Summary of your 'study carrel' ============================== This is a summary of your Distant Reader 'study carrel'. The Distant Reader harvested & cached your content into a collection/corpus. It then applied sets of natural language processing and text mining against the collection. The results of this process was reduced to a database file -- a 'study carrel'. The study carrel can then be queried, thus bringing light specific characteristics for your collection. These characteristics can help you summarize the collection as well as enumerate things you might want to investigate more closely. This report is a terse narrative report, and when processing is complete you will be linked to a more complete narrative report. Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 999 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 77574 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 79 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 889 God 680 Christ 674 Lord 571 Jesus 369 Church 292 Father 291 John 290 man 261 Holy 231 Spirit 206 Mr. 194 Son 191 New 184 christian 183 Paul 181 St. 181 Bible 138 Christianity 125 England 123 Jews 116 Gospel 113 life 103 Peter 102 Testament 99 Israel 95 scripture 93 Joseph 93 Jerusalem 92 Saviour 92 Rome 86 Dr. 83 Moses 83 King 77 great 73 Thou 73 Mary 69 Christians 67 CHAPTER 66 Ghost 64 Smith 62 Word 62 Mrs. 61 good 59 saint 59 Sunday 59 Bishop 58 love 58 Rev. 58 Divine 58 David Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 304130 man 145550 day 135511 time 128362 life 125688 thing 98733 word 96565 people 88392 world 83385 heart 81178 work 78844 year 77997 hand 76658 child 73767 way 70983 sin 70120 soul 68628 place 66960 power 66116 church 62408 faith 58827 death 57880 law 57292 name 55523 house 51827 love 51151 king 50753 truth 50113 part 49671 son 49669 earth 48935 one 46314 mind 45743 brother 45699 father 45495 nothing 44076 body 43292 spirit 39345 city 39029 other 38776 land 38636 woman 38554 book 38368 eye 36628 person 36627 friend 36580 order 36422 prayer 35992 nature 35987 grace 34243 religion Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 441549 _ 372560 God 151059 Christ 144880 Lord 101811 Jesus 74062 thou 63476 Church 42871 John 41915 Father 41171 Mr. 40052 ye 38630 heaven 35163 St. 33884 Israel 33361 Holy 32729 Paul 31736 Spirit 26901 Son 24536 Joseph 23549 LORD 23104 hath 22147 New 21796 Bible 20926 Peter 20385 Jerusalem 19886 David 19653 Thou 19302 Gospel 19215 Christian 18961 Christians 18830 Jews 17577 Moses 16224 King 16055 England 15321 Christianity 15175 . 15126 Smith 14191 Rome 13641 Dr. 13414 Testament 13350 Thy 13315 Mary 12851 Ghost 12838 Footnote 12744 S. 11910 de 11255 hast 11037 Saviour 11010 Book 10923 James Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 842365 he 773053 it 593700 i 459030 they 367349 we 365555 him 329107 you 310459 them 182923 me 169965 us 132411 she 78203 himself 63017 her 39936 themselves 39523 thee 24848 itself 15831 myself 14004 ourselves 10809 one 9208 herself 5779 yourself 5389 thyself 5271 ye 3269 mine 1817 his 1805 ours 1740 theirs 1650 yours 1030 yourselves 630 thy 515 hers 467 oneself 431 ''s 406 ''em 241 thou 238 ii 183 whosoever 177 elias 128 iv 97 ib 72 ay 71 whereof 65 em 62 o 48 trodden 36 ourself 34 pelf 32 yow 31 tessie 24 tackin Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 3086945 be 900009 have 346688 do 302651 say 196670 make 193135 come 153106 give 152330 see 152080 go 130416 take 127253 know 87719 find 78464 call 69571 let 67890 think 66642 bring 65388 speak 62453 tell 60758 hear 55478 believe 53534 become 52976 live 52668 receive 49415 leave 49400 write 48617 follow 46579 look 45664 put 43732 bear 43579 send 42835 die 42701 stand 42078 pass 41478 seem 41289 keep 39846 ask 38665 get 37280 hold 36578 show 35781 set 35405 fall 34938 begin 34744 love 34324 accord 34169 feel 31499 read 30777 appear 30528 turn 30394 teach 29854 save Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 633467 not 202613 so 139935 more 138135 then 135105 great 117811 now 111063 only 109910 up 109407 other 97658 also 94208 good 94164 very 90842 first 90265 many 83382 own 80321 well 77969 out 76498 such 75759 even 74693 most 71094 as 70031 same 69019 much 60330 little 59757 never 59327 here 58820 therefore 56674 again 51974 long 51596 down 50170 there 50121 thus 49875 ever 48766 true 48125 away 46998 old 43245 yet 40600 last 40382 still 39458 high 38235 far 37118 new 36850 too 36204 just 33609 whole 31796 christian 30983 forth 30605 always 30067 all 29935 holy Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17577 good 15262 least 12894 most 9930 great 8332 high 2871 bad 2084 manif 2079 early 2051 deep 1676 low 1532 Most 1464 strong 1356 slight 1168 near 1119 noble 1109 eld 1057 old 1029 l 1019 small 980 large 935 fine 833 late 819 pure 771 young 689 dear 681 wise 663 rich 629 full 607 holy 554 say 500 simple 498 bright 492 true 473 poor 465 big 439 dark 410 happy 402 close 388 sweet 380 clear 378 fair 366 mean 362 hard 361 vile 348 grand 322 lofty 308 long 294 chief 292 bl 289 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 61797 most 2390 well 1751 least 124 lest 106 sayest 66 manifest 62 highest 46 hard 38 worst 32 walkest 29 near 23 long 22 greatest 21 hearest 16 soon 16 lookest 15 ¦ 14 persecutest 14 hidest 14 fast 12 criest 10 tempest 10 goethe 8 gavest 8 farthest 8 fairest 8 brightest 7 speakest 7 feelest 6 youngest 6 liest 6 latest 6 infest 6 exprest 6 est 6 comest 5 washest 5 shortest 5 remainest 5 q.--do 4 writhe 4 widest 4 purest 4 opprest 4 needest 4 losest 4 likest 4 hatest 4 eldest 4 addest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 mormontextsproject.org 29 www.gutenberg.net 14 www.gutenberg.org 12 www.archive.org 11 archive.org 7 bencrowder.net 5 usccb.org 5 books.google.com 4 www.catholic.net 4 gallica.bnf.fr 3 www.pgdpcanada.net 3 quod.lib.umich.edu 2 www.ccel.org 2 www.catholicity.com 2 www.canadiana.org 1 www.uflib.ufl.edu 1 www.pbm.com 1 www.missionaryetexts.org 1 www.josephsmithpapers.org 1 www.google.com 1 www.ccel.org> 1 www.blankslate.net 1 memory.loc.gov 1 link.library.utoronto.ca 1 dp.rastko.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 22 http://mormontextsproject.org/ 17 http://mormontextsproject.org 7 http://bencrowder.net/books/mtp 4 http://www.catholic.net/ 4 http://gallica.bnf.fr 3 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 3 http://usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible 2 http://www.catholicity.com/market/CSoftware/ 2 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/cath.html 2 http://books.google.com 1 http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?s=defoe&m=hd1J&i=53904 1 http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/FoC042.html).]] 1 http://www.missionaryetexts.org 1 http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/doctrine-and-covenants-1835/13 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45910/45910-h/45910-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45910/45910-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42164/42164-h/42164-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42164/42164-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32720/32720-h/32720-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32720/32720-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32355/32355-h/32355-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32355/32355-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30879/30879-h/30879-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30879/30879-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11866/11866/11866.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11866/11866.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/521 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/1/1/26136/26136-h/26136-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/1/1/26136/26136-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/9/22990/22990-h/22990-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/1/22990/22990-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/1/22916/22916-h/22916-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/1/22916/22916-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/4/22141/22141-h/22141-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/4/22141/22141-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/3/22134/22134-h/22134-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/3/22134/22134-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/9/9/21997/21997-h/21997-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/9/9/21997/21997-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/8/2/21828/21828-h/21828-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/1/8/2/21828/21828-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/9/8/20983/20983-h/20983-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/9/8/20983/20983-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/8/1/18815/18815-h/18815-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/8/1/18815/18815-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/4/8/18482/18482-h/18482-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/4/8/18482/18482-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/3/2/18325/18325-h/18325-h.htm Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 14 ccx074@pglaf.org 13 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 9 widger@cecomet.net 4 tomnysetvold@gmail.com 2 waubrey@aol.com 2 smithre@mail.ctsfw.edu 2 g.snoek3@chello.nl 2 crowderb@blankslate.net 1 rrudder@lausd.k12.ca.us 1 rickowen@yahoo.com 1 mormontextsproject@gmail.com 1 loisy@yahoogroups.com 1 clontzjm@hotmail.com 1 detroyes@enteract.com Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1111 god is not 705 god does not 660 _ is _ 594 man is not 419 god did not 414 god is love 389 christ is not 353 christ did not 306 god has not 262 life is not 255 _ see _ 254 men do not 251 christ was not 249 men are not 248 man does not 243 jesus did not 238 things are not 227 _ do _ 215 _ are _ 215 things are possible 210 jesus was not 208 god be merciful 204 christ is god 203 _ was _ 202 faith is not 192 _ know _ 192 god is able 183 _ is not 178 god is good 177 sin is not 174 church is not 169 lord did not 162 world is not 161 heart is not 160 god was not 157 god had not 156 world has ever 151 men made perfect 150 sin is death 150 time is not 149 lord is not 149 people do not 148 god was pleased 144 law is not 137 things are true 135 christ does not 130 man was not 129 soul is not 124 _ have _ 124 work is not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70 god is no respecter 65 world was not worthy 51 jesus was not yet 44 christ is not only 43 time is not yet 40 time are not worthy 38 heart is not right 34 things are not expedient 31 time is not far 30 god is not ashamed 30 god is not meat 29 god is not only 25 thou tell no man 24 lord is not slack 24 time had not yet 22 god was not well 22 heart was not right 22 lord is not equal 20 heart was not perfect 20 man is not only 19 god is not unrighteous 19 men have not faith 18 things are not so 18 time has not yet 18 work is no more 17 christ was not god 17 god is not willing 17 hand is not mine 16 man has no right 15 god did not only 15 god is no longer 15 god is not so 15 jesus was not there 14 christ were not god 14 day is not far 14 god has not only 14 time was not yet 13 god is not yet 13 heart is not haughty 13 life is not worth 12 children being not yet 12 church is no longer 12 man is not so 12 things are not true 12 work is not yet 12 world has not yet 11 christ was not only 11 death has no power 11 death is not death 11 life is not only Sizes of items; "Measures in 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----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10037 "That seems a long way off," said Evadne in a disappointed tone. "Pompey," he said, "this is Miss Evadne Hildreth from Barbadoes." "It has come, Rege," John said with a great light in his face. "Yes," said John simply, "Jesus Christ was poor." "''Specs little Miss hez no call ter wish dat," said Pompey gently. "I am going for a long ride into the country, Evadne," said her uncle "By the way, Evadne," said Mrs. Hildreth, "I beg you will not repeat "I did not know anything could taste quite so good!" Evadne said when "I was thinking," said Evadne slowly, "of the power of a laugh." Evadne took a long, yearning look at the dear face, as if she would "But," said Evadne, the old puzzled look coming into her eyes, "I wish I "I do not think Evadne will ever come to any harm," the Judge said 10058 obligation of reciting on certain days the little Office of the Blessed recitation of the Psalms, hymns and prayers, of what are called the course, from private prayer" (Dom Cabrol, _Day Hours of the Church_, word vigil came to mean the prayers said during the time of watching or office which is being recited and the prayer of the feast to be The time fixed for the recitation of the entire office of the day is Divine Office may be recited by priests anywhere, in the church, in a Office take the form of prayer for God''s honour, and this recitation of great as the Divine Office." "It is God''s Church, the Spouse of Christ, Church''s public prayer, was, in the early days of Christianity, said at this part of the Office was said at the first hour of the day, 6 a.m., 10116 Lord: if he tell men, that the wrath of God was revealed from heaven at about the next world, this, he says, we do know,--that when God in Christ soon or late, to heaven again; so each soul of man, coming forth from God or rather like Christ who is both God and man? manhood, and shew that mere man, by the help of the Spirit of God, could children of God; let us remember the words of the text, and answer the sin: not knowing that God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of the world, each thing according to the law of its life, God the Holy which good men and women who are of that way of thinking use towards God. of God and of Christ enthroned in our hearts, then we shall love our commandments of God, we shall find this world a good place, as the old 10129 time in seeking the moral good of the working people. walking in humility and in the fear of God. Such was the routine of work and duty at Plashet for several years after Until the close of her long life of eighty-four years, Lady Huntingdon and what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God. No one ever knew it, but this sermon haunted me, and day and night it Christian before the summer comes" so that she might enjoy God''s works Her hymn "I gave my life for thee" first appeared in _Good Words_. [Footnote 2: This letter may be found in _The Life and Times of Lady time the work of the Holy Spirit in deepening her love for the Saviour return home, a great work immediately opened for them in England. Jones, who loved intensely all God''s works in Nature, had great faith in 10325 man as ''the likeness and glory of God.'' And St. James says of the God is the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ; for if human nature know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast Bible rule, that man CAN be, and MUST be, like God? heavens, is to limit God''s goodness; nay, it is to show that a man Ah, that we lived in the good old times when God and truly pious man--it made him the friend of God. There were others in Abraham''s days who had some knowledge of the from God. Now the Bible teaches us that man did not get these family feelings say, of a man who had those laws of God written in his heart by the And will you believe that God is like that man? heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth 10326 renounce the flesh, and live by the help of God''s Spirit a new life God speaks of him as the man after his own heart; that our blessed David was not likely to have been a man of brute gigantic In one word, David is a man of faith and a man of prayer--as God heaven, by the vast humanity of David, the man after God''s own David''s character, as special as his faith in God, that he never But still, it may be said, David calls down God''s vengeance on his But David prays God to kill his enemies. to appeal to God, as David appealed to him against the robber lords ''And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have Living God. Ay, a blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend; one 1037 John Bunyan, the author of the book which has probably passed through to the east of the village of Elstow, at a place long called "Bunyan''s prove that, like her husband, she did not, in the words of Bunyan''s parents," writes Bunyan, "it pleased God to put it into their hearts to his days both in word and deed." Much as Bunyan tells us he had lost of to be true, having many times discoursed with the man." To the same anteRestoration period, Dr. Brown also assigns the anecdote of Bunyan''s little Bedford church was in trouble for "Brother Bunyan," against whom which was to be Bunyan''s home for twelve long years, to which he went last time Bunyan''s name appears as present at a church meeting is October of Bunyan''s twelve years'' imprisonment in the little lock-up-house on the best work he could do for God was to get Bunyan''s books printed and sell 10395 This is the divine doctrine of happiness as Christ taught it by His life Christ tells us in the text: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye very heart of His gospel, when He says: If ye know these things, happy What would the life of Christ mean if these deep truths on which He what men call doctrines: the personality of God, the divinity of Christ, unchanging, revealed truth, in regard to God and the world, Christ and of God, preaching in the words of living men,--that is what we need. Christ''s view of life and the world is as full of sweet reasonableness good. The man who knows this text by heart, knows the secret of a life No, my brother-men, the best way to fight against evil is not to meet it Ask for the old paths, what is the good way: that means guidance. 1052 those who profess to love the Lord their God with all the heart, and "''Pears as if my poor old mudder," said Annie, brushing away the tears, that chain of loving-kindnesses by which this little slave-child was to heart of a sweet pine grove, a little way from the house, and Tidy "Tidy is a good child," replied Miss Matilda. abode for Tidy, who found in Mammy Grace even a better mother than old de Lord he hold ''em all in de holler ob his hand," said the old negress, "How I wish I could read,--why can''t I?" asked Tidy; and the little of life; that loved and feared the Lord, and sung and prayed like any prayed, and one night de good Lord comed hissef, and bringd his great, God "leads the blind in the way they know not." Tidy knew nothing of I think that God, in his tender love and pity for Tidy, 10591 Paradise.--Place of Liars.--God True, though Men Lie.--Hebrew Right.--Concealment that is Sinful.--First Duty of Fallen Man.--Brutal yet not feel justified in telling him a lie in order to save his life sin to tell a lie to a man who had forfeited his social rights, than ideal as to the duty of truthfulness and the sin of lying.[1] And so a lie, as by its nature opposed to the truth and the right, is always God tells the simple truth, and to whom the enemy of man tells a lie; Concealment is a prime duty of man; as truly a duty as truth-speaking, The duty of right concealment stands over against the sin of lying. Arguing that a lie is essentially opposed to God''s truth--by which losing of a truth to save a life," and that "to tell a lie for person), is a departure from truth, or lying."[1] And when a man 10728 ''Tea''s ready, daddy,'' said the boy; ''come home with little John.'' ''You''ll pardon me, sir,'' said Duncan, ''for asking you to look at such a ''Yes,'' I said, ''there''s Polly and little John.'' ''I''m Marjorie, sir,'' said the little girl, ''and he''s Jack.'' Come and look at my picture, little Jack, and see if you ''Shall you come, big Jack?'' he said, patting my hand with his strong, ''I''ve got a big favour to ask of you, sir,'' said Duncan the next day. ''Yes, I do like it, Jack,'' I said; ''I knew it when I was a little chap ''God grant he _may_ come back!'' he said; ''look at the sea, Jack.'' ''Have the boats come, sir?'' she said as we went in. said, "save me, for Polly and little John want me so bad!" And He heard ''What a splendid little fellow!'' said Tom as the child came up to us. 10801 human understanding and moral sense; instead of leaving every man a That the Bible is the word of God (said Luther) the same I prove as truth of the Holy Gospel may stand; for God regardeth not men''s That God''s word, and the Christian Church, is preserved against the The Church has power from God''s word to order all matters of order so as true God, because the Father has the Son and the Holy Spirit in Unity, three Persons and one God. Now Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And though Christ be the eternal Son of God, and the natural Lord and true, namely, that I am a mere man, and yet call myself the Son of God, light from, the meaning of the word Faith;--or the reason of Christ''s of God and his Word, the latter as the Son of Man, in which the divine 10831 "Great events have taken place, and news is arriving every day," said "Respected friend and brother in our Lord Jesus Christ,--It is "Dear sir, and brother in our Lord Jesus Christ,--May the grace and name, the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. assured by Christ, in the words just read, that "great should be of God, and true members of the church of Christ, is a gift of the the Holy Bible _as the word of God_, than I did in the doctrine of without God, without Christ, without hope in the world! read the word of God; and having requested their attention, he did me that they worshipped God alone, through Jesus Christ his Son; truth those christians, according to the word of God, to whom the should I be, if at that great day, when we shall appear before God 10866 day; he saw blood flow from her head, her hands, and her feet, and he assist me; come, O Lord Jesus!'' a word of praise appeared to detain her, Judas, who also asked: ''Is it I, Lord?'' Jesus looked at him with love, and exclaimed: ''Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.'' Jesus I then saw Jesus anoint Peter and John, on whose hands he had When Jesus left his disciples, I saw a number of frightful figures the kiss of Judas to the last words of Jesus on the cross, and I saw in stretched forth his right hand to Jesus, who arose, when he placed the power of God.'' The High Priests looked at one another, and said to Jesus, When Jesus, the Lord of life and death, gave up his soul into the The friends of Jesus stood round the Cross, contemplated our Lord, and 10900 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. 8:11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt 11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, 28:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over 10985 About the same time, I observed two little children very near the years old, and teach the little children all they know,--commonly children any thing at this time of the year, there can be no objection little children, by the blessing of God, are made the means of first thing attempted in an infant school is, to set the children area of the school, and the children at their object lessons. the teacher an opportunity of giving the children many useful lessons; The way by which we teach the children hymns, is to let one child To use prayers with little children composed of hard words taken from not know as much as the little children of an infant school: that the such children as no other school would admit; and as his child had to children so young as those found in infant schools, I do think 10989 Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had been quietly living for many years at His father''s home in Nazareth when John the Baptist began to preach Then John went on his way, preaching more and more to the people, and seen; whilst Christ went away by Himself into a lonely place called a preaching about the Kingdom of His Father, and healing all manner of [Illustration: Jesus is Baptized.] When Jesus came down from the mountain side, great multitudes followed Father, and winning men, women, and children to follow Him. Our Saviour had no comfortable home such as you have; often and often He that the disciples who were with Him rebuked the mothers; but Jesus said be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus called a little child world and go to His Father, and told His disciples so, saying they must ran to tell His disciples the great news, and on their way met Jesus 10994 "Why am I so unhappy to-day?" said Isabella Gardner, as she opened her "Isabella," said Mrs. Gardner, "I am afraid nobody will love you long if "Do you know, Isabella," said Mrs. Gardner, "that you have promised me a solemn resolution to try, from this day, to subdue my sinful temper. "How cross Isabella will be this afternoon!" said Edward to his sister "You are right, sister Mary," said Edward: "in judging Isabella I was Isabella," said Mary; "but we will all try to make the evening of your Isabella thanked her sister, and said she thought she deserved the One afternoon Isabella asked her sister Mary to go with her to see their "Good night, dear sister," said Isabella: "may the humbling recollection "I will do anything for you but that, Isabella," said Mary; "but it is "I see your kindness, dear father," said Isabella, "in wishing George to 11061 Life comes by birth, art by thought, and the human thought, and look vainly to come out ahead; we laugh at things great world of Jötunheim has grown for so long a time and so widely that her thoughts,--fain think and feel with Jacqueline, as it had long been Jacqueline''s words had not given him new thoughts, but unawares they did "He was a good man," said Jacqueline. into sad straits," said the old woman, looking at the young girl with Oriental type of life and character could have existed without tobacco. The tobacco-leaf is consumed by man usually in three ways: by smoking, betraying a little of the feeling natural to a young man to whom a home There is another set of questions of a different nature I should like to considerable differences in the form and sound of words meaning the same 11083 Sow''d good seed, and expected soon "An enemy," he said, "hath come The harvest, when the world shall end; The righteous shall be gather''d home Once Peter said, "How oft shall I "Till seven times?" The Saviour said, Thou shalt thy brother''s sin forgive, The lord unto his servants said, He to him said, "Thou wicked one, And said, "Master, what shall I do, That thou shalt love the Lord thy God, "And thou shalt love thy neighbour too;" The Saviour said, A certain man, He said, "What shall I do?" But God said unto him, "Thou fool! He said unto his servant, "Wait It came to pass the poor man died, The rich man said, "I therefore pray Let us love God with all our hearts, How many children leave their home They said unto the virgins wise, The coming of the Son of Man, Ye are my children, and shall be 11142 churches, in the words of a popular Unitarian poet, ''look the whole Unitarians from their rise in modern times, to indicate their religious before it was held by English Unitarians, opposed Christ-worship. opinion actually held by the Fathers and later Church authorities is may fitly turn to consider the growth of Unitarianism in New England. Congregational system of New England were divided, and ''Unitarian It was earlier in the same year that the first organized Unitarian Congregational type in New England and himself for a short time minister Unitarianism into one of the most liberal types of thought in the modern Doctrine_, is the most important statement of the Unitarian view ''Unitarian'' as any; but, about the time of the Dissenters'' Chapels Act ''Unitarian Christianity teaches that God is our Father, full of love for ''Unitarian Christianity teaches that God our Father claims us all as Religious bodies in general accord with Unitarians see the following 11149 Thy own dear child and follow Thee; O Lord, my God, to Thee pray Jesus, Lord, to Thee I pray, I thank Thee, Lord, for sleep and rest, Thee that Thou wouldst keep me this day also from sin and every evil, Bless Thy little child to-night; O Lord God, I pray Thee, for Christ''s sake, forgive me whatsoever I have I thank Thee, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Thy dear Son, that I thank Thee, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Thy dear Son, that Lord God, heavenly Father, bless us and these Thy gifts which we receive from Thy bountiful goodness, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We thank Thee, dear Lord Jesus. We thank Thee, Lord God, heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, our And we pray Thee, nourish our souls with Thy heavenly grace, Blessed Lord, let Thy blessing go with me to-day and grant that I may be 11253 But there is great reason to believe that God blessed life; yet there is great reason to believe they were not entirely lost. remarkable instance of the goodness of God to me, _the chief of sinners_, having lived for years without God in the world, notoriously corrupt The mind of Major Gardiner continued from this remarkable time, till been a sucking child, nor did the temptation return to this day." Mr. Webster''s words on the same subject are these "One thing I have heard the a sense of the love of God in Christ, that it knew little interruption, friends during this happy period of time--letters which breathe a spirit God from that day to this"--the latter end of the year 1743--"and I know I know that this ''God hath the hearts of all men in his hands, and the imaginable reason to believe that God will make this affliction a great 11274 slavery, and the emancipation of the slaves already in the States. States of the Union, constitutes a privileged order of men in the distributing legislative power in a free and in a slave State thus: against slavery, cannot travel through the slave States, but at the man and the law of God; by substituting itself as a rule of right, Constitution of the United States, would not believe that slavery or men at the time when the Constitution of the United States was formed, In the slave States generally, no black man can laws of the slave States, "as invading the sacred rights of citizens Free colored men are converted into slaves not only by law, but also States Constitution, without violating his anti-slavery principles, Constitution, "no person held to service, or labor, in one State, Constitution, "no person held to service, or labor, in one State, In every Slave State there are laws 11381 Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, says. To know God and Jesus Christ; that is eternal life. obtain eternal life is to know God and Jesus Christ; for if we do says, not that to know God is the way to eternal life: but rather Father, which God''s Spirit puts into the child''s heart, by telling truth, to tell him that God is his Father and loves him utterly, and worthy to be trusted by every soul of man; or to love God, but by doing right and pleasing God, and being like the Lord Jesus Christ, to the unthankful and the evil; and because God so loved sinful man, that the Lord Jesus Christ, because He was a man like God, showed may, if we do not love the life of God we shall be heathen at heart, The Lord Jesus Christ told men that God was their Father. 11417 Fair lady, for God''s love, counsel me of The lady made answer, "Fair sir, willingly shall I give you such good him, saying, "Fair sweet friend, my heart tells me that I shall lose my hope, my heart, my life, the fair lady who gave me the grace of her When the knight heard these words he made answer very swiftly, "Lady, "Lady," said he, "since you have set your love upon this knight, send "Lady," answered the knight, "I have great joy in your love, and thank The maiden made answer to her knight, "Fair friend, right sweetly I love--never know joy again, having seen so fair a lady in the dust." One of the two knights had to wife a passing fair lady, right "Fair friend," said he, "since you have given me your love, come with The lady lay awake, considering of the knight whom she loved so 11449 glorious things to the heathen world by sending his gospel to them, world; for Paul and Silas, when forbidden to preach to those heathens, preaching the gospel to a great congregation of jews and proselytes, In the time of this trouble in the church, Philip went and preached at to preach to the greeks in that city about the same time, and had good carry on the glorious work of preaching the gospel to the heathen to a house preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which captive, who preached the gospel; by which means the inhabitants upon And at this present time, Mr. Kirkland and Mr. Sergeant are employed in the same good work, and God has considerably I shall divide into Christian, Jewish, Mahometan, and Pagan; and shall great mean of carrying on the work of God; and perhaps it may imply 11509 says--"And it came to pass in those days, that he (Jesus) went out "But the Lord Jesus can give it to us if we ask him," said the little Jesus gave when he said,--"_Come unto me, all ye that labor and are loving words:--"_Suffer the little children to come unto me, and the text, ''Suffer the little children,'' said, ''I like your Jesus, have read in the New Testament that our Lord Jesus Christ said that should come, or look we for another?" Jesus answered and said unto lesson which Jesus taught when he said to his disciples, "Give, and thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in--great _humility_." "Learning to Love Jesus." "A little girl came to me one day," said a come down from heaven, where God, the loving Father of Jesus dwells, the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said 11536 It is not like the mind of Christ to fancy that God dwells Every man--every human spirit on God''s earth has spiritual enemies-beneficent and good-doing like God. That is the man of whom it is written, that he shall be satisfied souls lived in God, full of the eternal life and goodness, obeying heart, O God, thou shall not despise.'' There is such a thing as and of the great and good men, true prophets of God, who wrote that all men) our Lord''s great saying, ''There is no man that hath left thing that men are always trying, more or less, to be like God. And likeness of God The Son; and good and holy spirits, after the good time, as far as man can become like God; for you will be Lord God, the Son of the Father, is not ashamed to be man for ever 11580 And the God of Jesus Christ is the Father, not of one race only, but of Christ says, we are all missed by God until, with our heart''s love, we of God, saying, "The Father hath given all judgment unto the Son; that all my God." Let us note, then, some of the many ways in which Christ bears associate God''s love with Christ''s death in a way in which they never associate God''s love with Christ''s life. him; but how, I ask again, does Christ''s death prove _God''s_ love? simply: "God forgives our sins because Christ died for them;" "in that pray the Father," Christ said, "and He shall give you another Further, Christ said God "shall give you _another_ Comforter." That is kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." And in the great Forty Days, remember that Christ says to His disciples to-day, even as He said to 11627 in such a man by faith; now if Christ be in the soul, the body can not Lord Jesus, in submitting his heart unto Him. Take me another man, that hath lived here in pomp and jollity, and that justice may reign entirely, God shall open the wicked man''s God to make us happy here; and things are so ordered that a man must Shall the God of heaven speak and men make light of you, sirs, tho you set so light by Christ and salvation, God doth not God will not only deny thee that salvation thou madest light of, men do come to see the things of another world, what a God, what the Spirit of God hath been often working upon the soul of man, that But shall it ever be said, God hath made 1. If the workings of God''s Spirit upon the soul of a man have been 11693 disputing; claim a divine mission; tell men that God says it, and power based on faith in Jesus Christ as God manifest in the flesh, man; a divine life throbbing in humanity; man the offspring of God; danger of that, then Jesus Christ comes into the world--God manifests I do say, not that Jesus Christ was a man like other men, but that I do say, not that Jesus Christ was a man like other men, but that that Jesus Christ is God and man mysteriously joined together, because whatever sense we take that much-meaning word, life is God''s gift. Life comes from God. It is the world''s There is a condition possible where the life shall flow with God as than you have in the life of a man, old or young, to whom God has O Lord," When a man asserts his faith in Jesus Christ, God''s only Son, 11713 authorized by the law of God, and remember that holy men in all ages apprized that God shall judge the world in righteousness. new thing of God, or Christ, or another world, not taught in the taught in the Word of God. It is not every affecting view that men have of the things of religion of religion; a real sense of the excellency of God and Jesus Christ, against God "that sin entered into the world." "By one man''s then have been no such thing as faith in God, thus loving the world, with obedience to God, with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and high to God and Christ and the glories of the eternal world? United by faith to Jesus Christ, you shall become a habitation of God of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath 11760 regarding God. And so, if he loved man, you would never think of of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. his hand on the sufferer''s head, and said, "My boy, God loves you," John associates love and faith with eternal life? life." What I was told, I remember, was, that God so loved the world true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." Love must be eternal. forth into light the divine significance of man''s life, as God of man; Christianity is the interpreter of religion; and God the God''s guidance of his life, first of all, produces in a man a great The life so loved of God, so what life is, what God is, what man is. eternal love in this Man, who did the things that pleased God, and God and in the power of His spirit men may have everlasting life and, 11835 American Law Institute (PWH); 6Apr67; stories, Apr. 1940) © 23Feb40; and home, Jan.-Feb. (Mrs. Henry Beston) (A); 20Mar67; stories, Apr. 1939) © 31Jan39; the Saturday evening post, Mar. 18-Apr. Saturday evening post, Jan. 13-Feb. (Mrs. Ford Brown) (A); 10Mar67; (Mrs. Ford Brown) (A); 10Mar67; Mrs. John Dewey (W); 23Jan67; For works claimed by Mrs. John Disney story books) © 8Apr40; Story paint book, no.1059) © 5Feb40; Story paint book, no.1059) © 5Feb40; Story paint book, no.1059) © 5Feb40; Western story magazine, Feb. 10-Mar. 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New Work-play books) © 20Feb40; New Yorker, Mar. 2, 1940) © 29Feb40; Jan. 6-Feb. 3, 1940) © 29Dec39, Jan. 6-Feb. 3, 1940) © 29Dec39, magazine, Mar. 1940) © 2Feb40; magazine, Mar. 1940) © 2Feb40; Jan. 6, Feb. 4, & Mar. 11, 1939. the American weekly, Jan. 15-Mar. 12, in Love story magazine, Feb. 3-Mar. 9, stories, Jan. 10-Feb. 25, 1940) 11866 you fool you," said he, "this is nothing; a good ship and sea-room father; who hearing of the ship''s calamity, for a long time thought me turning to me gravely, said, "Young man, you ought never to go to sea longing eyes did I look upon my little kingdom, and thought the island In short, he did every thing as I ordered him, and in a little time as Here Friday expressed a great concern: _Ah, poor mans!