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... expression , inferior to other human writ- ings . " It is a matter of the highest importance that the world should feel that the Word of God is the best possible , that it possesses in an unusual de- gree the elements of attractiveness ...
... expression , inferior to other human writ- ings . " It is a matter of the highest importance that the world should feel that the Word of God is the best possible , that it possesses in an unusual de- gree the elements of attractiveness ...
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... expression of the Christian life . through testimony and organization has been until now the dominant issue . The need of the solidifica- tion of study is only beginning to appear . As these organizations enter , as they are bound to do ...
... expression of the Christian life . through testimony and organization has been until now the dominant issue . The need of the solidifica- tion of study is only beginning to appear . As these organizations enter , as they are bound to do ...
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... expression . But the same educated pub- lic furnishes for the most part only casual readers of the Bible . There are general tokens of the popular lapse of the Bible that cannot be passed by . One is the growing lack of familiarity with ...
... expression . But the same educated pub- lic furnishes for the most part only casual readers of the Bible . There are general tokens of the popular lapse of the Bible that cannot be passed by . One is the growing lack of familiarity with ...
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... expression there is there ought to be - something more than the fact of formal ownership . There is also an affirmation of the fact of mental and spiritual ownership . This Book has moved in upon the mind and has possessed me , so that ...
... expression there is there ought to be - something more than the fact of formal ownership . There is also an affirmation of the fact of mental and spiritual ownership . This Book has moved in upon the mind and has possessed me , so that ...
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... expressions , such as " The Lord is my Shep- herd , " " The Wages of Sin is Death , " " Come unto Me all ye that labor , " " The greatest of these is Charity , " " The Lord loveth a cheerful giver , " which constitute for him a sort of ...
... expressions , such as " The Lord is my Shep- herd , " " The Wages of Sin is Death , " " Come unto Me all ye that labor , " " The greatest of these is Charity , " " The Lord loveth a cheerful giver , " which constitute for him a sort of ...
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Page 160 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is. in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 145 - And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.
Page 139 - It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness.
Page 201 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 147 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Page 138 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 196 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor : He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 118 - What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war : something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.
Page 147 - And he is the head of the body, the church : who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead ; that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.
Page 167 - I have next with deeper gratitude to chronicle what I owed to my mother for the resolutely consistent lessons which so exercised me in the Scriptures as to make every word of them familiar to my ear in habitual music, — yet in that familiarity reverenced, as transcending all thought, and ordaining all conduct...