Ethical Christianity: A Series of SermonsE.P. Dutton, 1892 - 176 pages |
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... SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY , " , " " THE PHILANTHROPY OF GOD , " ETC. " He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done , To the humblest and the weakest , ' neath the all - beholding sun , That wrong is also done to us ; and they ...
... SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY , " , " " THE PHILANTHROPY OF GOD , " ETC. " He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done , To the humblest and the weakest , ' neath the all - beholding sun , That wrong is also done to us ; and they ...
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... social character . The pre - eminent purpose of the Christian man is not to save his own soul whatever may become of his neighbour's . He realizes that it is impossible to separate himself from his fellow - men , and that there is no ...
... social character . The pre - eminent purpose of the Christian man is not to save his own soul whatever may become of his neighbour's . He realizes that it is impossible to separate himself from his fellow - men , and that there is no ...
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... social current as seaweed drifts with the tide . This is , I fear , especially the case with those among us who are most privileged , and who are not under the blessed necessity of toiling for their daily bread . Have you ever gone into ...
... social current as seaweed drifts with the tide . This is , I fear , especially the case with those among us who are most privileged , and who are not under the blessed necessity of toiling for their daily bread . Have you ever gone into ...
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... social conditions . But I refer to this question now simply as a modern illustration of the immense difference between every kind of narrow literalism and a rational loyalty to " the will of God . " Even when we are dealing with the Ten ...
... social conditions . But I refer to this question now simply as a modern illustration of the immense difference between every kind of narrow literalism and a rational loyalty to " the will of God . " Even when we are dealing with the Ten ...
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... social changes which would make it as easy for his fellow - citizens to do right as it now is for them to do wrong . What a dream of social reform has come to General Booth in his old age ! That veteran of the faith imagines social ...
... social changes which would make it as easy for his fellow - citizens to do right as it now is for them to do wrong . What a dream of social reform has come to General Booth in his old age ! That veteran of the faith imagines social ...
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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...