_ cried he, in it: _You know, Sir, said he, that having been some time with you, I long ago: he much old man._ ''You don''t know that,'' said I, ''but shall we good as their word; for by that time they brought eleven men & five _Sir,_ said he, to me, one day, _since, under God,_ at the same time Scarce had we time to get the boat ashore, when our men came 11959 it was the Holy Spirit put into her heart by her heavenly Father, she Every thing sweet and lovely; fulfilling the purpose the divine power, that I can receive any thing good; in Christ Jesus unto good works." No, fear and faith and things unseen." Every time they passed Hast thou long thy Lord''s abiding The following lines describe her feelings at such a time as this:-both seeking to believe, as thou says, "with the heart" now, having said so much, I hope thou wilt not think it own heart, of real willingness to know and feel the loving-kindness and tender mercy of God in Christ at times desire to love and serve with all my heart; and thoughts have visited me of days still I trust in long," of the faithful love of my heavenly Father, love, and that whatever good thing I am blessed with 11966 duty of love to God with the whole heart, and soul, and mind, and but a short time in the school: but Thomas and George continued much teacher or scholar, in our Sunday-school, is convinced or converted, and James continued as a teacher in the school for about twelve-months connection with Sabbath-schools, when about five years old, he had Sunday-schools, are now before the throne of God, joining with angels, present whole sacrifices to God, come from our Sabbath-schools? Sabbath-school teacher. the Wesleyans, I became a teacher in the Sunday-school, which, at that classes, I strove to do my duty to God and the children placed under my people for teachers; and God raised us up friends, so that soon we had a the blessing of God upon the instructions received in the Sabbath-school, we deny that God can and does bless the labors of Sabbath-school 11981 thy heart is right before God, He will give thee the light of faith thee that the faith could not be false and that Christ is thy God who is shutteth the way to the gospel, to faith, grace, Christ, God, and all the true Word of God, we may believe; which faith justifies a man, and said to be the Holy Spirit of Christ, it proves Him to be God of whom the law of God; yet our works which we do are well taken for Christ''s of God, to the faithful which believe in Christ, to them, I say, they To Thee, almighty and true God, eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, But the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who was crucified for us and We, therefore, implore Thee, Son of God, Lord Jesus Christ, who, having the devil, but the holy Spirit of God the Father, by whom Christ, as 12172 "Dolly''s to be a good girl till mammy comes back," said the child, fear that Tony would forget to come back to old Oliver''s house. "I s''pose he''ll help you to take care of the little girl," said Tony. "You ought to have bought a broom," said Oliver, looking down at Dolly''s "No, no!" said old Oliver; "Dolly''s going to be a very good girl, and Old Oliver and Dolly made several visits to Tony while he was in the Just as Oliver was too old to feel any anxiety about Dolly, so Tony was "She''s very thin, Tony; look at this little arm," he said, "wasting away! "Yes, my little love," cried old Oliver, moaning as he said it. "Well, I''m only Tony," he answered; "but I live with old Mr. Oliver now, merry little scream behind them, so like Dolly''s, that both old Oliver 12188 After we know and understand, we want to remember to obey God''s Word. wanted to say that I believe this or that because God''s Word says so. If sin is disobeying God''s Word then we must find out what it says in of God." Through Christ, sin could be conquered because He was the Son the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29. We read how God gave the disciples the Holy Spirit, after Jesus arose need to have Jesus to help us daily to obey the Word of God and be ready In other words, sin separates a person from God. That means desire to find peace and then obeying God''s Word which said, "If we to us but if we obey God''s Word, we can have peace in our soul and be or obey the Word of God, which teaches him the way to live in this life 12282 God''s true word_, setting forth his glory, and also man''s duty." remain." Man need not fear to follow in the steps of God. There is danger now in shaking men''s faiths. "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men Religion grows like every form of human life with the growth of man and from the south, and were sitting down in the Kingdom of God. The high-water mark of religion in human history is recorded in these growth of ethical and spiritual religion into perfect form in Jesus Christ God shall take away his part out of the book of life. be pure and clear, is the way to hear the Word of God. To consult the reason of the holy men of old on themes whereon they were general scope of thought in each great Bible-book. 12311 to know the right way of making use of Christ, who is made all things to Further, through the great goodness of God, the true way of a soul''s believer, who may have more grace and knowledge of God and of Christ HOW TO MAKE USE OF CHRIST AS THE LIFE WHEN THE SOUL IS DEAD AS TO DUTY. HOW TO MAKE USE OF CHRIST AS THE LIFE WHEN THE SOUL IS DEAD AS TO DUTY. HOW SHALL THE SOUL MAKE USE OF CHRIST, AS THE LIFE, WHICH IS UNDER THE HOW SHALL THE SOUL MAKE USE OF CHRIST, AS THE LIFE, WHICH IS UNDER THE HOW IS CHRIST, AS THE LIFE, TO BE APPLIED BY A SOUL THAT MISSETH GOD''S HOW IS CHRIST, AS THE LIFE, TO BE APPLIED BY A SOUL THAT MISSETH GOD''S God for sin, and would make use of Christ as the Life, should do these 12381 covenant with God to engage themselves again to the Lord by the 10--"Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of "That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into covenant, to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart, whether the present time of renewing our covenant with God was indeed to to covenant with God. 2d, That such a time proves a soul-engaging and A _third_ consideration, whereby the duty of renewing covenant with God National covenants with men before God, do oblige posterity, National Covenants with God, before men, about things moral and to the word of God. _National covenants_, wherein the king, parliament laws of God and man and covenant obligations, without respect of persons Thus acted the people of God under the covenant of grace in all 12387 "Poor old thing!" said the rector, as if excusing himself, "she''s got a I perfectly understand your kindness," said Mrs. Wingfold, "but I shall not tell my husband to-night." come to, if things go on like this, God knows." It was a spot the old man loved, for there his best thoughts came "He has not let you fall, father?" said Dorothy, with tearful eyes. "Do we not know in all nature and history that God likes to see things "I think I know you better than you imagine, Mr. Faber," said Miss "How is a man to do any thing whom God has forsaken?" he said. "I don''t know any thing about a man''s conscience," answered Juliet. That night Juliet hardly knew what she had said to Faber, and longed to for the eyes of such a man as he; the love of a living God is in him and 12512 Jake Benton was a member of Mount Olivet Church and had been for known as an upright man and was a brother in the church, Deacon Cramps been a member of Mount Olivet Church for twenty-seven years and I never Church and they all say we sin a thousand times every day," remarked "Brother Gramps, why don''t you write and ask Preacher Bonds to come?" the understanding that Deacon Gramps was to call a meeting of the church sistern, we have met as members of the grand old Mount Olivet Church. prayer meeting held at Jake Benton''s humble home, Mr. Gray became so incident that meant much to Jake Benton, as well as to Deacon Gramps. the people of Mount Olivet church, but for thirty-some years I lived in would be no meeting services at Mount Olivet Church, and Jake Benton holiness." They have for a preacher, as you know, old man Benton, who 12549 great-grandfather was the Rev. Azariah Horton, pastor of a church near school for girls in New York, one day sat down in his room and wrote in my pastorate in the Market Street Church, New York, (from 1853 to Trenton to the Market Street Reformed Church of New York City. resided a little way from me up the street; and I saw the good old man he one day said to me: "Since I have lived in New York I have given away Sabbath afternoon I attended the great prayer meeting in the Free Church When I came to New York as pastor of the Market Street Church, in 1853, seven years'' pastorate in that church I delivered a great many Street Church almost fifty years ago, would seem incredible to the New great church and its well-known Sunday School, is to make people happy 12605 worship of the one living and true God. But, remembering this, let us hear some of the things said by the should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the If the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus love to Jesus Christ as the Son of God, not only survives, but in no different from the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? "The day when God will judge the secrets of men _by Jesus Christ_." holiness of the "new man created in Christ Jesus unto good works." And when God shall judge _the secrets_ of men by Jesus Christ," A thousand of God and the Son of man, who was perfect love, truth, and life, has be a good, a great, a happy man, by knowing and loving his God; and if 12616 "Which church do you like best, Robert?" Mary Davis asked one Sunday "Robert, here is a new kind of religious paper," said Mary, who "My, that sounds interesting," said Robert, "''Church of God''--I wonder Robert Davis and Mary began to attend this prayer exposition meeting "And Paul said that ''Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; When Peter Newby sat down, Robert Davis arose again, and said: Christian without being in this church," said Robert. "You must forgive Jake, and Mr. Newby too, Robert," said Mary. "Well, Jake is not a brother, Mary," said Robert, "but the Scriptures "Jake, I believe Robert Davis is a real Christian," said Kate, as a "God bless you, Jake," said Robert, "the Lord has a real experience the church of God that Robert Davis had been talking about. "Why, there is old Peter Newby," said Mary to Robert, and they ran 12624 At certain times each day we offer to God stated and formal action of God the Holy Spirit: but the nature of the Child to be born is God. In Mary''s rejoicing in this so great fact, the bringing of human God''s action, we think of blessed Mary as the highest of the saints and "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God ... Israel''s life is the Blessed Mother through whom God becomes man; and forth God and our Lord, Jesus Christ; and of the holy apostles Peter, supernatural means offered by the Church of God. One would think that the sight of blessed Mary standing by the Cross of her Son. It is the will of God that our Lord should follow the human lot to the individual possession, but all things that the Father has are His. Considered as God, our Lord is One Person in the one divine nature, no 12662 "You are to be represented, I hear, at the coming assembly," said Mr. Harrison, as they shook hands in that hearty way which says, as plainly things are you going to do?" This Miss Erskine said with utmost good "They are all last year''s people," said Marion, coming over to Flossy''s "I don''t know," Flossy said thoughtfully, "I never thought much about "That girl is homesick or something," Marion said, as she and Eurie went "Why, Marion!" Eurie said, and her look expressed surprise and dismay. "I''m sure I don''t know," Marion said, amused in turn at the good-natured "Except the remarks that people make about such things," Marion said, "Flossy is like herself this morning," Eurie said, as she heard the "I don''t know," Flossy said, thoughtfully mindful of Ruth and her plan "I don''t know," Flossy said, with a little laugh, "but I shall have to 12821 As he said these words his eyes met Rachel''s, and as soon as Joseph left year, Dan said, and if business don''t fall away---But, Father, Joseph Joseph added, and he asked Peter to tell him if Jesus believed that the to all men that love God, Jesus said, and after these words he continued is like the son of God. The story wholly delighted the disciples; and they asked Jesus to tell of God, Jesus was that man; and Joseph asked himself how it was that Jesus in his mind, Joseph asked him if it were so, and he answered that clearly that Jesus said: that man has not come to glorify God nor to But, Joseph, I have none but thee, Jesus said; and the two asked, and Joseph said: if a man be minded to leave, it is better that At the end of a long silence Jesus said: the dawn begins; look, Joseph, 12854 "The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given unto answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." Jesus to seek the will of God, as a man in whom the very spirit of Christ lives. for; as a man to live a life of trust in God, and so to show to us how we living in and enabling us to trust God as He trusted Him. Then comes, thirdly, the death of Christ. yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God that Christ had a perfect life, given by God. The Father said: "Will you give up God, in Christ, by the Holy Spirit, to work out in me as much of the sin, and the life to God, and the glory that comes into the heart, never 12868 blind the people to the truth concerning God''s great plan in order to the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne angel answered and said unto her: The holy spirit shall come upon thee, [171]Some insist that Jesus when on earth was both God and man in When Jesus was on earth, was he both God and man? [216]Why did God send his beloved Son, this great Man, to earth? God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant blameless unto the coming [presence] of our Lord Jesus Christ." Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father". shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father''. God''s due time they will be presented by the Lord Jesus before the great God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, the dearest Friend of all. 12925 Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; Fierce warres, and faithful loves shall moralize my song. High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. Long as thy Science truth shall know, Let no man fear to die; we love to sleep all, _Love''s Labor''s Lost, Act iii. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, O leaden-hearted men to be in love with death! Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv''st Love, like death, And memory, like a drop that night and day And memory, like a drop that night and day The heart hath its own memory, like the mind And makes the heart in love with night. It makes men look like gods. Like God in love and power.--under-makers. _The Good-natured Man, Act ii_. She walks the waters like a thing of life. 131 Sir, said Christian, I was bid go this way by a man called little wicket-gate, and from the way thereto, hath this wicked man Sir, said Christian, I am a man that am come from the City it is said of Dives, "Thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good men, Christian saw a man of a very stout countenance come up to the Then said Christian to the man, What art thou? Then said the Interpreter to Christian, Let this man''s misery came at a bottom, where he saw, a little out of the way, three men Well, said Christian, good Porter, the Lord be with thee, and {169} Now, as Christian went on his way, he came to a little ascent, going hath said, Thou shalt do no murder: no, not to another man''s {354} Then Christian said to him, Come away, man, why do you stay 13143 Spirit was incarnated in His body, and there began the life of Man, not Occult Teachings concerning the Divine Nature of Christ--the Spirit Jesus spent these years as a growing youth and young man, working at Jesus came as a World Prophet, not as a mere Jewish holy-man, and And after a time, Jesus moved away from the place, followed by His come the Teachings of Jesus, the Master, will flow pure and clear, The occult traditions teach that during the forty days of Jesus'' Jesus, the Master, is working within your soul as the Christ teaching regarding the nature of the soul of Jesus? Occult Teaching concerning this great mystery of Christianity. By these words Jesus indicated the occult teachings that those who By these words Jesus pointed out the occult teachings that those who The lives and teachings of these two great Masters who preceded Jesus 13151 3.--Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. LECTURE VII. Christ''s Church, they preach God''s word; and thus, a very large portion and your life is hid with Christ in God," the language sounds so strange Then when we turn to the words, "our life is hid with Christ in God," prayer and attending to God''s holy word, and thinking of life and death presenting to our minds the sight of God''s love in Christ, sets us free the work of God''s Spirit: whatever is good and right in our minds again, Jesus Christ, both God and Man. He is truth, and he is righteousness, and he is love; he gives his grace temple of God, his Church, all manner of profane thoughts and words and are told to love God, if we look to the life and death of Christ, we can 13200 Church of CHRIST in Scotland, constituted in the name of the LORD JESUS contrary to the word and oath of God, and destructive of the church''s affections, this enemy to GOD, and CHRIST, and his church, swearing to constitute and act as the supreme judicatory of the church of Christ, declared contrary to the word of God, and reformation principles founded opposite to the word of God, and covenanted constitutions of both church of the covenanted church of _Scotland_, and the oath of God they, with from their acknowledging the civil power of church men as lawful: from opposition to the word of God, reforming laws, and covenanted acts and ordinances of both church and state, in times of reformation. more; and to acts of both church and state, in times of reformation in Church of Christ, according to the will of God, and her privileges from 13204 neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath And yet, it is a truth of revelation that God searches the heart of man; fact of God''s exhaustive knowledge of man''s soul, that we may realize it, every sin-loving man show, that the human soul does not of its own law of God, neither indeed can be;" and also, that "the natural man mind and heart, God comes as near, and as close to man, as it is possible between the sin of his soul and the holiness of his God, but on the things are so, whether God is so very holy and man is so very sinful, between the unfallen nature of man and the holy law of God, that the character; but unless he _loves_ God and man out of a pure heart and, here upon earth, sinful man cannot look at God long, without coming 13229 chaste virgin is used to symbolize the true church of God; whereas a represent the church of God; whereas a great red dragon with seven heads tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. The special messages to the seven churches of Asia Minor are not of such burning before the throne" are said to signify the seven spirits of God. These are not lamp-stands or candle-sticks, such as the ones in the this symbol represents a great persecuting ecclesiastical power. spiritual reign of God''s people on earth before the end of time--that a symbol of the church, or people of God, who receive the Word from the awful beast power waged against the church of God, in which her being sealed, thus representing symbolically the fact that God''s church, Here, then, we have a symbol of the church of God in the latter days 13274 _Answ._ The same which God spoke in the twentieth Chapter of _Exodus_, saying, _I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of _Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee_. _Answ._ By my Baptism and by the Word of God. Quest. _Answ._ The Breaking of God''s Law. Quest. _Answ._ Only by Jesus Christ? _Answ._ Only by Jesus Christ? The Son of God. Quest. _Did Christ bear the Curse of God that was due to Sinners?_ _God so loved the World, that he gave his only _Answ._ An everlasting Enjoyment of God in glory. _Answ._ He must love the Lord with all his Heart, with all his Soul, and Than to live without God in the World. 13285 the great Business and End of a Religion which comes from God. But how differently from this has the Christian Religion been things being to perswade Men that they may please God at a cheaper Men, who are accustom''d to Believe without any Evidence of Reason for Men to reveal''d Religion, since in a Country where People are God. And if Men once come to call in question such Doctrines as (tho'' but Ends of Natural Religion: A Truth necessary to be acknowledg''d to the prejudice to the Law of Reason, that Natural Revelation of Gods Will Good, and to the Bad in this World, and from Men''s Natural desire of Christian Religion, makes useful to all Men; and which has been Children in the reasonableness of the Christian Religion; and of rational Knowledge to be so; let us see how reasonably these same Men 13330 God''s true people everywhere are looking for light on the church In modern times the term "church" as applied to a general body of Inasmuch as God set in the church apostles, prophets, evangelists, the world as the church an organic body devoid of true spiritual life, in performing the works of God, so long they are the church of God. Whenever another spirit gains the ascendency and the divine, spiritual The words of Jesus "I will build my church" point us to the Christ and spiritual power by which alone Christ governs his church. membership in the true church of God, the natural result was that rule and government of the church of Christ has been, by divine character of the church of God--the bride of Christ. description of Zion, God''s church and people, represented as a kingdom of our God_, and the power of his Christ" (chap. 13335 In fact, God and man are only known to us in and by Jesus heart be also," Jesus said (Luke 12:34); and it was not in God. Men''s interest and belief were elsewhere. "Since Jesus lived," Dr. Fairbairn wrote, "God has been another and nearer Being to man." question rises in a man''s own heart, "Does God love me?" Jesus says "The Son reveals" God to the simple, Jesus said (Matt. also is God''s gift, as Jesus said (Luke 8:10; 12:39). relate his soul and life to God. What Jesus then teaches on prayer The object of Jesus was to induce men to base all life on God. Short-range thinking, like the rich fool''s, may lead to our man take Jesus at his word, and commit himself to God? "You think like man, and not like God," said Jesus (Mark 8:33). 1. "One of Jesus'' great lessons is to get men to look for God in the 13349 a passage has been inserted in Josephus (born A.D. 37, died about A.D. 100) relating to Jesus Christ, which runs as follows: "Now, there was the New Testament, and the most ancient writers in the Christian Church" preached the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to a whole passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour God, Nicodemus recorded in the life of Jesus, and circumstances of Christian history, derived in the Gospels, and concludes that Justin "gives us Christ''s sayings in useful witness to the Christians if the present Gospels had been Joseph, who in St. Luke is placed as the son of Heli, whilst in St. Matthew his father''s name is Jacob" ("Christian Records," Dr. Giles, p. historical existence or not; it is _Christ_, the Sun-god, not _Jesus_, "Word," of God, stand out in pre-Christian times--the Greek Plato and Christian Gospels as writings of ancient men, founders of a 13353 the Psalm: the faith into which many generations of God''s Church have sung figure to meet the fugitive and hunted life of man, the Lord is my Host whom, when a man feels that he highest thing in life is to be a shepherd, interpretation to the care of man''s soul by God. _He maketh me lie gives himself to God. Men and women, who in this Christian land have grown up with this Psalm in God and from man''s power of penitence, apart from love and from the and the love of God. Let us strenuously lift the heart to that. wickedness in high places, and by a most devout trust in the love of God. And in expressing these two noble tempers, the poet analyses two those things there is no call upon either mind or heart to feel God near. 13434 Being an Account of the Social Work of The Salvation Army in Great In many cases thus: ''The Salvation Army is a body of people dressed up visitation of prisoners by Salvation Army Officers, and the care of This branch of the Men''s Social Work of the Salvation Army is a home Indeed, numbers of men come on from them to the Salvation Army. case, the Officer in charge sends out a skilled man to work up clues. cases, but the lady Officers of the Salvation Army succeed in turning The Women''s Social Work of the Salvation Army began in London, in the brought to this place by the Officers of the Salvation Army. women-Officers of the Army, who are engaged in the work of reclaiming Meanwhile, their night''s work done, the Salvation Army ladies were Salvation Army understands by this word ''work'' I may state that in Salvation Army Work 21,390 13460 world is likeness to The Lord Jesus Christ. to look straight at the face of God. But Moses was a wise man, and he Christian men become like Christ." We go back to the presence of "Similarly," says Paul, "live with Christ; learn to carry His image But ask a man to carry Christ with him in his mind, that is a thing Lord Jesus Christ; and other people know it also. to things that Christ disapproves--how can that man hope to be like anxious about, you at length learn what it is to be a child of God. Let no man think that he lames his nature and makes his life poorer Christ--the Messenger of God to men? Christ must come to effect a real mediation between God and man; and and honourable man had said of me and believed such things as God has 13533 working of the life the best possible, it is called nurture. working with God. The story of almost every life of marked power, The life comes from God complete in its possibilities, but at the The first period of life, Early Childhood, includes the years from birth little child, compelled by superior force to act contrary to God''s law through which the world around comes into the life of the child. feeling desired; a thought of God''s greatness and power and holiness 1. Bible truths needed first in the life of a little child have been If nurture has cared for the spiritual life of the child, he will May nurture be so true to God and the life that the child shall leave Though God comes to a soul in a marked way during Adolescence, nurture condition in child life God prepared for their coming, there is no 13539 I wish that all the little heathen children knew this prayer; but their I hope, my dear children, that when you think of the wicked little girl missionaries to this land, to tell this people of the Pearl of great My dear Children--The death of a Hindoo is followed by many ridiculous My dear Children--The word heathen is applied to those who worship My dear Children--The people of India are divided into castes, as they dear children, if you come out to India as missionaries, you will have of children at that place; but mothers continue to destroy their blessing of God, the time will soon come when heathen mothers will no soul of some poor little heathen boy or girl, than to spend them in give it to you to buy tracts for the little heathen children of India." friends; but when I heard you tell about the little heathen girls, I 13570 service of our Lord Jesus, striving to bring all people into Covenant same way is still open to all who would do great things for God. Humility, prayer, faith, activity, courage, honor, glory--these are the Church and State in Covenant with God. The like has not been witnessed Lord Jesus Christ by means of the Covenants of the fathers loads a Covenant, and are living the life of faith on the Son of God. The Covenanters were not dismayed, yet they hesitated to accept war. were involved; their Covenant with God, the supremacy of Jesus Christ, God''s will, and administer it by men in Covenant with Jesus Christ, the power, and prerogatives of the Lord Jesus Christ, as head of the Church. love of God, and the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. our Covenant God, and honoring the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ? 13601 us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'' Paul, but the Spirit of God. So, on the one hand, the Christian teacher is bound to rise to the ''The peace of God'' which comes to a man by Jesus Christ through faith, Only the man whose hope is in the Lord his God. If we open our hearts by faith, then these three lines of sequence of into their hearts the ''Spirit of life in Christ Jesus'' which shall love of God as well as of the Man Christ Jesus, because we believe love of God in us?'' There are few things in which Christian men of The great purpose of Christianity is to make men like Jesus Christ. alone it is true that ''He did always the things that pleased'' God. And so we come to the last of these great texts: ''In Christ Jesus, 13642 Any slave, free Negro or mulatto who shall hereafter attend any borne the names of men of color." "Free Negroes," said he, "stood in the East-New-Jersey, a Negro Man named Simon, aged 40 years, is a well-set Run away from the subscriber the 9th inst., a negro man slave named Will King''s County, Long Island, a Negro Man named Jack, he is about 35 Years of _A Likely Negro Man about Twenty two Years of Age, speaks good English, has County, _East-New-Jersey_, a Negro Man named _Simon_, aged 40 Years, is Negro Man, named Sam, a likely Fellow, about 26 Years of Age, speaks very right of free Negroes to own servants and slaves of their own race it could A State convention of colored people of New York held during three days colonize the free Negroes of the United States, but the war in that country 13652 I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth_ I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth_ Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord," which expresses doctrines so hotly marked in the use by the Jews of the word "Name" in reference to God. The "Name of the Lord," or an equivalent expression, constantly occurs written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; Testament Scriptures foretold that Christ should be the Son of God. should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ."[157] Under the whole body of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, all who anywhere and with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."[209] "Let him ask in faith, His only Son our Lord, the Son of God [our [Jesus Christ], 13677 of the soul and the development of the capacity for God. Natural Law, heart to the spiritual seeing of God. Natural Law, Degeneration, p. his life," said Christ, "shall lose it." Natural Law, Death, p. The true environment of the moral life is God. Here The spiritual man having passed from Death unto Life, the natural knowledge." Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. nature of the Life that lies at the back of the spiritual organism. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. Spirit shall return unto God who gave it." Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. Now the Environment of the spiritual life is God. As Nature, religious Life, can only perfect themselves in God. Natural Law, p. last; because in the nature of things it is an Eternal Life. Type-Life within thee to the perfect stature of Christ Natural Law, p. something called Life outside the inorganic world; the natural man 13750 Wilt thou yet turn thyself in thy sloth, that thou art a wise man to let thy immortal soul hang over hell by a Christ saith of the foolish builder, so will I say of thee, if thou be It is but a vain thing to talk of going to heaven, if thou let thy doth not care for thee,'' ''thy heart is naught,'' ''thou art lazy,'' with not thy meditations, thou wilt draw very heavily in the way to heaven persecution." If thou art in thy way to the kingdom, my life for Why, I tell thee, CHRIST IS THE WAY; into him thou must get, either win or lose._ If thou winnest, then heaven, God, Christ, glory, say in thy heart, ''This is too good for me;'' for I tell thee, heaven when thou hast run thyself down weary, he will put thee in his bosom. 13756 "Quite a storm," said Chester to a man washing the deck. "Yes," said Chester to a question, "I should like to tell you about "What am I coming to," said Chester half-aloud as if the sea might hear looked at Chester and then at Lucy, smiled faintly, and said: "Father," said Lucy, "I had intended to introduce you to Elder Malby, Lucy looked at the young man, but said nothing. Gilbert''s home was called, Chester and Lucy spent a few days in looking "Lucy," said Chester, as he closed the book, "I''m going to call you "I think your father''s not well, Lucy?" said Uncle Gilbert, as she took When Chester was saying good-night to Lucy that evening, the father came "Chester," said he, "tell Elder Malby I should like to see him to Chester got away from Lucy and Uncle Gilbert that morning, without At another time the father said to Chester: 13781 At the time that Renwick united with the Society People, they were preached with eminent fidelity and great power the glorious gospel of covenant of grace--the matchless person and love of Christ--the finished year, I heard that great man of God, Mr. James Renwick, preach on Song and offered us grace and reconciliation with God, through Christ, by his He was a lively and faithful minister of Christ and a worthy Christian, "Seeing it is the duty of people to set their love upon Christ, I exhort and glory, and honour and power, unto the Lord our God.'' Ye Seeing that power taken from Christ which is His glory, life, labours and sufferings of Renwick, a faithful portraiture of his The record of the life, labours, and testimony, of James Renwick is and by imbibing the spirit of covenanted martyrs--men like Renwick and Renwick''s testimony,--the Redeemer''s Headship over the Church and the 13824 Cases of strong faith and confidence in God.--10. may render them just before God. By faith, the penitent sinner receives bondage of sin, and made a child of God, and an heir of eternal life. God, but by his assuming human nature, enduring a long exile of toil and absolute disgust and contempt, with which the doctrines of the cross are preaching of the cross is_ utterly despised and accounted _foolishness_. Gospel--nothing but entire depravity of heart can render its doctrines the truth_, _that they might be saved_; _God shall send them strong We conclude with the wise man, "that God shall judge both the of our Lord Jesus Christ." Indeed, if God is to "judge the whole world as the day of "revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" "in the word of God. According to the Scriptures, the judgment will result in 13860 walked with God." Walking is the habitual exercise of a man''s life. judgment, the great law of his life was here, "_walking with God_." business responsibilities draw men''s thoughts and desires from God; and Eldad and Medad were men called of God to undertake holy service for David himself was such a man before the great sin which brought a honoured, life and happy old age--his attitude towards God_. When man required in the old time direct teaching of great religious What a living force among men is the true poet, the man who can take Thou art our God; let not man prevail against Thee_." Prayer was the "And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the richest, most honoured man in all the world: in his arms he holds God''s to God manifesting itself as love to man--go to a Christian home, and 13871 world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell that having resolved to make the love of GOD the _end_ of all his everything there for the love of GOD, and with prayer, upon all That as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all things, and as he business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD. When outward business diverted him a little from the thought of GOD, a down his life for the love of GOD, he had no apprehension of danger. That it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with for private prayer in thinking of GOD, so as to convince his mind of, and _continual_ help of GOD: let us then pray to Him for it I must, in a little time, go to GOD. 13941 intermeddling in church government, if Jesus Christ had not by office peace shall be on them, and upon the Israel of God. THE DIVINE RIGHT OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT. As the Scripture is the rule of church government, so Christ is the sole Christ gave the power of church government and other ordinances unto the Therefore no formal power of church government was ever given by Christ proper power for church government from Christ, are in the word called all the church offices, with all their spiritual gifts and power, 1 Cor. iii. 1. _Of the Divine Right of Christ''s Church Officers, viz. The divine right of this church officer, the mere ruling elder, is much distinct New Testament officer''s ruling power in the Church, and the special kind of governing officers, set of God in the Church of Christ certain kind of church officer which Christ in his word calls an elder, 13988 men, in such a sense, that they may obey or disobey human government government and law are by the will of God. This is a religious Human government is founded on the revealed will of God. The different expressions contained in the texts which we have just government is the religious duty of men. namely, that human government and Law are things which exist by the provisions, rights and duties under the civil government. execution of Law; and government must crush that violence, or that resistance of the laws,) a government must be so bad, as to fail government _is_ his law; and men are guilty of sophistry and "the higher laws of God!" Nothing is _safe_ in the hands of men of pretend,) whether God''s laws are not higher than man''s, or whether God''s laws are to be obeyed. government of the country stand; or shall Law be resisted, and the 14021 "You must give me a moment," said the old man, leaning back. "And the religious effect of that?" asked Percy swiftly, as the old man "Yes," said the old man, "but you must remember the Poor Laws. "Well, father," said the old man again, "come again some day, if I "My dear father," said Percy, motionless in his chair, "I know it is looked on Him to the embraces of a God. Then he hid his face in his hands, drew a couple of long breaths, and She said nothing, but still looking at him made a little old-world Percy stood looking down at her a moment, seeing her flushed old face in "Why," said Mabel; and then stared at the man with the young face and "Yes. Father Percy Franklin, from Archbishop''s House, Westminster," said "Welcome to Rome, father," said the old man, speaking with an unexpected 14037 Grotius dedicated his work to the States of Holland and West About the year 1608, Grotius published his celebrated work _Mare The States General were gratified by his work; but at that time it was General, Grotius published, about this time, his "Directions for a The present chapter will lead our readers to the public life of Grotius: of Grotius, by an order of the States General, was suppressed.[023] States of Holland sent Grotius and Hoogerbetz, the Pensionary of Leyden, persons only, yet assuming to act as the States General, the Prince United Provinces is sovereign and independent of the States General, and peace, can be stated, to which the work of Grotius does not contain an A critical account of the Letters of Grotius, executed with great "You will hear them state in their confessions," says Grotius, Grotius respected the Church of England. BOOKS, OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC, GREEK, AND PRINCIPAL PROTESTANT CHURCHES. 14072 is, "The Invocation of Saints and Angels and the Blessed Virgin Mary," Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and offer no prayer, no supplication, no Church of Rome by addressing angel or saint in any form of invocation examples, the following passage in the prayer for Christ''s Church heaven and the holy angels, and the Virgin Mother of our Lord, with Christians revered and worshipped the angels, but), that God the Son, the spirit and power of God the Father into the Virgin Mary, was made his prayer with an ascription of glory to God through Christ in the Holy angels, but the word of God, Jesus Christ, &c. intercessions of angels saints, or the Virgin: "Now may God, the only "Blessed mother of God, Mary, perpetual Virgin, the temple of the Lord, Church on the invocation of saints and angels, and the blessed Virgin 14139 great ocean of human suffering and sin with God''s supplies of mercy. I bless God that the day is coming when royalty will bring all its Well, we hear a great deal about the good time that is coming to this there is one man in the Church of God at this day shouldering his "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy But on the day of which I speak the Son of Man will come in His glory. through all the ages of earth and heaven, that Christ the Lord comes When a man comes into the kingdom of God he is world that take my attention from God, and Christ, and heaven, that I man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cut off at His coming." great field of moral and spiritual battle, the angels of God come 14183 by hundreds of FATHERS and mothers, young men and girls, HUSBANDS and to-day, and I know that she is bound to go home." The writer said: "Bro. Penn, you are mistaken; Sister Penn would not have you leave this fruit alone has sent hundreds of thousands of men, women and girls to hearts of thousands of men in the ball room, in the dances and in the for God in the ball room, theater, opera, or drinking saloon? When the ball closes, the young men take the girls to their homes. these places, there never would be another ball or hop or dance upon the soon as they carry their girls home, or as soon as the ball or dance is sins and crimes are the natural fruit of all kinds of dancing, where the dance, but, like hundreds and thousands of girls and women of to-day, 14294 seeds of the new ideas in India during the past century are so clearly [Sidenote: The nineteenth century in India--a conflict of ideas] Of the new religious organisations of educated India, three repudiate English education is the chief solvent of old ideas in India and the India with modern ideas through English education--8000 fresh recruits a [Sidenote: Variety of religious ideas in India.] [Sidenote: India a new touch-stone of Christianity.] Anglo-Indians from religious and social progress in India. attitude of the Indian Christian Church to the new ideas introduced by character of the new Indian religious associations in Western India? The Indian mind is open to new religious ideas, The new theism of educated India is more and more emphatically Christian When Christian doctrine was presented to India in modern times, the the new idea in India is to be wholly ascribed to Christian influence. 14383 Missionary Association, whose work is so largely devoted to the work done among the colored people of the South, his purpose was soon received and held by said American Missionary Association, _upon "Said American Missionary Association and the proper officers thereof, ''Daniel Hand Educational Fund for Colored People.'' And the said The American Missionary Association begins its year with a debt of Church, Mountain, Indian, Chinese or Higher Educational Departments. schools under the care of the American Missionary Association." We Dyer, Mass.; Rev. John Elderkin, Conn.; Miss Mary Conn.; Mrs. Mortimer Hall, Mass.; Rev. George E. The report of the Committee on Chinese Work, Rev. Simeon Gilbert, D.D., Committee on Church Work.--Rev. David Gregg, D.D., of Massachusetts, This great work for the Negro, the Indian and the Chinese has been the history and work of the American Missionary Association and that 14485 peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ," (as in Gal. i. of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ." For these John contended languages of the nations of the earth, the "angels of the churches" will which are the seven spirits of God. Verses 4, 5.--To John''s view, the "throne" seen from one side would "open the book." To holy angels, devils, and the dead "under the earth," 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign Lord and his Anointed when the heavens and the earth shall pass away and "Lord, the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth." (Gen. xiv. the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants 14497 that life of service for which God has given man the capacity, that he There are two great regions in which the life of every true man resides. who lived his life in the following of Jesus Christ was a free man in partly because man, when he is called upon to live Jesus'' life, when he the human soul to live its fullest life, to man to be his fullest being. in every child of man by the divine life manifested in Jesus Christ. Christian man believes in the presence, the life, the power of Jesus comes to a man of the way in which he is to enter upon a new life, of and filled its life with Jesus Christ, the truth that man has a soul and to know, the life and newness of God and the power of their human 14551 in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; I believe that Thy Divine Son obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Thy grace, and life everlasting, A. The Holy Ghost is God and the third Person of the Blessed Trinity. A. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the second Person of A. Our Lord Jesus Christ sent the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles. blood, soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. A. The first Commandment is: I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt not have The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, God''s love, and the only Son and the Holy Ghost are one God, one Lord. May almighty God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, bless you. 14552 in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; I believe that Thy Divine Son obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Thy grace, and life everlasting, A. The Holy Ghost is God and the third Person of the Blessed Trinity. A. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the second Person of A. In heaven Christ sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. A. Our Lord Jesus Christ sent the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles. priests of His Church when He said: "Receive ye the Holy Ghost. commandments of God, the precepts of the Church, the seven capital sins, A. The first Commandment is: I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt not have The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, God''s love, and the only Son and the Holy Ghost are one God, one Lord. 14553 and when God is the person offended, "trespasses" mean sins. Sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Orders and make laws for the Church, Jesus Christ, Son of God; Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Catholic Church, the communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the A. The Holy Ghost is God and the third Person of the Blessed Trinity. A. By the Blessed Trinity I mean one God in three Divine Persons. A. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the second Person of A. By his sin Adam gave away all right to God''s promised gifts of grace God''s ministers through the Sacrament of Holy Orders, and it is given a commandments of God, the precepts of the Church, the seven capital sins, Holy Communion the priest says: "May the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ A. A person sins against faith: 1st, By not trying to know what God has 14554 they give us also comes from Him. Before the time of Our Lord, the people in prayer did not call God any temptation to sin by the help or grace that God gives us. But when man sinned, in punishment God commanded that he should the teaching of God''s ministers, the Holy Father, bishops and priests. The Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph lived in Palestine--called also the Holy Land since Our Lord Our Lord said He was the Son of God; that He could forgive sins, etc.; At the time promised, God sent His Son--Our Lord--to redeem the world same time prays God to forgive the poor sick person all the sins he has A. A person sins against faith, first, by not trying to know what God 5. Was God called "Father" before the time of Our Lord? 14578 The Lord God had said, "In the day that you eat of came to Jesus, and said, "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher come Christ instead of the Church, people came from all parts, far and near, My soul is saved, glory be to God!" "Come, John," I said, "sit The dear man said, "Thank God!" and it came from the very depths of his "Yes," I said, "it is true; the Lord has saved my soul; I am happy!" I presented himself, as I have already stated, in the hall, praising God. We were a long time over breakfast that morning, for the happy man went this time, his daughter came to me one morning in great haste, and said, One day, he came to me and said, "I have been thinking for some time The man said, "I only asked a few, but all those people are come. 14596 spiritual life, shall we learn most of the nature of God by close, Then both will speak to us of God. Speculative Mysticism has occupied itself largely with these two great mystics that man, in his individual life, recapitulates the spiritual towards any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God. The mystical union is indeed rather a bond between Christ and the life eternal, that they should know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus that view of the relation of man to God with which Mysticism can never the Divine Tree," the mutual love which unites the Father and the Son. Eckhart quotes the words which St. Augustine makes Christ say of [Footnote 245: As when he says, "In God all things are one, from angel since the object of life is to know God (this, the mystic''s minor 14629 God brought only a child into the world that night, but "There was no room for them in the inn." And so Jesus came into a world into a new Paradise of God. A Saviour is the supreme need of the world, the last vestige of humanity and restoring them to the image of God. Christ is saving the world as a whole. The birth of Jesus created a new center for the world and set heaven and sing and wise men worship and started good news out over the world, people from their sins." The world is tired of men who come to save it Was a Child the Best Christmas Gift to the World? Was a Child the Best Christmas Gift to the World? the world the greatest possible Christmas Gift when this Child was born. irrigating the world, no new light was breaking upon the human mind. 14662 He does not like women--thinks they are of no use in the world, save to set old man why he did not part his hair better, instead of letting it hang all Suddenly I saw the color for the first time in years come into the face of "But I have read somewhere in an old book that there is a day coming when While feeling most of all our need of the life that comes from above, let If he kneel before sermon, let it not be a coming down like a soul in want, his mind and the faith of God in his heart would come round some day, and The left hand is good for a great many things, for instance to hold a some day come upon them, and it shall again be as it was in the time of 14716 and hear God''s call to personal work in soul-winning, this little volume Pentecost shall come upon the waiting, praying Church, then the times of habit of addressing young men upon their personal relations to Christ, winning souls for Christ by personal effort is the work of every condition of my eternal salvation I must win a thousand souls to Christ To the rich young man who came to him, Jesus said, "One thing thou will to God; (3) The supremacy of Jesus Christ in the heart and life, so The words of Christ, "If any man will come after me, let him deny missions, or too old to work for God and souls." diligent study of the Word of God, by prayer, and by Christian roomed with a young man at college for two years, and never said a word A faithful study of Christ''s conversations with seeking souls, such as 14764 The Church that protested Jewish persecution by the Nazis with such courage The President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. stated, on May 1, 1943: "What is happening to the Jews on the Continent of "Jews, Christians of Jewish origin and political refugees". 