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... religious enthusiasm is past and gone for ever ; that men are becoming in- creasingly secular in interest and outlook ; and that faith has given way before the broad light of reason . This opinion is freely expressed both in the study ...
... religious enthusiasm is past and gone for ever ; that men are becoming in- creasingly secular in interest and outlook ; and that faith has given way before the broad light of reason . This opinion is freely expressed both in the study ...
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... religion discredited . But the shout is itself an in- dication in favour of the recrudescence of faith . His- tory can furnish many parallels for it . But always in the history of Christendom , at the very moment when revealed religion ...
... religion discredited . But the shout is itself an in- dication in favour of the recrudescence of faith . His- tory can furnish many parallels for it . But always in the history of Christendom , at the very moment when revealed religion ...
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... religious movements have been . Others be- lieve it will take the form of a quickened interest in social justice , a great awakening on the part of the Churches in favour of the poor , the unprivileged , and the oppressed . No doubt ...
... religious movements have been . Others be- lieve it will take the form of a quickened interest in social justice , a great awakening on the part of the Churches in favour of the poor , the unprivileged , and the oppressed . No doubt ...
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... religious mind . In one of those three classes every man finds a place . The man of science may not be conspicuously in evidence , but the men trained under scientific methods are . Those who have been to school within the last twenty ...
... religious mind . In one of those three classes every man finds a place . The man of science may not be conspicuously in evidence , but the men trained under scientific methods are . Those who have been to school within the last twenty ...
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... religion consists , not in what he says that the man of religion does not say , but in what he does not say that the man of religion does say . Let me study the position of the philosophy of the moment . Until quite recently the system ...
... religion consists , not in what he says that the man of religion does not say , but in what he does not say that the man of religion does say . Let me study the position of the philosophy of the moment . Until quite recently the system ...
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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.