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Page 89
... indifferent to this waning interest in preaching . A sum- mer or two ago , in a suburban village of the wholly better class in New England , in a church seating seven hundred , the writer preached to a congregation of sixty , one- fifth ...
... indifferent to this waning interest in preaching . A sum- mer or two ago , in a suburban village of the wholly better class in New England , in a church seating seven hundred , the writer preached to a congregation of sixty , one- fifth ...
Page 98
... , to attack the evils that prey upon life ; is too weak or too cowardly to challenge flaunting and impudent wrong ; is too easy- going or indifferent to take up a really active program [ 98 ] Moral Leadership and the Ministry.
... , to attack the evils that prey upon life ; is too weak or too cowardly to challenge flaunting and impudent wrong ; is too easy- going or indifferent to take up a really active program [ 98 ] Moral Leadership and the Ministry.
Page 99
Edward Everett Keedy. going or indifferent to take up a really active program for righteousness . Perhaps it does not persuade even itself of the tremen- dous difference between right and wrong , nor know its heritage in the will and ...
Edward Everett Keedy. going or indifferent to take up a really active program for righteousness . Perhaps it does not persuade even itself of the tremen- dous difference between right and wrong , nor know its heritage in the will and ...
Page 124
... indifference that sweeps upon us passes over and is gone ; there comes a flooding passion for the Christ who therein lives again , and the desert places are watered into life . In setting forth the facts and ideals of religion , and in ...
... indifference that sweeps upon us passes over and is gone ; there comes a flooding passion for the Christ who therein lives again , and the desert places are watered into life . In setting forth the facts and ideals of religion , and in ...
Page 126
... indifferent public speaker has diminished . Yet the grandeur of his Gospel inherently marks the preacher for a leader in thought , and the charm and power of personal utter- ance overmount the printed page which bears the stamp of no ...
... indifferent public speaker has diminished . Yet the grandeur of his Gospel inherently marks the preacher for a leader in thought , and the charm and power of personal utter- ance overmount the printed page which bears the stamp of no ...
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Page 35 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men.
Page 35 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 17 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 21 - Their enemies themselves not unfrequently acknowledged it. The love shown by the early Christians to their suffering brethren has never been more emphatically attested than by...
Page 21 - Never before was a religious transformation so manifestly inevitable. No other religion ever combined so many forms of attraction as Christianity, both from its intrinsic excellence, and from its manifest adaptation to the special wants of the time.
Page 117 - The water that I shall give you, shall be in you a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Page 170 - government of the people, for the people and by the people, should not perish from the earth.
Page 35 - To the present hour we both hunger and thirst and we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless. And we labor working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted we endure; being defamed we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the off scouring of all things until now.
Page 129 - The willing department of our nature. . .dominates both the conceiving department and the feeling department; or, in plainer English, perception and thinking are only there for behavior's sake. I am sure I am not wrong in stating this result as one of the fundamental conclusions to which the entire drift of modern physiological investigation sweeps us.
Page 5 - ... how to labor together with God instead of becoming a cog in some great machine ; how to maintain peace of mind amid the disasters, illusions, and tragedies of experience, — this is the cry for power which goes up from many a life, ensnared — as whose is not ? — in the mechanism and materialism of the world.