1938, an office for helping persecuted Jews, but mainly Christians of Jewish for them in Germany: Jews, Christians of Jewish origin and political The protest of the Church against the persecution of the Jews in Germany Church, towards the national-socialist persecution of the Jews, shows great the Jews and the elimination of the Christian Church from public life... the Jews, it is the duty of the Christian Church to raise a protest against of the Law against Christians of Jewish origin, and against the Jews in general. Church had not publicly protested against the persecution of Jews; yet the Church and for reconciling Christians with Jews. 14780 years from the Author''s death, a very great number of Christians (ingens 1. Our books relate, that Jesus Christ, the founder of the religion, came) the Gospel of God." If the history relates that, (Acts xvii. time, of the original apostles of the religion; that by Christians whom authors, nor of the ancient Christian fathers, but Greek coming from men Christian writers, after this time, discussing the question, "What books Christianity, as books containing the accounts upon which the religion probably, Saint Luke''s Gospel, the Acts of the Apostles, ten epistles of in fact used and quoted in time remaining works of Christian writers, A third great writer against the Christian religion was the emperor I. That, beside our Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, no Christian Christians to relate to the Gospel history, which are deserving both of remarkable words of Saint Matthew in his account of Christ''s appearance 14841 LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF LORD BYRON, with NOTICES OF HIS LIFE, from of the poet''s new intimates, Lord Byron took one day an opportunity, voyage, Lord Byron (says Count Gamba) "appeared thoughtful, and mutual admiration, had taken place between Lord Byron and the great the appearance of the Greek fleet," Lord Byron, in a note on this In the mean time Lord Byron was preparing busily for his departure, "Lord Byron," says Colonel Stanhope, in a letter dated views:--"Lord Byron said that he was an ardent friend of publicity appeared to Count Gamba, Lord Byron was, for the first time, aware of have been the nature of Lord Byron''s conduct towards me from the time Mr. Bowles says, that "Lord Byron _knows_ he does _not_ deserve this Barff, Mr., Lord Byron''s letters to, on the Greek cause Bowring, Dr., Lord Byron''s letters to, on the Greek cause, and his 14867 Christian religion; all of which think they serve God aright; and expect power in Christianity is God''s unspeakable love to men in Christ; and sacred bibles of the races, called on Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and judgment against those who rejected the clear message of God''s own Son. The man who goes forth to the great mission fields with the feeling that Men had begun to ask themselves the great questions of human life and later day "the same God, worshipped alike by Hindus and Christians, undesigned tribute to the great Christian doctrine of a divine and human [Footnote 78: In an enumeration of Hindu gods made in Buddha''s time even who claim to be Christians regard the various religions of men as the Jewish and Christian faith, with its old Testament names of God, its divine sympathizer in human form, a living and helpful god among men. 14947 The Brachman having disclosed these mysteries to Father Xavier, desired Father Xavier remained but a little time at Goa; and returned with all heard the blows distinctly, and what Father Xavier said to the holy Antonio, came and told him, that Father Xavier desired to speak with him. Father Xavier obtained from the viceroy of the Indies whatever the king true contrition, that being expired, Father Xavier was heard to say, "God Father Xavier, preaching in the great church, betwixt nine and ten of the great credit at the court, Father Xavier writ to him at the same time, to Almighty God; and having ended his prayer, returns a little time At this time God restored to Father Xavier the gift of tongues, which had The king received Father Xavier with great civility; and, after he had holy man, they acknowledged the God of the Christians, and desired 15011 That dynamic is the Holy Spirit, that sets the word of God on unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven" many passages that refer to the Holy Spirit, but we shall give those It is generally spoken of as the Spirit of God. The New Testament refers to these passages in such a way as to identify God tells Noah: "My Spirit shall not strive with man for [The] Holy Spirit shall come conscience bearing witness with me the sons of God. in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit this blemish unto God. signifying. them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the no man can say, Jesus is Lord, _but in the Holy Spirit_." the Spirit" is "the word of God." 15099 "Bill," said Bud Means to his brother, "ax the master ef he''d like to "Purty peart kind of a master," remarked the old man to Bud, after Ralph One morning, as Ralph walked toward the school-house, he met little Ralph came up to the school-house door, there was Shocky sauntering Ralph spelled in this dogged way for half an hour the hardest words the following the indication of Ralph''s eyes, she saw Bud coming up the hill head out the door of the school-house and called out: "Bud, I''d like to "Now, looky here, Mr. Ralph Hartsook," said Bud. When Ralph left the school-house he felt mean. "Never mind; I put in my best licks fer _Him_ that air time, Mr. Hartsook." Ralph shivered a little at thought of this, but if it was "Bud, my dear friend," said Ralph, "it looks a little hard to ask you to 15130 did not continue long; my father being a valuable slave, my master was About this time, I began to feel another evil of slavery--I mean the want My master had a deeply pious and exemplary slave, an elderly man, who one In this way the night passed away, and just at the dawn of day I found a excitement that was then going on in my mind, left me little time to think Once in a number of years, each slave, or each man and his wife, had one This good man''s name is remembered dearly, till this day, by slaves Some of my master''s slaves who had families, were regularly married, and slave''s condition is benefited by passing from the old master into the The young master not being able to own as many slaves as his father, In yonder world you can have no slaves--you can be no man''s master--you 15172 century, attributes the liturgy of the Roman church to St. Peter. [Sidenote: Mass of the faithful, blessed water.] prayers, in which the priest offers to God the holy sacrifice, and the middle of the chapel; having received the Pope''s blessing they [Footnote 31: I shall not speak of some ancient ceremonies of holy [Footnote 36: That crosses, candles and incense were anciently used in [Footnote 40: Anciently a cardinal deacon used to read it, and to sing During the last three days of holy-week the church celebrates the Anciently three masses used to be celebrated at Rome[57] on this day, [Footnote 60: Only one priest says mass in each on this day and the Christian church, derived from the apostles and from Jesus Christ [Footnote 68: In the Greek church communion is on this day reserved church till the gospel has been sung on Ascension-day when Christ 15184 certain man to receive baptism, following the advice of his father, having no fear of death, said: "Father, as yet I have sufficient to the Lord that he had permitted the father to arrive at such a time; He received holy baptism, and soon afterward our Lord granted people were present, the father took in his hands the feet of a poor to baptize his people, saying that they all desired to receive holy in the church, he fell upon his knees and said: ''Father, baptize me, The father gave orders that this man be brought to our Lord for having brought me to that place for the great good of so villages until those people could have fathers to maintain them in of the persons who go every year from Nueva España to the said islands Chinese were among these Indians, and that the said lord governor sent 15199 [Footnote 8: "John Durie''s _Reformed Librarie-Keeper_ and Its Author''s [Footnote 10: See "John Durie''s _Reformed Librarie-Keeper_," 83.] perfection: becaus the Universities will not bee able to add anie thing bee rationally infer''d from anie thing in the matter form or end of that the true and proper End of Universities, should bee to publish unto the and Spiritual waies of improving humane Abilities, may bee advanced unto are, or may bee made useful to the advancement of Learning; and were stock doth increas; so the place in the Librarie must bee left open for year, the Librarie-keeper should bee bound to give an account of his of an Honorarie Librarie-keeper''s place, to shew the true end and use everie waie a great benefit unto the State, so it may bee in matters of place with som reference unto him must bee overthrown; nor is there anie 15260 SECT V.--_An objection stated to the different arguments of the Quakers allow women to retire after dinner and leave the men drinking--Quakers a The society, of which I am to speak, are called[2] Quakers by the world, Quakers, that a person can have much time for amusements of this sort, Another reason, why the Quakers do not allow their members the use of The Quakers have many reasons to give, why, as a society of christians The Quakers conceive, as a christian society, that they ought to have The Quakers differ on the subject of moral education, very materially the world at large, that the Quakers are a moral people. The Quakers profess to follow christianity in all cases, where The Quakers never make use of the expression "christian name." This name world, I shall only observe, that, if the Quakers have religious Quaker-society, so neither do some other subjects, that may be 15261 The Quakers believe, that there can be no spiritual knowledge of God, man united to Christ by the spirit of God. Our light, on the other hand, The Quakers believe that the spirit of God, which has been thus given to That the spirit of God was given to man as a spiritual instructor, the The spirit of God, which has been thus given to man as a spiritual The Quakers believe also, that as God gave a portion of his spirit to Quakers believe that God''s holy spirit became a guide also to them, and their outward ears the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Quakers believe, that Quakers have made every thing of the spirit, and but little of Christ, I difference, whether we use the words "Spirit of God" or "Christ," in the The Quakers believe, that Jesus Christ was man, because he took flesh, 15266 against the dragon." Jesus Christ said: "I came not to send peace, but a If we believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, He makes us sure God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that Peace is coming to all the earth some day through Christ. and peace,--the truth that in time of war we must stand for the right, suffered,--the advance of the world towards a peaceful life founded on righteousness in making the world safe for peace. make a peace that shall mean good to all mankind. hope is a life without God. If Death ends all, then there is no Father world to-day, and essential to the foundation of peace on earth. peace on earth among men of good-will Take this mortal life as a thing but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 15304 _Oaths--Quakers conceive it unlawful for Christians to take an The Quakers consider oaths again as very injurious to morality. But, above all, the Quakers consider oaths as unlawful for Christians, The Quakers then, considering the words in question to have the meaning respect to the opinions of the early Quakers, which I shall notice Having now stated the three great reasons, which the early Quakers gave, The Quakers believe, in the first place, that the Spirit of God, acting [33]Of the good traits in the Quaker character, which may be called of this trait of benevolence to man in the character of the Quakers, the appear therefore to be in the doctrines of the Quaker religion any thing for the Quakers the character of a moral people--and from the operation Quakers have had a certain general usefulness in the world. First, that the early Quakers were generally men 15379 In 1799 the London Missionary Society commenced work in Cape Colony; at of friends, and on the 22nd of September, 1817, Mr. and Mrs. Kitchingman, Robert Moffat, and a missionary named Ebner, who, for a While Moffat was in Cape Town, a deputation from the London Missionary It was intended that Robert Moffat should take the place of Mr. Read, as an associate with Mr. Hamilton in the work of the mission. The Word of Life was preached to these natives by either Mr. Campbell or Robert Moffat as the party journeyed along. given as soon as Moffat returned from Cape Town, to which place he Upon the same day that the Moffats reached Cape Town, a ship arrived faithful coadjutor of Robert Moffat, and a missionary at the Kuruman for In 1868 the missionary staff at that station consisted of Robert Moffat missionary, the Rev. Robert Moffat. 15412 Incarnation who were not also believers in the Virgin-Birth. A child born naturally of human parents can never be God Incarnate. summaries of the Christian Faith, in all of which the Virgin-Birth, "He was born as man of a Virgin, and was called Jesus, and was birth of the Virgin (kai tên ek Parthenou and His Son Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified by the Father into a Virgin, was born of her--God and Man--Son of man, Son of God, and was called Jesus Christ."# the Virgin-Birth of Jesus, of the Crucified, of His Resurrection Christianity without the belief in Jesus the Son of God, born of Virgin-Birth, because they reject the principle of the Incarnation. the human Birth of Jesus Christ, received ultimately from her who the Virgin-Birth was unknown because St. James speaks of Christ''s Christ to be ''the only Son of God'' to the fact that He was ''born 15467 Hubert Gray, Winifred''s only brother, had also been at church that "Winifred," said Mrs. Gray, off whose smooth nature these discussions "I think your father is right, Winifred," said Mrs. Gray faintly, and keen business man, and Hubert saw himself poor for the Kingdom of God''s Good morning, Hubert," said Mr. Gray, as he looked up from his Hubert answered his father''s questions of word and searching look. Winifred looked deeply in Hubert''s dark eyes and saw the hunger gone "Do you think that means, Hubert," said Winifred, "that He does not "Winifred, dear," she said, "have you looked at your new white dress to "He had come to give life to men," said Hubert with kindling eyes. "I am glad to come," said Hubert, looking in the Doctor''s face frankly. "I don''t know him, but I''ll ask Hubert," said Winifred, and she passed "But I know God," said Winifred earnestly, "and Jesus Christ. 15485 hushed, she said, "I shall sing in heaven." Her voice had been the charm life, to turn and look eternal things full in the face, to think of sent to her mother in heaven her child, whom God had prepared for so God. Some things, then, even here, are intended to be life-long sorrows sorrows of this life show that God can bear to see us suffer, even when fear as they think of dying; and that is, their appearing before God. They cannot imagine the possibility of seeing him without distraction; the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; Christ conquered death by dying; we shall be more than conquerors Christ may be magnified in our body, whether it be by life or by death. friends after death, but of the departed as coming with Christ at the 1549 Paul''s Gospel of man''s free justification by faith in Christ Jesus. resurrection Christ won the victory over law, sin, flesh, world, devil, Christ the Son of God gave Himself into death for my sins." To believe to faith in Christ the works of the Law of God were necessary unto one''s eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law. True faith lays hold of Christ and leans on Him alone. "This flesh," says Paul, "is not justified by the works of the law." faith of the Son of God. Paul does not deny the fact that he is living in the flesh. before God without faith in Christ, by the works of the Law. It is righteousness, and life, the Law brings sin, death, and the wrath of God God has been assuaged by Christ no Law, sin, or death may now accuse and 15606 State of the French ministry: Du Vair''s letter to Grotius: the Apology without being employed by the States-General, Grotius desired translation of it into English was preparing in the year 1639: Mr. Barbeyrac thinks it was not finished in Grotius''s life-time, but there first things he did was to speak to the King in favour of Grotius[154], Being come back from Holland to France, he wrote to Grotius that Vossius''s desire to have Grotius continue in Holland was so great, that Grotius sent the High Chancellor[271] a copy of this letter to the letter to the King, and give him [Grotius] fresh orders on the subject. "That great man (says he, speaking of Grotius[487]) has As Grotius had a very great esteem for the learned Father Petau, he great Grotius, was not so learned as his father, says Wicquefort; but I Gustavus, king of Sweden, Grotius great veneration for that prince, 133 15658 This is a book of pictures and stories for big children and small grown-up travel strange in Topsy-turvy Land, even the time of the day is all upside higher place and a better lot than the poor girls and women of Arabia! right across Arabia, and they kept it a long time until the people of produces the finest coffee in the world, but I think the Arabs know how When the hours of prayer come around (the Moslems you know pray five times men who go about in the coffee shops of Arabia to tell stories, just as Will you not pray for western Arabia, and also for the Arab Some little missionaries came to Arabia a few years before any of the coasts of Arabia and the ignorant Arabs learn of other lands and peoples The story of mission work in Arabia is not very long, but it is full of 15698 and discussion of the question of African slavery, in the free States, relinquished all right to interfere with slavery in the slave states, no union of the slave and free states could ever have taken place. states ever could have taken place, had not the right to hold slave than negro-slavery in the Southern States. for the poor slave in the Southern States; whose conditions are with the condition of slaves and free negroes, North and South, must both the slaves and themselves in greater evils than African slavery entire slave population in this country, if both masters and servants free men, (so called), than they have as slaves in the South. best interests of master and slave; and in the fear of God Almighty, they are to the Southern slaves and free negroes. The condition of African slaves in the United States better than the 1581 And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have 15812 papers are giving currency to these critical attacks on the Word of God. The young people of our churches are exposed to the insidious poison of "The Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and which "the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the which "the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the is affirmed in the Pentateuch that God commanded Moses to write, and 1. _There was a written law of Moses_, the man of God, then in of the testimony of the entire Old Testament that God commanded Moses to prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren," ye not read in the _book of Moses_ how in the bush God spake unto him, of the book of Leviticus God is represented as commanding Moses, and 1582 And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: Return to thy house and tell how great things God hath done to He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy God hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath 15836 great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass idea is twice expressed: once in plain words, ''the God of heaven shall miracle to make a man a true servant of the living God. The final verse of the passage implies Daniel''s restoration to rank, and man.'' Body, soul, and spirit partake of the redemption of God. But then, apart from that, on which I must not dwell, my text suggests revelation in Jesus Christ: ''O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God. Take with you words, and return unto the Lord, and say unto Him: Assyria it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will the God manifest in Jesus Christ that draws men''s hearts to Him. The new motive of love to God in Christ well into my heart so that it comes 15861 [Sidenote: Ethical Conditions for Faith.] [Sidenote: Natural Ethical Canon.] [Sidenote: Natural Immortality.] natural immortality of the human soul whether of Platonic or Christian doctrines, the virgin birth of Christ and natural immortality. [Sidenote: The Fatherhood of God.] [Sidenote: A Christian God.] [Sidenote: Aim of Christianity.] [Sidenote: Likeness to God.] disbelieve the doctrine that "Jesus Christ tasted death for every man." [Sidenote: An Anthropomorphic God.] [Sidenote: How Son of God.] [Sidenote: Christ''s Resurrection.] [Sidenote: Nature not Wholly Love.] man concludes, from nature alone, that God is ruled by love. [Sidenote: The Energy of God.] [Sidenote: The Doctrine of Energy.] [Sidenote: Natural Standards.] of nature in this present life." It is wholly of faith that men are [Sidenote: Men and Brutes.] [Sidenote: Man Above Brutes.] [Sidenote: Man and Brute Compared.] [Sidenote: How Man Can Live.] [Sidenote: How Man Can Decay.] [Sidenote: Christ''s Light.] [Sidenote: The Christian''s Eye.] [Sidenote: The Life Everlasting.] 15892 ideas of Him can best reach the minds of little children. really care for children, and for character, and for life; it takes educated by maxim and precept; it is the life lived, and the things words, that the fundamental virtue in teaching children is a great and the good things of life as they come--"the more the better"--whom, as are useful for life, and for girls especially on things which make the ought to form part of every Catholic girl''s education is that of work things must be learned at some time during the years of education. hold over children, and influence for good by their great affection and view as to the outside world means a great deal in life. means of education more adapted to prepare children for life, by fitting the strength of historical teaching for children and girls at school great problem and work of educating girls. 16242 found in the person of the infallible Head of the Catholic Church, but from the Church of Christ the infallibility of the Pope would be like we have it on Divine authority, that the Church of Christ was to be as Church of Christ, with one truth, taught by one authority, received by THE ANGLICAN THEORY OF CONTINUITY IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THE ANGLICAN THEORY OF CONTINUITY IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. THE AUTHORITY OF THE POPE IN ENGLAND IN PRE-REFORMATION TIMES. THE AUTHORITY OF THE POPE IN ENGLAND IN PRE-REFORMATION TIMES. Faith, the teaching, and the doctrine--in a word, the Church Cardinals exercising authority in the Church in England. Catholic, or less like the Anglican Church of the "Reformation," it present Church of England, which repudiates the authority of the Pope of their devotion and faith towards God and the Holy Roman Church". 16276 his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and the blessing of God Almighty, the "Blessed Lord, thou hast, to the praise of thy grace, given me soul shall live.'' ''Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be God whose name is love: ''My son, give me thy heart.'' ''Come unto me, according to his promise, give him power to become a child of God. The Holy Ghost, the Comforter, shall be given unto him, to teach him "O Lord our God, ever faithful to thy promises, thou hast said, to answer, Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God? Hast thou not, O God, prepared the hearts of thy people to ''Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God; and ye have not "Oh thou, my soul, bless God the Lord, "''Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who 16285 appeal throughout is to the Word of God. The faith of the Church is Here also then our Church confesses the pure truth of God''s Word, Word." (Luther''s Small Catechism.) The Lutheran Church knows of no God unto salvation._" The words of Christ, "_they are spirit and God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ: or in one word, they will be Word to all men on earth, which God Himself confirms in heaven." Dr. Seiss somewhere says: "Every time a believer in Christ sits down preaching repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. reason or strength, believe in Jesus Christ my Lord, or come to Him. But that the Holy Spirit hath called me by His Gospel, enlightened me In the chapter on the Word of God as a means of Grace, we the great doctrines of God''s Word regarding sin and Grace, in that 16306 Jacob Behmen''s books are his best biography. prayer, in praise, and in love to GOD and man. Jacob Behmen''s mind and heart and spiritual experience all combine to besides, Jacob Behmen could not have written a book even if he had tried Behmen and his visions of GOD and Nature and Man were all but literally Jacob Behmen for his answer: ''What is the soul of man in its innermost write on the Incarnation of the Son of GOD would need, says Behmen, an well as in the word of GOD, make Jacob Behmen and William Law and that Behmen''s GOD is, in His inmost Being, most kindred to man, even as Behmen''s teaching on human nature, his doctrine of the heart of man, and happen to open him, Behmen is found teaching that GOD and CHRIST, heaven Jacob Behmen a philosopher, and it was the sinfulness of his own heart 16307 light of modern knowledge, the growth of the soul as it moves upward. souls of men come to a consciousness of their powers and, with souls of men will forever approach God; while the belief of the church, every human being, I cannot resist the conviction that every soul of man The soul grows by a right use of the power of choice. soul realizes that it dwells in a moral order and is free to make its the spirit, the soul comes to realize that its obligation is always in The moment that the soul realizes that God is not far away, but within; Jesus furnishes the light which the soul needs on the nature of man. The soul naturally, and inevitably, grows toward truth and God. How could it be otherwise, since its being is derived from Him? Soul in man is but God "in 16309 (i) JESUS CHRIST, GOD AND MAN (i) JESUS CHRIST, GOD AND MAN Christ be God, how can He name Himself _the Son of Man_. believes that Christ is both God and Man, who is content to believe that one Christ, so soul and body make one man_: and, as the two natures of Catholic Church is the extension of Christ''s Life on earth; the Catholic (ii) THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, DIVINE AND HUMAN (ii) THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, DIVINE AND HUMAN believes that Jesus Christ is perfect God and perfect Man that the So years ago men asked, If Christ be God, how could He be For this Divine Church that knows God is also a Human Society that coming indeed from God, is, in a sense, natural and human; it exists to of Man and the Love of God. If Christ had not died, our faith would be 16322 against good works, the reasons most likely are these: Luther taught the moral state of the papacy in Luther''s days to learned works, and Rome is the leprous gentleman, and Luther is the man of God who Church of Rome, has given back to the world the pure Word of God in more Bible-knowledge in their Church before Luther, these Catholic writers Catholic writers ask the world not to believe Luther''s tales about the against the Church of the living God. In Luther most, if not all, former Luther taught the Bible-doctrine that there is in God a hidden will it "the Christian Republic." In Luther''s view the Church is, first of Word, are the members of the true Church of God, the kingdom of Christ. mind Luther held that Church, councils, and Pope are all subject to Luther on the God-Given Supremacy of the Pope. Luther on the God-Given Supremacy of the Pope. 16355 heasy--yer''ve only got ter use a bit o'' common sense an'' do hexac''ly as right ''and inside yer left, but yer mustn''t look round or talk until I Suddenly he asked: "Don''t yer want it, mate?" I said "No," Up went our right hands and our heads turned smartly to the left, while We began to pity him, but one of our number, a man with long arms, a low The Sergeant-Major shouted "Come here!" in peremptory tones, but the man ''alf an hour fur yer dinner--we''ve got ter git the job done ter-day." think I''m goin'' ter stand over yer all day? yer worked bloody fine an'' says ''e won''t ''ave yer workin'' ter day saw a number of shell-holes grouped round cross-roads, and gradually, as day-shift came to an end and the night-shift began. "War''s no good," said a small man with a protruding forehead and keen 16424 to God. There is a "law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus"; and it social character of the Christian religion, with its Father-God and its throughout the world, testify what the God and Father of Jesus Christ Christian experience today as the Self-revelation of the living God. The Bible is a _literary_ record. and still produces in our world, a distinctive relationship with God. The Bible is a record of _progressive_ religious experience. him "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." The Deity Paul they who said, "God is love," and these men set Jesus side by side with with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ." In communion with God debt to the Christian society from which we derive our life with God. Nor is any man''s spiritual experience self-sustaining. their life with Christ in God. The Church comes to us saying: 16455 4 Our Father and God, how faithful thy love! Thee thy people shall adore; 2 Command thy blessing, Jesus, Lord! 3 Grant us thy peace, Lord, through the coming night; Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way. 4 For all thy gifts, we bless thee, Lord; And speak the builder--God. 4 But the sweet beauties of thy grace Thy boundless love shall set us free Dear Savior, let thy precious blood 2 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love The love and compassion of Jesus, thy God? My soul shall love thee more. Then life shall be thy service, Lord! Shall bring thee to thy God; Blessed be thy love, dear Lord, 302 My soul shall praise thee, O my God, 16 My soul shall praise thee, O my God, 16 We bless thee for thy peace, O God, 333 We bless thee for thy peace, O God, 333 16474 The second hypothesis supposes that the present order of things, at some came into existence at no great distance of time from the present; and protoplasmic matter which, so far as our present knowledge goes, is the existing animals and plants are taken by other forms, as numerous and present condition of things has existed for a comparatively short known, afford evidence that things arose in the way described by Milton, evolution, the existing state of things is the last term of a long animals which are so closely allied to existing forms that, at one time, is no reason, in the nature of things, why, as long as this world remains, and present the appearance of beds of rock formed under supernatural creation of the present forms of life; modern science Some time afterwards an old man entered the church on his hands and 16516 God, that none like us ever may live again until time shall be no people were afflicted with since the world began--I say, if God gives pity us we pray thee, Lord Jesus, Master.--Has Mr. Jefferson declared to the world, that we are inferior to the whites, each of my brethren, who has the spirit of a man, to buy a copy of Mr. Jefferson''s "Notes on Virginia," and put it in the hand of his son. among men until God shall dash worlds together. Beloved brethren--here let me tell you, and believe it, that the Lord black man can put to death six white men; and I give it as a fact, let and make us believe that God made us and our children to be slaves to of the world, both _white_ and _black_, who has any knowledge of Mr. Clay''s public labors for these States--I want you candidly to answer 16534 Church," "Cannon''s Life of Joseph Smith," "Whitney''s History of Utah." The The Lord told the prophet Joseph that the time for this gathering had come, In December, 1830, the word of the Lord came to Joseph that the Saints first counselor to President Joseph Smith during the life time of the years, and the Saints will be busy working to save all the people who live But wicked men continued to tell false things about Joseph and the Church. Joseph then said the time had come when twelve apostles should be called. As early as May, 1833, the Lord told Joseph that the Saints should build a overthrow the Church both at Kirtland and in Missouri, the Lord told Joseph Reports came to Joseph and the people in Far West that some of the brethren Next day Joseph and his party held a meeting with some leading men of the 16645 the Christ, a man must be born of God. You will observe that no other Christian love, he takes his place as one of the Church of God. and by the spirit he means that life in man which, in his natural The death of Christ was a representation of the life of God. To me If man therefore, is to rise into the life of God, he must be absorbed power: "Let the peace of God," says the Apostle, "rule within your resembles the nature of man, that love in God is not a mere figure of to the higher spiritual life--the one the natural state, fit for man, can say, Look to God in Christ, though we know not how men are to died for man, I know what God''s love means; and when Jesus wept human world to love God and to love man; to do good--to fill up life with 16657 sails, the little ship went gaily out into the Ægean Sea. All day they ran before the breeze and at night anchored under the lee tall, rakish, brown sails ran in from the Great Sea. The knight was dreaming of Africa which lay away to the south of his they came in he said to them: "See these men, they have come to teach great adventure in bringing to the men of the South Sea Islands the On board the ship were brown South Sea men from the island where John "Come onto our ship," said these men, who had sailed there from Peru, One day men came running into a village in South Africa to say that When evening came the boy Khama saw the strange white man open another While he was living at Kuruman a man came to him one day and said: 1670 or God''s Word, but consider it holy, listen to it willingly, and learn We must fear and love God, so that our words and actions will be clean I believe in God the Almighty Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth. I believe that Jesus Christ is truly God, born of the Father in Of course, God''s name is holy in and of itself, but by this request, we we believe His holy Word by His grace and live godly lives here in this Truly, God gives daily bread to evil people, even without our prayer. Let him also confess any other sins against God''s commandments and his Jesus, I forgive your sins in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy May the will of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be done! May the will of God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be done! 16700 Several years prior to this date a Christian Church existed in the anticipate the happiness of heaven, and to realize the truth of God. The word of the Lord is to the faith of the Christian what the material all the churches." Nor did the early Christian congregations act Church of Rome, says he, is "very great and very ancient, and known to bishop of the great city to act as lord over God''s heritage was the Apostle Paul, [500:2] was a presbyter of the Church of Rome; At this time, or about A.D. 135, the original Christian Church of Palestine, and a Christian Church existed in it from the days of Paul an elder of the Church of Rome in the time of bishop Victor, appears to It thus appears that the bishop of the ancient Church was very different called the elders of the Church, [608:1] he says that the apostle then 16711 give your hearts to God. This you can do by loving our Lord Jesus Instead of our Lord''s saying, "God so loved the world," he might have _life_--the TRUTH of God''s Word--by _hearing it_, by _loving it_, by blessed in his deed; and soon be filled with the new life of God. The text opens in these words: "Enter ye in at the narrow gate." This We dare not corrupt the Word of God. After meeting we go to Brother John Shoemaker''s, where we have night is the Lord in man as "the way, the truth and the life." "Ye are God''s elsewhere in the Word, that love to the Lord their God with all the man''s salvation is found in his own words: "God so loved the world." And the only way to be good is to love the Lord our God with 16745 read, in some one''s criticism of the Letters, that Mr. Arnold appeared His musings "on Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,"[2] year of his life he said to the present writer: "People think I can criticism of national life that the hand of the master was felt. criticism of life, he is inculcating the great law of Love. school-inspecting is not the line of life I should naturally have a man who gives his life to a profession must be in a great measure criticism for the schools in which the great Middle Class is educated. nature: "and here," says Arnold, "Culture goes beyond Religion, as It had enjoyed all the good things of life--great ever," Arnold said in 1866, "there comes a more equal state of society The fact, already stated, that in the last years of his life, Arnold law of God. He has now come to know Christ''s mind and life. 16763 "How can a fellow question Jesus in these days, like the Pharisees?" Listen, fellows, King Jesus says: "All power is given unto I tell you, fellows, there''s nobody who can make a feast like Jesus; sixteen-year-old boy, and I do not wonder that that fellow''s mother Say, fellows, one morning in spring a boy came to me and said: "Dad, Bless your life, fellows, do you know what his lord would have said to Fellows, your life is a great big costly engine, built with infinite David was the kind of a fellow any red-blooded boy would like. Say, fellows, I want you to take a look at Simon Peter to-day. Say, fellows: This is David''s big day. Say, fellows, down-town the other day a man tried to save a boy who Oh, fellows, the tragic day of a boy''s life is when he decides to 16892 house, by the reading of Samuel Rutherford''s Letters, the day of the Lord Rutherford, and the proper old man who showed him all his own heart was Lady Kenmure needed Samuel Rutherford''s very best letters to help to keep soul of the dying man till all his cowardice, title-hunting, and truthbetraying life came back to his death-bed with a sharper sting in them Rough old Cardoness had a warm place in his heart for Samuel Rutherford. find heaven hard to be won,'' wrote Rutherford to the old man; and that ''Read over your past life often,'' Rutherford wrote to the old man. letter out of Samuel Rutherford''s mind and heart, the woman who was also Let young men read Rutherford''s letters called Robert Gordon a single-hearted man, at the same time I felt sure Christ, in Scripture, in the Church, and in the heart and life of man. 16902 "Helen will soon feel at home, sir, no doubt; only do--do, dear uncle, "I shall be very happy all day, sir," said May, gathering up the cups times," said old Mabel, laying her shrivelled hand on her heart. "And _how_, dear Helen, did my uncle die?" said May, in a tone of tender said Helen, solemnly; "that horrid old man will certainly tear me to "I will remain at home, Uncle Stillinghast," said Helen, quickly; "do "Dear Helen," said May, interrupting her, and laying her hand on her "Dear Helen," said Mrs. Jerrold, taking the weak girl''s hand in her "Uncle Stillinghast wants you, dear Helen," said May, tapping her on "Only this, sir," said Helen, who felt supported by Mr. Jerrold''s happy your own way, and come and see Helen when you can," said Mr. Jerrold, laughing, as he got up to leave. 16958 "She was a handsome, fine woman, in her day, God bless her," said Mrs. Doherty. And God help those poor orphans," she said, piously, looking to where "God help every poor Christian that is out to-night," said Mrs. Doherty. "Sure that''s the orders of God and the church," said Mrs. Doherty. "The priest, sir," said Paul, "promised to call to-day; and as he "Well," said Paul, "it is only our church that forbids her children the "God rest his soul," said Paul, raising his eyes to heaven; "he was a "The Lord be praised; I am glad to hear it," said Paul, one day, as he "Now," said the priest, addressing Paul, "did I not tell you God had "O Murty," said Paul, "I can see the hand of God in all this. Paul and the priest told me not to do, sir," said the child. 16979 plane of self-discipline, and with higher ideals of citizen life and overlap, and therefore we shall speak of God''s discipline, acting upon even in a simple thing like this God the Holy Ghost comes to our aid In this sense, then, the soul would mean the life the man or woman is of the so-called secular life of the day in which discipline needs to be The soul of the nation needed discipline, and it has come suddenly, The soul of the nation needs discipline, and that can only come through Our question to-day is: How shall we discipline that spirit which God the Holy Ghost, through the life of the great Church of Christ, mystery of the Church, the spiritual body of Christ, the same great If anguish has come to our hearts let it work its discipline upon us in revelation that God makes of Himself in Christ; then comes the peace of 17 1 For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my 7 And behold this thing shall be given unto thee for a sign, 21 And the angel said unto me: Behold the Lamb of God, yea, even thy brethren, behold, these things shall be hid up, to come forth 8 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou 52 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said many things unto my 53 And it came to pass that the Lord said unto me: Stretch forth of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation. 30 And it came to pass that the Lord God said unto me: Make 19 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that the Lord God will yea, all things shall be made known unto the children of men. the land unto his people, that the word of God might have no 17122 shall their unbelief make God''s promise of eternal life of none of the objection is that God has given them eternal life in Christ, Now either God has given us eternal life in Christ before the world If God promised his creatures eternal life before the world began, God''s promise of eternal life in Christ, is the gospel we are called believes that God has promised, and given him eternal life in Christ to whom God has also promised and given eternal life in Christ before not see the kingdom of God. Must not man be born of a woman in order to see this world? that for any man _by faith_ to pass from death to life is a change for from death unto life, for his soul is filled with love to God and man. first resurrection at that day when Christ shall come in his kingdom 17147 though God is said by it to act according to laws in conforming body and knowledge of God: we only mean that the nature of things does not permit offer here, on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of things has also its rules and reasons, but it is the free choice of God, come at last to the conclusion that God does all, the good and the evil, God is the cause of perfection in the nature and the actions of the the universe, chosen by God for superior reasons, causes men to be in the nature of things that God exists, that he is all-powerful, and that he enforcement of general laws are not the object of a particular will of God. It is true that when one wills a thing one wills also in a sense everything reason; and that because God _called into action all his goodness_ the 17152 "But, Mis'' Gray," faltered poor little Rosa, "mother was coughing awful, "Why, where''s mother going, Mis'' Gray?" asked Rosa with wide-open and "Rosa," called once again Mrs. Gray''s shrill voice, as the child was When Mis'' Gray goes away and mother''s working, grandpa "Yes, I know it, for God so loved the world that He gave His only "You eat your supper now, and I''ll tell Rosa to come home. "Mother doesn''t hear, Mis'' Gray," said Rosa sobbing violently and "Rosa," said Mrs. Gray almost gently, "git up and go and stay with "Rosa ain''t goin'' to the burial, I can tell you that," announced Mrs. Gray to a neighbor, "or she''d be a-hollerin'' in her sleep all winter. "''Pears like I''d ought to know, child, fer that''s where Tom went. "Yes, grandpa, you know it was Jesus that paid the fare. "Why, Mis'' Gray," half sobbed Rosa, "didn''t mother go to the beautiful 17162 Before God destroyed these cities, He sent two angels to Lot, One day God told Abraham to take his son Isaac, and to journey into the third day they came near the place God had pointed out, and Pharaoh saw what great wisdom God had given Joseph, and made him ruler to him God''s command to let the people of Israel go; telling him that When the people heard God''s message, they answered, "All that the Lord time, God told him to speak to the Israelites, asking them to give people of Israel, and told them what God had commanded. God had said to Joshua that the land of Canaan was to be taken go in the same manner round the city seven times; and God said that Joshua and the people did as God commanded. for her son and herself, for God had said that neither her handful of 17163 Jesus marvelled at the man''s words, and said to His followers, But God said unto him, "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be sought to change men''s hearts, and make their lives fruitful for God. The warning has been given, and when the Lord of the vineyard comes "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory," said Jesus, "and all One day Jesus came with His disciples in a boat to the country of the saying, "What have I to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God most "Lord, that I might receive my sight." And Jesus said unto him, "Go Him, saying, "Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the Gentile, she believed in Him as the Son of God. Then Jesus answered, and said unto her, "O woman, great is thy faith; But when they had come to the house, Jesus said to Peter, "What 17222 Did Christ command his disciples to baptize with water? Had Christ commanded his disciples to baptize all nations with water, Christ''s own baptism of the Holy Spirit and his command to preach among to baptize with water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, When was Christ''s command first quoted as authority for water baptism? Holy Spirit once descended as John baptized with water.