History, Essays, Orations, and Other Documents of the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...the lion that he always grows up to be a perfect lion. They find their way themselves; but man is the metropolis of all created things, and in him are consummated the hints found everywhere else. So much is there of animal force in various ways, so much of social affection, so much of moral element reaching out everywhere and losing itself in selfish yearnings, so much of aspiration, that no man can take hold of himself and build himself up. And so there is no creature beginning so low, with such prospects, that gets so much help as man, but it is a help which no one present can give to man. The eye can see, the heart can feel, and the understanding can aspire, but the help from the source whence our souls come is necessary for our perfect birth, even when it is the beginning of that manhood of which Christ is the most perfect example in life. The next requisite in the pulpit is the sense of " God with us." It is a good thing to believe that there is a God whom we shall one day see as he is. We have seen him as we thought he was, as we imagined he was, and we have seen him as we have been taught here and there by vain, adulterated philosophy; but, after all, we now see through a glass darkly, and shall only then see face to face. We all know and all believe that there is this supreme, spiritual, benevolent Father; but there is a revelation of God by the Holy Ghost in the hearts of men which, although it can not be stated in words, amounts to something more than philosophy. It amounts to force. It is precisely that which the apostle expressed when he said that he should stand on the power of God rather than on the natural effects from human causation. And when he took occasion thus to speak he spoke as an orator. We know he was...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...the lion that he always grows up to be a perfect lion. They find their way themselves; but man is the metropolis of all created things, and in him are consummated the hints found everywhere else. So much is there of animal force in various ways, so much of social affection, so much of moral element reaching out everywhere and losing itself in selfish yearnings, so much of aspiration, that no man can take hold of himself and build himself up. And so there is no creature beginning so low, with such prospects, that gets so much help as man, but it is a help which no one present can give to man. The eye can see, the heart can feel, and the understanding can aspire, but the help from the source whence our souls come is necessary for our perfect birth, even when it is the beginning of that manhood of which Christ is the most perfect example in life. The next requisite in the pulpit is the sense of " God with us." It is a good thing to believe that there is a God whom we shall one day see as he is. We have seen him as we thought he was, as we imagined he was, and we have seen him as we have been taught here and there by vain, adulterated philosophy; but, after all, we now see through a glass darkly, and shall only then see face to face. We all know and all believe that there is this supreme, spiritual, benevolent Father; but there is a revelation of God by the Holy Ghost in the hearts of men which, although it can not be stated in words, amounts to something more than philosophy. It amounts to force. It is precisely that which the apostle expressed when he said that he should stand on the power of God rather than on the natural effects from human causation. And when he took occasion thus to speak he spoke as an orator. We know he was...

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2013

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246 x 189 x 30mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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588

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978-1-234-12382-6

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9781234123826

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1-234-12382-7



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