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... 259 IV . THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN , 272 V. THE VISION OF GOD , THE DIVINE FATHERHOOD , ETERNAL LIFE ( EASTER - DAY SERMON ) , THE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY , 284 293 • 307 320 • The Origin of Evil . " The Lord God commanded vi Contents .
... 259 IV . THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN , 272 V. THE VISION OF GOD , THE DIVINE FATHERHOOD , ETERNAL LIFE ( EASTER - DAY SERMON ) , THE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY , 284 293 • 307 320 • The Origin of Evil . " The Lord God commanded vi Contents .
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... progress ; and therefore there is hope for a man , notwithstanding the fact of his having been born into a comfortable or exalted sphere . If progress were impossible for him , his lot would be pitiable indeed . And what is true of ...
... progress ; and therefore there is hope for a man , notwithstanding the fact of his having been born into a comfortable or exalted sphere . If progress were impossible for him , his lot would be pitiable indeed . And what is true of ...
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... progress . In the latter case they might have been com- fortable and satisfied : but their comfort and satisfaction would have been no higher than a brute's . It would seem then that pain , difficulty , trial , grief - in one word ...
... progress . In the latter case they might have been com- fortable and satisfied : but their comfort and satisfaction would have been no higher than a brute's . It would seem then that pain , difficulty , trial , grief - in one word ...
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... progress . They under- stood Him as little at the end of His ministry as at the beginning . For example , Philip said , " Lord , show us the Father . " He did not perceive that Christ's whole life had been one prolonged manifestation of ...
... progress . They under- stood Him as little at the end of His ministry as at the beginning . For example , Philip said , " Lord , show us the Father . " He did not perceive that Christ's whole life had been one prolonged manifestation of ...
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... progress ; but it has also its drawbacks and disadvantages . It brings with it temptations to fretfulness , to repining , to faithlessness , and , if it be very severe , the temptation which poor Job felt , to curse God and die . Lastly ...
... progress ; but it has also its drawbacks and disadvantages . It brings with it temptations to fretfulness , to repining , to faithlessness , and , if it be very severe , the temptation which poor Job felt , to curse God and die . Lastly ...
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Page 131 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 150 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page 291 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Page 200 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 168 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity it profiteth me nothing.
Page 159 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 58 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
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Page 315 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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