Christian Thought, 4. köideCharles Force Deems, John Bancroft Devins W.B. Ketcham, 1886 |
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... spiritual world ? A recent writer , Matthew Arnold , tells us in his preface to " Literature and Dogma , " that we are to yield as untenable our belief in the existence of an intelligent First Cause , that is , in God , because the ...
... spiritual world ? A recent writer , Matthew Arnold , tells us in his preface to " Literature and Dogma , " that we are to yield as untenable our belief in the existence of an intelligent First Cause , that is , in God , because the ...
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... spiritual kingdom , were not in accordance with their Messianic expectations . In the crucial hour it was they who cried out , " Not this man but Bar- abbas . Now Barabbas was a robber . " His inheritance of their antagonisms is shown ...
... spiritual kingdom , were not in accordance with their Messianic expectations . In the crucial hour it was they who cried out , " Not this man but Bar- abbas . Now Barabbas was a robber . " His inheritance of their antagonisms is shown ...
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... spiritual or moral causes , and discriminates between the moral and the non- moral . Already he has philosophized to moral obligation and desert . Already he believes in conscience , in the discrimination between right and wrong , in ...
... spiritual or moral causes , and discriminates between the moral and the non- moral . Already he has philosophized to moral obligation and desert . Already he believes in conscience , in the discrimination between right and wrong , in ...
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... spiritual realm and the material . Philosophy then does not ( as is sometimes objected ) discard experience . On the contrary , it adopts and utilizes experience as fully as science ; but it does not rest in phenomena , it does not ...
... spiritual realm and the material . Philosophy then does not ( as is sometimes objected ) discard experience . On the contrary , it adopts and utilizes experience as fully as science ; but it does not rest in phenomena , it does not ...
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... spiritually discerned ; and upon these , especially , is Faith to look . " My kingdom , ' said the divine Teacher , " is not of this world . " " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink , but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy ...
... spiritually discerned ; and upon these , especially , is Faith to look . " My kingdom , ' said the divine Teacher , " is not of this world . " " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink , but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy ...
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Page 68 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' this is I : ' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of ' I,' and 'me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 322 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : and where the slain are, there is she.
Page 325 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 416 - Then Jesus answering said unto them. Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 323 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
Page 83 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 243 - Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight: her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Page 129 - There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 332 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Page 41 - And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.