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As a professor, W. R. Benedict always stressed the importance of reason to his students. In this volume, he asserts that reason is the “servant of feeling” and that the Beatitudes chiefly deal with these higher feelings. While reflecting on each Beatitude, Benedict takes the reader to a place of passionate love for God rather than mere clinical knowledge.

another spirit. Prayer, therefore, in its first aspects is opposed to pantheism. The Pantheist does not separate God from the universe, and prayer is for him necessarily a turning in of the spirit upon itself, not a pressing up of his spirit toward another spirit, a higher, holier spirit, like in kind, but distinct and superior. —What is the spiritual reality of this petition? We are certainly not praying for God. We are not asking that He be hallowed or made holy. The holiness
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