Moral Leadership and the MinistryHorace Worth Company, 1912 - 200 pages |
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... witness . When the great apostle required a figure to illustrate the character of the Christian , he gave ex- hortation to endure hardness as a good sol- dier . A certain militant spirit that scorns the hard is its essence . For their ...
... witness . When the great apostle required a figure to illustrate the character of the Christian , he gave ex- hortation to endure hardness as a good sol- dier . A certain militant spirit that scorns the hard is its essence . For their ...
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... witness . For love men wear themselves out in labor , undertake the greatest tasks , take up the heaviest cross , count themselves nothing . Here , too , men quit themselves valiantly ; fear nothing , give all . I think , as I write ...
... witness . For love men wear themselves out in labor , undertake the greatest tasks , take up the heaviest cross , count themselves nothing . Here , too , men quit themselves valiantly ; fear nothing , give all . I think , as I write ...
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... witness . it were required that he lay down his life he would do it calmly and gladly , but his is a heavier cross . He has worked steadily for years and unto weariness of the flesh , but unskilled and improvident , with a family of ...
... witness . it were required that he lay down his life he would do it calmly and gladly , but his is a heavier cross . He has worked steadily for years and unto weariness of the flesh , but unskilled and improvident , with a family of ...
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... witness , the holy God of Love , whose fellow- ship is the priceless boon of life , will be con- ceived as vanity ; and for want of husbandry , the gardens of God become again deserts and His cities places of waste . CHAPTER III ...
... witness , the holy God of Love , whose fellow- ship is the priceless boon of life , will be con- ceived as vanity ; and for want of husbandry , the gardens of God become again deserts and His cities places of waste . CHAPTER III ...
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... witness ; they are the axioms and corollaries of our being ; they answer to our nature as the landscape answers to the eye ; they have the force of primal author- ity ; and they are as much a part of the universe as the stars . What one ...
... witness ; they are the axioms and corollaries of our being ; they answer to our nature as the landscape answers to the eye ; they have the force of primal author- ity ; and they are as much a part of the universe as the stars . What one ...
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Page 35 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men.
Page 35 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 17 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 21 - Their enemies themselves not unfrequently acknowledged it. The love shown by the early Christians to their suffering brethren has never been more emphatically attested than by...
Page 21 - Never before was a religious transformation so manifestly inevitable. No other religion ever combined so many forms of attraction as Christianity, both from its intrinsic excellence, and from its manifest adaptation to the special wants of the time.
Page 117 - The water that I shall give you, shall be in you a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Page 170 - government of the people, for the people and by the people, should not perish from the earth.
Page 35 - To the present hour we both hunger and thirst and we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless. And we labor working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted we endure; being defamed we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the off scouring of all things until now.
Page 129 - The willing department of our nature. . .dominates both the conceiving department and the feeling department; or, in plainer English, perception and thinking are only there for behavior's sake. I am sure I am not wrong in stating this result as one of the fundamental conclusions to which the entire drift of modern physiological investigation sweeps us.
Page 5 - ... how to labor together with God instead of becoming a cog in some great machine ; how to maintain peace of mind amid the disasters, illusions, and tragedies of experience, — this is the cry for power which goes up from many a life, ensnared — as whose is not ? — in the mechanism and materialism of the world.