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Religious Union.

Professor Peabody spoke before the members of the Religious Union last evening, upon "Christian Maystics." He said in brief: The mystic is one who stands in immediate relation with his God. Once called Musionists, the mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism.

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