Where Does the Sky Begin? (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.1904 Excerpt: ... THE LESSON OF THE CROSS Giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.--Col. i. 12-15. We hear, quite often, in these days, from the most earnest preachers of the evangelical churches, strong protests against the tendency to ignore the atoning sacrifice of Christ. The deepest truth of the gospel, they say, is contained in that doctrine of atonement; a theology which has no room in it for that central truth will have no power over the lives of men. I think that the point is well taken. The truth which is made known to us in the sacrifice of Christ is the central truth of the gospel. Without it our doctrine is shorn of its power. Certain it is that the apostles regarded it as the very burden of their message. It was not merely Christ the teacher or Christ the leader to whom they were pointing men; it was Christ who died for us upon the cross. "I preach Christ crucified," cried Paul. "To the Jews he is a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ crucified is the power of God and the wisdom of God." "God forbid that I should glory," he cries again, "save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." And this has been the conviction of all the greatest preachers of all the generations. Even those known as Liberals have recognized the power which resides in the cross of Christ. It was a good Unitarian, Sir John Bowring, who wrote, following Paul: --"In the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime." It was Sa...