We Shall Live Again: The Third Series of Sermons which Have Appeared in the New York Sunday Herald

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E.P. Dutton & Company, 1903 - 271 pages

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Page 122 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Page 71 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 IT And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Page 86 - ... for all of us to meet five hundred years hence, and, interchanging our tidings of the earth, to find that the thoughts and hopes of this sermon, in which many of you must sympathize, have not been proved untrue. THE CHANGED ASPECT OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY.* 1873. " I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." — ST. JOHN xvi., 12. THE foundation of Christian Theology is the revelation given by Jesus Christ with regard to God in his relation to man. It was the flower of...
Page 213 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 107 - ... servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. 16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. 17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
Page 116 - ... factor in human life. If you would be at your best you must love your neighbor, for your thought of him will either lift him up or trip him to a fall. The whole trend and swing of the universe bid a man to be honest, just, and gentle, for we are so bound together that nobility in one kindles nobility in all, and one man's hurt is an injury to all.
Page 249 - ... crossing the threshold into the other life. In some cases the sight becomes phenomenally acute and the departed re-appear with outstretched hands to assist the newcomer in the passage to heaven. In others the ear is equally acute, and the overture of the angels is heard as a welcome to the brighter land. Death has thus been robbed of its terrors and made easy. These stories are floating in the air everywhere. Can it be that they mean nothing? And If they mean something, then, how much? Science...
Page 185 - It is well to remain content with things as they are ; or, in other words, it is better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of.
Page 112 - For none of us liveth to himself; and no man dieth to himself.'— ROMANS xiv.
Page 53 - ... of its energy resources — and our society at present is so dependent — is risking destruction by a belief in superstition. Would we tolerate as rulers a collection of medicine men from the Congo who attempted to run our system by the use of charms and by the beating of tom-toms? That is exactly what we have been doing and what we are doing now. The bankers in this technological day and age are medicine men and nothing else. Nothing has so completely exposed the banker and his industrialist...

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