Ethical Christianity: A Series of SermonsE.P. Dutton, 1892 - 176 pages |
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... earth , and it declares the only way in which that particular kind of life can be realized . What that kind of life is I have tried to explain in this volume . I do not believe that there is any honest agnostic PREFACE . ix.
... earth , and it declares the only way in which that particular kind of life can be realized . What that kind of life is I have tried to explain in this volume . I do not believe that there is any honest agnostic PREFACE . ix.
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... earth . " - MATT . vi . 10 THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION . " Your young men shall see visions , and your old men shall dream dreams . " - ACTS ii . 17 ... THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITY . PAGE I 17 ... 33 " After a long time the lord of those ...
... earth . " - MATT . vi . 10 THE CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION . " Your young men shall see visions , and your old men shall dream dreams . " - ACTS ii . 17 ... THE CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITY . PAGE I 17 ... 33 " After a long time the lord of those ...
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... earth were heaven . " That is the first evident superiority of the Christian reli- gion . Its ethical teaching is plain and practical . There is much that is mystical and inscrutable in Buddhism . But any man who sets himself to ...
... earth were heaven . " That is the first evident superiority of the Christian reli- gion . Its ethical teaching is plain and practical . There is much that is mystical and inscrutable in Buddhism . But any man who sets himself to ...
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... Earth we walk upon , God plainest in the brother whom we pass , Best solitudes ' mid busy multitudes , Passions o'ercome , when master - passion springs To serve and love and succour . " In other words , the Christian faith has for its ...
... Earth we walk upon , God plainest in the brother whom we pass , Best solitudes ' mid busy multitudes , Passions o'ercome , when master - passion springs To serve and love and succour . " In other words , the Christian faith has for its ...
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... that the will of the Father , —which is , that His creatures may be righteous and happy , — should be done on earth , as it is in heaven . " — RUSKIN . THE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMME . 66 Thy will be done , C - 4 THE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMME.
... that the will of the Father , —which is , that His creatures may be righteous and happy , — should be done on earth , as it is in heaven . " — RUSKIN . THE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMME . 66 Thy will be done , C - 4 THE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMME.
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Page 52 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page x - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Page 34 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 17 - A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe, on Rivers and Lakes of Europe.
Page 164 - Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night ; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light ; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Page 69 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 53 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 18 - What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? — Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are...
Page 130 - And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ : for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Page 96 - And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom...