What Shall I Say?; Analytic Outline Addresses Upon Religious and Social Topics (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...go forth again and exercise once more his ministry of anointing. Failure in the past not to stand in the way of future effort. Work of God must go on in spite of individual incapacity of His agents. Past failure ought to inspire to greater efforts, to enkindle new desires, new hopes, new determination. No. 74.--ilijt Eainp. Psalm Cxix. 105. I.--God not only wills our present deliverance from the power of sin and the world, and our eternal salvation, but He also provides us with the means, the necessary help and grace and light to enable us to rise up out of ourselves to holiness and peace. It would be cruel in the extreme to tell us of our degradation, and of the joys of holiness and heaven, without at the same time giving us the power to avail ourselves of the blessings He announces to us. He has gone down into the pit, and lifted humanity out, not merely stood at the brink, and looked down consolingly upon our race in its lost condition. II.--One of the great provisions of God for our benefit and enlightenment is the Holy Scriptures. This book the great illumination of the problems and mysteries of life. The key to unlock difficulties, the storehouse of spiritual knowledge, the fountain of living waters, the well of life. The mysteries of our present and future condition are explained in the Bible, and we learn more from its first page than all the philosophers of the world could ever have taught us. III.--The Scripture deals with such subjects as death, and casts light into the grave and beyond it, so that there is no longer any terror surrounding the tomb. No other system of teaching has ever touched the subject of death so boldly and so satisfactorily as it is dealt with in the Bible. The future life, the relation of God to the soul, the...