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Title: Levels of Living
Essays on Everyday Ideals

Author: Henry Frederick Cope

Release Date: June 29, 2006 [eBook #18712]

Language: English

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LEVELS OF LIVING

Essays on Everyday Ideals

by

HENRY FREDERICK COPE

Author of "The Modern Sunday-School
in Principle and Practice"

New York ---- Chicago ---- Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London And Edinburgh
Copyright, 1908, by
Fleming H. Revell Company
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

To My Wife

Not in the sentiment of dedication alone,
offering to you what I may have done, but
in simple acknowledgment of obligation
to you

Elizabeth

best gift of God and inspiration of man

Under the title of "A Sermon For To-day" these short essays, on the art
of every-day living in the light of eternal life, were published by
_The Chicago Sunday Tribune_, through a series of years, and were
regularly printed in the Sunday editions of a group of the great
dailies. The short sentences were also published with the Sermons
under the head of "Sentence Sermons." The courtesy of _The Chicago
Daily Tribune_ in permitting the publication of these "sermons," with
such changes as have seemed best, is gratefully acknowledged.

CONTENTS

I. THE HIGHER LEVELS
The Real and the Ideal--The Bread of Life--Life's
Unvarying Values.

II. INVISIBLE ALLIES
More than a Fighting Chance--The Unseen
Hand--The One in the Midst.

III. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF SERVICE
Self and Service--My Soul or My Service?--The
Satisfaction of Service.

IV. THE RIGHT TO HAPPINESS
The Power of Happiness--The Secret of
Happiness--The Folly of Anxiety.

V. THE CURRICULUM OF CHARACTER
The Great School--The Purpose of the
Course--The