The Christian Pioneer, Ed. by G. Harris (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners." Peter drew his sword, and smote one of the assailants of his Master, but was instantly checked by Jesus, " Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ?" The whole of this scene in the garden on the Mount of Olives is intensely human. It is a noble struggle, and a glorious victory. It is a struggle against the promptings of humanity, against the wish, which no one can condemn, to avoid falling into the hands of bigoted and implacable foes; and a victory on the side of duty. We see anxiety and extreme distress transformed by prayer into calmness and firm resolve. REVIEW. The Position, Dangers, and Duties of Unitarians considered: A Sermon before the British and Foreign Unitarian Association. 1841. By Ed-ward Talbot. We have to apologize to onr readers, as well as to the excellent author of this discourse, for our tardy notice of it. It is a plain, reasonable, and faithful address, not the less useful and applicable now, than at the period of its delivery. It clearly elucidates, and forcibly upholds, great practical principles. Showing the moral and essential worth of Christianity, it demonstrates the inconsistency of those who would in any measure interfere with the individual interpretation and application of its sacred, benevolent, and lifegiving instructions. Papal infallibility, and Protestant assumption, are equally reprobated, as infractions on Christian liberty; and the possessor of that liberty, who would lisa it as a cloak for licentiousness in thought or action, or put it forth as a plea for indifference to truth, or the world's improvement, is honestly warned of his wrongdoing, and exhorted to exert himself, as...