Religion and Life: Chapel Addresses by Members of the Faculty of the Meadville Theological SchoolSherman, French, 1909 - 272 pages |
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... seek light , who would be entirely unaffected by the most beautiful ritual that man may compose . And the words of the first hymn we learned in our innocent childhood days at our mother's knee may yet awaken in us the expul- sive power ...
... seek light , who would be entirely unaffected by the most beautiful ritual that man may compose . And the words of the first hymn we learned in our innocent childhood days at our mother's knee may yet awaken in us the expul- sive power ...
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... self than to cher- ish the realization of this union , and no dearer office of friendship than to seek to aid our brother in his search for this sacred bond . IV THE PRESENT GOD FRANK C. DOAN THE PRESENT GOD 54 RELIGION AND LIFE.
... self than to cher- ish the realization of this union , and no dearer office of friendship than to seek to aid our brother in his search for this sacred bond . IV THE PRESENT GOD FRANK C. DOAN THE PRESENT GOD 54 RELIGION AND LIFE.
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... seeking and hoping to be , a divine life in which weariness , impatience and hopelessness are ever present , seeking to defeat the infinitudes sur- rounding our human life , and yet a spirit of God which , if weary never rests , if ...
... seeking and hoping to be , a divine life in which weariness , impatience and hopelessness are ever present , seeking to defeat the infinitudes sur- rounding our human life , and yet a spirit of God which , if weary never rests , if ...
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... Seek ye first the Kingdom of God . The words enfold the fulness of man's spiritual possibilities , the totality of God's beneficence . They are a definition of duty and yet also a statement of the way of salvation . They mean that ...
... Seek ye first the Kingdom of God . The words enfold the fulness of man's spiritual possibilities , the totality of God's beneficence . They are a definition of duty and yet also a statement of the way of salvation . They mean that ...
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... seek , we find not . We must ask and make effort to obtain . God's bounty diffused in the great system of the world brings us our daily bread , but we must earn it . Light and beauty and joy are to be had from God , but they come not to ...
... seek , we find not . We must ask and make effort to obtain . God's bounty diffused in the great system of the world brings us our daily bread , but we must earn it . Light and beauty and joy are to be had from God , but they come not to ...
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Page 28 - One family we dwell in Him, One Church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream, of death...
Page 14 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 38 - The wrong that pains my soul below I dare not throne above, I know not of His hate, — I know His goodness and His love.
Page 81 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek : he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God...
Page 121 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 14 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 234 - 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.
Page 81 - ... The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me ; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn...
Page 73 - O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red. All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
Page 122 - For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son ; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.