[45] to baptize with water; and so far as we read, the Holy Spirit never John says: He (Christ) shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit; but John Christ says: Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit,[86] but he John baptized his disciples with water.[91] Christ called to his water, then Christ''s baptism of the Holy Spirit. with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."[241] with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."[241] with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."[241] 17265 all the books of the New Testament, except the Second Epistle of different regions respecting certain books of the New Testament. to the express declaration of the New Testament: "The Lord God shall those who receive Christ as the Son of God, and the New Testament as not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 2. The terms _Old_ and _New Testament_ arose in the following way: God''s when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, "the book of the law of God," important historical writings, proceeding the historical books of the Old Testament, written by prophetical men The same is true respecting the order of books in the New Testament, a word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ" (chap. take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall 17274 In his vision he saw good men as Great Hearts, to whom crowded close man shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land; a shelter a roll were these words: "While God gives me life each day shall a man Evermore man receives what he first gives to nature and society and God. History is rich in interpretation of this principle. truly great man takes long steps by God''s side, has the courage of the The time-principle holds equally in man''s social and industrial life. Back of Africa''s new life stands a great heart named richness, it emphasizes the sympathy and love of God. Each man paints stand forth as a great opportunity for loving hearts. Life holds no motive for stimulating gentleness in man like the thought like divine love in the heart of man, and at last that force will 17307 teacher is, "Why do I teach?" To appreciate fully the real purposes desire "to be like teacher." "Come, follow me," is the great password to A third value of teaching lies in the fact that the position of teacher A little girl when questioned why she liked her Sunday School teacher Importance of Child Study to teachers.--Teaching both a social and intelligently discuss methods of teaching, or how teacher and pupil get teacher meets a class--a collection of pupils in a social unit. Frequently teachers follow this method in the conduct of their classes. teacher-training class at Provo when someone asked how the lesson on with the problem of teaching boys and girls together, the question of interesting teacher never teaches all he knows. 2. _Organization._ A teacher should outline his lesson so that pupils Having prepared a lesson, how shall I set about to teach it to my class? 17480 the truth shall make you free."--_The New Law of Righteousness_. the Lord; let every man that loves God endeavour by the spirit of law of contract between you and us"; freedom to till the common land, freedom to improve the common land for our livelihood, we shall my reasons why the Common Land is the Poor People''s propriety; and man shall cease, and God will restore the waste places of the Earth common ground both from the Law of the Land, Reason and Scriptures. the Commons, and Lords of Manors break the Laws of the Land, and the Law shall be both Judge and Lawyer, trying every man''s actions. It is true Freedom that the Elder Brother shall be Land Lord of the Freedom in the Commonwealth''s Land, which the Kingly Law and Power, Light in Man, the Reasonable Power, or the Law of the Mind. 1759 out a missionary to a foreign land, and some of the good old men bade And now Tamsui came in sight--the new home of the young missionary. From that day the young missionary and the herd-boys were great friends. Cheng Hoa, came up from the town to the missionary''s little hut by To A Hoa his new friend was always Pastor Mackay, or as the Chinese put his friends, he came to live in the little hut by the river with Mackay. Tamsui on business one day and there heard the great Kai Bok-su preach the great news of the true God, and the young missionary gave himself Although his days were crammed with work, Mackay found time to make But he was still the great, brave Mackay and his home-coming was like bang and a great stone that stood in front of the Mackays'' house went up 17607 morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of Gods; they world; its monarch is God; His ministers are the priests; their subjects Religion unites man with God or puts them in communication; but do you the human mind is to render God unfit for men. Men believe in God only upon the word of those who have no more idea of But according to theology, man in his relation to God is far It appears that God, in creating more perfect beings than men, did not world who have or can have the same ideas of their God. CXXIII.--SKEPTICISM IN THE MATTER OF RELIGION, CAN BE THE EFFECT OF BUT A honor to God, far from proving the Divinity of religion, destroy worshiping the true God. To establish morality, or the duties of man, upon the Divine will, is attribute Divinity to mortal men, and worship them as Gods after their 17626 his Gospel under the superintendence, if not at the dictation, of St. Peter; and when Justin has occasion to mention that our Lord gave the According to the author of "Supernatural Religion" Justin ten times say that Justin had derived every word of it from the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, but that, instead of quoting the exact words of "The first power after God the Father and Lord of all is the Word, Justin reproduced the doctrine of the Logos, using the words of St. John. The Fourth Gospel gives to Jesus the name of God only in two places, that Christians worship Jesus Christ as the Son of the True God, Christian Church long before Justin''s time, except that Gospel had been Now, if at the time when Justin wrote the Fourth Gospel, as we shall "And John the apostle says, ''No man hath seen God at any time. 17678 God, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and do allow all things men light, and guide them unto the knowledge of God; to all way of truth; preferred to that office of the Church of God, and that no man hath power either of God the Father, or of Christ, or of the Holy Ghost, or of any Church of Christ, but as all good men ought to do, from the infection of as well as bees, and wicked men have companies like to the Church of God: primitive Church of Christ, of the Apostles, and of the holy fathers, bishops," saith he, "who now have the charge of God''s Church, are not we know that the "Gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto Church of God. And yet whatever it be, these men cry still that nothing ought to be 17871 like my dear mother''s, and calling to my sister Frances to come at once This God-sent blessing was of a great help to mother, as she could get blessings that came to me in the time that I needed so much of love and dear mother again for awhile, and soon the time came for us to be parted three years old and from that time until she went home to come out no mother before she went home, for God has told us to honor our fathers The Lord helped me to find love and favor with all after my white mother I have said that we came to this lovely city in the year of our Lord It is a blessed hope to know that God is love, and they that worship Him So God has been a father and a loving mother and all else to me, and 17934 prevails, so far it will show itself in obedience to the law of God. There is no resting-place, in the agonizing conflict, till we are "_holy of the Holy Spirit._ Make it a subject of daily prayer, that God would Lord; my _heart and my flesh crieth out_ for the living God:" "My soul accord with the spirit of the command, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God prayer to God. If, then, it became the Lord of life and glory to spend God as shall secure the personal exercise of the prayer of faith. communion with God. With regard to the particular times of prayer, no very definite rule can Without a spirit of prayer, sufficient to bring God''s people together in 2. _We are required to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and means a benevolent disposition of heart--love to God and good will to Has my heart this day been full of love to God, and to all 17961 every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw the names of even what we know by sight, of the good creatures of God, possibly learn any thing about God and our Lord Jesus Christ, until he you think a little too; for all the good things given us of God become Next, all creatures like liberty: a horse or a dog is never so happy as is deceiving himself and provoking God. The horse must bear a great deal of dreadful pain and suffering to be cannot bear that any one of God''s creatures should think I would be so God made poor bird." When he was a little boy, He said, "God see bad man hurt poor the best boy who loves and is kind to the least of God''s creatures for life;" and by always thinking on this great mercy of God to man, and the 18040 Roman Catholicism, as taught by our modern priests and inspired by Catholicism, I could not remain in the Catholic Church and be true to Catholic priest for the past thirty years, but who, to-day, stands knows that Catholicism teaches these things, and the Protestant Catholic Church, and until the Government of the United States shall know what Roman Catholicism consists of, and Catholic fathers and A Brazen Insult to God. Catholicism teaches that the Pope of Rome is infallible and cannot further need of a God. What can we expect of the followers of Catholicism who believe in possesses, and the less of God, the more the Roman Catholic Church followers of Catholicism, and the Pope of Rome teaches her bishopric follows: "_The Roman Catholic church has the right to require the Catholicism has the right to require that the Roman Catholic religion The only reason that Roman Catholicism does not control this country 18107 which characterize the great mass of the churches of the General Synod, Augsburg Confession the only universal symbol of the Lutheran Church. errors, contained in some other symbolical books of the Lutheran Church, the Augsburg Confession, the work of Luther and Melancthon themselves, Articles of the Augsburg Confession, and was retained by Luther, views in regard to the so-called errors of the Augsburg Confession were views on some subjects in that Confession, such as the mass." The truth refers; but what the Confession calls mass, the Platform, _with great rejected in the Augsburg Confession; but Luther says nothing against the mass, were retained in the Augsburg Confession; although the errors in symbols." "Our churches," (says the Augsburg Confession, Art. XXIV.) Augsburg Confession and other former symbols of the Lutheran church, of the Augsburg Confession_, in practice, and that the entire church in of the great mass of American Lutherans, the Word of God rejects them, 18168 to extinguish in men''s souls their faith in the living God. This fear, Gentlemen, I should wish to communicate to you, but I should establish facts) that the thought of God operates, so to speak, in the We know now whence comes our idea of God: it is Christian in its origin. human mind, of an infinite reason, with the full idea of the Creator; so knowledge of God and faith in his goodness, man remains plunged in natural certainty, which does not suppose a clear view of God; we reason The pure idea of God is the true cause of the great progress of the which the express object is to realize life without God. These doctrines formed the subject of public discussions, in London in nature, or with its general object; they leave the question of God on Truth, beauty, goodness conduct the mind to God, 18170 And in this garden of God, the Holy Church, Mary is the rose, the pride rosary, this humble prayer, to work such great things, that human victories of the Church, Mary, blessed mother of her divine Founder, Blessed Virgin, through the rosary, and then with confidence in God''s redeemed, we now call God our Father; and Jesus, the Son of the eternal with it our faith in the blessed Trinity and in our holy mother Church. prayer we shall say it with more devotion, to the greater glory of God, finally die in the grace of God our soul shall enjoy eternal life, and "Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of Holy Mary, mother of God! God, through the light and the power of the grace of faith, We know God through the Christian faith, but 18270 The Lord God, whom we have outraged by sin, knows no past. God''s condition for the pardon of sin. law of sin and of death."[21] The soul about to go before God''s God, who alone can forgive sin, though He exercises it through men as only learn of God. The second, that they should know the sin admitting that power to forgive sin was given by Christ to the who had shown repentance and had confessed their grievous sins. fifth century, "it is absolutely necessary to confess our sins in _Confession of sin is this_, that what has been done by thee thou the priest_, by the grace of Christ, the remission of sin." the part of the sinner confession of sin, followed by the judicial recesses of his conscience, he confess those sins by which he shall edification of the Church that has been scandalized, confess his sins 18283 mind and heart that go to do great work for God and for souls in That human nature is good and that men are brethren, said Dr. Brownson, was the thesis of Christ, taught throughout His life, that He is the Incarnate God. It is at this period of Father Hecker''s life that we first meet with Father Hecker''s life-long traits to prove all things, that he might Father Hecker''s reading of signs of the Divine will in men and events All his life Father Hecker was on the lookout for the great human or, as Father Hecker would have said in later years, raising man from Much is said in that book of community life in the Catholic Church, To partake thus of the inner life of God was Father Hecker''s one God, that Father Hecker spent his life in cultivating, both in his 18325 war it is the Overseas Forces, the men farthest from home influences, deadly moral dangers which surround the soldier in war time that it Men''s Christian Association with the present war. colors, but a new army of over thirty thousand men and women was been at work there in the long lines of men that stand outside the in the army, and a large number of men and women, boys and girls, thousand men in a day, but nothing is too good for these boys who are _What are the moral standards and actions of the men in war time_? _What are the moral standards and actions of the men in war time_? opening of the war drove men to God. With the passing months, which have men in pre-war times. present time, less than 20,000,000 men were engaged, while in this war American army camps at home and in France already crowded with men, 18369 God; to lift up their eyes unto the Lord, and know that their help comes things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. whether it be true or false; in one word, whether it be of God. And now bear in mind secondly, that this law is the law of the Lord. into life, keep the commandments." "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and mind of Christ, The Word of God. And as for morality--we shall be ready to teach that, as far as the That there is nothing good in man which is not first in God. We shall be able to make them comprehend what we mean when we tell them know and believe certain things concerning God Himself, Father, Son, and I have said--Whither shall a man go from God''s the work of God''s Spirit on the souls of men. 18391 love feast.--Missionaries leave London--erect a mission-house Nain.--Missionary accompanies the Esquimaux to a good effect of the brethren''s labours--visits Nain and brethren visited Labrador--the Esquimaux had been long acquainted with Jesus, you must live near the meeting house, love your teachers, and Esquimaux baptized--proceedings at Nain.--Missionary accompanies Next day, the missionaries, accompanied by eleven Esquimaux, attempted then you, with a great number of believing Esquimaux, may appear expressing great joy at the prospect of the brethren coming to reside summer of 1782, the Esquimaux, for the first time since missionaries heart to Jesus, my Lord and God, and weep for desire after him. Esquimaux, both living in our land and elsewhere, as the Saviour of biscuit, for all the Esquimaux living on the missionaries'' land, and Hopedale, the brethren and the Esquimaux not having received any is as follows: "The work of God in the hearts of our dear Esquimaux, 18438 MORALS pertain to right living, to the things we do, in relation to God faith we know God, by moral living we serve Him; and this double we believe essential to the shaping of a good moral life; for man, between right and wrong is responsible to God for the good and evil he the Law of God. A sin may be committed in thought, in desire, in word, true God, I also violate the virtue of religion, but commit a sin authority of man or of God. Here we have the sin of pride in all the thing when directed towards God, and another where man is concerned. requirements, breaks the law, offends God and sins. animal nature as the act by which God created man is superior to all his aversion, offends against the law of nature, of charity and of God. CHAPTER LVIII. 18482 CLXXXVII The Angelic Voice showeth unto Saint Patrick of his And Saint Patrick, guided by his angelic guide, came unto the sea, and unto God and held Saint Patrick in the highest reverence. is called unto this time Saint Patrick''s Island. his devotion toward his new faith, gave unto Saint Patrick the place On a certain time Saint Patrick came unto a deep and impassable river Thus did the Lord thrice show unto Saint Patrick gold in the earth While on a certain time Saint Patrick was preaching unto the heathens, And Saint Patrick went unto a certain village, near the island of church, which even unto this day is called the Cross of Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick blessed Fergusius, and prophesying said unto him, "Though of the virtues and the miracles of Saint Patrick, came unto him, for And Saint Patrick requested of a certain man, that he would bring unto 18502 and a solemn feeling of peace with God, through Jesus Christ, pervaded him, but one ground of faith and hope, the free mercy of God in Jesus satisfied with the precious evidence of the love of God in Christ Jesus, God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ," and by the effectual Some time before his death, the great conflict of mind he had been under, many times that solemn night, did I long that all the world could feel continued, "I love thee tenderly, and feel thee near in the best life--in was remarkable; His mind expanded in love to his family, his friends, and the dear Son of God; will long be remembered by those who felt the truth and friends, great was, for a time, her domestic happiness. came to me so great and blessed a gift, that I should know and love God, 18503 pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, great world-changing event is to be the coming of Christ to begin the shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and This earthquake set men to thinking of the great day of God. Voltaire, in the world which were to continue until the great day of God comes: word of the Lord, the God of heaven was to set up His kingdom, bringing the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" 18513 sent him away; and saith unto him, "See thou say nothing to any man: For he said unto him: "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit," And my kingdom." And she went forth, and said unto her mother, "What shall Jesus said unto him, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, "One thing thou And Jesus said unto them, "Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I And Jesus answered and said unto him, "What wilt thou that I should do And Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole." And Jesus answered and said unto them, "I will also ask of you one And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, "Thou And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the 18558 great many of the people who lived in Palestine were expecting Him. God had said that when Jesus came, He would be a Jew. The Jews were God coming to earth as her little child, and he said to Joseph, ''THOU The next day John saw Jesus again, and again he said the same words: John called Jesus the Lamb of God, because He had come to die for our along, Jesus saw a man called Philip, who came from the place where place called Cana, and all of His disciples with Him. Jesus went to Then Mary came to Jesus, and said, ''They have no One day when Jesus went into a town a leper saw Him. The poor man came disciples fell down at the feet of Jesus, and said ''THOU ART THE SON OF disciples looked, they saw two men talking with Jesus, called Moses and 18713 heart with unutterable love and happiness." Far away in a distant city, a man, carelessly looking among some And so your independent working woman of to day comes as near being interesting little game called life which we play every day? It was cold that day; the great sharp north wind swept out Elysian skins and lovely eyes like Spaniels, that Titee could not tell of. How love came, and how old earth, quaint little old-world places, where one may be disguised effectually repress it; a woman''s love is too mighty to be put down with little I am a miserable, heart-weary wreck,--a woman with fame, without love. The poor old year died hard; for all the earth lay cold that yeller-haired young man what comes there all the time, wif his arms Holy Mary, Mother of God. Poor little Miss Sophie. Tell to the little ones with wondering eyes, 18787 Jesus, but what we know about the Christ is in fact so little, that St. Francis''s life loses none of its strangeness for that. Order; the true Rule was Francis himself; but they had the great merit took place not long after, St. Francis loved to relate his conversion, One winter''s day, St. Francis was going with Brother Leo from St. Francis said to him: "My brother, be patient, for God gives The desire of Celano to present the facts in the life of Francis 1213.[5] One day Francis and his companion, perhaps Brother Leo, Returned to Assisi, Francis admitted to the Order a certain number of Our dear son, brother Francis, and his companions of the life "I, little Brother Francis, desire to follow the life and the certain time, "Is it true," he said, "that you are Brother Francis of "Ah, if the Brothers knew what I suffer," St. Francis said a few days 18815 Lord shall have taken away His church at His coming in the air. before: "May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and approaches to God. I plead the Blood of Jesus Christ, and the power of "Great God!" he repeated with an anguish that awed the people. great mass of people in London, are already mocking God. They laugh at Beast was speaking great and blasphemous things against God, men are witnesses for God, and are testifying against Anti-christ. and your people had your eyes open to the true character of that man, God''s people--The Church--because all that nineteen hundred years was a God''s witnesses, in this hideous Anti-christ time, for, as witnesses, Kingdom unto the Beast, until the words of God shall be accomplished._" The poor, duped world knew Apleon only as the great SUPER-MAN, "long Apleon, whom they designated "The Beast."--"The Anti-christ." Both men 1885 sufficient bitterness, is put many times in life into every man''s hand. slough that was farthest from his own house, till a man called Help gave Sometimes, as with Christian at the slough, a man''s way in life is all Let every young man seek his future wife of God, and as the wise man says, to know the plague of my own heart, is the true and pilgrims; get you sure into the right way, and leave your burden to God. He appoints the place of deliverance, and it lies before thee. of the mind and heart of man, and this outward world down into which God every day to be patient and good to other men as God has been to him. what God thinks and says is wisest and best, let all the men of the world out of the way, then His sincere-hearted minister is of all men the very 1886 John Bunyan, who again is just the word of God--what does the old pilgrim and read when alone, what that great man of God says about all that in Little-Faith, let it never be forgotten, was, all the time, a good man. that this Little-Faith was really all the time a truly good man. on their way to the Celestial City, Hopeful was one of the most lightminded men in all that light-minded town. gate," said Hopeful, "and men standing at it ready to receive us." "Read For shall God create such desires in any man''s heart 3. "Having had little to do this morning," said Mrs. Timorous to Mrs. Light-mind, "I went to give Christiana a visit." "Law," I read in his spell of love and fear and reverence lay on Mercy''s heart and mind all thy difficulties that shall assault thee in the way, till thou shalt come 18905 reason to think that in the years to come the Church of England may be union of members of the Church of England and English Nonconformists Church ever to acquire a world-voice in the cause of love and right Church, the fellowship of Christians, who are after all set in the world National Mission of Love in the Church of England. both to our Christianity and national life, and sure of blessing by God. It would assure our Nonconformist brothers that we mean business, and churches should be confined to genuinely Christian people, and in order country through local councils working on a Free Church parish system, the basis of the life of the Christian Church and is intended to be Holy Trinity, the Church, the last things, and Christian life and gradually permeated the Christian Church itself, let alone the great For the unity of the Christian Church had been undermined. 18908 When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. Happy night at Bethlehem; soft little hands are feeling, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" there stood the Christmas tree in a glow of light, its wonderful volume falls open at the essay on "Christmas." It is a good many years old man''s face was once like that little boy''s! Then, children, be good to the little old man, It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. Here comes old Father Christmas, said, "That''s a handsome tree!" and at Christmas-time it was felled "Oh!" said the little Mice, "how happy you have been, you old Fir Tree!" Old Christmas is come for to keep open house, 18930 Missionaries.--The Seven Churches.--Temporary Separation.--Mr. Parsons at Jerusalem.--Disturbing Influence from the Greek reoccupied.--Danger to the Mission Families.--Death of Mrs. Thomson.--New Missionaries.--Death of Dr. Dodge.--The Cholera. Jerusalem.--A Prayer-meeting.--The Mission Church.--Works in the Greeks.--The Armenian Patriarch.--Accessions to the Mission.--Outset --Sufferings from Persecution.--Changes in the Mission.--Case of Mr. Temple.--Death of Mrs. Van Lennep. --Education of Greek Youth.--Result of Experience.--Marriage of Mr. King.--His School in Poros.--He removes to Athens.--Change in the Government.--A New Missionary.--High Schools.--Station at Argos. Bey.--Returns to Mosul.--Death of Mr. Hinsdale.--Influence of Mr. Ainsworth and Mr. Badger on the Patriarch.--Letter from Mar Shimon Patriarch flees to Mosul.--Destruction of Life.--Death of Mrs. Laurie.--Arrival of Dr. Azariah Smith.--Death of Dr. Grant. Station.--New Missionaries.--Dr. Perkins''s History of the Mission. characterized.--Greek Catholic Archbishop.--Visit to Hasbeiya.--Mr. Laurie''s Return Home.--Unsuccessful Appeal for Laborers.--Relation The Patriarch of the Armenian Church at this time was Stepan, who with the mission, or return to the Armenians as a missionary 19082 life of nature, the creative power of God. If filial soul be spiritual bodies, and an admission into the kingdom of God. According to Paul, then, physical death is not the retributive God, saying, "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes with the gods is life; to descend into this world is death, a that Jesus came from God to the earth as a man, laid down his life Christ''s soul into heaven after death be said to have done away souls of men at death go into the under world, "a place deep and time is short." "I pray God your whole spirit, soul, and body be Since he regarded God as personal love, life, truth, and light, Christ, next in rank below God, as personal love, life, truth, and God and pass from darkness and death into life and light. 19100 the people of a kingdom together come into covenant with the Lord. Covenant; what peace and comfort hath filled the hearts of all God''s a day of the Lord''s power; a time when the saints of God sall be weak, a "Thou shall fear the Lord thy God, and serve Him, thee to be a holy people unto the Lord thy God:" all this evidenceth infinity in it, the Lord God hath made with us a sure covenant. Lord our God." To get our hearts broken, for breaking the covenant; to churches as the Lord our God shall persuade to come into this holy and Christ, and "I will give Thee for a covenant to the people." God hath Ye have this day a king crowned, and entered into covenant with God and only covenanted king with God and His people in the world; many have 19134 the whole meaning of the life of Christ is Love is a thing too obvious He lived in such a way that men saw that love was the only thing worth living for, that life had meaning only as it had love. the thoughts of Jesus was _that love was the only real justice_. He knew that in spite of his sin against Jesus, he still loved So convinced was Jesus that love alone was the master law of life, that Love was a working and practicable law of life; need of love, do we not feel, as the life of Jesus grows before us, him, and know Jesus as he knew Him. Live the life--there is no other unlikely that I should love Jesus Christ Himself if He once more regard and love to the lowliest of men and women I was rejecting Jesus is doing Christ''s work of love among his fellow men. 19185 The great work to which Teresa gave up her whole life, after her full divine and unseen things in Teresa''s life of prayer is simply miraculous Teresa so often, and kept her so long, alone with God. Till I remembered prayer and personal holiness, Teresa made herself ''capable of God,'' as and honour and love Teresa, and much good as she has been made of God to I cannot help making much of that which led me so near to God. I knew at that great moment what it is for a soul to be in the very intellectual ability to souls is a great thing, when it is done unto God. I have many experiences in prayer that I do not understand, and cannot (1) _The Price of Prayer_.--O Thou Lord of my soul, and my Eternal Good, how great is that grace God works in the soul when He gives it a 19377 God has in his great mercy gathered and united by his own blessed Spirit or persecute his body, for matters of faith or worship towards his God. Thus the false church sprang up, and mounted the chair; but, though she manifestations of God''s power and spirit in man, in these days, though people through their degeneration from the light and Spirit of God, these Lord God their Redeemer; and grew strong in his love, power, and wisdom; religion, say many things true, in words, of God, Christ, and the Spirit; public for the glory of God. Thus, reader, thou seest this people in their rise, principles, ministry, church, and intrusted with faithful men, fearing God, and of good report, and way of Christ''s power and Spirit in his people: making good his into that one Spirit, we are made one people to God, and by it we are 19397 in the "_Reasonable Thoughts of God_," "_Natural Theology_," and "_Moral Christian Religion and Church_, embracing the period from the close of history of the Church of Christ is the clear exhibition of the divine [60] _History of the Christian Religion and Church._ _Preface to First Hence, we safely presume the existence of an eternal God. This being is the foundation of Christian faith and life. Christians in the form in which church-theology has allowed those ideas of grace and truth in Jesus Christ, as the Son of God and of man, by that the power to work them is still in the church over which Christ FRANCE: RATIONALISM IN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH--THE CRITICAL SCHOOL OF All Christian churches live by faith. faith are attacked, the differences existing between Christian churches I have seen Christianity working, not only in churches, but, called the Church when it recognizes its relation to God in Christ, and 19413 in the world of the Kingdom of God. War for her, if for nobody else, The Christian religion is salvation because it starts from what God is. possession--in war just because God, and His love, and His desire have in one thing--He was rich towards God. He looked at the world without only--by the "God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ."[2] The Christian thing which we look for is the Good News of _God_ in Christ. Jesus, in Him revealing God to men. we see the Love of God Himself coming out to win the souls of men_. that follows from God''s love being holy, and from men being unholy, all devotion and service to God and one''s fellow-men. on God and the will or kingdom on which He is at work in the world, and Christian prayer begins with God. It It is because men are poor towards God and think 19488 [Footnote 97: Jean Chartier, _Chronique de Charles VII_, vol. The voice said: "I come from God to help thee to live a good had Jeanne seen Madame Sainte Marguerite at church, painted life-size, Christian King, by my Lord Saint Remi, not doubtless in the Church''s who is the true King of France, and that he shall grant me men-at-arms Jeanne answered Jean de Metz: "I came hither to the King''s territory On the next day Jeanne went to the King''s mass. [Footnote 868: _Le siège d''Orléans, Jeanne d''Arc et les capitouls de [Footnote 879: Jeanne says (in her _Trial_) from 10,000 to 12,000 men; Less than ten days before Jeanne''s coming to Sainte-Marguerite Jeanne replied: "When I came to the King, certain asked me whether The Lord Bishop thus addressed the Maid: "Jeanne," said he, "all Jeanne who had taken King Charles to be crowned at Reims. 19566 befogs the serene light of God''s holy law, and gives the directing power belongeth unto God. In world-building we need not only a quarry of materials, and power for 1. The divine development of the world is a great fact; the theory of class who do not like to accept the Bible doctrine that God created man, 5. _The World''s History is the record of man''s crimes, and God''s God, adored the sun, and moon, and stars of heaven, and in process of The Bible is a great fact in the world''s history, known alike to the world was in as great need of God''s teaching before the coming of Christ God created the earth only six thousand years ago, but in many places the Bible can not be the Word of God, because it asserts facts contrary If the Bible had said that God created the heavens and the earth in six 19612 in this stage have remained for all time in the Church dogmas [Greek: the Christian religion possess dogmas in this sense, and form a Dogma in its conception and development is a work of the Greek spirit on history of dogma of the Greek Church in the second period, and the "The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian Church," the Greek spirit, but has always clung to its main idea, faith in God as the task of bringing a new religion to the Greek world, the Jewish [Footnote 76: The designation of the Christian community as [Greek: 1. The main articles of Christianity were (1) belief in God the [Greek: from the early Christian literature to the apologetic (Christ as [Greek: Similar ideas about Christ are found in Gnostic Jewish Christians); one [Footnote 441: In the Gospel of these Jewish Christians Jesus is made to 19613 CHAPTER III.--Continuation.--The Old Christianity and the New Church fact that the Christian Church had been joined by cultured Greeks, who [Footnote 8: So far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the idea of development of church doctrine (Apologists, Old Catholic Fathers, the Old Testament; the unity of Jesus Christ as the Son of the God who [Footnote 35: Irenæus set forth his theory in a great work, adv. [Footnote 121: The history of early Christian writings in the Church in the old idea that God has bestowed on the Church Apostles, prophets, The old idea that God bestows his Spirit on the Church, The reference is to the Catholic Church which Origen also calls [Greek: [Footnote 396: Barbarian: the Christian doctrines are [Greek: ta tôn [Footnote 418: In the New Testament the content of the Christian faith [Footnote 451: Christians do not place a man alongside of God, for 19615 of the wisdom, power, and goodness of God. The character which the present narrative is designed to introduce to the of sin to the love of God. I wish you may one day see, as I do, the thankful to God for ministers in our Church who love and fear his "God send you safe home again," said the aged mother, "and bless the day the way of life and peace; and I hope it is my heart''s desire to live to "I believe it," she said, "and praise God for the blessed hope." "Sir," said the good old man, "I am sure the Lord will reward you for God bless you, sir; I hope we shall soon see you again." world, and for the time when all shall know, love, and fear the Lord, and the uniting Spirit of God shall make them of one heart and mind in 19671 "Sir, be fervent in prayer with God for the conversion of sinners. of sin to the love of God. I wish you may one day see, as I do, the feel thankful to God for ministers in our church who love and fear his "God send you safe home again," said the aged mother, "and bless the day "I believe it," she said, "and praise God for the blessed hope." "Sir," said the good old man, "I am sure the Lord will reward you for which speaks of the love of God and the mercies of Christ is very God bless you, sir; I hope we shall soon see you again." world, and for the time when all shall know, love, and fear the Lord; child, sir--brought Christ Jesus home to her poor father and mother''s "To have a lively faith in God''s mercy through Christ, sir." 1972 Lord''s incarnation, and in the 24th year of Mervin, king of the Britons, 7. The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Roman consul. daughter of Latinus, king of Italy, and of the race of Silvanus, the son thirty-nine * years: the latter, from whom the kings of Alba are called After the birth of Christ, one hundred and sixty-seven years, king period of their first arrival in Britain, to the first year of the reign of the Saxon race, was the first king in Bernicia, and in Cair Ebrauc The great king, Mailcun,* reigned among the Britons, i.e. in the Theodoric, son of Ida, reigned seven years. Egfrid, son of Oswy, reigned nine years. consuls, and in the fourth year of his reign the Saxons came to Britain, From the year in which the Saxons came into Britain, and were received 19807 In the word lists of the first book, the first entry in each column was Kah-ke-ke-noo-ah-mah-ween-twah e-kewh, Ka-nah-wah-pahn-tah-gigk Mah-ze-nah-e-kun. _Words of three Syllables, accented on the second and third._ _Words of three Syllables, accented on the second and third._ ing koo che me nah wah sah ke maih kah ke nick nah koo shah tah be schooch kah ke nah nah too way tah que shin kah nah wah pa me shin kah-pah-tah-e-yah-me-ke-chik, ki-ya keen e-she-shah-wa-ne-me-she-nom. che-nah-ne-sah-ne-se-yong; mah-noo sah-koo kah-ke-nah A Noun is the name of any person, place, or thing; as, Eneneh, man; To Nouns belong gender, person, number, and case. An Adjective is a word added to a noun to express its quality; as, Verbs have number, person, mood and tense. OWH WAHGOOSH KIYA EWH MASK. Ewh mask egewh mawezhah, meowh ahpe owh ahdesookaun Kah, adv. kah-pah-ke-te-nah-mah-we-yongk [ke-tenah] Ah-noo-shoo-tah -mah--ka-win, kah--e-squah, we-se-ningk.] Ah-noo-shoo-tah -mah--ka-win, kah--e-squah, we-se-ningk.] 19830 I want to tell you how I got my eyes open to the truth that God loves said to my wife: "Did that young man preach at the meetings?" "Yes." She said: "Last night my only boy came home about midnight, drunk. a loving father, mother, brother, husband, or wife, come to Christ, Suppose a man asked me if my name was Moody, and I said, "Well, I hope father said, "No, I will never ask him." At last the mother came down to money, and one day he said while he stood there, a little boy came up to and when the meeting was over, a man came to me and said, "I would like A kind-hearted man got his little boy and brought him to Christ. come over our boy," said the weeping mother; "he has only been a little 19852 Public a brief account of the people called Gipsies, now wandering in little sister of a Gipsy youth seventeen years of age, was taken ill with Lord Teignmouth once said to a young Gipsy woman in Hindostanee, _Tue Gipsies generally have their children baptized at the church near which Bible, as a book that tells poor sinners the way to God. He gave a woman this, the author saw this poor Gipsy in his tent, in the last stage of a many of the Gipsy people treated the women with great contempt, for woman;" said the author, "are these your children?" "Yes, sir," replied The next day he visited the camp again, when the widow woman said, "Sir, reformed Gipsies for a short time, and we had considerable hopes of them To visit the Gipsies in their tents is of great importance. The following letter was addressed to the author by a Gipsy woman when 19879 beginning of the second chapter of his book, "and which Mr. English supposes to be predicted in the Old Testament, is ''a have been the Messiah, that "the Lord God shall give unto him the know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. to her mother in-law "thy people shall be my people." Will Mr. Everett look a little farther to the 1 Sam. ch. "They shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I Shall I proceed to the consideration of some little arguments of Mr. Everett against the intended perpetuity of the Mosaic law derived Jehovah at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of people, and give ear unto me O, my nation: for a law shall [i.e. the Messiah,] shall speak peace unto the nations: and his that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified 19949 The Fugitive Slave Act. Few laws have ever been passed better calculated than this to harden measure of its government, will receive a blessing from God. Let America act on her own avowed principles, that every man is born Mary at first trembled, but soon composed herself with trust in God. Albert, taking her arm into his, led her to where Captain Templeton "Ah!" said Mr. Gracelius, "that will depend upon the grace of God. Farewell, young man, and may the Lord convert your soul and give us a natural right, that I said to myself I cannot honor the true God by "Mary, like yourself, I now feel," said Albert, "that a Christian must 4. Anti-slavery men seek to set slaves against their masters, at the into the soul, and acts in the life of man, we know that sin, in its and let us not falter until in God''s own good time the word shall be 19950 Reply Obj. 2: Habitual grace is only in the soul; but the grace, i.e. the free gift of God, of being united to the Divine Person belongs to Reply Obj. 3: The grace of union is not natural to Christ according Ghost could have assumed flesh even as the Son. Reply Obj. 1: The temporal sonship, whereby Christ is said to be the Reply Obj. 1: Christ is the true God in Divine Person and Nature. Reply Obj. 2: To Christ, inasmuch as He is the natural Son of God, is Reply Obj. 2: Christ is said to be the power of God and the wisdom of inasmuch as "Man" stands for the Person of the Son. Reply Obj. 3: Although the human nature in Christ is something new, Reply Obj. 1: Christ is said to be a natural Son of Man, by reason of Resurrection, as man and not as God. Reply Obj. 3: According to its created nature Christ''s body is not 19979 and Christ-tide--The Restoration--Pepys and Christmas day, 1662--"The England, they will set the Church dores open on Christmas day, and we time called Christmas came, when others were feasting and sporting held of Christmas Day, to which end, order was made that whoever would "_Christmas._--Good my Lord, be favourable to an old man, I am above am corruptly called _Christmas_, my name is _Christ-tide_ or time. Christmas eve, although it obtained on other days, such as New Year''s old custom in England to deck houses, churches, etc., at Christ-tide year, on Christmas Day." Eve of old Christmas Day, and that at twelve o''clock, they observed notice that the old _Christmas Day_ should be kept holy as before. Christmas day cometh while the moon waxeth, it shall be a very good house on a Christmas Day." Christmas, Hogmanay, New Year''s day, and Handsel Monday. The presentation of gifts on Christmas day was an English custom of 20005 and two Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church House for the African Baptist Church--Heavy Indebtedness--Account New Testament I read, after I felt the pardoning love of God in my soul. years, working, part of the time, with a carpenter, who was building a always try to get to meeting in time to hear the preacher read a chapter she can save you." But this suggestion appeared to be offensive to God. Then came another thought,--"As my master was a rich man, could he not Son. My soul was filled with love to God and Jesus Christ. my white Baptist friends in Baltimore, through my pastor, Rev. Sam''l continued in this place for nearly a year, teaching the little children, Children--Great Distress of Mind--Generous Assistance--Church Matters. thousand dollars on the subscription book of the Church towards erecting the largest and best week-day school for colored children in the city--a Baptist churches generally, and especially from Rev. Messrs. 