Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words: Comprising Religious Views of the Most Distinguished Scientists, Statesmen, Educators, Philosophers, Theologians, Literary Men, Soldiers, Business Men, Liberal Thinkers, and OthersJohn Kenyon Kilbourn Henry T. Coates, 1900 - 379 pages |
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... reason of man , and it is this bond which ennobles morality into something more than a con- ventional code . " ( On p . 181 we have the closing scene of his life :) His sufferings ( from cancer ) were dreadful . He bore them with heroic ...
... reason of man , and it is this bond which ennobles morality into something more than a con- ventional code . " ( On p . 181 we have the closing scene of his life :) His sufferings ( from cancer ) were dreadful . He bore them with heroic ...
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... on high but a sealed book ? While standing on the footstool of Omnipotence and gazing upon the throne of Jehovah , he shuts his intellect to the light of reason . CHAPMAN GOD'S WIDE - OPEN DOOR . A young girl GOD . 7.
... on high but a sealed book ? While standing on the footstool of Omnipotence and gazing upon the throne of Jehovah , he shuts his intellect to the light of reason . CHAPMAN GOD'S WIDE - OPEN DOOR . A young girl GOD . 7.
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... reason , that atheism never really existed as a full conviction in any hu- man breast . . . . That any one should consciously and con- scientiously make this idle notion his permanent conviction , and that he should not venerate aught ...
... reason , that atheism never really existed as a full conviction in any hu- man breast . . . . That any one should consciously and con- scientiously make this idle notion his permanent conviction , and that he should not venerate aught ...
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... Reason , pp . 31 , 33 . PAINE - GOD , THE MIGHTY MAKER . Could a man be placed in a situation and endowed with the power of vision to behold at one view and to contemplate deliberately the structure of the universe , to mark the move ...
... Reason , pp . 31 , 33 . PAINE - GOD , THE MIGHTY MAKER . Could a man be placed in a situation and endowed with the power of vision to behold at one view and to contemplate deliberately the structure of the universe , to mark the move ...
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... reason , . . . that when we come to inspect the watch , we perceive . . . that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose ( etc. ) . Suppose ... that it possessed the unexpected property of producing another watch like ...
... reason , . . . that when we come to inspect the watch , we perceive . . . that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose ( etc. ) . Suppose ... that it possessed the unexpected property of producing another watch like ...
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Page 210 - Savior's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ;* The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 281 - Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled In the parliament of man, the federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. One
Page 25 - SCHOLIUM. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of the One.
Page 281 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day ; Better fifty years of Europe than a
Page 262 - There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders. . . . Wherefore if they shall say unto you: Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it
Page 54 - There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that while this planet has gone cycling on, according to
Page 80 - Adamic man. Adam, the father of mankind, was no squalid savage of doubtful humanity, but a noble specimen of man ; and Eve a soft Circassian beauty, but exquisitely lovely beyond the lot of fallen humanity. " The loveliest pair That ever yet in love's embraces met ; Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons ; the fairest of her daughters, Eve."*
Page 241 - out to sea. For though from out the bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 13 - years, how men would believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. The stars awaken a certain reverence because, though always present, they are inaccessible.—
Page 189 - he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ, and when Pilate at the suggestion of the principal men among us had condemned him to the cross