The Argument for ChristianityAmerican Baptist Publication Society, 1894 - 480 pages |
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... Human wit is slow , Stumbling nine times for one firm footing gained , But still made strong by striving , and sharp - eyed To find the light through darkness and distress By time and toil and reason's happy guess . -Robert Browning . N ...
... Human wit is slow , Stumbling nine times for one firm footing gained , But still made strong by striving , and sharp - eyed To find the light through darkness and distress By time and toil and reason's happy guess . -Robert Browning . N ...
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... human as well as a divine element in Christianity , dis- cernible from the beginning , and apparent at every stage of its development . Jesus himself was born of a woman , though the eternal Son of the Everlasting Father . His approach ...
... human as well as a divine element in Christianity , dis- cernible from the beginning , and apparent at every stage of its development . Jesus himself was born of a woman , though the eternal Son of the Everlasting Father . His approach ...
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... human institutions , deprive it of the super- natural , narrow its horizon to the boundaries of this life , and ... humanity . . . It is impossible for a positive re- ligion to have any other origin than a revelation ; it is neces ...
... human institutions , deprive it of the super- natural , narrow its horizon to the boundaries of this life , and ... humanity . . . It is impossible for a positive re- ligion to have any other origin than a revelation ; it is neces ...
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... human mind one step to- ward the comprehension of the real springs of what has been , what is , and what is coming to be . What Lowell humorously sings on this point may be seriously pondered : Our dear and admirable Huxley Cannot ...
... human mind one step to- ward the comprehension of the real springs of what has been , what is , and what is coming to be . What Lowell humorously sings on this point may be seriously pondered : Our dear and admirable Huxley Cannot ...
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... human side of our religion , -which ought always to be recognized , and in such connection . I do not question its relevancy . My antagonism is only aroused when it is introduced equivocally , or when it is purposely designed to obscure ...
... human side of our religion , -which ought always to be recognized , and in such connection . I do not question its relevancy . My antagonism is only aroused when it is introduced equivocally , or when it is purposely designed to obscure ...
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Page 113 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 239 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 77 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things...
Page 235 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in...
Page 119 - Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 237 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 379 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 242 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, And gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; And to the south, Keep not back: Bring my sons from far, And my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 261 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 242 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.