20120 for I know it, and I confess it a thousand times in the presence of God, I the husband had taken the priest with "the good god" from the church to the man to his wife to go and confess to the priest. questions to old and young females who were confessing their sins to me. of sin to that good priest; for not long after my confession was finished, thing to the priest who holds the place of God, Himself, this sin is often not to those who confess their sins to a man, but to those who love God and GOD COMPELS THE CHURCH OF ROME TO CONFESS THE ABOMINATIONS OF AURICULAR GOD COMPELS THE CHURCH OF ROME TO CONFESS THE ABOMINATIONS OF AURICULAR confess all their sins to a priest, at least once a year, there was no While hearing confessions, have I not asked questions on sins against the 20138 "Thou _shalt_ love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul, and thy Jews, "a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, like unto me. were no God, no Christ, no hereafter, it would be better for man to live that only the pure in heart shall see God, or love god-like men and godlike words. as a wise man of old said, "A most merciful God, a revealer of secrets, the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee." that is like God--all in you that is spirit and not flesh, shall live, men--God''s children, calling for help to their Father in heaven. knowing and obeying the laws by which God has made man''s body, and the 20160 THE PLANTING OF THE CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND--PILGRIM AND PURITAN. young men to the service of God "in church or civil state." And this THE AMERICAN CHURCH ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT AWAKENING--A GENERAL VIEW. destined to great honor in American church history, came from Holland, Episcopal Church in Connecticut" ("New Englander," vol. eight months in charge of the newly organized Presbyterian church in New the twenty years ending in 1760 the number of the New England churches people, and "great loss of souls to the church."[216:1] American ideas It was an important day in the history of the American church, that opened to the American church a new and immense field for missionary Great Awakening, nothing had seemed to arouse the New England churches activity and religious enterprise of the New England churches, who, the name of American Christianity, such as the church in no other land churches of New England, 88; 20206 All Churches and Christian institutions of the present time, however Let us look now to the Christian Church in the early time of her The Christian Church was destined for the Hellenic race too, but not for Christian Church from the beginning included intellectual aristocrats The Christian Church included time of sickness of the Church looked neither towards Peter, nor Paul, Yet the true Church of Christ reserves the world-dominion say to-day all the worldly institutions about the Christian Church in In one word, no Christian Church now existing has declined and not the Christian Church, formulated the truth; in other words, that new day for Christianity if this self-castigation of the Churches were Let the people of the Eastern Church stick to their Christian ideal of The primitive Church was very puritanic concerning the Christian spirit. None of the Christian Churches of our time makes an other''s Church into one body, into one Christianity. 20312 When that day comes, let him think of God''s covenant and take heart. of God, which He showed forth in the life of Christ Jesus; to that eternal as my own soul, and I leave all in the hands of a good God. Is not marriage the mere approximation to a unity that shall be perfect If they lived God''s life of love here, how much more there, Son of God, endured poverty, fear, shame, agony, death for thee, that He counted worthy of a fellowship in the sufferings of the Son of God. Rejoice and trust on, for after sorrow shall come joy. human souls who have in them the Spirit of God and of Christ, and of all things, that he might have no one to cry to but to God. And it shall be with every soul of man who, being in the deep, cries out 20314 "Do you know, Aunt Hetty, I thought it was you," said the boy eagerly as "Why did Periwinkle want to leave," asked Miss Hetty, now becoming much "You said that the Fat Woman told you about me," hinted Miss Hetty, "Oh, Aunt Hetty wouldn''t--she don''t like my clothes, you know." "Periwinkle and Pearl Toddles, relatives of Miss Hetty Maise," was the "Let the children come to see me soon, Miss Hetty," he urged, "and I may turning to Pearl and Periwinkle, he asked: "How would you like to come "When shall I send the children, Rev. Smith?" asked Miss Maise. "Why Peri," protested the minister''s son, "your Aunt Hetty is one of the "Pearl," said Periwinkle when they were started on their way home, "Have you warned Kitty?" asked Jeoffrey Maise, turning to Miss Hetty. "Peri shall go to college in a few years," said Mr. Grey, "and Pearl 20378 That your heart shall echo your whole life long. He was born into our humanity on Christmas Day. _Phillips Brooks._ Good-night: with honest, gentle hearts, Make us like thee, O Christ, the Child! Christ the Lord is born to-day. God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. God rest ye, all good Christians; upon this blessed morn For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come He comes, the broken heart to bind, Christ is come to be my Friend, Christ is come to be my King, Christ is come! Come, sing the carols old and true, Mistletoe and gleaming holly, 20430 We stand to-day like men who have just watched a great sunset. produce truth in the inward parts--a consciousness and love of God. And then, thirdly, _learn truth like a lesson_. believe, into what has been called, "God''s great Convalescent Home" in attractive things in the world; thirdly--a rainbow is God''s appointed rainbow round the throne of God. And we shall now understand that the But because it is so produced, the rainbow round the throne of God wins Thirdly, the rainbow round the throne of God speaks of hope. come, so the tempted one at home or at work, looks upon the rainbow rainbow round the throne of God is still awful, for it reminds us of of innocence, of pure home life, which constituted a beautiful rainbow Let us take home, then, these four great lessons from the character of life, The rainbow of purity round the throne of the heart, and In the 20450 the lives of men, that the Church of God is _one_, that she is _holy_, saint, after having lived the life of one for seventy-eight years. tears, thanking God for having given so great a pastor to his church.[5] and had served God with great fervor in a monastery for some years, when forgive myself."[4] This holy monk, having served God eight years in passed in her soul between her and God. Through a divine call to a religious and conventual state of life, she God, as the good father and great master of the family of the world, The saints made God, and the accomplishment of his holy will, the great years of her life in a monastery, where she gave up her soul to God in great saint was chosen by God the saviour of the life of him who was the 20534 The great and blessed God that made heaven and earth, the seas and the everlasting life." God so loved the world, he gave his Son to be a light unto the world, that all might see their way back to God again: For sin [_sic._] be dead to sin, and alive to God, come unto him that hath all Son of God, who is the light of the world; they will neither believe in Therefore, my friends, open your hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ, They that have the saving knowledge of God, and Christ Jesus, which is whom there is no guile; They will receive Christ Jesus who is God''s God, and feel the constraining power and efficacy of the love of Christ, everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and it shall into the kingdom of God. O my friends, set before you the example of Christ, who was holy, 20541 They saw directly that he did, for that kind face looked full of care as saw the other children playing on the beach; he heard their merry voices; and there I saw a man standing in white robes, and speaking good words, the porch; and as I gazed, I saw the man look earnestly into the face of then, when a flashing light came, and he saw the look of the travellers hand, and he thought there was just a little blue light playing most was red and angry-looking light, and all that he could read was, "the way upon the path behind him; and he looked round and saw one of the King''s the dim light round him he saw, as he thought, the form of an evil beast burning head, and looking languidly up he saw the kind face of the Lord On all these things the servants looked; sometimes they saw beautiful 2056 The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward, a valuable history and their hands, in the form of a letter from Carey, who stated that "Mr. Thomas, the Bengal missionary," was trying to raise a fund for that Under date four days after we find this entry in the Church Book--"Mr. Carey, our minister, left Leicester to go on a mission to the East Carey''s work for India underlay the first period of forty years of missionary till his own death, four years before Carey''s, when he left For seven years Carey had daily preached Christ in Bengali without a native missionaries--The Bengali church self-propagating--Carey the in the new Government House--Carey''s Sanskrit speech--Lord Wellesley''s Through the College of Fort William during thirty long years Carey then the great Serampore series began with Carey''s Bengali New CAREY''S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FOR THE PEOPLE OF INDIA CAREY''S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FOR THE PEOPLE OF INDIA 20578 heard a man cry one day, an awful cry "Oh, I could curse God," he said, Connecticut, for forty-seven years he said, "Better than I know any man To this man Jonah, living some time, somewhere, God spoke. "The love of God is wider than the measure of man''s mind "A good man comes every day and talks to me, and his answer: "I am going down to strengthen his hand in God. You know David to-day to strengthen his hand in God. I said we do not know his living God. Jesus Christ knew men and women. "He was a good man." That was what God said about him. God. That is the way, I think, that this man got his name. I only know that I have come with God in my heart and have done things work together for good to them that love God." There are times, 20711 about "the good old times," and fancies that _they_ belonged to God, for all things a good and loving God will bring them to judgment! glory and the love of God in the face of Jesus Christ. there were no world, no men, no angels, no heaven, no hell, and God were that God is visiting all day long for ever, to give order and life to His in dread, to do a little good ere the night comes when no man can work, hast a human heart and will look at what God means thee to look at--Christ and hurtful to man in the universe of God, so long will Christ''s Cross spirit of romance will never die as long as a man has faith in God to It was a day of God. The earth lay like one great emerald, ringed and 20731 time--"the man who came to Jesus by night." That comes to be in John''s the life "the love of God _floods_ our hearts."[2] _It takes power_ for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about of the Spirit of Jesus if I am to find real the practical power of His Holy Spirit''s control that Jesus'' plan for their lives may be carried life into God''s plan that he shall first of all come to the Passover The _second_ of these is a heart-love for the old Book of God. Not Listen to Jesus'' own words in that last night''s long talk in John''s power of the Spirit of Jesus which comes through absolute, glad shall receive power _when_ the Holy Spirit is come upon you." Some of our friend the Holy Spirit, and just what His coming into one''s life In the christian life the follower of Jesus with the Spirit 20801 God cannot approve of any thing but what is in itself Right, Fit, Just. our natures to be influenced by right motives is as absolutely necessary Since a _disposition_ to be influenced by right motives is disposition_ to be influenced by the _Vicious_ Motive as great an naturally with a _disposition to be influenced by Virtuous Motives_, and I think then, that a _disposition to be influenced by right motives_ disposition to be influenced by right motives, declares to the man''s the man''s having any _natural disposition to be influenced by wrong whether in thought, word, or deed; and desire to have a due sense of Thy When the late Lord Bishop of Durham first intended to have a place of "And the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham (late of Bristol) for "The late Lord Bishop of Bristol, now of Durham, and the Right 20941 into the United Lutheran Church: the General Synod, the General Council, congregations organized the first Lutheran Synod in America, with Congregation, organized an English Lutheran Church instead, and in 1804, Lutheran synod in America exists to the present day as "The Evangelical all the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church as the doctrinal furthermore promise to regard the Rev. College of Pastors of the Ev. Lutheran Congregations in Pennsylvania as a lawful and regular Lutheran pastor or congregation who would consent to concede to a synod General Synod in 1823 the Lutheran Church in America numbered 900 1825 the Synod of Pennsylvania and the German Reformed Church were ministers of the North Carolina Synod call themselves Lutherans, but as Church Governed by Word of God Alone.--The Tennessee Synod did Lutheran synods and congregations at the time of her organization. Tennessee Synod the Lutheran Church of America generally was suffering 20956 For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas day. We shall hear the glad word: Come up hither, ye blest! _Chorus._ To Thee, Thou Day of Night! This day let man rejoice and sweetly sing, Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring We wish you merry Christmas, also a glad New Year; God send our mistress a good Christmas-pie! a set of my sons, that come out of the lanes of London, good dancing NEW-YEAR''S-GIFT, _in a blue coat, serving-man like, with an orange, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" Good luck unto Old Christmas, Let us honor, O, my brothers, Christmas Day! For Christmas is come in ev''ry home, they come with Christmas snow, How will it dawn, the coming Christmas-day? How will it dawn, the coming Christmas-day? Come to them, blest and blessing, Christmas-day. And keep them men indeed, fair Christmas-day. 20983 It was Sunday night, and Robert Hardy had just come home from the Mrs. Hardy looked at Clara, who grew very red in the face, and then, to Oh, why is it that men like Mr. Hardy cannot be made to see the importance of work in the Sunday Mrs. Hardy, looking her husband in the face, replied: "Robert, what will you do to-day?" asked Mrs. Hardy. "I think father ought to stay at home with us all the time," said Bess. rest Mr. Hardy awoke to his second day, the memory of the night coming Mrs. Hardy said "Yes," and going up to George sat down by him and laid more days lay before him to use to the glory of God, Robert Hardy felt Thus Robert Hardy''s Seven Days came to an end. Thus Robert Hardy''s Seven Days came to an end. 2099 headquarters of the Brethren''s Church, a smart young man, by name John we are true to the law of God and the practice of the early Church."[28] Instead of regarding learning as an aid to faith, they regarded it as the Emperor, the days of the Brethren''s Church would soon be over. Church, to present the Brethren''s Confession of Faith to King Ferdinand. know," said the King, "how you Brethren came to adopt this faith. "If the Church of Rome will mend her ways, the Brethren," said he, "will He loved the Brethren''s Church to the end of his days; he Zinzendorf, the Renewer of the Brethren''s Church, spent the years of his Again, the Brethren listened day by day to a special message from God. We come now to the origin of the Moravian Text-book. Church; for the single Brethren, the "man about thirty years of age"; "Our Moravian Brethren," he said, "are an ancient Episcopal Church. 21024 The fact that redemption yields God the highest glory will appear also birth-song, singing, "Glory to God in the highest!" "There is joy," said Jesus, "in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that No man hath seen God at any time; so saith the Scriptures. of an aged saint is borne away to glory, every child of God has its Peace--their song, "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, the highest glory, blesses our earth with peace, and expresses JESUS RESTORES PEACE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. "Hast thou an arm like God? Word of God; and the gospel''s is the voice which, like Christ''s on of all nations, singing, Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, It was not simply Glory to God, nor peace on earth, but good will angels shall sing, Glory to God! revenue of glory which God was to receive, and the peace which earth 21133 eyes on them words, and I''ve said to myself, ''All right, Thomas Bradly; Bible in his own house, Foster, as he was coming home from his work, away: you shall have one of the right sort cheap; that clumsy, oldfashioned thing''ll never do you no good.''--''Well,'' says I, ''that''s just So saying, Bradly handed a little Bible to his opponent, who took it "Good evening, Jim," said Thomas Bradly, making his way to the fireplace, and taking a seat opposite to Barnes; "I was sorry to hear bad head, and said, in a half-choked voice, "Thank you, Thomas; I''ll come, "I''m sure you''re right, sir," said Bradly; "she''ll have cause in the end "We''re like to have hot work to-night, sir," said Bradly to the vicar, "I''ll wish you good morning, sir," said Thomas Bradly to the doctor, as "Thomas," she said, "remember the good old saying, ''Man''s extremity is 21190 towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.'' These two, repentance ''Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.'' Every word here is comes to the same thing--new life through Jesus Christ. Him. He who trusts Christ loves God. That is Christianity in its men''s lives, because in their hearts abides love to God. Jesus Christ true basis of all service of men is love and fellowship with God. The third triad--faithfulness, meekness, temperance--seems to point to God''s love and to feel Christ''s joy and peace filling the heart. one thing which sinful men need to hear is the great message that Christ ''This is life eternal to know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ Christ in God.'' Without that leaven the life that we live is a death, shall have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. God in Christ Jesus concerning you.'' So, then, a Christian life may be 21208 Decision.--Westward.--Fort Snelling.--Man of-the-Sky.--Log Cabin.--Dr. Williamson.--Ripley.--Lane Seminary.--St. Peters Church.--Dr. Riggs.--New England Mary.--Lac-qui-Parle. For the first seven years, at Lac-qui-Parle, mission work was In 1843, a new station was established at Traverse des Sioux (near St. Peter, Minnesota,) by the Rev. Stephen R. Out of the eight thousand Sioux Indians in Minnesota, more of New Ulm, by invitation of the citizens, a band of Sioux Indians loyal Indians who saved the lives of white people and were true the mission Home of Dr. Williamson, at Lac-qui-Parle, Minnesota. Seventy years ago, among the twenty-five thousand Sioux Indians in the established his headquarters as a missionary to the Sioux Indians. Christian gentleman; such a man was this Indian son of a Sioux mother, home of the Sioux, and passed the first fifteen years of his life in missionary appointed to labor among the Sioux Indians. gospel save to the Sioux Indians, and for forty-six years, he has given 21212 church, which woo some praise among the works of those times, but it work, he designed a tomb full of figures, as may be seen at this work of great beauty, it was placed in the middle of the church as a invention, grace, and good style which any work of our own day would pictures in this church contained many figures both small and great, After these works Giotto set out from Florence for Assisi in order to When these works were completed Giotto painted in the lower church of painters in that same city of Florence, as his works in Rome, Naples, other works, painted the chapel of the high altar for S. art of painting, as may be seen by his works, which are scattered had seen in the works executed by Cimabue in the same church. figure, and did many other things for the church, painting above the 21217 Many a time did James Courtenay''s old nurse, who was a God-fearing "Father," said Jacob, "I saw the young squire ride by on his gray pony "Ah, Jacob, my son," replied old Leonard Dobbin, "you may glorify God "Ah, Jacob," said the old man, "''tis in little common trials such as we the tree, as if he wanted to lay Jacob Dobbin''s blood at their young "Who ever said I did Jacob Dobbin any harm?" asked James Courtenay, his "You said I murdered Jacob Dobbin," interrupted James Courtenay. "Come, speak up, Jim," said old Meyers; "you were poor Jacob''s friend, rudely snatched away by the young squire, and how poor Jacob burst a "Leonard Dobbin," said the squire, after he had sat for some time "Thank you, young squire," said Leonard; "it was here that Jacob was "Ay," said James Courtenay, "and Jacob is up yonder; but I fear, with 21323 Church Invisible, known only to God''s Holy Spirit. God. We all know today men of inferior attainments and lives who not As for the working man, to my mind if he doesn''t join a visible church the body of men who love Christ better than their own lives. The visible Church stands to me above all else as appointed of God for to help men to work in the spiritual field. world is looking to the Church today. faith tests for membership in Christ''s Church, has always seemed to me work, and I think my Master was, with the faith that makes a man anxious life is judged in our little world by the good work we do; if as Through the Church of God, which I love the Church of God. For resources it stands to me as a permanent through association, I love also that organization within God''s Church 21351 in God, but also faith in the words which we use, and in the people service, with prayers, praises, lessons, offertory, Consecration, Service of the Church" in our Prayer Book.) to the contrary, we shall use the Lord''s Prayer as an act of Praise and left out, that we may rejoice in the perfections of God. In like manner, when the Lord''s Prayer is ''set'' for Prayer, the thought meant in the Prayer Book Preface (Concerning the Service of the Church, Services our Intention is not Prayer but Praise, and the thought of God The Bible is read in Church as an incentive to the praise of God. It The Hymn calls upon all God''s creatures to worship Him--collectively in the Praise Service ends, with the Highest Thoughts of God and His Being. Worship-Forms used in the Prayer Service. in the Litany of 1544, by _O God whose nature_, &c., the prayer _for 21395 "Oh, my lord, let me beg you not to utter such remarks," said Dona father did, or even than my mother can," answered Dona Leonor. "I do not know what heresy means," answered Dona Leonor, in an artless "I know nothing about doctrines, my lord," answered Dona Leonor. their loving Lord and Master," answered Herezuelo. "Do!" exclaimed a voice; "put our trust in God, and act like men! "That time is, I fear, a long way off," he answered; "yet it behoves us, "I pray that, through God''s mercy, that day may never come," said Antonio Herezuelo and his wife Leonor knelt in prayer after their friend "Antonio Herezuelo and Leonor de Cisneros, you are our prisoners," said forth in God''s blessed Word, sent in His mercy and love as a sure guide our holy faith," said the Inquisitor, in a peculiarly harsh voice. "What do you mean by God''s holy Word?" asked the Inquisitor. 21448 "I hope to go as a midshipman on board a man-of-war, sir," I answered. "Cheer up, Harry," said Captain Willis, as the "Chieftain," under all "Wait bit captain," he said, "high water soon, and den ship go in I told the captain when I went into the cabin what the poor mate had "I go when you tell I come on board," answered Paul. "Paul," said the captain one morning, when he felt himself getting a "Captain," said Paul, fixing his eyes steadily on him, "the debil told of the sinner," Paul continued, explaining to the captain God''s plan of "Massa Captain, I do not say dat God expect us to be good; but still He "I''ll pray wid you, captain," said Paul, and he On going on deck I told Paul my fears about the captain. "We will try, Massa Captain," said Paul. "Never fear Massa Harry," said Paul, "we soon right her." 21486 "Friend woodman," said the traveller, as he got up to him, and the old Without further waste of words, the old man and young Karl set to work "That pack of yours seems heavy, friend traveller," said the old man, little way, at all events," said the old man. The traveller was walking on all this time with the old man and Karl, "I wish that I could read them," said the old man, with a sigh; "but if I am able to read God''s blessed word, and that is my delight every day I and tell us more of those glorious things?" said the old man, placing "You are a brave man," said old Moretz, grasping the book-hawker''s hand; which she had read; and from henceforth the old man and Karl passed a room," said the count, as the old man stood, cap in hand, gazing at him 21491 Michael Moggs, the trapper, had fathered the boy, Laurence, with an "It''s time to look to the traps, Laurence," said the old man, arousing "Art safe, Laurence, art unhurt, boy?" exclaimed the old trapper, who BIBLE AND GOD''S LOVE TO MAN--LAURENCE OUT OF DANGER--THE TRAPPER LEAVES "Speak not again of those times, Laurence," exclaimed the old trapper in "Farewell, then, boy," said the old trapper, taking his son''s hand. "I am so sorry that your father has gone away, Laurence," said Jeanie, "Do you speak of the Great Spirit, little girl?" said Laurence, raising THE INDIANS BLOCKADE THE FORT--LAURENCE RECOGNISES THE SIOUX AS OLD FINDS HIS OLD NURSE--LAURENCE BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS FRIENDS AT THE FORT. TO HIM--LAURENCE CONVEYS THE OLD TRAPPER TO THE FORT--NARRATES TO MR. HIM--THE OLD TRAPPER AT LENGTH BELIEVES THE TRUTH--RETURNS WITH LAURENCE "You will come back, Laurence, when you have found your father?" said 21496 nature we discern God revealed as Power, Mind, Will, Purpose, so in the idea of God''s immanence in the world and in man tend to efface that in man, we predicate that community of nature which the writer of Gen. ii expresses by saying that God created man in His own image; we point of view of {32} Divine immanence, can there be anything but God?" When we speak of the immanence of God in nature, therefore, we mean Power and Life; if He is immanent in man as that moral and spiritual the distinction between God and man, we rub out all _moral_ Dieu_"--"I had seen the head of that good old man called God disappear (4) Life, God, Omnipotent Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease. prayer is real religion_." Wherever men believe in a personal God, as it is not, in our sense of the term, _good_, as the God of Christianity 21778 The work of a merciful God, the Church looks essentially, and from the great duties which bring it into relation with God. Nature and reason authority the holy Fathers of the Church have been careful to maintain in many places dilate on the power of those good things, but especially These, then, are the things taught by the Catholic Church concerning the these things the monuments of former ages witness the Catholic Church to Thus the talented young Catholic boy from New York State learned not delivered in the church reared in New York in honor of the Mother of State of New York for some years had suffered from a want of churches; that Mat was called hurriedly one day to the house of Mary, by the news realize that in times almost within the memory of living men, Christians The Great and Gifted Redemptorist Father, Rev. John O''Brien, 21814 Ever since I wrote, in a contracted form, _The Life of Jesus Christ_, Jesus brought him to himself, and immediately he acted like a man. Thus was Jesus, on this day of shame, tossed, like a ball, from hand to his words and, pointing to Jesus, cried, "Behold the Man!" Painters the body of flesh and blood of the Man Christ Jesus, but at the same the ancient world; but "the cross of the God-Man has put an end to the loved Him; they suffered with Him; they could have died for Him. May we not believe that the eyes of Jesus, as long as they were able to for all: "The blood of Jesus Christ, God''s Son, cleanseth us from all things--repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The life of Jesus was one of great suffering, because He had to do His to those who, like Jesus, have hidden God''s Word in their hearts that 21828 history of the world; and in Paul it found the man it needed. 9. The Missionary of the Gentiles.--Christianity obtained in Paul, a man on an open mind like Paul''s must have been very great; and, God approached the man who had come to the city to take his life. to be a failure, He brought forth His secret--the righteousness of God. This was Christianity; this was the sum and issue of the mission of righteousness is faith; and this is as easy for Gentile as Jew. This was an inference from Paul''s own experience. human nature, which together form what Paul calls the Flesh, or that In Paul''s time the known world was so small that hour Barnabas sank into the second place and Paul took his natural Christian, Paul knew that he had a definite work to do; and the call he in Paul as the principle of the new life 21881 that, at death, the souls of good men pass at once into heaven, while the But if a good man''s soul goes straight to heaven at death, our life on earth, the soul and spirit are united to a material and Our Lord''s soul and spirit came back, as we know, from Epistle to the Thessalonians: "I pray GOD your whole spirit, soul, and soul,--"receiveth not the things of the spirit of GOD." {34c} And again, of GOD, man''s body and soul were scarcely higher in the order and rank of their life whose human spirit has yielded up its supremacy, whose soul of life,--body, soul, spirit, which are united to make one human being. with the life of the soul before death. with the life of the soul before death. GOD permits souls in the Intermediate Life to know, that they do actually 21938 "My Lord, ye ar too old; bot, with the grace of God, I shall drynk with war sent to such as thei wold charge to meat the King, day and place not to foster wicked men in thare iniquitie, albeit thei war called his year, at a certane tyme appointed, quhilk thei could not nor wold nott tooke his leave of thame, and said, "That God had almost putt end to nott nor leve of to learne the word of God, which I taught unto thame, ye gett nane." Thare war with the said Johnne, James Melven,[447] a man In the end he said, "Yf any here, (and thare war present Maister Johne your awin answeres." John Knox said, "I, for my parte, praise my God befoir the day appointed, thei caist thare awin summondis; and the said that day that JOHNE KNOX arryved in Scotland.[727] And that thei mycht 21987 his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be good things which God hath prepared for those who love Him. May He bring us all to that glad surprise. of Israel came out of Egypt, God in mercy sent them Bread from Heaven, said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him." Day comes, when our true Joshua will lead the people of God into the "In the fourth generation," God said, "thy seed shall come David prays to God, "Lord, let me know the number of my days, that from the heart, "Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the that God will try all men''s work and see of what sort it is--good, over the work of God''s house; he was wise and good, and he did a great "Give thanks always, for all things, unto God and the Father, in the 21992 The idea of progress was abroad in the world long before men became was erected into a progressive idea of human life as a whole. idea had firmly grasped the human mind, the modern age had come indeed, our need of God and immortality and the saving powers which Christians and his idea of God, marching through the world "like fifes and drums," As men''s thought of God has thus been molded by the idea of progress on At the heart of the idea of progress is man''s new scientific Men want to know what life spiritually means and they want living God. Such, then, is the abiding need of religion in a scientific age. individual ways of coming into the Christian life influence us deeply We cannot keep any spiritual thing in human life, even the spirit of the idea of God in Hebrew-Christian thought moved out from a very 21995 of God to human knowledge will then be looked at through mind as a religious and moral life; what may I believe about God and Duty, about existence of the Universe is the mind that we call God. existence of a Mind possessing universal knowledge is necessary as the be thought of the existence of matter apart from mind, every one will dead, inert matter to exist without any mind to think it or know it, but upon the necessity of God as a universal, knowing Mind to explain both thought of as ultimately an experience in the mind of God, parts of which the existence of God. And even among the religious minds without of Nature as existing in the Mind of God, or as simply created or brought the Logos or Reason of God. The thought of great religious thinkers is none the less Revelation 21997 "It''s morning, Master Treffy," said Christie; "shall you soon be awake?" "Yes, Christie, boy, go if you like," said the old man; "but you''ll be "Well, Master Treffy, I''m ready," said Christy, putting the organ-strap "That''s what I want to know, sir," said Christie; "he''s a very old man, "Christie, boy," said old Treffy''s voice; "what did the doctor say?" "Christie, boy," said old Treffy, suddenly, "I want you to make out "Master Treffy," said Christie, that night "do you love Jesus?" "Master Treffy," said Christie, solemnly, "if you don''t love Jesus, you "Yes, Christie, boy," said old Treffy; "I don''t know how it is; I used "Be sure you mind every word he says, Christie, boy," said old Treffy, "I don''t know, Christie, boy; I can''t feel it," said old Treffy "That''s me and old Treffy," said Christie to himself. like home." "And old Treffy''s there at last," said Christie to himself 22075 We have seen Jesus, the only Son of God, dying for our sins, eyes from this world''s dirty ways, look away from your selfish work, strive each day to build the _life of duty_, by just doing what God "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." the world to come: like the rich man, you will in this life have had If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he Another fruit for which God looks in a Christian''s life is _humility_. of life." In Baptism, God the Holy Spirit comes to us, we are born man''s spiritual life, if he has not _God with him in his work_. tells you that he believes in Jesus Christ, but not as God, only as Let the world know that you _do_ believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and 22105 life is dominated by the spirit of Christ, then Christian Ethics must of moral life, to promote which is the primary task of Christian Ethics. moral life; and it is {6} the business of Christian Ethics to show that study of Ethics, as a science of moral life, has come to the front. man--some good which belongs to the true fulfilment of life--Ethics may nature, meaning and laws of the moral life as dominated by the supreme {23} given a new direction to the moral life of man. Even in his natural state man is constituted for the moral life, and, the Christian life there is no such thing as mere duty; for a man never in order to free a man from the duties of the moral life. thought of man''s relation to God which gives coherence to the moral life, moral life of man. 22106 the whole later life with its continually changing drama, Knox remains Lord Paul, Pope by the Providence of God.'' Only three years later, in year, 1547, Knox is standing in the Church of St Andrews, and denouncing Knox''s individual outlook upon the Church--first, of Western Europe, and JOHN KNOX, WITH DELIBERATE MIND, TO HIS GOD. things, of prejudging her and ''entering into God''s secret counsel.'' Knox men in his time, was that in Knox''s case it changed one who was born to [17] Seven years after this time, Knox, writing from abroad to ''his peaceful time of Knox''s life. Church of Scotland.'' The preachers approved, Knox, however, demanding Beza and Knox''s friends in the French Protestant Church generally had the last time the Queen sent for Knox. It was the second great climax of Knox''s life; and now his public work beyond any other man in Scotland Knox was its guide. 22134 have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." It is like the shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ God''s children on earth are remarkable for their love to Christ and His Let us look at his work as a ruling Elder of the Church of Christ. words of God. A few days before this he had said to Mrs. Knowles: faith in the great love of our God, and the triumphant death of Christ, God loves and prospers those who, like Jesus, speak kind words of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. church, and read God''s Word.'' member of the Allen Street Church, and, after reading God''s Word and Oh, that the Holy Spirit of God may touch our hearts to-day; that we work together for good to them that love God; them who are the called 22141 new value to these disclosures of the spiritual life of the God in man. Christ discloses the very highest spiritual life which it is life." And therefore his love of God the Father, no less than his Let man behold, through Christ, the infinite Father, the source of all life and blessedness and good, and man will put God first, and find his Come, learn from Jesus the love of God. Let it win your heart; and as time--that love of God to man out of which Christ came to save our prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." of life are felt by the soul, when the mind''s supreme need of truth and call of those in need, which loves and works for God--the life which is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 22237 are a presentation of the personal glory of Jesus Christ, as God the Son Jesus Christ is GOD (ver. He is the Brother of Man as truly as He is the Son of God (ver. This blessed Jesus Christ, this God and Man, He is our High Priest, merciful and faithful (ver. of God" not as a servant but as the Father''s "own SON (ver. Christ, in whom we know and possess the living God. CHAPTER III rest of faith" is waiting to be entered, is a thought to "fear." Great people of this great covenant, absolutely nigh to God. _Thirdly_ (verses asks for God, this wonderful Christ, personal, eternal, human, Divine, sanctuary, the God-given type and shadow (ver. God could meet Israel there in peace (ver. salvation and know their open way to the heart of God. The argument now proceeds in living continuity. 22269 remained in me of the love of God. I did not wholly leave off mental prayer, without asking my confessor''s Oh, my God, how great was thy goodness, to bear with me at this time, These things Thou hast ordered, O my God, in such a manner, by Thy At length, God permitted a very religious person, of the order of St. Francis, to pass by my father''s dwelling. thy love, O my God, Thou wast pleased to fix me in a continual When that good father asked me how I loved God, I answered, "Far more the state of being dead and having our life hid with Christ in God. It great pains with much patience offering them to God and making a good I received a letter from Father La Combe, wherein he wrote that God had This good hermit had a great sense of the designs of God on Father La 22314 Patriarchal Tradition.--The Hand-Writing on Belshazzar''s Wall.--The Secret The Discipline of the Secret in the Origin of the Christian Church.--The Source of Political Power at its Beginning.--The Secret Writings they the popular religion under new forms; what powers and objects of nature religion to a common origin, with similarity of human means to accomplish a power over kings, generals, nations, and people, in the hands of the the mysteries exercised a great influence on the spirit of the nation, not the time of Moses, their secret writings must having been only known to him religion was the engine of political power, came from the ancient Assyrian of faith," better known to us as a secret society called "THE INQUISITION." history has its time, and the order of Jesuits can never rise to any great A secret society, also political, was formed here, known as THE 22331 EVERY TRUE CHRISTIAN IS A SOLDIER--of Christ--a hero "par Here are some PORTRAITS OF CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS taken by the Lord Jesus "Thank the good Lord," said a very fragile, white-haired lady, "God MOSES--the man of God--was a species of human chameleon--scholar, DAVID--the man after God''s own heart--was a man of war and a mighty Thus Christ said to His soldiers: "HE shall teach you all things, HE "ONE MEDIATOR ONLY, between God and Man, the man Christ Jesus." ONE DIRECTOR OF CHRISTIAN MEN--GOD THE HOLY GHOST. know The Only True God and Jesus Christ," is enough. JOHN THE BAPTIST--a man taught and made and sent of God--good old life was a perpetual gamble for God. Daily he faced death for Christ. choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God but Chocolates from executing God''s Will. A man of God. A gambler for Christ. 22366 Church win the new barbarian conquerors as she had won the old imperial accepted their sway, the Christian Church was their greatest support. From 527, in the East, Church history may be said to start on new [Sidenote: Church and State in the East.] great age in the life of the Eastern Church, a word must be said about church of Constantinople in the sixth century after Christ. Rome of the Church''s powers and claims; but it is not till the rise of [Sidenote: Relations of the Frankish Church with Rome.] The _Liber Pontificalis_, the Roman Church history of the time, states equality of the two great churches of the Old and the New Rome. The English Church, which thus came to represent the Christianity of debt to the great Church of the New Rome. At the close of the tenth century a pope and an emperor of great ideas 22376 the Spirit of God who can follow Jesus, as Peter afterward did, to "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man does the power of God''s Spirit pass into human hearts and lives. objects of the natural world, and even to the human life of Christ. feel that the words and works of Jesus Christ constitute a unique claim be distinguished from the outgoing of our faith and love toward God. At the beginning of our experience we hold Him, but as the Holy Spirit through His apostles'' words, Jesus said, "That the world may know that the reflection from us of what we have first received from God. Love is shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit. God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath begotten us again the means will always be the person and work and love of Jesus Christ. 22400 The first persecution of the church took place in the year 67, under great deal of time in travelling, till he took up his abode in Rome, and pious christians coming to the place of execution, in order to give his All which time he so instructed the poor prisoners in the word of God, living, but I owe that and all other services to God. Gardiner was sent to prison, and a general order issued to apprehend all seeing any person for several days, in which time the governor received Soon after this gentleman''s death, a great number of protestants were taken from protestants at various times, and different places, and which About this time 36 persons, denominated Lollards, suffered death in St. Giles'', for no other reason than professing their attachment to the our church is from the beginning, even from the time that God said unto 22459 St. Paul, he mutilated not only St. Luke''s Gospel, but even the Epistle He mentions Gospels written by St. Matthew and St. Mark, and we know from Eusebius that he made use of 1 John. Another most important difference is that St. John''s Gospel is marked by a tone and teaching which are seldom to be of the four chief apostles, Peter and Paul, Matthew and John, has come In his First Epistle St. Peter refers to "Mark, my son," and his words make it certain that the The evidence for believing that the third Gospel was written by St. Luke, the friend of St. Paul, is very strong. "woman who was in the city, a sinner." In recording these words, St. Luke proves that Jesus Christ Himself taught the Pauline doctrine that the believer through Christ is implied by St. Paul, St. John, St. James, and St. Peter. 22482 At a time of life when most men are honoured with a natural I am talking to young men who do not intend to make a failure of life; the practical side of life, the first duty of a young man is to be And even where middle life has won success in the things men covet, and There are twenty men who have faith in Christ for one man who has hope of my Lord." This is one great element of a young man''s strength--hope "If any man defile this temple," says the Apostle, "him shall God man has ever written more sensibly to young men--says that "betting is answer it by saying that I do not think any young man who takes himself things." "I was so tempted," says a man, "and I yielded," which means are some things God cannot do for us, and yet leave us men. 22542 strife.--The Eternal Father and His Son Jesus Christ appear to and Temple.--The Lord Jesus Christ appears.--Specific authority of olden Christ''s origin and the eternal reality of His status as Lord and God. Christian and unbeliever alike acknowledge His supremacy as a Man, and Jesus Christ whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men,[59] Eternal Father, (2) His Son Jesus Christ, and (3) the Holy Ghost. coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and of "Behold, I am Jesus Christ the Son of God. I created the heavens and the "Behold, I am Jesus Christ the Son of the living God, who created the Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according glory, and exaltation; for the "Man of Holiness," whose Son Jesus Christ appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ at that time and place: 22916 "God has taken our little Mildred," said Arthur''s father presently, in a "I know it," said Arthur''s mother; "better than we could." "Arthur, my darling, darling boy, come here," said his mother, after some "My dear child," said Mr. Vivyan, as the time came nearer for Arthur to go "Arthur, dear," said Mrs. Vivyan presently, looking straight into the "Yes," said Mrs. Vivyan; "She is very kind, Arthur, and I know she will "Yes, if I am good, I know," said Arthur; "and that''s just the difference. "Arthur, my own darling little boy," said his mother, pressing her arm "Mother, I think you were going to say something else," said Arthur, after "Yes," Arthur said, "I am, Edgar; and do you know I wish you were." "Oh, Arthur," said Edgar, "I don''t think any one knows how unhappy I have "Do you think it is well, Arthur?" said Edgar, a little reproachfully. 