Sermons in Summer: Delivered in Christ Church, CooperstownA. H. Crist, 1912 - 235 pages |
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... practical : to you it is romantic ; to us it was commonplace : some of the bitter problems of your day had their origin through our failure to recognize the interest and importance of forces that devel- oped before our very eyes . " So ...
... practical : to you it is romantic ; to us it was commonplace : some of the bitter problems of your day had their origin through our failure to recognize the interest and importance of forces that devel- oped before our very eyes . " So ...
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... practical reason why , in the early Christian community , the liar was vis- ited with swift and dreadful punishment . For this small Christian community in Jeru- salem was to win the world for the Christian faith . It did win the world ...
... practical reason why , in the early Christian community , the liar was vis- ited with swift and dreadful punishment . For this small Christian community in Jeru- salem was to win the world for the Christian faith . It did win the world ...
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... practical bearing of morals , moral beauty , too , holds aloof from the utilities . Virtue does not al- ways find happiness . Honesty does not al- ways triumph . Generosity is often abused . Nothing is more deadly , in fact , than a bar ...
... practical bearing of morals , moral beauty , too , holds aloof from the utilities . Virtue does not al- ways find happiness . Honesty does not al- ways triumph . Generosity is often abused . Nothing is more deadly , in fact , than a bar ...
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... practical consequences in the pursuit of a worthy ideal . If the real Christians of the First century were slain with the sword , sawn asunder , flung to the lions , then we should expect to find , among the real Christians of the ...
... practical consequences in the pursuit of a worthy ideal . If the real Christians of the First century were slain with the sword , sawn asunder , flung to the lions , then we should expect to find , among the real Christians of the ...
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... practical life in the valley , where the demonized boy , jostled by the throng , appealed for help . And so this great picture represents not merely the Tranfiguration , the beauty of the ideal , but the transfiguration of common life ...
... practical life in the valley , where the demonized boy , jostled by the throng , appealed for help . And so this great picture represents not merely the Tranfiguration , the beauty of the ideal , but the transfiguration of common life ...
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Page 98 - Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
Page 68 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this that this woman hath done be told for a memorial of her.
Page 202 - I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Page 199 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Page 216 - The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire...
Page 5 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Page 154 - And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants. Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 89 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice : this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
Page 135 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring...
Page 126 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.