Why We Are Here (Our Shared Destiny)

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from a baccalaureate address delivered by John Williamson Nevin in 1853. Listen to the full series by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts/

Podcast Excerpt: Why am I here? Where am I going? What’s the point of it all? These are eternal questions asked by every man and woman who has ever lived. The true destination of human kind, the proper end of our being and life, lies beyond the present world in an order of things which are supernatural; and it is absolutely necessary that you should know this, and have supreme regard for this fact, in order that you may not live in vain.

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0:56.9	Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living Podcast.
1:17.2	Today's talk was edited and adapted from a baccalaureate address delivered to the first graduating class of Franklin and Marshall College by John Williamson Nevin in 1853.
1:35.3	Why am I here? Where am I going? What's the point of it all?
1:50.2	These are eternal questions asked by every man and woman who has ever lived.
1:57.6	The true destination of humankind, the proper end of our being and life,
2:04.6	lies beyond the present world in an order of things which are supernatural. And it is absolutely necessary that you should know this, and have supreme regard for this
2:12.6	fact, in order that you may not live in vain.
2:21.9	This is the theme on which I plan to speak with you today,
2:25.6	the one great thought I wish to bring before you and to leave with you in the full earnestness
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