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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...that we want: hem to be faithful to the old; not to give up their faith, mt to hold it in all its fullness; not to be unorthodox, but: o be really orthodox--orthodox about this duty to their leighbour, which St. John, the most profoundly spiritual )f all the Bible writers, declares to come before the ...
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...that we want: hem to be faithful to the old; not to give up their faith, mt to hold it in all its fullness; not to be unorthodox, but: o be really orthodox--orthodox about this duty to their leighbour, which St. John, the most profoundly spiritual )f all the Bible writers, declares to come before the duty 0 God: "For he that loveth not his brother whom he. lath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" 1 John iv. 20). What, then, was the social teaching of that Man, who: ame to reveal God to men, and yet whom St. Peter deicribed afterwards (Acts x. 38) as one who "went about loing good "? We will take the four most prominent forms of His teaching--His Signs, His Parables, His Sermon, His Prayer. Christ's signs.--Very often when we go into church we find the congregation singing some hymn which expresses the utmost weariness of life and the keenest desire to die and pass to the " better land." Stout old gentlemen and smart young women sing it lustily; and we know that they are singing a lie; for if they were told that they were to die to-morrow they would not find it at all weary "waiting here." That is an instance of the heresy of modern popular religion. Christ taught exactly the opposite. The vast rrajojity_of, iIis--mTracles restored men to health ancTlite, and enabled them to go back to their work, and to enjoy the measure of life which God allots toymankind. Death in old age, when a man's work is done, is not a sad thing; but death in youth, or in the prime of life, is piteous, horrible, abnormal; and so are sickness and deformity. Christ, then, devoted a large portion of His time to fighting against disease and premature death, and He wept when a friend had been carried off in his prime. St. John always calls these " miracles ..".
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