 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 pages
...ought to be the last or chief end of man ? With the Westminster Assembly of Divines we all answer : " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." To that answer, however, we may give two very different interpretations. Our own happiness, and what... | |
 | 1853 - 802 pages
...through divine teaching, were the blessed fruits of this little work. _ Theveryfirstsentenceof hisstudy, "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever," seemed to be carried home to his heart. Many were his questions upon it, particularly as to what was... | |
 | J. Macgowan - 1853 - 410 pages
...daresay, the first question in the Shorter Catechism, ' What is the chief end of man?' and the answer : ' Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.' Now, if it be our chief end to glorify God, should we not keep from those things that would hinder... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 552 pages
...self-aggrandizement, but the glory of God. Man learns and lives the first question in the catechism — "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." It is no longer the grand question, Will this profit me ? but, Is this accordant with the will, and... | |
 | David Stow - 1854 - 586 pages
...Answer. ' Manschiefens to glorify God 'n'jymeforever.' The translation of this into plain English is, ' Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.' Such a mode of slurring one word into another is sadly too general, both in reading and speaking. One-half,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 550 pages
...self-aggrandizement, but the glory of God. Man learns and lives the first question in the eatechism—"Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." It is no longer the grand question, Will this profit me ? but, Is this accordant with the will, and... | |
 | 1855 - 606 pages
...reaching through the whole space of mortal life, and co-extensive with the future ages of eternity. ' Man's chief end is to glorify GOD, and to enjoy Him for ever.' The Episcopal Catechism presents an idea trivial, not religious, and in itself utterly inconsequential... | |
 | John Montagu Randall - 1856 - 164 pages
...Catechism puts this question thus, " What is the chief end of man ?" And answers it in this way, " Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever ; " a wise answer, full of meaning. But do you say, " How am I to glorify God?" To glorify Him, you... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1857 - 440 pages
...child in Scotland knows, read by a Greek monk at the foot of Sinai, — to listen to him as lie read " Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever ;" and again, " God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power,... | |
 | David Dale Stewart - 1857 - 426 pages
...reflecting on the magnificent opening of " The Shorter Catechism." " What is the chief end of man ? Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." ILLNESS. 75 not observe that this connexion has made me less spiritual." * The same pr,ayerfulness... | |
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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. 
