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John Nesbit Wilson. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 06824496 5 WHY GOD MADE MEN J. NESBIT WILSON LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT Wilson ZFK. Front Cover.
John Nesbit Wilson. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 06824496 5 WHY GOD MADE MEN J. NESBIT WILSON LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT Wilson ZFK. Front Cover.
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... religious indeed and not mere- ly in the vainglory of the name . Its works are not to be measured as selfish achievements , by the size of its cities , nor its art , nor its scholars , nor its commerce ; but in men , who under the ...
... religious indeed and not mere- ly in the vainglory of the name . Its works are not to be measured as selfish achievements , by the size of its cities , nor its art , nor its scholars , nor its commerce ; but in men , who under the ...
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... religion of the patriarchs , Abra- ham , Moses , the prophets and Jesus the Christ was not in professions of righteousness before any standard expressed by logical definitions , but each sought to obey the perfect law of the Lord ...
... religion of the patriarchs , Abra- ham , Moses , the prophets and Jesus the Christ was not in professions of righteousness before any standard expressed by logical definitions , but each sought to obey the perfect law of the Lord ...
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... religion , however low , rise out of aspirations in the human soul , for communion with the invisible . There are emotions in all men , reaching up toward the unseen . The gods of the heathen are that which is behind the idols . The ...
... religion , however low , rise out of aspirations in the human soul , for communion with the invisible . There are emotions in all men , reaching up toward the unseen . The gods of the heathen are that which is behind the idols . The ...
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... religious teachers and the philosophers , in rising above the intellectual , logical powers , and by their holy communion with him who is invisi- ble , beholding the fountain of all that is as holy , holy , holy Jehovah , the Almighty ...
... religious teachers and the philosophers , in rising above the intellectual , logical powers , and by their holy communion with him who is invisi- ble , beholding the fountain of all that is as holy , holy , holy Jehovah , the Almighty ...
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Page 197 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
Page 169 - Let no man deceive you by any means ; for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition...
Page 107 - Nevertheless, among the chief rulers, also, many believed on him : but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue. For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Page 186 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Page 180 - And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 240 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 126 - Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances...
Page 25 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat, all the days of thy life...
Page 154 - And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 201 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.