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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... dead languages used in the process, there the facts remain. Whoever will get the kernel out of the nut must break the shell. The theologian is sealed up to these languages for his authority. The words he is to repeat and the good news he is to tell fall from heaven in a strange language. However little he may ...
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... dead languages used in the process, there the facts remain. Whoever will get the kernel out of the nut must break the shell. The theologian is sealed up to these languages for his authority. The words he is to repeat and the good news he is to tell fall from heaven in a strange language. However little he may care to display the original, he ought to have the key to its secrets. It was not enough for me that a fellow student should read to me my father's letters, I wanted to read them first. It seemed to my young heart, so far and so many years from home, that I could see his form more distinctly while following the lines his aged hand had traced. Now and then my eye caught a dash or a blister on the paper that told me the great truth as nothing else could. I knew as I choked down the unutterable longing and turned again to my work that, though I might be shoving up out of boyhood, and he might be bowing toward age, still his love followed me morning and evening and his prayer carried my name into the holy of holies. So with the letters from our great Father; the preacher ought to read them first hand. There are signs, accents, silent letters, finger marks, that tell the story as nothing else can. They open the gates and expose to our longing eyes the streets of gold and the palaces of fire and thrones of light. We gaze upon the King in His glory. He embraces us as a Father. Our hearts feel the new life and our lips touch the holy fire. (j) The study of the classics is of efficient service in perfecting the orator. This theme impresses me more profoundly as I advance in years. Speech is a divine gift, the chief characteristic of the human animal. It is the chosen instrument for the evangelization of the world. "By the foolishness of preaching..".
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