The Greatest Things in Religion: Being Studies in Some of the Christian Fundamentals with Sidelights on the "new Theologies,"

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Jennings and Graham, 1910 - 167 pages

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Page 50 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 50 - Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said unto him, " Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another...
Page 32 - But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth : and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Page 70 - Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Page 84 - For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of...
Page 20 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 32 - I walk with bare, hushed feet the ground Ye tread with boldness shod; I dare not fix with mete and bound The love and power of God.
Page 167 - Like a mighty army Moves the Church of God ; Brothers, we are treading Where the saints have trod. We are not divided — All one body we ; One in hope and doctrine, One in charity.
Page 29 - Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I myself have founded great empires ; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend ? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions would die for Him.
Page 148 - Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — ! " he snapt and flung -it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battleshout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day.

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