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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.

aright for daily bread implies more than, perhaps, we fully recognize; to ask aright for daily bread implies that we do our utmost to keep ourselves in condition to be nourished by the bread. A man who antagonizes the appointed relation between his body and his mind, and his morals, can not rightly ask for daily bread. Daily bread can not be given him—heap it up upon his platter—you have not given it to him, for he can not take it. “Give us this day our daily bread” implies that we have so realized
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