Excerpt from The Speaking Dead: A Sermon Preached in Hyndland Church, March 23, 1884, on the Occasion of the Death of the Rev. John Service, D. D Here is a very grand and subtle thought struck out by this writer in his own somewhat Rabbinical style of quoting Scripture and interpreting the Old Testament. In all ages that by which men have come to God has been not the outward forms of their worship, often childish enough; not the out ward forms even of their deeds; but the inward spirit of faith, which clings even amid ...
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Excerpt from The Speaking Dead: A Sermon Preached in Hyndland Church, March 23, 1884, on the Occasion of the Death of the Rev. John Service, D. D Here is a very grand and subtle thought struck out by this writer in his own somewhat Rabbinical style of quoting Scripture and interpreting the Old Testament. In all ages that by which men have come to God has been not the outward forms of their worship, often childish enough; not the out ward forms even of their deeds; but the inward spirit of faith, which clings even amid temptation and trial to truth and righteousness, and to God as the true and righteous One. Wherever this prin ciple can be discovered, even in an elementary form, there is the germ of the Christian life and Character, there you may behold, even in such an one as Abel, a Christian before Christ. It has been and is this which has linked and still links any soul to God. By faith Abel Offered unto God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, and, by his faith, he being dead, yet speaketh. Passing, however, from this preliminary thought Of the unity of the religious life in different ages, let me direct your attention more specially to two simpler and more practical truths suggested by the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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