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... present time the antagonism is more pronounced than it has ever been before . This question has been ad- dressed to me recently , " Is not the rift between science and religion wider than it ever was ? " Thank God , no ! I am well aware ...
... present time the antagonism is more pronounced than it has ever been before . This question has been ad- dressed to me recently , " Is not the rift between science and religion wider than it ever was ? " Thank God , no ! I am well aware ...
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... present - day experience of such a God as you name ; the shame , the horror , and the woe of the world seem to contradict your belief in a God whose name and nature are Love . " Wait a bit ; you have forgotten something - the rela ...
... present - day experience of such a God as you name ; the shame , the horror , and the woe of the world seem to contradict your belief in a God whose name and nature are Love . " Wait a bit ; you have forgotten something - the rela ...
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... present a man who is not deaf , but who has no ear for music , what would he think about it all ? His experience would be widely different from ours ; are we to argue , therefore , that there was no organ ? No. No harmony , then ? No ...
... present a man who is not deaf , but who has no ear for music , what would he think about it all ? His experience would be widely different from ours ; are we to argue , therefore , that there was no organ ? No. No harmony , then ? No ...
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... present - day need of personal communion with God ; ( 2 ) the method thereof and the blessing there- from . I. It is a remarkable thing that when we are seek- ing for the language of adoration and spiritual feeling we have to go to the ...
... present - day need of personal communion with God ; ( 2 ) the method thereof and the blessing there- from . I. It is a remarkable thing that when we are seek- ing for the language of adoration and spiritual feeling we have to go to the ...
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... present to human nature . The ques- tion is not , Shall we pray ? but , Can God hear us when we do ; is there room for Him to answer ; is it any use to pray ? To this question our texts - the one on the authority of Jesus Christ , and ...
... present to human nature . The ques- tion is not , Shall we pray ? but , Can God hear us when we do ; is there room for Him to answer ; is it any use to pray ? To this question our texts - the one on the authority of Jesus Christ , and ...
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Page 106 - Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 247 - Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Page 233 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 62 - The healing of his seamless dress Is by our beds of pain : We touch him in life's throng and press, And we are whole again.
Page 63 - We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he : And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.
Page 213 - Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 159 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 247 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Page 22 - When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 53 - Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others, that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee ? ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.