Ethical Christianity: A Series of SermonsE.P. Dutton, 1892 - 176 pages |
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... , D.D. , LL.D. ( Class of 1814 ) FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences " ALFRED WILSON SUCCESSOR JAS GILBERT & CO 18 , Gracechurch Street LONDON.E.C . 12564.
... , D.D. , LL.D. ( Class of 1814 ) FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences " ALFRED WILSON SUCCESSOR JAS GILBERT & CO 18 , Gracechurch Street LONDON.E.C . 12564.
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... given up anything really Christian which they were fortunate enough to possess . A short time ago one of the great apostles of Positivism astonished mankind by announcing that he had been a Christian in his youth , and then proceeded ...
... given up anything really Christian which they were fortunate enough to possess . A short time ago one of the great apostles of Positivism astonished mankind by announcing that he had been a Christian in his youth , and then proceeded ...
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... have exhausted the entire category of ordinary virtue the question still remains , " What do ye extra ? " Jews and Gentiles have done all these things , done them honestly and devoutly . You have not yet given any THE CHRISTIAN EXTRA . 13.
... have exhausted the entire category of ordinary virtue the question still remains , " What do ye extra ? " Jews and Gentiles have done all these things , done them honestly and devoutly . You have not yet given any THE CHRISTIAN EXTRA . 13.
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... given any evidence whatever of real Christianity . Let me put to you a decisive question : " Are you in any degree like Christ ? " That is impossible as an habitual fact , unless you at least study His words and His life as keenly as a ...
... given any evidence whatever of real Christianity . Let me put to you a decisive question : " Are you in any degree like Christ ? " That is impossible as an habitual fact , unless you at least study His words and His life as keenly as a ...
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... given Me I should lose nothing , but should raise it up at the last day . " : You remember how at the crisis of His life he cried , " C O My Father , if it be possible , let this cup pass away from Me : nevertheless not as I will , but ...
... given Me I should lose nothing , but should raise it up at the last day . " : You remember how at the crisis of His life he cried , " C O My Father , if it be possible , let this cup pass away from Me : nevertheless not as I will , but ...
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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...