{"id":"01KG8AN1S49RRHJQH7R3BR4HBC","cid":"bafkreib2pknczynb6xmevjbgv2myyhe22bvaj7f4vzbaotoebo52n6it6i","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9503,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.921Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":9455,"text":"Chinese notions of things may answer well enough here, they are by no\r\nmeans universally applicable, and that the central Greenwich in which He\r\ndwells goes by a somewhat different method from this world. And yet it\r\nfollows not from this, that God's truth is one thing and man's truth\r\nanother; but--as above hinted, and as will be further elucidated in\r\nsubsequent lectures--by their very contradictions they are made to\r\ncorrespond.\r\n\r\n\"By inference it follows, also, that he who finding in himself a\r\nchronometrical soul, seeks practically to force that heavenly time upon\r\nthe earth; in such an attempt he can never succeed, with an absolute and\r\nessential success. And as for himself, if he seek to regulate his own\r\ndaily conduct by it, he will but array all men's earthly time-keepers\r\nagainst him, and thereby work himself woe and death. Both these things\r\nare plainly evinced in the character and fate of Christ, and the past\r\nand present condition of the religion he taught. But here one thing is\r\nto be especially observed. Though Christ encountered woe in both the\r\nprecept and the practice of his chronometricals, yet did he remain\r\nthroughout entirely without folly or sin. Whereas, almost invariably,\r\nwith inferior beings, the absolute effort to live in this world\r\naccording to the strict letter of the chronometricals is, somehow, apt\r\nto involve those inferior beings eventually in strange, _unique_ follies\r\nand sins, unimagined before. It is the story of the Ephesian matron,\r\nallegorized.\r\n\r\n\"To any earnest man of insight, a faithful contemplation of these ideas\r\nconcerning Chronometricals and Horologicals, will serve to render\r\nprovisionally far less dark some few of the otherwise obscurest things\r\nwhich have hitherto tormented the honest-thinking men of all ages. What\r\nman who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive,\r\nthat unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of\r\nthis world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that\r\nsame heavenly soul? And yet by an infallible instinct he knows, that\r\nthat monitor can not be wrong in itself.\r\n\r\n\"And where is the earnest and righteous philosopher, gentlemen, who\r\nlooking right and left, and up and down, through all the ages of the\r\nworld, the present included; where is there such an one who has not a\r\nthousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever\r\nother worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else\r\nthis world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem\r\nits ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven. But it is not, and\r\ncan not be so; nor will he who regards this chronometrical conceit\r\naright, ever more be conscious of that horrible idea. For he will then\r\nsee, or seem to see, that this world's seeming incompatibility with God,\r\nabsolutely results from its meridianal correspondence with him.\r\n\r\n       *       *       *       *       *\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJTDYVK8J8YE00DK13XV8","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN1SB1EBW0HARB3ECTR61","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AN1SFEX2CGW6Q0MSPTPVC","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:57.124Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:24.797Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}