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... stands historically for a different conception . This term dates from Puritan times , when it was used to designate that ecclesiasti- cal organisation in which Puritanism found the out- ward expression of Christ's kingship . Our ...
... stands historically for a different conception . This term dates from Puritan times , when it was used to designate that ecclesiasti- cal organisation in which Puritanism found the out- ward expression of Christ's kingship . Our ...
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... stand how he , Bible - critic as he was , could have ignored all the religious element as distinct from the ethical in the Old and in the New Testa ... stands . plained upon the atomistic theory ; it implies unity , 22 THE KINGDOM OF GOD .
... stand how he , Bible - critic as he was , could have ignored all the religious element as distinct from the ethical in the Old and in the New Testa ... stands . plained upon the atomistic theory ; it implies unity , 22 THE KINGDOM OF GOD .
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... stand in awe of its mystery . The deeper the insight into that strangest of earthly phenomena , the human heart , the more do we learn to appreciate the fact that there is a simplicity of shallowness . There are two radically divergent ...
... stand in awe of its mystery . The deeper the insight into that strangest of earthly phenomena , the human heart , the more do we learn to appreciate the fact that there is a simplicity of shallowness . There are two radically divergent ...
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... stand its working is his absorbing object . To another the things of sense lack abiding reality ; he feels for the eternal underneath . The one man is satisfied with secondary causes ; to him , what he sees , the mani- fest connection ...
... stand its working is his absorbing object . To another the things of sense lack abiding reality ; he feels for the eternal underneath . The one man is satisfied with secondary causes ; to him , what he sees , the mani- fest connection ...
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... stand from the words of Christ that in his own case it consisted in the completest union between himself and God . For his followers we can conceive of this life only as an approach to that perfect union . The religious determination of ...
... stand from the words of Christ that in his own case it consisted in the completest union between himself and God . For his followers we can conceive of this life only as an approach to that perfect union . The religious determination of ...
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Page 120 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Page 108 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 94 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 120 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere, dominion o'er the enlightened spirit Whose meditative sympathies repose Upon the breast of Faith. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Page 16 - To spend uncounted years of pain, Again, again, and yet again, In working out in heart and brain The problem of our being here ; To gather facts from far and near, Upon the mind to hold them clear, And, knowing more may yet appear, Unto one's latest breath to fear The premature result to draw — Is this the object, end and law, And purpose of our being here ? THE SHADOW'.
Page 56 - And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Page 21 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 95 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Page 162 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 50 - Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die Perish; - and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd, Foam'd for a moment, and gone.