The American Baptist Pulpit at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (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: III THE BREADTH OF REDEMPTION. By Rev. Fred Elmer Marble, Ph. D., Vermont "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to-wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."?-Rom. 8: 18-25. WE stand between two eternities?eternity past and eternity future. Our life is made up of yesterdays and to-morrows. Our experiences grow out of that which has been into that which is to be. No day and no experience can be justly estimated by itself. All must be taken in connection with the causes which have produced it and the results which grow out of it. Life, to be worth living, must have larger circles of vision than the round of daily duties. Nor will the full period of three-score years and ten suffice to solve the problem of our existence. Only in the cycles of an endless eternity may we hope ever to discover the purpose and end of God's work in creation. I do not wonder that men, from whose eyes life and immortality are hidden, take pessimistic views of l...