22944 "Are you better, mother, to-day?" asked little Peter, as he went up to "That''s true, mother," said Peter, opening the book at the third chapter "No, sir," said Peter, "I came to learn to be a sailor." "Do you hear, boy?" cried the captain, seeing that Peter did not move; "No, sir," said Peter, "I don''t expect to do so for a long time to Peter heard the mate report to the captain that he had sounded the well, and old Hixon told Peter that he feared the ship had been driven "I see a man close at hand," said Peter. with Peter and old Hixon, stayed by the captain. Notwithstanding what the captain said, neither Peter nor old Hixon would know Peter will look after the captain," and they set off. even if that ship sails away, He can send another," said Peter. Captain Barrow spoke frequently to Peter and old Hixon, and when the 22955 and the date of his birth has been placed anywhere from 4 B.C. to 7 A.D. Matthew says that Jesus was born "in the days of Herod", while Luke says thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith Jesus stressed his mission to save the world, saying "For God so loved have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?"[39] "Let us alone, Jesus occasionally eulogized marriage: "For this cause shall a man leave Again Jesus said: "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also If Jesus was not God, but merely the ideal man, his estimate of himself But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead Jesus had said that God would always answer prayers in his name. Whether Jesus was God, or man, or myth, he can be judged by his works, 22990 admiration of men, the church of _Notre-Dame_ or Cathedral of According to some old traditions, the Cathedral is built on a small stone figure of Mars, coming also from the Cathedral, was saint Amand built a church on the ruins of a Roman temple, but repair the damage caused to the church by placing at bishop town, which took place in the very chancel of the church, him in directing the works of the Cathedral, and he died in 1339. On the second tier of the middle porch is a large rose-window rose-window, are four equestrian statues, placed in niches in the pyramid has been erected in the year 1878, after the plans of Mr. Klotz, architect of the Cathedral. Strasburg, his native place, this remarkable work was entrusted; The first chapel built in the Cathedral was Saint-Lawrence''s, repairing the Cathedral church, are still managed like other 23038 comes the restoration of the old original love plan to earth and beast lower earth lights, God has looked a man in the face once again. such a thing as this of seeing God or Christ, his words seem so poor and Then comes the new sight of the crowned Christ.[58] It was on a Lord''s things in the Church is its giving Jesus the Light out to all the earth. comes clear, sweet light to comfort our hearts during the waiting time This is the first glimpse into heaven given us in this old Book of God. Jacob wakes up in his dream and sees a ladder set up connecting earth God. This leader comes into great prominence and power. open._ And _our Lord Jesus appears_ coming in glory to earth. That our Lord Jesus will actually come to this old earth and 23070 "He generally uses Bickersteth''s prayers," answered Miss Pemberton. "I hope so," said Clara, "though Lady Bygrave, when last she called on his son," observed Harry to Clara; "you might get Mary to speak to her Clara being with her father, Mr and Mrs Lerew were announced. vicar''s visit, and Clara having very unwillingly left her father, Mr the servant entered to say that the captain wished to see Miss Clara, Mary went away in good spirits, promising to write to Clara, and tell Mrs Lerew frequently called on Clara, as also did Lady Bygrave. While Clara had gone one day to return a visit from Lady Bygrave, Miss "It will never do for Clara to see this letter," thought Miss Pemberton; Franklin, observing that the general had handed in Clara, followed, "I know you speak the truth," said Clara; "but I felt myself so blindness," said the general, taking Clara''s hand. 23072 "They are sea-lions, Master Harry," observed old Tom; "the whole rock is Champion took command of one boat and old Tom of the other, and the boys "I feel, Harry, that old Tom is right; and next time he speaks to me I "Everything good is sent by God," said old Tom; and he called to the men "Never fear, boys, we shall find a passage through it," said old Tom. They sailed on, and in a short time the expected passage was seen, the Harry and old Tom thanked him, and said they did not wish for more than "I''ll tell you what, Harry," said old Tom, when they happened to be observed old Tom, when Harry told him. Mr Hart, and Harry and Bass, and old Tom, took their turns at the oars, "What do you think of it, Tom?" asked Harry, as the old man came up to 2308 the Judges; the wars of David, with his and many other magnificent battlesongs; till the best known name of the God of Israel in the Old Testament that lets us know a hundred times every day what at heart we are made of. Let God''s peace, he says, be your man of hearts so long as they stood in the love of God. Paradise is the divine try to fill your heart, O man of God, and after it all we shall hear you comes close to the mind and the heart of man as they now are in all men, filled by a man of God who gives his whole mind and heart, his whole time into, and, indeed, constitute the life of God in the heart of man. heart of man, as also into many of the ways of God, that even here he has 23096 God of turning thousands to a life of allegiance to Jesus Christ. day walks Jesus Christ, the Son of God, crying out to all who are unto you the whole counsel of God. Second, that I might help some one to the knowledge of Christ. chosen people of God, he had said unto them, "And it shall come to "O God, if Jesus Christ be true, reveal him to me and I will follow God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give power of sin have been suggested; one is man''s way, the other is God''s. from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans power of sin, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus sets us unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 23123 OLD DANIEL; OR, MEMOIR OF A CONVERTED HINDOO AND DESCRIPTION OF VILLAGE OLD DANIEL; OR, MEMOIR OF A CONVERTED HINDOO AND DESCRIPTION OF VILLAGE One day when Daniel was about ten years old, and living with his father gathering, Sir. Then worshipping god, presenting flowers, lighted wave feast-day worships the god in the temple, praises it, prostrates We have seen how some old swords were worshipped by Daniel''s parents and schoolmaster being worshipped as the god ''Goobbe-appa''--that is, strayed, and Daniel went from Singonahully towards Goobbe in search of this uncle we lived many years in Goobbe; and when he became an old man, preached in Goobbe, Daniel and his wife had been living there several When they went the first time to any village the people DANIEL AND THE VILLAGE PRIEST. kill you.'' Daniel said to the sick man, ''Do you believe that their god Mission-house to see old Daniel. 23190 "My dear Lisele," said my mother, taking her hand, "Jehovah has said in OUR STATION THREATENED BY HEATHEN NATIVES.--LISELE, ACCEPTING THE TRUTH, Lisele''s father; for although he himself still remained a heathen, he some time before a vessel, with white people on board, had come into the how many act as this poor heathen is doing," said my father, "May my poor father be protected," said Lisele to me, as we watched "We must pray for your father, Lisele," I said, "that God will turn his "God''s will be done, my children," she said, taking Maud''s and my hand FATHER HAS BETROTHED HER.--A FEARFUL HURRICANE.--THE HEATHEN NATIVES We could scarcely hope that my father would have had time to return, yet Lisele''s answer gave me very little hope that any had escaped the Two days passed away, and we began to look for the return of young Tofa; 23191 who is an enemy of Eric''s father, and are taken to the Baron''s castle, makes them oppose our Father, the Pope, and our holy mother Church." must judge of people by the works they perform," answered Eric, in the "That is right, Hans," answered Eric, "but, my old friend, we do not I believe that the Bible is the Word of God," observed Eric. "Young man," said the stranger, turning a pair of dark, flashing eyes "Your advice is good, Hans," said Eric, as he urged on his steed. "Patience, my dear young master," answered Hans, when Eric had thus the words of the good old man come true. "And now, Eric, what do you think of this Dr Luther?" asked the Knight, "Dear wife," said the Knight, calmly, "When I allowed our little Ava to "Our good swords you shall have, father," answered Eric, taking off the 23321 special educational needs of the young people in the circuit of churches to re-establish this school and church work in the Territory. mission school buildings, a strongly built stone church 30 by 50 feet, a of an ample church building and rendered many years of faithful service. Bible shall be read every school day, in the presence of the scholars in "Our state schools have no place for the God of the Bible, nor for organization of the church, followed by the Sunday school, the week-day completion he taught that year the first term of week day school among The Oak Hill church and school happened to be near the center of the Oak Hill church from the time it was founded in 1869, continued to serve serving her sixth year as teacher of the public school at Millerton. Oak Hill, Church, School, 12, 101, 103; 23383 the boats are sent out in search of whales Archy stows away again, to "I wanted to come to sea; so I hid myself away," answered Archy. Andrew led Archy aft, where Captain Irvine was standing, and explained The crew generally did not treat Archy as kindly as old Andrew had done. "I''ll think about it, Max," answered Archy, "but I promised old Andrew "Yes, lad, that He will," said Andrew, taking Archy''s hand, "He has Archy sat close to old Andrew, listening attentively to what he said, he Archy lowered himself down with Andrew on to the ice, and with the rest Archy, from the time of leaving the ship, had kept close to Andrew, and "Well, Archy," he said, "I see old Andrew intends to make you work for "Now move on, Archy," said Andrew, "and keep a bright look out ahead, as 23438 unto the LORD--it must be an offering in every respect such as GOD "imitators of GOD, as dear children," and "walk in love as CHRIST man only shows more fully the perfectness of GOD''S works, and brings tree; yet we know that never was our blessed LORD more prospered than Prosperity." But all GOD''S dealings are full of blessing: He is good, life which GOD''S grace enabled Job to live can scarcely be imagined. child with a trial in which he can bring great glory to GOD, and thee of the LORD GOD of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to of the LORD GOD of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust." "The LORD GOD is a Sun." Ah! Because the LORD GOD there, as here, the LORD GOD is a Shield. there, as here, the LORD GOD is a Shield. there, as here, the LORD GOD is a Shield. 23519 came to my place, on his way to Missouri to join the Mormons. journey I sold most of my cattle on time to an old man, a friend Mormons who had defied the revelations and wishes of God. So things went from bad to worse, until the August election at Prophet of the ever-living God; that the Mormons, if faithful, warm, a man came up and, recognizing Brother Riley Stewart, said: as revealed by Joseph, the prophet of the everlasting God. Brother Stewart was to go with me, he having made arrangements man came out and said that no Mormon preacher could stay in his station myself and my men near the house, and when the man came Mormon wagonshop and told the men to work night and day, and put The young man told the chief what I said. orders to kill the man, because Brother Haight considered him a 23613 called Las Casas "The Protector of the Indians." He had marked out one When Las Casas arrived in Hispaniola with Ovando, the new governor, they Ovando was a good governor, Las Casas says, "but not for Indians." He Las Casas did all he could to protect the Indians, and soon became known striving as hard to prevent the liberation of the Indians as Las Casas Just after Las Casas reached the Indies a man named Juan Bono, a and as Las Casas came to see more of him, the two became great friends. Las Casas himself now went into The Land of War, taking with him Father independence of the Indians of The Land of War. Word now reached Las Casas that both the Bishop of Guatemala and slaves of the Indians, and this was a great help to Las Casas. The Bishop of Guatemala went with Las Casas to visit The Land of War, 23673 We thy children sing to Thee. O Thou pure light of souls that love, O Thou pure light of souls that love, O Thou pure light of souls that love, The hearts Thou madest at Thy will. Thou art that One alone Whose love my heart can fill. Holy God, we praise Thy Name, Holy God, we praise Thy Name, Holy God, we praise Thy Name, I need Thy Heart, sweet Jesus, I need Thy Blood, sweet Jesus, I need Thy Wounds, sweet Jesus, Where I may praise Thee with Thy Saints for aye. Sacred Heart of Jesus, fount of love Sacred Heart of Jesus, fount of love Sacred Heart of Jesus, fount of love and mercy, Bless all hearts that love Thee, Thou say''st "Give Me thy heart!" Show us thy Son, our Jesus sweet, O Maria! Near thee and thy dear Jesus Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, parce nobis Domine. 2443 Two non-Mormons who had an early view of the church in Utah and who THE MORMONISM OF TO-DAY: Future Place of the Church in joined the Mormons at Kirtland, followed Smith to Missouri, and went days" from which the Mormon church, on Rigdon''s motion, soon took its Mormon, and the mission of Smith as a prophet, and saying that he wanted "Mormons" was not acceptable to the early followers of Smith, who looked The Mormon belief is stated by the church leaders to rest on the Holy had given Smith in Washington that the Mormon case against the state of church informed me that Young invited Rigdon to join the Mormons is Smith as the head of the Mormon church. Joseph Smith''s brother, in the following year, left a copy of the Mormon Joseph Smith''s "new mansion," and other houses which Mormons occupied. the Mormon church under Brigham Young to declare openly its intention 2458 not: wherefore they said unto him, "Who art thou?" Then answered St. John, and confessed that he was not Christ. but all unto our Lord God, as shall appear hereafter, when this question Trinity, his Son Jesus Christ, to declare unto man his pleasure and more we shall conceive and know in our hearts what God hath done for us; and the more we know what God hath done for us, the less we shall set by before God, or no, until thy neighbour come again to good state, whom Wherefore you shall hear what Christ saith unto such persons. laws of God and man, and hast with the same goods not relieved thy poor listed, clean contrary unto God''s word, which willeth that every man preachers of God''s word; but when they be called to feed upon Christ, to else, neither God nor his word; and therefore this married man saith, "I 24759 25856 living, I hope, through the grace of GOD, that if men hold thee to be love of JESUS Christ: so that men think thou ever lookest on Him, careful thought of death_: for the wise man says; "Bethink thee of thy If thou takest these with love of GOD, I hold thee love GOD in thy thought, at each moment, and say thus in thine heart: that thou, who hast nothing else to do but for to love GOD, mayst come If thou wilt be well with GOD, and have grace to rule thy life, and come thoughts and sweet that men have of the grace of GOD, about the love of a good cheer, and think that thou hearest GOD call thee with these When GOD, through His grace, sends thee such likings, turn thou After thou hast spent thy time in prayers, and holy thoughts and good 25901 5 [11:25]At that time Jesus answering said, I thank thee, Father, Lord 5 [18:21]Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how many times shall my [22:37]And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all 1 [1:1]THE beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, flesh shall see the salvation of God. 2 [3:7]Then John said to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; from this time you shall take men. answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; [1:9]who shall Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, [1:4]who gave himself faith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 25904 The life and character of John the Baptist have always had a great long, O Lord, holy and true, will it be ere He shall come whose right Lord, the God of Israel," the old man said; "for He hath visited and Every true life is a mission from God. And when we read the words of the apostle Paul about John "fulfilling Annas and Caiaphas the high priests, the word of God came unto John, believe through him." "The Word of God came unto John, the son of its power broken, so that man may walk with God with a fearless heart. Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before prepared (R.V.), that blood of Jesus Christ, God''s Son, which cleanseth from all sin. God. In his life and death, our Lord, in our human nature, met and works of Jesus, he said immediately, "It is John the Baptist--he is 25974 JESUS THE CHRIST AS SIN-BEARER--GOD''S JUSTICE AND LOVE JESUS THE CHRIST AS SIN-BEARER--GOD''S JUSTICE AND LOVE "There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; faith in Jesus,"--Rom. 3:26; "God so _loved_ the world that he gave "Ye are _all_ the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."--Gal. 3:26. "Ye are _all_ the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."--Gal. 3:26. God; "if any man''s work shall be burned he shall suffer loss" (1 Cor. 3:15), he is a fool; he spent a life here on earth and has no reward honestly loves this world, that Jesus Christ, God''s Son, died for our "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."--Gal. "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."--Gal. purpose of God in saving men through Christ dying of their sins (1 26003 believing, "Christ, the living Jesus, He will do _everything_ for us." fools, and slow of heart to believe." Do you know what Christ said about slow of heart to believe." You want the Lord Jesus to give you this full word, and this blessing, receiving the revelation of Jesus, can come come then and say: "Lord Jesus, I cannot let Thee go except Thou things." Why was my Lord Jesus taken up to heaven away from the life of into the throne and the Life of God. And now that blessed Christ Jesus, with His loving, pierced heart; that blessed Jesus Christ, who lived love, that Jesus the God-man waits to come in to me in the greatness of to have that thought in our hearts--"Jesus, I love to obey Thee." comes out of itself." If Jesus Christ be in the heart, He must come out. 2603 of social, domestic, and personal practices which charm the life, secure short hour enough time was lost by that young man to have carefully read old man, as he is close to sixty years of age, to hear him tell in a Only by a study of the drink evil shall we know its ravages in the home. Those of us who have lived in the pure air of free, country home-life help, his home and wife and little one, and would lose himself for days book which every person who sees no harm in dancing should read. returned the key and let his friend read as much as he liked." Writes one has taught school all day, or set type, or managed a home, or read has read a book a day for over twenty years. "A true home life where father, mother, and children spend much time 26033 often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer. been written to the glory of God''s grace and power in answering prayer. Some years later, having moved to a strange city, a great longing came Surely the wonderful way God has kept his child for more than thirty peace of mind and the assurance that God would supply my need, came at protecting power of God in answer to the many prayers which were going by our prayers, the patient came through safely, and a few days later After several days'' fight for the child''s life came the that day to Changte, he prayed the Lord to open the hearts of the A year later I joined my husband there, with our three little children. One day Mr. Goforth came to me with his Bible open at the promise, "My wonder I can say I know God answers prayer? 26062 The true Missionary is ready, like Christ, to endure missionaries and the Christian world can be conducted in the best There is but little true missionary spirit in the world. Christ, the more shall we possess of the true missionary character. that Christians and ministers of the Gospel shall arise _self-moved_, or the _great guilt_ which Christians incur in _neglecting the heathen_. that every million of heathen souls has a missionary. are assisted in their work, shall the missionary abroad receive little a going forth to heathen lands from among all classes of Christians? heathen lands, just as some good men have gone to the far West. the missionary work, because he has acquired influence in his church and needed anywhere in the kingdom of Christ, it is in the missionary work. A great part of the heathen world is open for such classes of men. 26129 Wiclif''s Influence on Hus. When Anne, the daughter of Emperor Charles IV, and sister of King Wenzel of Wiclif spread by Hus. These teachings, he said, made the clergy and the plain people favor the word of Christ." Hus continued to preach John XXIII twice confirmed the sentence of Pope Alexander V; Hus was Pope John XXIII turned the case of Hus over to Cardinal Annibaldi, who Sigismund burnt Hus as a Wiclifite, the next year the Council called the When the Council deposed John XXIII, Hus wrote: "Courage, friends! On June 3, Pope John XXIII was a prisoner in the same prison with Hus! Hus said the Church did not need an earthly head, a pope; Christ, the Doomed by the Church, Hus was now made over to the Emperor, with the Like Luther later, Hus placed his conscience above the mighty Emperor, 26130 is that after God had called St. Benedict to Heaven, his great work went strange feeling of God near, he began to think of other great men he had given him by God of showing his love for the Lord Christ, Who had said him that if it were God''s will this might some day mean great things for day," she said, "he will become a son of God." But her friends thought go on now to tell you of the wonderful, beautiful, and holy end of St. Francis''s life, and of the mysterious thing that happened to him. a day when he felt he must go away and be alone a little with God. So, try in every way he could to separate the heart of St. Francis from God. One day, after he had had a very wonderful vision, he went with Brother 26136 This duty and privilege of worship the church and the Prayer-Book help it was to be used for no other purpose than the worship of God. Christians from the earliest days have had consecrated places which The word "church," by which we designate the place of divine worship, churches at an early day came to be built in the form of a cross. it made the very fabric of the church the symbol of our faith in Christ The office of the bell in calling to prayer and holy worship was symbolism of the church building it represents that part of the holy symbolism of God''s house that part of the life of His Church which is fellowship of Christ''s Church here on earth, our cross-bearing, and the In the center is the _Altar-cross_, that this holy symbol of our Faith _Symbols of our Lord._--While the cross was in {67} constant use by the 26278 It professes to contain a revelation of God and his will to man. in human history, God saw fit to communicate his will through man, and given, and that is the nature of the Christian''s future world in its In order to a perfect revelation of God to man it was necessary that the it is in the Bible revelation of God to man. the statement relates to God, man or demons. that it should be in order to contain a revelation of God to man. "The future is a mere sealed book." The man is lost in the unbeliever''s 2. That man was evolved from the lowest forms of life, according to The God-like in man is the great secret of word "God" is pronounced; for sober reason says, If nature is _all_ Christians, answer, "The course of nature is the art of God." This 2632 histories of the time tell us what the King said, and what Bishop Juxon after generation, down to modern times, as stories of unquestionable narratives of apparently real events have no more value as history than "Adam, according to the Hebrew original, was for 243 years contemporary history of Abraham, and even of the Deluge, at third hand; and that of length, with the narrative of the Noachian Deluge given in Genesis. permit myself to hope that a long criticism of the story from the point Pentateuchal writer about the fact of the Deluge, would leave the ascertained physical facts, the story of the Noachian Deluge has no more one conclusion--that the story of the Flood in Genesis is merely a place; further, that, in point of fact, the story, in the plain and regarded as one of those pre-Abrahamic narratives, the historical truth [Footnote 1: _Bampton Lectures_ (1859), on "The Historical Evidence of 26361 (25)At that time Jesus answered and said: I thank thee, O Father, Lord said: Lord, if it is thou, bid me come to thee on the water. answering said: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (37)Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all received the one talent came and said: Lord, I knew thee that thou art blessed God, and said: (29)Now, Lord, thou lettest thy servant depart temple, and said to him: If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down power of God. But while all were wondering at all things which Jesus did, he said to said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with I will judge, said God; and after that they shall come forth, and God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with 26369 One fine Sunday morning two little girls, called Amy and Kitty Amy thought of it as she walked, and did ask God to bless her "Does it not mean those who love Jesus?" asked Amy. were not afraid to come close to him, for he loved little children. little Amy said nothing--the tears filled her eyes and choked her "You may all be Christ''s little disciples," said Mrs. Mordaunt. new thoughts, and, perhaps, think you would like to be good children, was of Jesus, the Son of God, to care about the love of little "But I thought God only loved good children, "God does only love good children, Amy," said Mrs. Mordaunt very "The Son of God," said Amy. "I must not wait until I am better for God to love me, then," said Amy little child''s heart to the Word of God, and she read on as if she 26384 enjoy Nazarite nearness to GOD must count His love "better than wine." consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall burnt-offering, the LORD smelled a sweet savour, and blessed him and peace of GOD shall guard and garrison our hearts and thoughts in CHRIST soul which is fully consecrated _always_ receives the blessing of GOD. gift, for when we bless GOD we do not give to Him peace or plenty. purpose of GOD that the heart of CHRIST shall be revealed to His people. glory of GOD" should be _revealed_ to us "in the face of JESUS CHRIST." the purpose of GOD that the presence and the love of the SPIRIT should GOD in bestowing His blessing upon His people is revealed: "They shall GOD''S DELIGHT IN LOVE-GIFTS. GOD''S DELIGHT IN LOVE-GIFTS. opened as never before to see GOD''S great heart of love. 26397 A clearer conception of miracle approached.--Works of Jesus Biblical miracles the effluence of extraordinary lives.--Life made."--Miracle as the product of life, the work of God. 85 hierarchy of natures.--Supernatural Religion historically marvels a costly error.--Jesus'' miracles _a_ revelation, of discourse on "Miracle and Life," in _New Points to Old Texts_. the supposedly miraculous to the order of natural powers and processes recorded,--three in the Old Testament and four in the New. Some critics raising of the "dead" to life is seemingly ignorant of facts that go far power.--This transfer of the miraculous to the natural likely to miracles of the virgin birth and the physical resurrection of Jesus. Regarding miracle as the natural product of exceptionally endowed life, physical marvels a costly error.--Jesus'' miracles _a_ revelation, of Miracles have the same universality as human life. man all these orders of nature coexist, and each higher is supernatural 26522 So prominent was the word of God as a power in Mr. Muller''s life that, in may bow before the will of God. In a calm review of his course many years later George Muller saw that Muller led to put before God, in prayer, all matters that lay upon his years, George Muller was enabled to set to his seal that God is true. work in Halle George Muller''s monuments to a prayer-hearing God on God, by the fact that at that very time, in answer to prayer, ten pounds parted with their own money or goods in the hour of need, filled Mr. Muller''s heart with praise to God, and held up his hands, as Aaron and needful; but Mr. Muller felt no doubt that in God''s own time all that George Muller''s life was one long witness to the prayer-hearing God; FAITH, PRAYER, AND THE WORD OF GOD. 26643 God. To do this great work, He had to appear on this earth in the form time, the Son of God appeared on earth in the form of man. thee, shall be called the Son of God." Let us notice the two great grasp the wonderful personality of the God-Man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ could be both God and Man?" The great thinker replied, "No, revelation of God and denies that Jesus Christ is come into the flesh. Lord Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God. No man hath seen "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus The great work which the Lord Jesus Christ, God''s well beloved Son, came sinning children of God, the Lord Jesus Christ meets with the fact that The Lord Jesus Christ, who finished the work on earth the Father gave 26652 saintly man or woman who says, ''By God''s help I am going to live a life all sin, that they shall live a life of purity and Holiness, that they _''Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, really means having Jesus Christ as a yoke-fellow in your work for God; discovery of a personal God belongs to the heart_: ''Ye shall seek Me, make them put their whole heart into seeking God''s sanctifying power. purpose of heart'', for it is to people in that state of mind that God When God sanctifies your soul He makes a great inward light; the receiving the testimony that his way pleased God. I would like to refer to several features of this pathway of the holy spiritual blessings and conditions of life in which the Lord wants men Another person says, ''I love God with all my heart''--or as many do say, 26691 the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and God would soon be led by the Holy Spirit into this grace, because it is him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which was God''s own way of sanctification--making things holy unto himself. Holy Ghost is come upon you." How many of the dear people of God today This Holy Spirit life can only be obtained through this God-appointed in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus truth love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the word of God, and heaven, and all the 26742 "Dear me!" said Flossy, "I never shall think of such a thing. "Well," said Ruth, speaking for the first time, "shall we go home and "Well," said Eurie, speaking gravely, "he came out all right, you know." "I know," said Eurie, speaking with unusual thoughtfulness; "but suppose She said good-morning more cheerily, and went on her way thinking over "Isn''t Sunday-school splendid?" Flossy said to Ruth Erskine, as, with "It was very interesting," said Ruth, in her more quiet, thoughtful way. "Well, I know one thing," said Eurie, "it requires twice the grace that "Well," said Flossy, "it is not the way Dr. Dennis prays, either; but "Just let me ask you a question," Marion said: "Why did you think, "Marion, your way of saying that thing is simply disgusting!" Ruth said, "Sure enough," Marion said, turning to Flossy, as Eurie paused. "I don''t understand it," Ruth said one day to Marion, as they talked the 26744 J. HUDSON TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., F.R.G.S. _Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee._ China for personal service, but he was led to pray that if GOD should time came, however, GOD gave increased health, and my life has been Let me tell you how GOD answered the prayers of my dear mother and of my Little did I know at the time what was going on in the heart of my dear China, far away from all human aid, there to depend upon the living GOD If we are faithful to GOD in little things, we shall gain assurance that to wait His time was best; and that GOD in some way or wait patiently; and now GOD was going to work for me in some other way. I was spared in answer to prayer to work for GOD in China. 26860 the said Church of the Grazie the same man painted a scene wherein Pope One of the first works in painting wrought by this good father was a In painting Leon Batista did not do great or very beautiful works, for In the year 1463, when he had finished this work, he painted a panel in for certain angels in the work reveal such grace, beauty, and art in no figures in this work, yet it shows a beautiful manner and infinite the chapel wherein Ercole painted the said work, and who afterwards made the Church of that Saint, the same man painted a panel with good design This work finished, Domenico returned to Florence, where he painted a The while that he was working on this chapel, he also painted a panel, The while that Andrea was working in Rome, he painted, besides the said 26909 "of the faithful man of God Dr. Luther" by Andreas Musculus, and a Apology, the Smalcald Articles, Luther''s Catechisms, Formulae Caute proviso that his decision would not conflict with the clear Word of God. According to Luther, everybody, Pope and Emperor included, must submit harmony with the Gospel, God''s Word, and the holy Christian Church, but, doctrine was held, by Luther and all true Lutheran theologians, to be of and corrupted the truth taught by Luther from the Word of God. Accordingly, since the Leipzig Interim involved and maintained doctrines concerning God, Christ, faith, Law, grace, etc., they say without any teaching of Luther, _viz._, that the entire Christ, God and man, body God as revealed in the Word may, according to Luther, be opposed and Of the manner in which, according to Luther, the truth concerning God''s doctrine of grace, according to which God alone is the cause of man''s 26980 Nelson was Rector of Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1900 In later years, Christ Church people were to love Frank Nelson''s During his senior year he had assumed work on the staff of St. George''s Church, New York City, and after his ordination was quickly him young Nelson found the services and work of the church taking on a create in Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio a work similar to that of St. George''s, he displayed a characteristically wise judgment in making his Nelson made Christ Church a place where rich and poor met on equal Because of Frank Nelson the name "Christ Church" was an open Frank Nelson made Christ Church known throughout the city, and on so Christ Church people found in Frank Nelson a stronghold in time of not been for Frank Nelson and the work carried on in Christ Church. In the services of Christ Church, Frank Nelson''s individuality found 26990 call to Holiness comes from the God of infinite Power and Love that we obedience, prepares our hearts for being the dwelling of the Holy One. Let us in this faith yield ourselves to a life of obedience: it is the faith knows that God the Holy Spirit has His abode in the the Holy Spirit, God within us, through whom the Father works, fear of the Holy One be on you: sanctify the Lord God in your heart: let what God sees, as our faith grasps that the holy life of Christ is ours alive unto God in Christ Jesus.'' But the life can work in power only as true holiness.'' Let the inner life, hid with Christ in God, hid also God therefore, in the power of the Holy Spirit, in _your body_.'' The dwells and works the Holy Spirit, drawing us out to the Christ of God, 27135 Vaudois Church, the consistory of Turin, and all the representatives of by the French troops, who were at this time occupying the valleys. The officers of the Vaudois Church are pastors, evangelists, elders, and Vaudois had possessed the word of God from time immemorial. and accomplished pastor of the Vaudois, left for ever those churches in Vaudois pastors, both in the valleys and the mission-field of the Italian In the wars between France and Savoy at this time the Vaudois had the Vaudois officer present at the time) had been in command, the place would upon a number of new books, including _Dr. Gilly''s Visit to the Vaudois_. 1835 he returned, and lived in the valleys with Pastor Bonjour, at St. John''s, for the next five years. the word of God. Secondly, the ground on which he sought admission into the Vaudois Church. Vaudois Church-- 27237 Scriptures from beginning to end has relation to man''s immortality. Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the word of God written for death, and that by the power of the Spirit of God, operating according time, even to putting to death the Son of God (Luke xxii. pain and death, although, according to law, consequent upon sin, were suffering and death of the Son of God, that it avails to free from sin. is asserted respecting "The Word of God," that "he shall rule the "works;" for our Lord said expressly, "Every idle word that men shall or also excusing, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, teaching of Scripture and from its having in the mean time existed doctrine of Scripture respecting future "punishment" and "torment." partaking with us of life, death, and resurrection (see what is said on 27266 Then we understand that God established the seventh day Sabbath in of Jesus, that "the Sabbath was made for man!" Paul says, "there is no hundred and fifty years to change this seventh day Sabbath, and call the the seventh day Sabbath was abolished at the crucifixion of our Lord: Mark says, "And when the Sabbath day was come he began to teach in their God called this HIS _Sabbath_, and Jesus says it was made for Lord commanded Moses." Here is the 8th day Sabbath, which makes 5 Jewish law of God, or in other words, abolished the fourth commandment? Mark says when the Sabbath (the Seventh day, for great commandment in the law: Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the seventh day Sabbath is more clearly included in these commandments, than broken the law; and in another place, "If a man on the Sabbath day 273 this so many commands of God to observe in the Church, the these chief matters commanded of God are neither regarded nor That Jesus Christ, our God and Lord, died for our sins, and without the Word of God he obeys a false human opinion and remission of sins and the grace of God were sought, for the Pope, but through the preaching of God''s Word. before God. No man is righteous before Him. And Christ says, John 16, 8: The Holy Ghost will reprove the world of sin. Himself says, Luke 24, 47: Repentance and remission of sins and hell, and man must despair, like Saul and Judas; as St. Paul, Rom. 7, 10, says: Through sin the Law killeth. God. Here, too, there was no faith nor Christ, and the virtue of themselves against and above Christ, our Lord and God Scripture, but in the Word of God and true faith. 27316 beyond prophecy, and tried to tell the very day he would come. Christ had said: "I will not come back for 2,000 years," none of his God does not tell us just when he is to come, but Christ tells us to remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are insist that this coming of Christ to take his church to himself in the like; but it tells me to look for the coming of the Lord; to watch for Jesus Christ, at his coming?" And again, in the third chapter, at the Lord''s death _till he come_." But most people seem to think that the Some people say, "I believe Christ will come on the other side of the voice of God. The world waited for the first coming of the Lord; waited on "Christ''s Second Coming" in the Free church (Pres.), telling 27349 But besides this universal divine love revealed in the heart of Jesus, Jesus gave all his rich and blessed life to the service of love. Jesus lived among men, that I might have been his friend too, feeling spirit quickened by his love and grace!" The friendships of Jesus, vital in all spiritual life is the friendship of Jesus, coming to us in The incarnation was the breaking into this world of the love of God. For three and thirty years Jesus walked among men, pouring out love in emptied out, so the love of God poured out in Christ''s life and death Jesus put his love into human hearts that it might be carried John calls himself the "disciple whom Jesus loved." This designation of Jesus, and the love of that heart of gentleness entered his soul and Living in the personal household of Jesus, Simon saw his Master''s life 27514 the blood of Jesus Christ, God''s Son, could cleanse him from all sin. ''Every word spoken by the little man went right to my heart,'' Mr. Bullen the new and living way to glory.'' The old text comes back to him. When the soul feels after God, and the heart cries out for a Saviour, it one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus_.'' ''As soon as a man comes to understand that _GOD IS LOVE_,'' said Dr. Chalmers, ''he is infallibly converted.'' That being so, Rodney Steele was ''It''s a text, "Except a man be _born again_----" You know the words, man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God!_'' ''Here,'' says Dr. Fitchett, in unfolding the story, ''here was a preacher of quite a new man''s life--Frank Bullen says: ''I love that description of conversion as says, ''those sublime words: _For God so loved the world that He gave His 27589 The _Lord Great Chamberlain''s_ office commences with carrying the king especially for the kings of France, and great lords and princes; and as Westminster Hall, at the coronation of His Majesty King Charles II., as more, Lord Marshal, a few days after the coronation of the present king, chamberlain, lord high constable, and earl marshal (Garter king at arms the lord great chamberlain: the King having received it, sat down, and glove on the day of his coronation, and supporting the King''s right arm give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, crowned two years after the king''s coronation. done at the time when the king''s own coronation took place, and The only grounds of right for the king''s coronation, the queen He held the coronation of the king himself to be a right of this the celebration of your Majesty''s royal coronation; and Lord 27707 presented to the Emperor as a faithful and unjustly persecuted priest, the two Bishops, assisted probably by Athanasius, in which the Emperor When the Bishops of the Church assembled to elect their new Patriarch, hands to Heaven and crying, "Give us Athanasius!" The Bishops asked A certain Meletian Bishop called Arsenius, whom Athanasius had deposed "Athanasius has been deposed by a Council of the Church," he wrote. and elected an Arian called Gregory in Athanasius'' place. Patriarch of Alexandria and that Athanasius was to be treated as an to God, your Bishop Athanasius." throughout the city that Athanasius was their true Patriarch and that him that title of "Eternal" which they had denied to the Son of God. Their Bishops and teachers were everywhere; but Athanasius, like name him Patriarch of Alexandria in place of Athanasius. persecuted Bishops looked to Athanasius for the comfort and 27714 press the work in Porto Rico along the lines of Christian education Miss Isabel French is a graduate of a classical school in New York of Christian people for this new work of the American Missionary Goods, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ South Weymouth, Mrs. Joseph Dyer, WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF OHIO, by Mrs. G. WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF NEBRASKA, by Mrs. Geo. WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by Mrs. Adda M. WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, by Mrs. M. WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF WASHINGTON, by Mrs. Edward B. Woman''s Home Missionary Union of Southern California, Mrs. Mary M. WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF VERMONT, by Mrs. Robert MacKinnon, WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF VERMONT, by Mrs. Robert MacKinnon, WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF VERMONT, by Mrs. Robert MacKinnon, Sch., Moorhead, Miss._ 50; Mrs. L. WOMAN''S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF NEW YORK, by Mrs. J. 27863 of the Filipino people, it is the organization of public education The Education of the Filipino People under Religious Direction it would seem useful to know what the education of the Filipino The Novenas are religious booklets dedicated to a saint whose favor hearing the Saint preach, implored him to ask that the demon return The Saint fell to praying, and made the devil come and ordered hearing San Vicente preach on the ugliness of the demon, prayed God There is a Novena dedicated to Saint Angel Custodio (Manila, 1897), In the Novena of Saint Joseph (Manila, 1910), after reminding none shall fail who confident will seek the protection of Saint Joseph" (obligar) this glorious saint to secure of God what we ask." To saint asking her protection: "My sins made me less than angels, In the life of Saint Vicente Ferrer, according to his novenas, the 28036 quite true; for instance: "Public School Education is necessary for our Catholic and Protestant children receive religious instruction, during In these Public Schools the whole education of children is directed to If the State claims the right to educate our children, why does it not Public Schools, as it does to give a good Christian education in the communion; that the religious instruction of youth in Catholic schools send their children to _any_ schools where the Catholic religion is not Public Schools, and consequently a Catholic may send his children to Catholic parent cannot send his children to such a school without In some schools even, Catholic children that many of the teachers in the Public Schools are good Catholics, is The Catholic teachers of the Public Schools would follow our their children out of the Public Schools, and send them to Catholic children by a good Catholic education. 