Sermons in Summer: Delivered in Christ Church, CooperstownA. H. Crist, 1912 - 235 pages |
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... religious , and civic , and commercial , and industrial life of today waits for men who are willing to go down into the dark of failure for the establishment of principles more important and lasting 15 THE ROMANCE OF MODERN LIFE.
... religious , and civic , and commercial , and industrial life of today waits for men who are willing to go down into the dark of failure for the establishment of principles more important and lasting 15 THE ROMANCE OF MODERN LIFE.
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... religion , which shows the God of the Universe Him- self entering the lists for the glory of His Kingdom and the salvation of the world . Nothing that the romantic imagination can conceive is so wonderful as the truth of the sacrifice ...
... religion , which shows the God of the Universe Him- self entering the lists for the glory of His Kingdom and the salvation of the world . Nothing that the romantic imagination can conceive is so wonderful as the truth of the sacrifice ...
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... religions have upheld high standards , but none other has professed to give power to move toward them . " The law was given by Moses , " says S. John , and he might have added the names of other great religious leaders , " but grace ...
... religions have upheld high standards , but none other has professed to give power to move toward them . " The law was given by Moses , " says S. John , and he might have added the names of other great religious leaders , " but grace ...
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... religion is described as Perfect Man . The modern humanitarian can never conceive of a more splendid ideal than that of the Christian faith , which , if it asserts that God became Man and walked the fields of Galilee and the streets of ...
... religion is described as Perfect Man . The modern humanitarian can never conceive of a more splendid ideal than that of the Christian faith , which , if it asserts that God became Man and walked the fields of Galilee and the streets of ...
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... religion seems to offer the Beautiful as an attainment , quite apart from the utilities . For no doctrine has ever been based upon the Transfiguration , and no Christian practice has ever been evolved from it almost it may be said that ...
... religion seems to offer the Beautiful as an attainment , quite apart from the utilities . For no doctrine has ever been based upon the Transfiguration , and no Christian practice has ever been evolved from it almost it may be said that ...
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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.