Thursday, February 18

From “The Water of Life” by Charles Kingsley

 The East—and indeed the West likewise—was haunted by dreams of a Water of Life, a Fount of Perpetual Youth, a Cup of Immortality: dreams at which only the shallow and the ignorant will smile; for what are they but tokens of man's right to Immortality,—of his instinct that he is not as the beasts,—that there is somewhat in him which ought not to die, which need not die, and yet which may die, and which perhaps deserves to die? How could it be kept alive? how strengthened and refreshed into perpetual youth?

An excerpt from today’s sermon for at the LENTEN VOICES SERMON SERIES, led by Rod Frohman. Bring your lunch and join the discussion at 12:00 NOON in JOHNSTON HALL.