28103 God our Saviour will have all men to be saved.--_Paul._ God says, ''If ye be willing ye shall eat the good of the land;'' but The system of Calvin is, that God wishes only some men to be saved, exercise a saving faith, but must be born again of God in Christ was fitted to drive men away from, instead of bringing them to, God. And yet wisdom, Divine wisdom, was exercised in reference to those First says, "God hath from eternity predestinated certain persons to Christ, and thou shalt be saved." In other words, believe that God "Election is then," says Dr. Payne, "God''s purpose to exert upon the minds of certain members of (4.) A _fourth_ view is that God loves all men, that Christ died for what the apostle Paul says, that God "will have all men to be saved" 28179 yes, mamma, ''Jesus, lover;'' I like that best," said little Mary, "Jem," said David, "I think old Tim Bent was the very happiest old man "Jem," said David, "it''s not right--to speak in that way, I mean. "As Davie has, you mean, Miss Bethia," said Jem. and might tell us a great many things to do us good," said Violet, but "Suppose you give them Miss Bethia''s sermon, Davie," said Jem, laughing. "It will be a long time, I am afraid," said David''s mother. "But, Miss Bethia," said Violet, "mamma knows that you wish to do this "He''ll tell you why," said Jem. David did not say it was all right, nor think it. "She must know you by this time, I think, Davie," said his mother, "David," said Mr Caldwell, "put away your books, and come home with "Violet," said David, when the time came to say good-bye, "you must not 28272 from this foreign army.--About this time lord James went over to France, long sigh, said, "Now, Sir, the time you have long called to God for, word of God, right reason, and good laws, against which he had said was not given out, and therefore desired him to mourn for offending God. And farther said, What, my lord, if Christ had given out the sentence of The minister said, "My lord, if you had the man Christ in your arms, God''s presence; and the minister said, What, my lord, if that be came home, he said to his mother-in-law, The minister hath preached very he said, "My honourable Master and lovely Lord, my great royal King hath king in all things in the Lord." I told you that, said Glasgow, I knew faith, I bless God (said he) that in 15 years time I have never given 28328 political party, falsely called _Democrats_, who seek the Foreign and corporation claiming the right to be called the Great Democratic Party, came out in opposition to the American nominees, in its issue of Feb. 29th, 1856, on account of the _Pro-slavery_ character of the new Roman Catholics than the American party have ever proposed to go. the Catholic Church in this country, has taken an oath, administered by MEN--these are all oath-bound societies of the Catholic Church, right of these foreign Catholics to vote against and proscribe American the opposition of the American party to the Catholic Church. Gov. Johnson said this new party of self-styled Americans professed to Roman Catholic Church, throughout the length and breadth of our State; right, honor, state, or power; and if I shall know any such Presbyterian Church, and a member of the American party, was nominated State Executive Committee of the American Party, Nashville, Tennessee_, 28421 hand, he executed his works in marble rather with a certain judgment and After these works, Andrea executed a marble panel that was placed other works that he painted in Siena, executed the façade of the house beautiful work that he had executed up to that time. the work, he commissioned Andrea to paint part of the scenes on these his hand to the work, he painted in fresco a most beautiful Madonna commissioned Andrea to execute at the time when he painted the arch with executing panels and works of importance, gave attention to painting in walls; and in like manner they painted many works on panel and in fresco work, which was painted with much diligence, and executed with good their work, that the pictures painted by them with such beauty in public panel-picture of the Magi, a very beautiful work, which is to be seen in 28422 delight in painting works with little figures, with which he always took carvings of this work were executed by Fra Giovanni da Verona, a master Marc'' Antonio, meanwhile, continuing to work at engraving, executed some Perino del Vaga afterwards executed a beautiful little work in fresco. the façade of the old Mint of Rome, a work of great beauty and grace, in Giulio never painted a more beautiful work than this, so fierce are the beautiful paintings and altar-pieces from designs by his hand. painted, there are in the work some hands and feet of great beauty; and beautiful works that he executed with so much excellence and art. having seen Perino''s work and liked it, caused him to paint there a living figure; and the whole work is very beautiful, and executed with This was the last work in painting executed by Domenico, who, having seen Perino paint the picture mentioned above, and when the work was 28464 honor and glory of God. For so Christ offered up his body. knowledge of God. Here Paul rejects all service not performed in faith orders represent neither faith nor love, and are not commanded by God. They are peculiar, something devised by the monks and priests the fruits of faith; among whom the true Word of God is choked, like loving words in view of the blessing and grace of God received, and in people of Israel by the Word of God refer to Christ; for where the While Christ is indeed true God, Paul is not speaking here of So Paul''s words commend Christ''s essential divinity and his love in fact, not in accordance with the pure Word of God, faith and true he says, "Ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God." The world and the world, through faith, for the sake of Christ the Son of God. 20. 28479 All praise to Thee, the God of Light; O Thou, the Morn, the Light, the Sun, That Christ, thy Light and Glory, lives. Morn of my soul, O Christ, Thou art; To Christ, Thy God, for evermore. And glory, Christ, God-Man, to Thee, For Thou hast crushed the power of sin, O blessed art Thou, Christ, our Lord, The dark that hid Thee in Thy woe, In Thy death and life immortal, And by Thy Rising, Christ the Son, And let my soul Thy mercy share. And let my soul Thy mercy share. And let my soul Thy mercy share. And let my soul Thy mercy share. And let my soul Thy mercy share. And let my soul Thy mercy share. How could I, Lord, Thy coming know? O let Thy love my spirit fire, The dark of night, the light of day. Christ the Lord; Thy people pray 28507 unforgiving spirit towards a brother, think, if thy God had retained His they extract no angry look, no bitter word--"Behold the _Lamb_ of God!" meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price." "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth."--Matt. _thanks_ always for all things unto God and _the Father_, in the name of Eighth Day. SUBMISSION TO GOD''S WORD. absolute subjection of the mind to God''s written Word--making churches, "Jesus," says a writer, "came from heaven on the wings of love." It was Christ in the world, an image of the Great Sufferer, a shadow of the my heart, and, by God''s grace, saved my soul!" On the other hand, how world, self, sin--these be the gods of the unregenerate soul. that please the Father." Glory to God burned within His bosom like a pensioners on God''s grace and love, following in all things His 28513 extraordinary Time of the _Devils coming down in great Wrath upon us_, Shortness of the Devil''s Time+, that all Good Men must needs desire, the Devil is come down unto you, having great Wrath, because he knows, that God is another thing that brings the _wrath_ of the Devil upon us. come in his way; such a _Tyger_ the Devil is; because God said of old, the _Devil provokes_ men that are Eminent in Holiness unto such things Then ''tis that the _Devil_ shall hear the Son of God swearing with loud perillous times shall come._ Truly, when the Devil _knows_, that he is Devil, the _Word_ of our God at the same time unto us, is that in _Rom. 16.20._ _The God of Peace shall bruise Satan under your feet Shortly._ Devils Name, that such things are done; and in Gods Name I do this day 28547 "many and _comfortable_ words." "The Lord God hath given me the tongue "word" sound like music in thine ears--"_Come unto Me_?" All other peace "word of Jesus" steal on thee amid the disquietudes of earth. heard, "Be it unto thee according to thy word!" Is this thine attitude--"_looking unto Jesus_?" "In all thy ways good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father in heaven midnight sky, so these "words of Jesus" come out like ministering angels yet, listen to the "words of Jesus," As the Father hath loved _me_, _so_ is thy life now "hid with Christ in God?" Dost thou know the "LORD, TO WHOM SHALL WE GO BUT UNTO THEE, THOU HAST THE _WORDS_ OF "Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said"-"Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said"-shall have, not the "_Words_" but the _presence_ of Jesus--not the 28591 Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: God''s grace thy failing strength shall build anew; Let fall a word of Hope and Love, unstudied, from the heart; More sweetness from thy loving heart! Till sons of men shall learn thy love My God, thou hast my heart and hand; I am but clay in thy hands, but Thou art the all-loving artist; Thee will I love, my Lord, my God; Thou faith in God through love for man shalt keep. We bless thee for thy peace, O God, Lord, let the glow of thy great love Kneel to thy God; ask strength life''s ills to bear: Thy perfect image, thou our God and Lord! Then bear thou what God on thy spirit shall lay; Thy God hath said ''tis good for thee Yes, they that know thy name, Lord, shall put their trust in thee, For thy God shall arm thee 28669 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come; for men lovers of God; having a form of godliness but denying the power commonwealth of Christians, and know but little more of God or of Christ "Repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." In some of not enter the kingdom of God. Paul says, "The works of the flesh are these: adultery, fornication, Paul says, "Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man Christ, our great example, is called the faithful and true witness. give a scientific reason for the existence of the idea of God, and, as law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world ideas of God and man, of the present and the future life, and of the I have a few questions to put to every man who says Christianity is not 28672 Christianity unfolds to us of God in his relation to man, which were can absorb the musings and the cravings of the spiritual man.'' A.J. Davis speaking of the first century, says: ''Jesus Christ and his men who reject the essential divinity of the religion of Christ, and the existence of Christianity is the fine organization of Christ. cause for the existence of Christianity, the fine organization of generation of life says, Yes, yes, there was a time when it began to be, You say inanimate Nature produced life and mind without the previous to produce organic life by spontaneous generation, is an effort to unbelievers to produce organic life, by spontaneous generation, is an admits the existence of a God of infinite power and intelligence. It must be conceded that there was a time when life and organisms began life is from God, the eternal, ever-living spirit. 28673 The gospel of Jesus Christ knows no law in connection with Christians, are under law to Christ in common with all men, for the Father had put the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God. This law of faith was given to Adam''s family outside of the Garden; and something that men call the inexorable law of God, which a man can not Christ hath satisfied the justice of God for all the sins of his people, By the grace of God Jesus tasted death for every man. Great Father Spirit, for it is one of the laws of God that the child or offspring of the divine mind, is in the "likeness and image of God." correct knowledge of God, and the distinction between mind and matter. as the Son of the living God being the great truth upon which the Church made her violate all the laws of God and man. 28677 Let no one suppose that the obligation to live a Christian life is a wealth, but you can not be happy without God. Give man all of this world says, "I am the door, by me if any man enter the same shall be saved," before thee an open door, and no man can shut it." God is in Christ, Holy Spirit sent down from heaven, and that "gospel is the power of God never-ending problem of man''s destiny and God''s ways with men on The origin of force and life in the universe is a great puzzle to of man''s nature are changed, he will instinctively seek for a God Christian religion is such that faith in God and future rewards tend to Christian religion," they say, "consists in the worship of one God, man in the nation, and at the same time be a Christian. 28875 So by aspirations and ideals God lures men forward unto the soul''s still in man''s night God hangs aspirations--stars for guiding men away But God, who hath appointed visions unto great men, doth set each thought and thing and long for all that is God-like in character, for body and uses a lower life, but man is what he is in his best hours morning man goes out with love irradiating his face; he comes back at But, instead of giving man long legs, God gave him a mind able to make It is memory that unifies man''s life and thought, and Now, the lives of great men tell us that God has always used visions ideals of God--so to-day, the vision of the brotherhood of man in may, this book deals with the deepest things in man''s heart and life. outbursts, when the great man seemed on fire; the something that men 29096 their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy the kingdom of God come to us not in word but in power. life, which consists in the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ whom Was Christ''s consciousness of the love of God a mere wavering thing, grace, and who have received but little of the Life of God. The cup men, but in the power of God. The Divine Life is not sect, and it is receive the life of God in this immediate and wonderful manner, that can say, "This is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God, and faithful children; God is not dead; the Lord Jesus has not been raised The love of God shall uphold thee; the strength of We know, too, that the life-worship to which God calls us consists in 29268 of the Popes and the letters addressed to them by emperors and bishops, Pope Gelasius, in a council of seventy bishops at Rome, The bishop, clergy, and emperor accept the terms of the Pope, 165 Thereupon, the Pope, in a council of seventy-seven bishops, held at Rome "Cælius Felix, bishop of the holy Catholic Church of the city of Rome. churches in Rome should be given up to Pope Symmachus,[88] and he alone be In the last years of this emperor, the churches of the eastern empire were the letters of St. Leo, Pope of Rome, which he wrote in the right faith. emperor Justinian addressed to Pope John II., in the year 533, a letter holy Pope of Old Rome is the first of all bishops, and that the most Pope had become legally the subject of the eastern emperor, the bishop of 29277 mountains, beauty divine, peace perfect, power unfathomable, love mass of human thought, the infinitude and grandeur of mountain scenery "The Alps form a book of nature as wide and mysterious as Life," says War brought the ideals of human rights and equality into bloody conflict war has shown the human need of self-defence against excessive sympathy. Land nationalization is what we need--a free, healthy life, far There are problems in the life of the reformer which the mountains never thought that the aim and purpose of human life is for each soul to hunt studies of the great religions of the world, their past and present of the human heart for knowledge of God persists though all the old world and human nature for nearly sixty years, I see no way out hold over souls to whom religious life has become a matter of social human soul is the first fact in religious consciousness. 29288 indivisible God. As it came to pass in all times and in religions, the of God and the study of the laws of the great Buddhas. 6. And Issa said to them: "I preach no new God, but our celestial But, protected by the Lord our God, Saint Issa continued on his way, Issa told them that God cared not for temples erected by human 1. Issa went from one city to another, strengthening by the word of God is a just man, who teaches the people the word of God. After 6. And all the time great numbers of the people followed him wherever he 1. Thus Saint Issa taught the people of Israel for three years, in every of Jesus occurred--that a just man by the name of Issa, an Israelite, according to their own laws, God is the Father of all men; that all 29296 flesh, and work more than we pray, the presence and power of God are not presence of the power the Church of the Holy Spirit wielded in prayer. God''s Spirit to pray in us, to take our place in Christ Jesus, and abide prayer-life, and as a result of that to our failure in work for God, we power coming simply from God and Christ and the Holy Spirit, to the soul the blessing of being taught to pray by the Spirit of prayer, must know. power and blessing--let us believe that the Spirit of prayer, even in The power of prayer rests in the faith that God hears it. prayer, in its power with God, and His faithfulness to His believers for whom we pray, the more will prayer to the God of heaven As you pray for this great blessing on God''s people, the Holy Spirit 29412 Every body talks of apparitions of angels and demons, and of souls other spirit than the soul of man the power to move the body; that, on persons died of this malady--he says, that during this time demons apparitions of dead persons who have been seen, and acted like living and pagans believe that the soul remained for some time near the body body, to which these spirits give life and motion for a certain time. will and command of God. The apparitions of a spirit, or of an angel and a demon, which show who appeared during some time, and called certain persons, who never related that this saint having excommunicated certain persons for demon can take the place of a spirit in a body newly dead, or if he persons who have come to life again, after having appeared dead for There is no appearance of his having received this power from God, and 29449 The Soul''s Love for God and mind, or creature, suffers in depths; but the soul in heights, and own soul, though we are able to _will_ to love God with the heart, This is the true work of man, to love God with all the heart and mind and yet the heart, mind, and soul remain in lovely perfect chastity; but this I know: as the heart feels love in itself for God, in that same soul, then first we know the ineffable joys of the world of free spirit. them in great and joyful intensity upon God, by means of love. heart and mind and will of the creature becoming wholly God''s, my soul looked for God, but my creature did not know it. We do not love God because we do not yet know Him. And we do the soul passes into a great pain, which is the anguish of love and a 29450 After this my soul knew Jesus as Christ the Son of God, and my God, and my love for Him. I am like a thing that is magnetised, held: I am not able, day or night, "love God with all their heart, and mind, and soul, and strength?" the Kingdom of Heaven, of the Union of the Soul with God. A few months went by, and I wrote asking for another book, and this What I know of the soul''s actual Finding and Contact with God I By love, then, the soul is the Delight of God. XI When the soul is united to God a great change comes over the mind, is the same when we love God. The heart, and the mind, and the soul soul and God only; but earth-life can and should by this knowledge satisfies the soul or gives us the full feeling that we Know God. We 29451 motion which shall eventually make for us a nest in the Living God. For Jesus Christ is able (but only with our own entire _willingness)_ The true inward knowledge that Christ is God comes not by nature How do we come by this joy of the personal loving of God, this heart and mind towards God of the nature of a longing--giving, a with Christ Jesus and ever able to enter into the love of God. To be flesh increases appallingly the difficulty of the soul in finding God. This world is the very place in which we can most easily and these things, accepting them from God with love, makes the heart to God by means of offering Him great love, we receive Himself. to God with the soul and to the world with our heart. with a very great love and joy, worships Him as the Known God. Now life immediately becomes totally changed, fear and sin are 29480 My God, shall sin its power maintain, My God, shall sin its power maintain, O God of love, Thy power disclose,-O let my soul Thy rising see; Ah, my soul, thy Lord behold,-O Christ, Thou art our Light, and Sun, Thy love inspires our hearts to sing, Lord, may Thy Holy Spirit calm Lord, may Thy Holy Spirit calm Call Thou my soul, in love; And thou art blessed of God to-day. Light of my life, O Lord, Thou art, Light of my life, O Lord, Thou art, Lord, let Thy peace my soul possess, Lord, let us feel that Thou art near, Lord, let us feel that Thou art near, Fired by Thy love, an offering for sin; For, by Thy cross our souls are free Lord, I am Thine, Thy love hath won my soul; Lord, by Thy cross that won my soul, 29557 Lord of Glory, Christ died for our sins, we remember that God eternal Life; Emmanuel, the God of Glory, the Holy One; Jehovah, the Epistle of John in which our blessed Lord as the Son of God is In all eternity the Son of God was the object of Love and Glory. What power and glory belongs to the blessed Son of God! us kings and priests unto God and His Father; _to him_ be glory and The more we know the Christ of God and His great love for us, the The Son of God, the Lord of love, God''s Grace; Brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ! the Father and to God through the Lord Jesus Christ and kept there "BUT the Lord direct your hearts into the Love of God and into the "BUT the Lord direct your hearts into the Love of God and into the 29566 I am an old man now; the burden of fourscore years is resting upon me. your children; for behold the days come when they shall say to the days there were not a few who called to mind the ominous words of the it, apparently preferring to look death calmly in the face. come down if he be the Messiah, the chosen of God!" My soldiers presently, turning his pain-racked eyes toward Jesus, he entreated, face wore a look of indescribable peace. unto Him. Not far from the cross stood a company of women wringing their hands in shall pass through thine own soul also." At this moment his word was came he should, bearing the world''s burden of sin, go into the outer In the midst Jesus looked upward, strange looks which my soldiers cast upon me. The cross in my time night with broken heart beneath his cross, may some day look upon the 29622 and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God. Shew yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands: sing, rejoice, unto thee in thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. O God, heavenly Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised | God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Peter said unto Jesus, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. | the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in thanks to thee in thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 4 Delight thou in the Lord: and he shall give thee thy heart''s 9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee: thy truth, most 29666 known Danish Christmas hymn, which, in the beautiful recast of Grundtvig, Most widely known of all Sthen''s hymns is his beloved "Lord Jesus Christ, Of this accomplishment, Grundtvig wrote two hundred years later: "Kingo''s fruitful years of Kingo''s life, proving the truth of the old adage that Kingo''s church hymns naturally differ from his spiritual songs. excellent hymns on the work and providence of God. Best known among these Most beautiful is also his hymn to the Lamb of God, translated by Pastor Unlike Kingo and Grundtvig, Brorson wrote no outstanding hymns on the mighty hymn of praise to the suffering Savior, he wrote many years later: Grundtvig''s _Songs of the Danish Church_? do that, the Son of God. Grundtvig''s hymns abound in terms of adoration for the Savior of Man. He His hymns on the life and work of our Lord are too numerous to be more Of Grundtvig''s many splendid hymns of the church, the 29678 meaning that there is an inward holiness in the spirit before God. And this is the reason specially why he said this, in order to show such as the Jews had, is of no value before God. Thus the Scripture calls us holy, while we yet live on earth, if we God produces faith in men, it is certainly as great a work as though christian life consists in two things,--faith toward God and love The praises, (says St. Peter,) that is, the wonderful work that God has performed in you, in evildoers, may see your good works, and praise God when it shall come I have God''s word and the clear declarations of Scripture." As St. Paul says, "The just shall live by faith," and St. Peter, where he but a true christian faith; for if you thus know God and Christ, you the world, so that nothing shall be preached but what is God''s word. 29815 Until it appeared public law literature recognized the rights of heads Law of the State" of December 21, 1867, on the general rights of the THE BILLS OF RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL STATES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION _The first state to set forth a declaration of rights The declarations of Virginia and of the other individual American states The new constitutions of the separate American states were well known at public law, that the individual American states had the first written [Footnote 30: _The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, VIRGINIA''S BILL OF RIGHTS AND THOSE OF THE OTHER NORTH AMERICAN STATES. The English laws that establish the rights of subjects are collectively rights of the individual and then establish the state. the doctrine of an original right of the individual and of a state [Footnote 113: The idea of all individual rights of liberty being the 29841 Head Master Midland Deaf and Dumb Institution, Derby, In a letter received by the head master at the Deaf and Dumb Institution a deaf and dumb person wrote with his pencil, in reply to the question Florence B----, a little girl in the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Derby, A poor deaf and dumb man, who might be said to be entirely friendless in Vauncey, a little deaf and dumb boy, was admitted to the Institution, at On entering the school room one morning, one of the little deaf and dumb the meeting a deaf and dumb young man came up and said, "I have been Matthew Jones, a poor deaf and dumb boy, once wrote the meaning of Jesus A few years since the Head Master of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at deaf, and dumb boy, about fourteen years old, who had had less than a 2993 Butler carried on his run for about four and a half years, and the openair life agreed with him; he ascribed to this the good health he In 1863 Butler''s family published in his name _A First Year in Canterbury book went out to New Zealand for correction and were sent back in the In 1865 Butler sent from London to New Zealand an article entitled reproduced in _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_ (1912). Butler wrote to Charles Darwin to explain what he meant by the "Book of found in _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_ (1912). from Handel''s music, each chosen because Butler thought it suitable to Butler then wrote music till about 8, when he came letter, Butler wrote: Although Butler, when editing Miss Savage''s letters in 1901, could not life of Dr. Butler, which was not published till 1896. Butler was not satisfied with having written only half of this work; he 29971 soul of the book: the weary, unsatisfied, empty heart of poor man to aright, it shall speak forth the praise of God''s beloved Son; looked ignorance the bright light of a perfect, holy, revelation; to let man in the Lord Jesus Christ, "who of God is made unto us wisdom," and "in shall be multiplied _through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord_." still even human reason gives this judgment: for the wise man walks at "right work" of our blessed Lord Jesus, "who, being in the form of God, for "God is in heaven and thou upon earth," and many words, under such _sight_, faith sees the perfect love of the Lord Jesus giving "His light that God gives, and which man takes, and turns to his own blind man''s wisdom to its own light; the sigh of a wind that soon shall 30 01:007:001 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into 01:041:040 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto 05:007:002 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and 05:017:014 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth 05:028:036 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set 30083 selfish life restricts the soul at every point; and even God, the great the grace of God, the new man is established in my soul, I shall be souls from the Word of God, and from the interior tranquil way of faith. leave the soul in a disturbed state, while those that come from God divine wisdom, relating to souls in union and harmony with God. Oh! draw the soul into oneness with God. Let all go in the divine order. spirit, in which state the soul is enriched with the best gifts a God living breath of God. When Jesus Christ is formed in the soul, he STATE OF A SOUL IN UNION WITH GOD. STATE OF A SOUL IN UNION WITH GOD. STATE OF A SOUL RE-UNITED TO GOD. STATE OF A SOUL RE-UNITED TO GOD. GOD EVERYWHERE, TO THE SOUL THAT LOVES HIM. 30136 common prayer, in the Church, commonly called divine service. reappears in the English Prayer Book of the present day under the the service proceeded, as in the English Prayer Book of to-day, making a better manual of worship than the Book of Common Prayer. effect a revision of the American Book of Common Prayer within a Prayer Book of the Church of England, rather than _The Proposed trying to commend the Church of the Prayer Book to the working that in the English book follow the Lord''s Prayer, nor yet of our But would a Prayer Book thus enriched be accepted by the Church addition has been made to the Prayer Book of the Church of England, The first Prayer Book of the Reformed Church of England was a Church of England cannot touch her own Prayer Book, whether to [73] See the Commination Office in the Prayer Book of the Church 30160 THE world has accepted Jesus Christ as a good man. No man who robs God of equality, and who deceives men into believing question that Jesus Christ was the most intellectual man the world If Jesus Christ be not God, then the whole system of Christianity If Jesus Christ be not God, the New Testament record of him is God. For two thousand years his regenerative power in a world of sin has That Jesus Christ was God is the testimony of the men who lived in An infinite person is God. Always as such do the apostles present our Lord Jesus Christ. perfect world shall know him as Lord and God from the least to the Thus organized, God set man up in the world to be his and the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their true God and only saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God? 30178 and their life to ameliorate the lives of Moslem women and carry the needs the widespread love and pity of the women of our day in Christian The world-wide suffering of Moslem women makes us read with wonder such Many husbands are like the old Moslem sheikh who said, "I don''t want my Many women have been divorced several times, and a woman of twenty years woman but had no son, so her husband divorced her and married a second. A Bible woman was wont to visit two young women who lived in a large own hands, to hear her talk of her work among the women in her husband''s as these that the poor Moslem women come, in the dark days of trouble, of these English women living in Syria as the wife of a Mohammedan, had A woman, in the land where women live 30194 It was into this world of Jewish thought and practice that Jesus came eternal life were associated in the mind of Jesus with the Age to Come. in Christian tradition the sayings of Jesus usually appear without the of Christians may have thought, it is clear from Mark that Jesus in his Jesus was speaking of the reign of God in the Age to Come, so they were One further title of Jesus in the early Christian literature remains to Man, but Paul also accepted the view that Jesus was the Son of David, historic persons, just as Christians believed that Jesus was. Christians was not that Jesus was historic, and the other Lords were that Jesus became Son of God at the baptism when the Spirit descended not think of Jesus as a man who had become divine, but as a God who had 30202 and strong necessity, the lord of gods and men, brings them to be employed like the old garden-god to frighten away the crows. Wherever the priests retain their old power over the people''s minds they this article should fall under the eyes of a Christian man of God, we We tell the men of God, of every denomination, that they are Devil "God" and "Christ" appear in it like of Man was to come through the clouds with great power and glory, and few weeks before his death, Shelley wrote of Christianity that "no man of great Christian cities, where new churches are constantly built for the century, to pass an Act allowing Christians to obey Jesus Christ. As a man Jesus died because he had not the sense to live. Now let any man or any Christian seriously ask himself The gods are like men; they are reared, and they die, 30203 "Well," he says, "the great evidence which we as Christians accept is, Christian world by appointing his atheistic friend Paul Bert as Minister God and his priests, but his corpse was a very good Christian, and it his mouth, making the great, virile Atheist talk like a little, flabby real truth and goodness there is in the world began with the Christian solidarity of mankind was "revealed to the human race through St. Paul"--which is a great slur upon Jesus Christ, and quite inconsistent Probably Mr. Watkinson, like most good Christians who go present time Christianity is steadily working against slavery all over "Slavery is cruel," says Mr. Henson, while "Christianity teaches men Like a true Christian and courtier, Sir Edwin Arnold dedicates his book With regard to man--the _entire_ human being, mortal and immortal--Mrs. Besant remarks that "un-instructed Christians" chop him into two, the 30204 cheereth the heart of God and man;" and he knows that his master, Jesus we shall believe that the author of "Common Sense," the "Rights of Man," the idea of a personal god, likens the Christian Trinity to three Lord progress we have made towards that time when the mind of man shall play if you cannot deduce God from the animate world, you are not likely He was no god of power, but a weak fallible man like ourselves; Man''s place in nature is, indeed, a great question, and it can be of man''s ever knowing whether there is a God or not? Nature drives on to no God and no good; he simply says he knows not to ascribe all the good in the world to God, and all the evil to man, or that the man who said _in his heart_ only "There is no God," without 30219 monophysite, "I see but one incarnate nature of God the Word." The seeking a personal relation between God and man in the being of Christ. problem of reconciling God and the world in the person of Jesus Christ. the human nature of Christ it _eo ipso_ denied its reality. since Christ is monophysite, the properties of deity and humanity in monophysites that "the human nature of Christ was absorbed in the that Christ''s human nature before the incarnation is conceivable as a They spoke of Christ''s human nature as absorbed in the divine, as is "a We have considered the monophysites'' view of Christ''s human nature, The Christian''s hope for the human body rests on the fact that Christ MONOPHYSITISM ENTAILS THE APOLLINARIAN VIEW OF CHRIST''S HUMAN NATURE AS TO ATTRIBUTE OMNISCIENCE TO CHRIST''S HUMAN NATURE IS MONOPHYSITISM THE PRESENT EXISTENCE OF CHRIST''S HUMAN NATURE 30220 pictures on Bible subjects, and has spent many years in Palestine in picture is the boy Jesus, who has risen from the place where He has noble-looking man, holds with one hand the broad strap by which his As we see Luther in this picture he is a young man between twenty and Sir Noël Paton''s picture represents Luther reading the Bible and floor beside the reading-table is a book by a man called Thomas death came to these old Greeks, and awakened in their hearts great sad, dark heathen world, before Christ came, men thought that though The love of Christ took Him into the world of the dead was the man who had placed the crown on the head of Charles at Scone, hands is laid on the old man''s shoulder, and with the other He holds up old man''s face shows us that. 30333 "Yes, Sibyl, try hard," said her father, "try very hard to be good. "Yes, I _are_ the little girl," said Sibyl. "Oh, you can never account for Sibyl''s whims," said Mrs. Ogilvie; "it "Really," said Mrs. Ogilvie, "you do look nice in that dress, it fits "Thank You, Jesus, for giving me father and mother," said Sibyl, "and "Hullo!" said Lord Grayleigh; "come here, little woman, and account "And I wish she would not talk or think such nonsense," said Mrs. Ogilvie, in a burst of irritation. "''Cos mother''s just a little----Oh, nothing," said Sibyl, pulling "Do," said Sibyl; "ask her to tell you a story about a man like The next day was a glorious one, and Lady Helen, Mr. Rochester, Mrs. Ogilvie, and Sibyl all met at Victoria Station in time to catch the "My dear little girl," said Mrs. Ogilvie, "I am so glad you like the 30362 that thou canst marry, do so seeking direction from God, and the good God''s love thee doth now deliver Thy Saviour, who doth love thee, Let thy heart be of good cheer now, Yet sorrow oft Thy heart doth wring. Of Thee, and Thy great love to me And until Thou Thy heart to me Lord, Thou my heart dost search and try, Lord, Thou my heart dost search and try, Thou art but man, to thee ''tis known, Thou art but man, to thee ''tis known, God, ere thou wast, prepar''d thee Thou boast''st thyself in God, thy tongue doth aye commend But thou who now thy God dost honour with whole heart, With joy fulfil thy will, with every good supply thee. Thy God, who ever life doth give thee, God in thy hand will give thee, When Thou Thy hand, that all doth stay, Turn Thou our hearts again to Thee, 30370 Thy daily pasturage shall be. And hide from my spirit thy light, Shall taste below of joys to come, Unto God thy trust and love. Haste in thy car of strength, O Lord! Soon, soon endless joy shall encompass thy brow, Thy friends on the shore are awaiting thee now: Thou hast entered the port--and thy Father doth steer. Arise o''er thee, God is thy noon! When shall thy bliss be mine? Who ceaseless sing thy boundless love, Thy Loved and thy Lost shall on earth no more greet thee, And thy Lord account hath kept: Shall thy foes say, Zion, Zion! "THY KINGDOM COME." On thy promise, Lord, to save. Joyful shall my spirit come, I would sing Thy love, my Saviour 1 I would sing Thy love, my Saviour 1 Though unseen, O Lord, I love thee 13 Though unseen, O Lord, I love thee 13 30389 "Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our prayer--"Stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness." The Apostle prays our Lord Jesus Christ, and all that it will mean to the people of God. St. "The God of Peace Himself." The Divine title associated with this prayer "Unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Once again the Apostle prays grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."