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... Jesus in the New Testament . A genuine knowl- edge of the great religion of the Western world is not acquired by snap - shot attention to books or sermons about Christianity . In North China I found a prominent Chinese educator planning ...
... Jesus in the New Testament . A genuine knowl- edge of the great religion of the Western world is not acquired by snap - shot attention to books or sermons about Christianity . In North China I found a prominent Chinese educator planning ...
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... Jesus was unique in that He combined high vision with the ability to make that vision real . Many a biography has been the tragic story of a high endowment but an insufficient will . What a man has power to will and to do , and to ...
... Jesus was unique in that He combined high vision with the ability to make that vision real . Many a biography has been the tragic story of a high endowment but an insufficient will . What a man has power to will and to do , and to ...
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... Jesus reached the potential energy of the soul . Jesus provoked values . created and aroused thoughts , feelings , pos- sibilities which men never dreamed they had . By His absorbing interest in men He laid hold upon the essence of ...
... Jesus reached the potential energy of the soul . Jesus provoked values . created and aroused thoughts , feelings , pos- sibilities which men never dreamed they had . By His absorbing interest in men He laid hold upon the essence of ...
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... Jesus did : " Stretch forth thy hand . " Faith in Him empowers our wills . After all , it is upon such great quest that men go to the Bible to - day , as they have gone in other years . The great secret of the growing power of Bible ...
... Jesus did : " Stretch forth thy hand . " Faith in Him empowers our wills . After all , it is upon such great quest that men go to the Bible to - day , as they have gone in other years . The great secret of the growing power of Bible ...
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... Jesus ' Teachings . Group 4 : The Will of God . Why Fraternity Men Should Study the Bible . What Bible Study Has Meant to Our Fraternity . ( A Testimony . ) Fraternity Bible Study from the Standpoint of an En- gineer . ( By a Dean of ...
... Jesus ' Teachings . Group 4 : The Will of God . Why Fraternity Men Should Study the Bible . What Bible Study Has Meant to Our Fraternity . ( A Testimony . ) Fraternity Bible Study from the Standpoint of an En- gineer . ( By a Dean of ...
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Page 56 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 13 - The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow And hears its winding murmur, and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.
Page 42 - The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.
Page 56 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Page 22 - The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 42 - By the study of what other book could children be so much humanized and made to feel that each figure in that vast historical procession fills, like themselves, but a momentary space in the interval between two eternities; and earns the blessings or the curses of all time, according to its effort to do good and hate evil, even as they also are earning their payment for their work?
Page 104 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 158 - He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God...
Page 56 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 42 - English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his village to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations, and of a great past, stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations in the world.