.
He woke up toexternals again at the sound of a sentence or two from the monk.
Some such training is beneficial, but to put a professional of many years' experience in charge of amateurs is likely to make of the amateurs a company of puppets imitating only some of the externals of professionaldom.
Any serious incongruity in externals is felt at once, and destroys the illusion.
He painted the externals of scenery and manners with unrivaled picturesqueness, and embellished all that was generous and brave in the world of chivalry with an infectious enthusiasm.
When religion, science and morality are shaken, the two last by the strong hand of Nietzsche, and when the outer supports threaten to fall, man turns his gaze from externalsin on to himself.
On the decision of Picasso's failure or success rests the distinction between Cezanne and Gauguin, the realist and the symbolist, the painter of externals and the painter of religious feeling.
It is noteworthy that in this treatise on making verses Gascoigne restricts himself to externals of form and style.
Like Gascoigne's Notes, it is rhetorical and concerned with only the externals of poetry.
No doubt it has localised and confined itself, but it is no longer at the disposal of externals and accident: it has laid the foundation for higher developments.
During the twenty years following the conquest the externals of the seigneurial system remained unaltered; but its spirit underwent a great change.
Little as we know about his life, the clerical chroniclers tell us a good deal about his death, which proves that he must have had all the externals of piety.
Keep firm hold of the positive principle with which we have been dealing in the former part of this sermon, and all forms and externals fall as a matter of course into their proper place.
But to be driven merely by the force of externals is to surrender the highest prerogative of manhood.
The externals of ceremonial worship dwindle into insignificance.
To be so self-sufficing as not to need externals is good; to be so self-sufficing as not to need or to see God is ruin and death.
It is a miserable thing to be hanging on externals and so to be always exposed to the possibility of having to say, 'They have taken away my Gods.
There is no other way by which the externals can be made right than by setting a watch on the door of our hearts and minds, and this inward discipline must be put in force before there will be any continuity or sureness in the outward aim.
There is a constant tendency to exalt these unimportant externals into the place of faith.
But separation from externals does not mean suspense of life or of consciousness, and the slumberer often dreams, and is aware of himself persistently throughout his slumber.
