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... present case my work as a schoolmaster has inclined me , even if my inability to speak as a theological specialist had not compelled me , to adopt the second view as to the nature of my task . The lectures , then , are addressed to all ...
... present case my work as a schoolmaster has inclined me , even if my inability to speak as a theological specialist had not compelled me , to adopt the second view as to the nature of my task . The lectures , then , are addressed to all ...
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Hulsean Lectures Charles Frank Russell. to present the truth of the Christian religion without doing violence to the equally sacred demand of truth in other fields . I have here tried , in the case of cer- tain fundamental Christian ...
Hulsean Lectures Charles Frank Russell. to present the truth of the Christian religion without doing violence to the equally sacred demand of truth in other fields . I have here tried , in the case of cer- tain fundamental Christian ...
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... present to him a new set of ideals , and so bring him once more into relation with the principle of all life and being . The thoughts of different men are not all on the same level , but there is one respect in which the thinking of the ...
... present to him a new set of ideals , and so bring him once more into relation with the principle of all life and being . The thoughts of different men are not all on the same level , but there is one respect in which the thinking of the ...
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... present purpose , however , it is more important to observe that , in greater or less degree , and in matters which may or may not be called religious , all men are partakers of the experience of prophet and psalm- ist . In us , as in ...
... present purpose , however , it is more important to observe that , in greater or less degree , and in matters which may or may not be called religious , all men are partakers of the experience of prophet and psalm- ist . In us , as in ...
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... present conditions , to identify themselves with organised Christianity . Yet the attitude of many of our modern prophets towards the problems of life is fundamentally religious , though it finds a different expression from that of the ...
... present conditions , to identify themselves with organised Christianity . Yet the attitude of many of our modern prophets towards the problems of life is fundamentally religious , though it finds a different expression from that of the ...
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Page 97 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain: Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 22 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; and yet they are not three Gods but one God...
Page 92 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Page 66 - I report, as a man may of God's work — all's love, yet all's law. Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, where a dewdrop was asked.
Page 34 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 5 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 121 - Drop yon. blue bosom-veil of sky, and show me The breasts o' her tenderness: Never did any milk of hers once bless My thirsting mouth. Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed majestic instancy And past those Noise'd Feet A voice comes yet more fleet — "Lo! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me.
Page 34 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 40 - Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Page 68 - Though dark my path and sad my lot, Let me be still, and murmur not, Or breathe the prayer divinely taught, "Thy will be done.