What it Means to be a Christian: The Evangelistic Message in Outline

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Pilgrim Press, 1922 - 94 pages
 

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Page 94 - Needs must there be one way, our chief Best way of worship: let me strive To find it, and when found, contrive My fellows also take their share ! This constitutes my earthly care : God's is above it and distinct. For I, a man, with men am linked And not a brute with brutes ; no gain That I experience, must remain Unshared...
Page 47 - Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Page 12 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 20 - Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason, and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity.
Page 4 - And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Page 17 - Thou canst not prove the Nameless, O my son, Nor canst thou prove the world thou movest in, Thou canst not prove that thou art body alone, Nor canst thou prove that thou art spirit alone, Nor canst thou prove that thou art both in one : Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise,...
Page 31 - Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him...
Page 43 - Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
Page 34 - Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed ; I cannot rise and give thee?
Page 28 - Lord, take away pain from the world Thou hast made, That it love Thee the more.' "Then answered the Lord to the cry of His world : 'Shall I take away pain, And with it the power of the soul to endure, Made strong by the strain? Shall I take away pity that knits heart to heart, And sacrifice high ? Will ye lose all your heroes that lift from the fire White brows to the sky?

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