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. 1905 Excerpt: ...one of the merciful features of a battle. Strangely enough this wildness of aim, this same waste of ammunition, characterizes all our great spiritual contests as well. In the hot and prolonged fight with the forces of sin nothing is more discouraging than this same false aim and waste of energy. Read the history of our ...
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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. 1905 Excerpt: ...one of the merciful features of a battle. Strangely enough this wildness of aim, this same waste of ammunition, characterizes all our great spiritual contests as well. In the hot and prolonged fight with the forces of sin nothing is more discouraging than this same false aim and waste of energy. Read the history of our nineteen centuries of Christianity and see how few of the shots have been straight at the enemy's head. Look at the militant church to-day and see what a tremendous waste of force there is. Christians seem bound to fight everything but the real enemy, and when they find a man who does open fire on the central fortress, the others are quite likely to open fire on him, because he isn't shooting nine-tenths of his weapons into the air. Jesus Christ always refused the random aims and went straight to the mark. The airshooters of His day were always trying to turn Him off the main line to an attack on phantom enemies, but He never swerved an iota. They came with their metaphysical question, whether hereditary sin made a poor man blind, or whether it was his own sin. Christ brushed away the whole logical quibble and showed them that the main thing was the present opportunity to work the work of God on the man who needed help. They never ceased to buzz about Him with hard problems about the Messianic kingdom. He refused to waste force on idle discussion with those who were too blind in their own conceits to appreciate any new truth, and He simply announced that "the pure in heart see God," and the poor in spirit are in the kingdom. Tricky questions about the resurrection and tribute money were simpty occasions for Him to unfold the great truth that God is the God of the living, whether in the visible or invisible world, and that we can saf...
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