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... object was , if possible , to induce thinking young people , non - church - goers , and persons in doubt or indifference respecting religion to under- take a candid survey of the leading questions of faith , and to give some serious ...
... object was , if possible , to induce thinking young people , non - church - goers , and persons in doubt or indifference respecting religion to under- take a candid survey of the leading questions of faith , and to give some serious ...
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... object of worship God A personal and ethical Being Coming to God • • Faith in God a natural necessity · Illustrations from our situation in the world • From the need of some law of wisdom more than impulse . From the immensities around ...
... object of worship God A personal and ethical Being Coming to God • • Faith in God a natural necessity · Illustrations from our situation in the world • From the need of some law of wisdom more than impulse . From the immensities around ...
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... object had in view • · PAGE 282 284 286 288 • 289 • 290 291 292 293 295 • 296 · 298 • 299 • 301 • 303 • 305 307 • 308 309 311 312 • · 313 · 315 316 · 319 • 320 324 • 325 327 331 • 332 Sad condition of confirmed skeptics Proud unbelief ...
... object had in view • · PAGE 282 284 286 288 • 289 • 290 291 292 293 295 • 296 · 298 • 299 • 301 • 303 • 305 307 • 308 309 311 312 • · 313 · 315 316 · 319 • 320 324 • 325 327 331 • 332 Sad condition of confirmed skeptics Proud unbelief ...
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... objects there is nothing left but a few precepts of morality , with no adequate sanctions for their enforcement . Other means of re- ligious culture in families and the churches exist , but so far as respects the public schools our ...
... objects there is nothing left but a few precepts of morality , with no adequate sanctions for their enforcement . Other means of re- ligious culture in families and the churches exist , but so far as respects the public schools our ...
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... objects and having them tell him to what kingdom — animal , mineral , or vegetable — each belonged . Finally , he pointed to himself and said , " To what kingdom do I belong ? " One of the children answered , " To the kingdom of heaven ...
... objects and having them tell him to what kingdom — animal , mineral , or vegetable — each belonged . Finally , he pointed to himself and said , " To what kingdom do I belong ? " One of the children answered , " To the kingdom of heaven ...
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Page 341 - But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before, of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Page 132 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 300 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 357 - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already ; because he hath not believed in the Name of the onlybegotten Son of God.
Page 353 - Indisputably, the firm believers in the Gospel have a great advantage over all others, — for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have their reward hereafter ; and if there be no hereafter, they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope, through life, without subsequent disappointment, since (at the worst for them) " out of nothing, nothing can arise,
Page 340 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears ; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Page 133 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 253 - For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 200 - Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty, without obviating it : it is more inconceivable, that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one only should furnish the subject of it. The Jewish authors were incapable of the diction, and strangers to the morality, contained in the gospel, the marks of whose truth are so striking and inimitable, that the inventor would be a more astonishing character than the hero.
Page 303 - Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.