--2 THESS. "The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the Holy Spirit of God in guiding and directing our hearts into the love of continually working together for good to them that love God. Now we pass to consider the second and complementary prayer. mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Paul prays to "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ." This 30406 America, one hundred years ago, as the career of Franklin presents. Read--Voyage to England--Keith''s deceit--Ralph--Franklin enters a New marks of respect--Lord Loudoun--Gov. Denny and Franklin--Visit the Indians--Franklin commissioner to England--His constant good Boston--Letter of Mrs. Adams--Burning of Falmouth--Franklin''s journey An incident took place when Franklin was about seven years of age, Read--Voyage to England--Keith''s deceit--Ralph--Franklin Upon reaching Philadelphia, Franklin presented the letter of his intimate companions of Benjamin Franklin were young men of his own Franklin immediately applied for work at the great printing For nearly a year, Franklin thus continued in the employment of Mr. Palmer, receiving good wages and spending them freely. In the year 1779, Dr. Franklin wrote to Dr. Benjamin Vaughn respecting Rumors soon reached Franklin''s good father of Boston, of his son''s The father of Benjamin Franklin died in Boston, at the great age of Franklin wrote, to the people of Pennsylvania, a noble letter of 30449 I believe the reason why a great many people think God does not love It is hard to make a sinner believe in this unchangeable love of God. When a man has wandered away from God he thinks that God hates him. chariots, to take his seat in the kingdom of God. Christ said to Nicodemus: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see you want to know the way of Life, believe that Jesus Christ is a Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent" (John the _gift_ of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." How a man is not willing to turn from sin he will not know God''s will, know Thee, the only true God; and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." will but examine the Word of God. And then another thing--no good man except Jesus Christ has ever 30459 ''American Missionary Association,'' of New York City, to be applied, Mrs. Emma Gedney, 159 West 128 st., New York, writes: "While in the doctor said that the Pectoral saved my darling''s life." Mrs. Chas. To dedicate a Christian church in New York City Christ at the door of that school when that black child came asking New Testament may be said to be a succession of great missionary especially upon one source of knowledge, namely, the Word of God. The missionary preacher needs to be a man established in the have the privilege of a great cast for God." It has come this year, peculiar interest, as two of our former students, Mr. and Mrs. Ousley, have been sent there as missionaries by the American Board. Young People of Cong Ch., 10; Mrs. T. Young Ladies'' Miss''y Soc., 5; Mrs. M. Young Ladies'' Miss''y Soc., _for Student Aid, Woman''s Miss''y Soc., _for Missionary, New 30573 paradise of God. The Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ FOR His Church is the most NOT TILL OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST COMES THE SECOND TIME WILL THE only at the actual Second Coming of our Lord as the God of Jacob, heaven-proclaimed assurance the Lord is coming a Second time. harp and sings of that hour when the Lord shall come in His glory; day--the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. holiness before the Lord when He shall come the Second time with all OUR Lord Jesus Christ did not come into this world that He might go Not Till Our Lord Jesus Christ Comes the Second Time Will the Church Not Till Our Lord Jesus Christ Comes the Second Time Will the Church the thought that the Lord will come a second time to this world, but It is at the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ that the Earth 30609 arises a question to be asked by the preacher concerning his preaching, They do not come to church demanding to hear in every preacher the So, before the Church sends out a man to preach let her search his life Let the preacher live in the great facts of his history! every new sermon ought to bring fresh proof to the preacher''s own soul heart and be still." There is one man whom every preacher needs more must be the true preacher''s way of looking at his fellow-men. There is one thing the preacher must never forget:--That the men and For this work the preacher will need to be a man of holiness, for, world come home to the preacher''s heart; only let the shadow of this Many a man listens to the preacher whose life is, Men of mind come to hear the preacher and go 30619 be a good work and to be obedience to God. For human wisdom knows no God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in their eternal divine counsel, us, namely: that Jesus Christ is true God and that the Holy Spirit is the grace of God through his Word and the holy apostles and Fathers. to the Word of God, having passed from death to life. God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, Word and will of God. This new man must be found in all Christians; death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Paul says further, "The free gift of God is eternal life." childlike words faith uses toward God through the Holy Spirit, but to glory in Christ, in the forgiveness of sins and the grace of God, have no Christ, no God and Holy Spirit, no grace nor salvation; as 30645 I may have an assurance of God''s love to my soul." Her mother asked her God would give you grace!" And then she prayed, "O Lord, finish thy work she was exceedingly desirous to die, and cried out, "Come, Lord Jesus, thee; but, Lord Jesus, my soul longs to be with thee: O when shall it world, asking strange questions concerning God, and Christ, and her own mother," said she, "speak not thus: I bless God, now I am dying, for "On the Lord''s day," said he, "look to me;" neither was this a word And, blessed be God, it was not long before the Lord was should but sin against God." Looking upon his father, he said, "If the O blessed be God for the Lord Jesus 5. His father said, "My dear child, the Lord will be near thee, and 5. Her father coming to her, said, "Be of good comfort, my child, for 30657 invitation to "Come" to the God of all grace and be blessed. salvation that God in His grace has provided for the sinful children gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto with grace, the free favor of God. Some years ago when I was speaking on this subject, a friend sent me Salvation is the gift of God. You have heard the Prayer Book: now hear paul; "Abraham believed Jesus said: "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He The religion of Christ is not man working his way up to God; confessing our sins and asking for mercy, the grace of God will meet grace of God; that is the best thing that any man or woman can The Law speaks of what man must do for God. Grace tells of what Christ has done for man. 30675 should adopt the Order of Worship of the French Reformed Church. adoption of Knox''s Book of Common Order by the Scottish Church of the Sacraments." The form of Church prayers, as originally prepared in its desire for freedom from prescribed forms in the worship of God. Indeed, we are probably not in error in judging that in different authority, a form of worship and Church government which their own Church the due observance of the Directory for public worship of God the Church, the use in worship of the Lord''s Prayer and all regulations Presbyterian Worship Outside of the Established Church of Scotland. Presbyterian Worship Outside of the Established Church of Scotland. Presbyterian Worship Outside of the Established Church of Scotland. Modern Movements in Presbyterian Churches Respecting Public Worship. Modern Movements in Presbyterian Churches Respecting Public Worship. Modern Movements in Presbyterian Churches Respecting Public Worship. certain forms of prayer for public worship, and services for the 30740 A great many people are afraid of the will of God, and yet I believe While men were busy building up Babylon, God called this man out of "Father is going away to meet his God, and the angels may come down The second night comes, and the old man looks into that face every likeness of sinful flesh to be the mediator between God and man. "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." All men must with all his heart on the Lord Jesus Christ, God will never bring The servant says: "The man of God told you to dip seven times. leprosy in Jordan when he did what the man of God told him; and if man who had the _fire of God_ in his soul; he had come to build the the Lord Jesus Christ in glory; if you want the power of God to be 30769 respective States; and an Act of Congress to emancipate the _slaves_ in therefore, feel that it is right to use language or adopt measures which It is some time since the Christian public has heard of any measure rendered their account to God. The flight of _time_ calls upon the D.D., Author of "The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia," and "The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia." His travels in the to follow Truth wherever it may lead._ By a MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF different times, through a long series of years, by the reading to God and to Christ for the blessings of providence and grace, can hearty co-operation of all our churches in the great work--the entering many years, the respected pastor of the church of Christ at Worstead, Baptist Missionary Society, conducted by the Rev. W. _Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, 30876 "This is Life Eternal--that they might know Thee, the True God, and nature the Christian Life should be Eternal. organisms which possess Eternal Life. Environment corresponded with is itself Eternal. Environment, and the conditions necessary to Eternal Life are satisfied. with a perfect Environment is Eternal Life according to Science. is Life Eternal," said Christ, "that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent." [2] Life Eternal is to know correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable, would be nature of the Life that lies at the back of the spiritual organism. correspondence, he knows the Father and this is Life Eternal. correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an Eternal Life. definition of Eternal Life, it is yet true that perfect correspondence with Environment is not Eternal Life. last eternally, the environing material things with which he corresponds 30879 zeal, piety and charity of the humble cure of Ars. The little volume describes in simple language the life of a man, who, soul that he might one day be a priest and work for the glory of God frequently united in expressions of ardent love to the good God. Together they spent hours at a time in adoration before the Father Vianney in truth looked to God alone for success in his from his soul, for he knew well how to combat the enemy of God. These violent satanic assaults were kept up against Father Vianney for the soul of man through a self-sacrificing love of God. As soon as the sermon was at an end the people hastened to the village that a novena be made to the saint, Father Vianney promising to pray gave him the title of the "holy cure," Father Vianney in despair 30888 and times of the Holy Days and Seasons of the Church''s year, with Andrew, Feast of Saint.--A Holy Day of the Church observed on Barnabas, Feast of Saint.--A Holy Day of the Church observed on Church articles designed for holy use without first being set apart Canon.--A Greek word meaning _rule_, and in the usage of the Church grace given unto God''s {54} faithful servants, and other Holy Days words "Kingdom of God" mean _His Church_. read at Holy Communion, commonly called "the Gospel for the Day." Holy Innocents'' Day.--A Festival of the Church observed on the third Holy Days of the Church. of the Church the principal service of every Lord''s Day should be Luke, Festival of Saint.--A Holy Day of the Church observed on Peter, festival of Saint.--A Holy Day of the Church observed on Stephen, Festival of Saint.--A Holy Day of the Church observed on 30908 called to write the first words of God''s Book would need a very special We are not told who was called by God to write the Book of Joshua; we they knew of God. Indeed, not until the people were forced to live in a heathen city did possessed in the written words of God. But in Babylon, with its huge heathen temples blazing with jewels and Now when the people heard the words of God''s Book they were very sad; the learned people; for the words in which the Law of God was given had live in the new city, and in the old Greek books we can yet read of the But many books had been written in the days of the old Jewish kings, write a part of God''s Book. them write, but that their written words should ever be used by God to 30909 As such, let us think of the Church on earth under six Prayer-Book of the Word of God, and of His holy Sacraments," and then gives him a case, "the Church of God," "made visible," in the nation where it is In these Prayer-Book names, then, we see (1) that the Church on earth (2) _The Prayer Book_, the possession of the Church of England. But, thank God, the Church, which wrote the book, could teach without it may be truly said that the Bible is the Word of God as no other book The English Prayer Book is the local presentment of the Church''s What does the Church of England Prayer Book--not by God''s grace, in the Holy Sacrament of Baptism, is given unto thee". The Blessed Sacrament!--or, as the Prayer Book calls it, "The Holy Christ''s Church; Bishops, Priests, and Deacons".[1] a Priest in the Church of God," must surely mean more than that a 31165 the Prayer Book, or of Church History, will find this short "Handy The Official Year Book of the Church of England. Ornaments of the Church in Edward VI.''s First Prayer Book, or in the Bishops of the seven Churches of Asia are called "Angels" in The Holy Angels are the objects of worship in the Church of Rome, Service of the Church of England being read over their remains. Christian and orderly service than that of the Church of England, rubrics) law of the Church for the daily worship of God. It also Church of England, in her Communion Office, says that "Christ, by taken to calling their places of worship _churches_. Greek Church at the present day, but there the Office is not formulary of the Church of England is the Book of Common Prayer. to be read in churches, on "any Sunday or Holy Day, when there is Church of Christ--Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 31177 At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read that the Priest [Minister] should begin the Lord''s Prayer. Collects shall never alter, but daily be said at Morning Prayer At the beginning of Evening Prayer the Minister shall read with Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord''s Prayer; Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord''s Prayer; _Trinity-Sunday_, shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer, Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve, shall be said at the Evening Then the Curate shall declare unto the people what Holy-days, And when there is a Communion, the Priest shall then place holy Communion, instead of the former, he shall use this Exhortation, Then shall the Priest, kneeling down at the Lord''s Table, Then shall the Priest say the Lord''s Prayer, the people Then shall be said the Lord''s Prayer, all kneeling. Priest shall first receive the Communion himself, and after 31270 the Rights of Man, published by the National Assembly of France, as out right; we shall come to the time when man came from the hand of his that the nation has no right at all in the case; that the government is property in man, and governing him by personal right. Liberty, in cases determined by the Law. Twelve: A Public force being necessary to give security to the Rights in America, a government extending over a country ten times as large practice of the Rights of Man. Owing to the prejudices that still govern that nation, the author has Government is not a trade which any man, or any body of men, has a right England, France, and America, as the present prospect of things appears national benefit, it is stated in that work (_Rights of Man_, Part ii.) nation pays taxes, so has every man a right to a share in government, 31275 give us _true_ ideas of God; and it is by our reason alone that we are years were the exclusive possessors of the knowledge of the true God. By an effect of his special kindness, the Jewish people was for a long According to the principles of the Christian religion, God does not Behold, Madam, the God whom this religion orders you to adore _in Christian religion, the Devil has more adherents than God himself; of God''s goodness; they tell you they will be eternal,--a thing which religion, at the same time that it assures us that God is the author The true means, Madam, of living happy in this world is to do good to ideas, which all revealed religions give us of the Deity, the priests Christian religion, which supposes its God as cruel to exact The power of loving a God whom religion 31311 A. Yes; God gives a special vocation to each person. A. Father Faber says: "Every man has a distinct vocation." St. Alphonsus says: "We must embrace that state to which _God calls us_." enter religion is a safe mark of a vocation to the religious state, that state of life to which God _calls_ us."--ST. Even though persons should have vocations to the marriage state in the MEANS OF PRESERVING A VOCATION TO THE RELIGIOUS STATE.--SOME MEANS OF PRESERVING A VOCATION TO THE RELIGIOUS STATE.--SOME Why should a vocation to the religious state be followed promptly? Q. At what age may children enter the religious state? world before entering the religious state? world before entering the religious state? DUTY OF PARENTS REGARDING THE RELIGIOUS VOCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN. children that wish to enter the religious state? preventing their children from entering the religious state? 31323 capable men in our colleges to-day are looking forward to the ministry as To meet this condition a larger number of efficient men must promising young men into this great service. the other hand, many times men are allowed to come into the ministry good,--men with no preparation and no chance of getting proper training. true leader can call men) to consider the calling of the ministry, facing time when the most choice men of the race entered the ministry. efficient and practical training for the men we desire to lead into the Merely to have men enter this great work without a training, training of the ministry to-day needs to be placed upon teaching; not mere our seminaries and in many cases more practical men, such as our great and shall see the kingdom of God come among men in a larger way than it is 31350 instrument was chosen by Jesus Christ, in Paul, to carry +The Place of Paul+--The Man. The Work of the Apostle. Paul succeeded Christ and went throughout the heathen That Paul could preach Christ and establish churches, Acts, to the heathen world and the struggle which Paul +Epistles to the Churches.+--Upon this journey Paul (Acts 22:1-29) in which Paul tells the Jews how he was Paul''s great desire to visit Rome and preach Christ in and Festus, when Paul had testified of his faith in Christ hearing of Paul of his faith in Christ. +The New Faith in Christ.+--Paul stands for spiritual Paul for a pure life lived in the faith of Jesus Christ, and the beginning of Paul''s second (Acts 16:6) and third What is the place of these Epistles in Paul''s life? Epistle to Timothy; the last words of Paul, time and place of writing, 31372 "Because," said Raven, "Dick''s got a head for organizing. "Well," said Raven curtly, cracking his voice at him in a way Dick had "What I want to know is," said Dick, "what he thought he was going off Mr. Raven, for God''s sake tell me why my baby''s got to look like that man?" "I can tell you," said Nan, a little white coming round her lips, as it "I''m going, too," said Nan. She gave her hand to Raven. "Do you know, Nan," said Raven, with a sudden resolution, "what Dick "Good Lord, Nan," said Raven, "where do you get such thoughts?" "I wonder," said Raven impetuously, "if you think she''s got any mind at "Bed?" Raven asked, also getting up, and Nan said good night and was "Dick," said Raven sharply, "we''ll leave Nan out of this." "I fancy," said Raven, "Nan''ll tell you you''ve got nothing whatever to 31521 "Come, Frida," she said, "let us play the last prayer, asking God to let father come home, and to bless the kind people "Ah, then," said Elsie, "the little Frida is indeed an orphan, poor lovely little girl, just such a one as you describe the child you speak Frida slipped her hand into that of the poor mother, and said gently, "O "Frida," she said, for the child was none other than our little friend little Frida, the woodland child, had read and sung to his blind darling "Father," said his young daughter Adeline, as she lay one warm day on a In a moment after Elsie said these words, Frida raised her head and "Look, Hans," said Frida; "is not that doll like a little queen? "And now, Frida, my loved child, come and tell me all about those friends who were so kind to you in the Forest," said Mrs. Willoughby 31525 James Gilmour left England to begin his Mongolian life-work in February boyish-looking, open-faced, bright-eyed young man was really Gilmour. of the people to whom I am sent, a new field of work among men who day''s asking God to overrule all these events for good is not lost. Christ being at the right hand of God was a great point with Mission work progressing till another man or two come and put their and hope to remain some time, trusting myself to the hands of God. to realise what life in Mongolia was like, he set up his Mongol tent in great hope of the conversion to God of a Mongol, who had given him his Chinese feel the flood tide of new life that has come into Peking! The year 1891 found Mr. Gilmour hard at work as usual, in good health 31603 His blessed Son was once upon earth, making known the glory of God in things we shall mention are affected as this age progresses and comes Christ died and the Holy Spirit came to earth, was not known in Old antagonized the work of the Spirit and counterfeited the Truth of God. Therefore the spiritual warfare of believers in this age is to stand And when the seven years are over the Lord Jesus Christ will come back believers who live on earth when the Lord comes will hear that a free gift of the grace of God in our Lord Jesus Christ?" The answer come till that body, the church, is taken from the earth (see 2 Thess. King.[2] When this great tribulation ends the Lord Jesus Christ comes God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every 31647 Holy Father, let Thy loving spirit guide the hand that thy heart?'' the next word seems to be, ''If it be, give Me thine hand.'' tangle-making hands to the Lord, ''Let us lift up our heart with our David said also, ''My lips shall greatly rejoice _when_ I sing unto Thee, Singing for Jesus, the Lord whom we love! into the house of the Lord thy God,'' was like ''saying grace'' for all the Christ Jesus.'' And again, ''Thy thoughts shall be established.'' And again, the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine For Thee, my Saviour Jesus, my Lord and my God! within us, ''Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee,'' but our true and very ''The Lord shall _establish_ thee an holy people unto Himself, as He hath ''that day,'' when the Lord Jesus promises, ''Ye shall know that I am in My 31734 Poor Man''s Christian Friend. Among the warmest friends of the Young Men''s Christian Union was one, Long has it been my privilege to know this good man. This love was seen not merely in kind words and good thoughts, but in down that good man''s cheeks, causing him to say, as he pressed my hand, This active Christian spirit of love was witnessed by me also last summer, many years since, a poor young man. his time and wealth to the service of God, and the good of his fellow-men: Bring now before your minds this poor young man going to that house of How little did this poor young man think, when he first entered that Yet so it was,--a touching tribute to a good man and beloved of the good man and the Christian will be blessed and faithfully cherished The tears of man are o''er thee shed, 31779 My first conception of God was that of a great big good man sitting kingdom of God and the Church Universal; true heirs of glory and fit things of God''s divine revelation,"--mysteries too great for man to the Bible is the supernaturally inspired, infallible word of God. Upon If the New Testament was truly inspired of God and infallibly true, like a man, and tells the woman that what God said was not true; but if and start a new race, through whom God would yet save the world, as all part of God left heaven, came to earth as a man, died on the Cross to broken, God''s eternal plans and purposes thwarted, and man left without The question has often been asked me, "If a man cannot sin against God, Divine Logos, or Word, or Life, or God Himself, entered into _the man_ God-life in mankind the world has ever known. 31791 Sunday-school to-day than the question of securing more teachers and work of the church will gladly engage in Sunday-school teaching after In the period of Elijah# and his great pupil, Elisha, God was (3) Life in the desert as leader of God''s people.--Forty years. What two great prophets did God send to Israel at this time? Why the Sunday-school Teacher should know the Pupil.#--Next to God''s order, obeys his laws and waits his time is the teacher 2. Give four reasons why the Sunday-school teacher should know the knowledge, and gives the teacher the power to teach each fact with its 6. Why should a teacher work with pupils out of the class hour as well Teaching Defined.#--The Sunday-school teacher as much as any #1.# The Sunday-school is the Bible-studying and teaching service of every school to have at least one teacher-training class each year. the office of the Sunday-school teacher, places upon him the 31829 saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? (25)At that time Jesus spake and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of intelligence, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man thenceforth presumed to question him. (35)And the angel answering said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thy self down (27)And he answering said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all and said unto him, Give the glory to God: we know that this man is a Moses truly said unto the fathers, "A prophet shall the Lord your God enslaved will I judge, said God: and after these things they shall come indeed to sin, but living unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord. unto you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 31938 the works painted by Michelagnolo on the vaulting of the Chapel in Rome. executed the altar-piece of a chapel; and on a wall he painted in fresco master in similar works of casting, has executed many things in company called Il Modena, who has executed most beautiful works in figures of beautiful design, are many works executed by the above-named craftsmen places, has had at various times men who have executed in painting works in various places, has executed some works of painting in oils in the Having finished that truly extraordinary work, Giovanni executed a very pictures, but even the most beautiful work of painting that there is in Udine had executed many works in stucco, he painted some little figures set his hand to the work, and executed some pictures with scenes in works of painting that he executed, for there were always to be seen in 32006 instil in its place a life of duty, and of faith in God and man, and I expected of Christians is the highest and the best that human nature Christianity of Christ, prevails, will mankind be morally and maintain that Christianity in attributing Personality to God makes Him The imagination that the Christian God is a Personality like ourselves, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?[15] Can it be doubted that idolatry, the Man Christ Jesus''?[18] The Religion of Humanity, so faith in a Righteous and Loving God, and in a Life of man beyond the No doubt, belief in God is not confined to Christian countries: worship It is Christ Who gives life to the thought of God. It is the Word made Flesh that makes the Eternal Word more real. Christian Christ seems not so much a humanised God as an If Jesus Christ is a God, 32016 church of God had, in St. Paul''s present belief, widened out from being the catholic church, the brotherhood of all men in Christ, the doctrine of the great catholic society, the renovated Israel, the Church of God. In this catholic brotherhood St. Paul sees the realization of an Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints peace in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.'' Grace is that free that divine Spirit which possessed Him as man, the life of Christ is (1) St. Paul calls the Father ''the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,'' as temple, comes to mean the Church which lives in Christ''s life, and the individual members of the Christian body; and this is also, as St. Paul elsewhere teaches, the means to them of new life by union with 3207 the Soveraign Power, into the hand of a Man, or an Assembly of men; is the man and the woman, as that the right can be determined without War. In Common-wealths, this controversie is decided by the Civill Law: and without a Sword in the hands of a man, or men, to cause those laws to onely of the Common-wealth, but also of a man; and a Soveraign Assembly Authority of man to declare what be these Positive Lawes of God, how can abrogation of the Law. If that Man, or Assembly, that hath the Soveraign Power, disclaime "That he that hath the Soveraign Power, is subject to the Civill Lawes." men," hath place in the kingdome of God by Pact, and not by Nature. Divine Right; that is, by Authority immediate from God. Of The Soveraign Power Between The Time Of Joshua And Of Saul thing contrary to the Civill Law, which God hath expressely commanded us 32145 Thou hast put on thy mildest look to-day, Like eve''s still light, thy liberal master spreads Her mother''s voice is heard: Good child, come in; Poor maid, for thou art harmless, and thy mind 240 I love thy voice, oh, ever-sounding sea, 249 Next morn, light-hearted William passed along, "I look in thy face," for my heart it is not cold,[85] 240 [Footnote 85: "She looked in my face, till my heart was like to Whilst a deep voice was heard, Now sleep in peace, By God in heaven, thou art the king! Shall be thy place of rest, poor Adela? Thy seal, O living God; and a loud voice A voice from a bright cloud, The Lord shall come But thy old age shall calmly pass away, Of days long passed, of love and village life, Great Lord of heaven and earth, thy voice is fate; And thy last day on earth--but "Father--Lord-- 32188 But mens passions and Gods directions seldom agree; violent designes and Christians; so shall We praise thy Name, who art the God of order _This grant, O My God, in thy good time, for Jesus Christs sake._ Christian King, suffer Me not to subject My Reason to other mens the matter into thine own hands; that men may know it was thy work and president from Gods or mans laws, be ever thought by judicious men Yet as things now stand, good men shall least offend God or Me, by and subjection: The first they owe as men and Christians to God; the Gods Soveraignty, which is the onely King of mens Consciences; and yet _O my God, how long shall the sons of men turn my glory into shame? _O thou God of order, and of truth, in thy good time abate the malice, But some men thought, that the Government of this Church and State, 32292 "Sir," said the mariners, "the king and knight that lies here dead was a "Fair sirs," he said, "I pray you, as knights-errant, to come and see my "Sir knight," said Tristram, "I pray you leave off this sport. "Sir," answered a knight, "it comes from the party who hold against King And some said to him, "Sir Lancelot, yonder knight in the black harness "Sir knight," said Tristram, "you are not of our party, and your company "Lay your hand on this sword and draw it," said the king to Lancelot. "My lord Gawaine," said Lancelot, "bear well in mind, this sword shall "Then, fair sir, since you come of kings and queens, I shall make you a "Sir knight," said Galahad, "come on at your peril." "You are a good knight, Sir Mador," said Bors, "but I trust that God which said that King Arthur had been slain in battle with Sir Lancelot. 32355 people could look up into the heavens and read God''s law. people might desire that things were arranged in this way, but God has In the time of Christ the children did not have little banks like these. of as "laying hold within the veil" be sure that in God''s own good time, God wants us to stop and think, and He says, "Come, let us reason place of honor in the world to come, we must expect that God will deal Now I want to illustrate to you to-day why God permits sorrow and little and great things for God and man. The time when God will do this is called the great Judgment Day. It is then that the words which I have read as my text tell us that "the in knowing that we are the children of God; that Jesus Christ has 32362 work at art growing greater every day in Michelagnolo, Lodovico, When the Pope had returned to Rome and Michelagnolo was at work on the Pope held in great favour and estimation the works that he executed in Michelagnolo, having made arrangements to paint the whole work by time there took place the death of Pope Julius, and the work was extraordinary work executed by Michelagnolo, went one day with ten great a work executed with such harmony of painting, that it appears the works by the hand of Michelagnolo that there are to be seen in of Giorgio Vasari, who executed the work in a beautiful manner, proved likewise, he executed many works in painting that are to be seen that time, and had seen the works of Michelagnolo, those of Raffaello, beautiful figures by his hand and works executed by him in that 32454 When the world contained only one great Christian Church, the idea of Church and State, this great identification of the true christian action The charter which Sir George Calvert framed, and the successor of James But the other clause, touching "God''s Holy Rights and the true Christian religion," the charter meant, _the church of England_, then, _ex vi Holy Rights and the true Christian Religion?"[12] Forty-nine years after the charter was granted to Lord Baltimore, King The 22nd section of the charter of Maryland, copied from Bacon''s Laws, HOLY RIGHTS _and_ the TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, or the allegiance due to than in the phrase: "God''s Holy Rights and the true Christian Religion." charter, anterior to the enactment of any colonial law by the Maryland opinion as to the rights of Catholics and Protestants. "God''s holy rights and the true Christian religion," is only an 32577 Mrs. Sterling continued: "Mrs. Page said that Dorothy, perfectly at home "Son, I could easily tell that Dorothy is coming tomorrow," said Mrs. Sterling. "Oh, I never thought of not joining a church," said Dorothy. "Miss Dorothy, the denominations differ in matters of doctrine," said "Yes, please do come, Mr. Sterling," said Dorothy. "What are the doctrines of your church, Mr. Sterling?" asked Dorothy. "I think, Mr. Sterling," said Dorothy, "that the verse shows that the "No," said Sterling; "you don''t immerse people by pouring water on them "I think the baptism does the infant a wrong," said Dorothy. "But, Doctor," said Dorothy, "I do not see anything about infant baptism "Miss Dorothy," said Mr. Sterling, "I think you could join my church, "I also said that your church believed in baptismal regeneration." "You mean," said Dorothy, "that your church and the Baptists believe 32669 Mrs. Wesley was a dear, kind mother, and took a great deal of trouble, mother wrote to Mr. Wesley, who was in London at the time, and said, Though he was properly grown up, twenty-three years old, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley always thought of him as their "boy." Fathers and mothers always Mrs. Wesley loved her "boy" John very, very I am sure you will all feel very sorry when you read this, for Mr. Wesley was working very hard amongst them, and thought he was doing what allowing such a good man as Mr. Wesley to preach in their churches; and know how Jesus Christ, God''s Son, in His great love and pity for us said This was a great disappointment, for Mr. Wesley loved the people of =Story of John Wesley:= for Boys and Girls. =Story of John Wesley:= for Boys and Girls. 32673 attitude towards God which the law suggested, are, in St. Paul''s view, it is Jesus as manifesting the Father, Jesus as God incarnate; and St. Peter is strictly interpreting St. Paul when he represents the object sacrifice, the life which has the love of God in Christ for its motive, all men can know of God''s power and divine attributes, so, St. Paul God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there spirit.'' Henceforth, then, no man can come to God in faith in Jesus, David, the man after God''s own heart, living under the law, would have body, out of the conditions of acceptance with God. In substituting ''faith'' for works of the law, then, as the principle of God''s power in the case of Jesus, the person on whom our divine faith with God. Thus: ''The power of sin is the law.'' ''As many as are of the 32674 body--the elect of God in Jesus Christ--has in the eighth chapter But according to St. Paul''s teaching, had not God ''broken His lives and speaks in God, in Christ, in the Spirit. Old Testament had already realized that God''s election of Israel was a There shall they be called sons of the living God. And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of that principle of law which the Jews had come to regard as God''s final real righteousness which, in Christ, God should offer and man should purpose of God for man shows itself in a world of sin; it is by a 19, ''God was in Christ reconciling the world unto leaves it still outside the life of God. The faith which Christ God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. of the real offer of God to man in Christ Jesus, is a divine 32720 of vans contained four grown-up people and two children, Hugh and Lucy. We went into a large room, in which were long tables, and benches at "Yes," said Hugh, in a sleepy voice; and the next minute down went his "What sort of bed had you last night, Hugh?" Lucy asked. After a hearty laugh at the men who headed the procession, Hugh and Lucy Hugh and Lucy were impatient to see a real palace like those in old "They are crocodiles, Lucy," Hugh said; "marble crocodiles; and look at liked to see the pyramids as well as Hugh, but the ride from Cairo was "I should like to make one little Egyptian girl a Christian," said Lucy; Lucy took a great fancy to one little girl, and stood beside her, In old times this city was called Egyptian Babylon. as we neared it, we saw one large cliff which looked like a ruined 32736 seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be And God said unto Abraham, "As for Sarai, thy wife, thou shalt not "And I came this day unto the fountain, and said, ''O Lord, the God of "And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, ''Hereby shall I know Then Judah came near unto him, and said, "Oh my lord, let thy servant, thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, And the Lord said unto Moses, "See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to And the Lord said unto him, "Peace be to thee; fear not: thou shalt And Araunah said unto the king, "The Lord thy God accept thee." spoke unto him, "O man of God, the king hath said, ''Come down.''" 32756 "This is life eternal to know Thee the only true God and Testament also we remember Christ''s own words in prayer, "Holy Father This truth was needed in Old Testament times to save God''s chosen (II) Jesus Christ the Son of God eternally existing in the Godhead be, a direct revelation by God of Himself to man through Jesus Christ. belief that in Jesus Christ God became man is put in the very forefront Jesus Christ we have perfect God and perfect Man. The Virgin-Birth The Credal statement that "Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND THE LORD OF LIFE of time God sent forth His Son." Jesus Christ, as it were, stands Christianity required my belief that the God and Father of all men left vision of Jesus Christ, Who is the revelation of God the Father, as One 32830 Lord." That is, if we follow out the thought, this present state of At any rate, we have gained this knowledge from St. John''s words, that the sight of the Blessed Lord which will be enjoyed because the departed spirit is "with the Lord"--companying with Him. Before we follow this out farther, let us carefully draw one great that complete state of the glorified Christian man, of which we shall rest; and the departed spirit shall be with Christ: faring as He Christians do look forward to a real personal coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, shall appear in the sky, visible to men in His glorified body; this world, the dead in Christ shall rise first--the first thing: the have come with the Lord, shall be united to those bodies, each to his the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change the body of our degradation 33014 great obstacles in the way of God''s work to-day is this want of love God hates the great things in which love is not the motive power; but great faith; and let our expectation be from God. I remember when I was a boy, in the spring of the year, when the snow After Moses had gone, we read that three times in one chapter God said succeed or not?" The man said that of course Christ was going to Yet these men did a mighty and a lasting work for God in their day and saw their faith He said to the palsied man: "Son, be of good cheer; be swept out of the way, and let us come to God as one man, looking Every man and woman who loves the Lord Jesus Christ must wake work for God, and will keep at it 365 days in the year, then a good 33015 world, we have got to work with God. It is His power that makes all Let a man that is given to strong drink look to God in faith, in love, and in patience if we are to be true to God. How delightful it is to meet a man who can control his temper! "Well," he said, "if a man comes into your store to buy goods, and you Spirit and kingdom." Christ said: "If the world hate you, ye know that The coming of Jesus Christ into the world made a sin has said: "Every man is born with his back to God. Repentance is a us live for God, continually going forth to win souls for Him. Let me quote a few words by Dr. Chalmers: "Thousands of men breathe, Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark." 33024 peace has been made by Jesus Christ between God and man, but it is About midnight that old man came trembling before God and Methodist ways, went home to his mother and said: I was reading, some time ago, of a young man who had just come out of work together for good to them that love God." Some years ago a child got up, and said he remembered but one thing about his father, and for coming!" When the Spirit of God lays hold of a man, he does a good Next day the young man said: The story is told that a man once said he would not talk to his son The young man said, "Doctor, do you believe that?" "I will tell you what I mean," I said; "the man that comes into my Some one in England said, if you see a man''s goods and furniture come 33180 1 Unto Thy temple, God of love, 1 Unto Thy temple, God of love, 1 How shall we praise Thee, Lord of light! 1 How shall we praise Thee, Lord of light! Lord, if Thou wilt, Thy power can make us clean, Hath not thy heart within thee burned? Hath not thy heart within thee burned? Hath not thy heart within thee burned? Thy love my thoughts shall fill; And peace, like the dew, shall descend round thy head, Who shall lead thy child to Thee? And thus Thy promised peace my soul shall win. 2 God shall bless thy going out, Come, trusting spirit, to thy God, Our hearts shall o''erflow with Thy love; Thy name, O God, is love. Shall lift thee to thy heaven above, God, thy hope, shall bear through all; Thou on God hast set thy love, Shall bring thee to thy God; 33194 sanctity, or the spirit of evil leading him by temptation into sin. makes you long to know God better, to love Him more truly, to serve Him God may be said to tempt man in the sense of applying tests to prove or power, and goodness of God, the most necessary thing for the Christian Satan is to dishonour God. What would be thought of a soldier in the temptation, and when in it "Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly," come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation."[3] The seeking to-day to bear the morrow''s burden, something God means no soul This power that the praying soul has over God (we dare use such an to speak or do some loving thing, offering it, at the time, to God as (2) Temptation is also an advertisement to the soul that God has some 33203 The Lord Duke, having seen from these and other works the excellence of end, therefore, there was seen figured a great Neptune on his usual Car, beautiful picture, in which were seen painted, likewise in chiaroscuro, large epitaph, which was seen placed with much grace and beauty below picture, there was seen painted with most beautiful invention his him in that form because, as was seen painted there in a great picture hand was seen, portrayed like all the others from life, the most before to a better life, over whose head, in his picture, was seen joined to the Duke''s niche, there was seen painted in a spacious picture left hand in like manner was seen placed that of Constancy, who best was seen the loving Duke holding by the hand the excellent Duchess Duke Alessandro, then, having seen this my first work, 33237 world, 4--Increase in Christian populations, 9--Spread of The United States and Canada, a Common World Task, 66. is stated by one of the great missionary authorities in India that forces of the twentieth century have fused the non-Christian world. present remarkable state of the non-Christian world has no moral Protestant Church of the non-Christian world was established in South North America anywhere in the non-Christian world. great non-Christian world was practically closed to the Protestant and in North and South America." To-day no reputable Christian nation task of the foreign missionary and the native Christian Church. great religious and missionary movements of our time. AMERICA HAS RESOURCES SUFFICIENT FOR THE TASK OF A CHRISTIAN WORLD of the non-Christian world as 500,000,000 people. only must modern men study the world and the Word, but also the Church missionary organization and life of the church to which each man 33247 until we receive what we claim, and know that God has anew filled us with In Jesus Christ, God''s Treasury, our share of Pentecost''s blessing has God has placed us, we individually need to be filled with the Spirit. filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts viii. "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" (Acts i. "And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Acts ii. filled with the Holy Ghost, one''s heart must be "cleansed." "Giving them God first cleansed their hearts, and then He gave them the Holy Ghost. "Filling of the Holy Ghost." "Cleansing" is a negative blessing, the they were all filled with the Holy Ghost" (Acts they were all filled with the Holy Ghost" (Acts Christian man wants to be filled with the Holy Ghost, he need be in no the lack of the "Fullness of the Holy Ghost." The Spirit-filled man knows 33290 O Father Almighty, whose Son our Lord Jesus Christ did at this hour before Thee in my daily work and life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. sins to God, may be pardoned, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Almighty and everlasting God, I come to the holy Sacrament of Thy dear O merciful Father, for Thy dear Son''s sake, Jesus Christ our Lord. And we most humbly beseech Thee of Thy goodness, O Lord, _Almighty God, Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Father; For Thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ''s sake, forgive us all that times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, *Holy Father, we give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, I give Thee thanks, O Lord, holy Father, Almighty, everlasting God, who Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 33296 His great right hand full of men and when the fullness of time is come This young man showed also a fine capacity for friendship with men. with an attractive woman, this fellow a man after God''s own heart! David was a man after God''s own heart, not because he never did wrong, brought home to this well-endowed young man in the year the great king If any man will seek for moral renewal at the hands of God he will guesses about God. This young man placed upon the lips of the race and This great truth was the heart of this young man''s message to the the race, as it was set within the heart of this young man, it changes for that young man who changed the history of the world. for that young man who changed the history of the world. 33340 "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy they have come to love God. Paul said: "Do we then make void the law command; it means that you cannot mix the worship of the true God with I said: "It takes God to curse a man; I am the man, and I have a lovely family of children, and God has been do you neglect the house of God on the sabbath day, and spend your Work is good for man and is commanded, "Six days shalt thou labor;" God didn''t forget them in this commandment, and man should not forget young man, but remember that God has given this commandment, and you father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive The covetous man worships Mammon, not God. 33341 works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. I reply: The Holy Spirit of God. I am a full believer in "The Apostles'' Creed," and therefore "I In addition to the teaching of God''s Word, the Holy Spirit in His love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is may not rest until God gives us the power to work for Him. If I know my own heart to-day, I would rather die than live as I once was published; and when the Spirit of God comes down upon the Church, heart, if the Spirit comes upon God''s people in demonstration and in the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love when the Spirit of God is at work he convicts men of sin. believe." Oh that the Spirit of God may come and convict men of sin! 33349 "Lord" signifies also God in Christ, the Jehovah of the Old promises may be; the "+LORD+" of whom it is said, "God is not a man that "+LORD+" who, speaking to the multitudes, said, "I am the good shepherd; "These forty years Jehovah, thy God, hath been with thee; thou hast +LORD+ thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; he +LORD+ thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing" So it sometimes happens with the children of God. Our Great Shepherd has until we "lie down" in the green pastures and quiet waters of God''s Word We believe Jesus Christ to be God because when we sinned and came asking Shall it not be that in that great day not one of Christ''s sheep will be not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." Christ is our 33515 worlds of the great universe of God. And men persistently misread it as draw all men unto me." Bear witness in the world that the one thing everlasting life," where Christ lives and reigns at God''s right hand his image; let not Cæsar dare to stand between God and that in man which God claims the man in his wholeness; that body, soul, and spirit, "_Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and vineyard is, that it is man''s true, noble, God-ordained work. just because it is an order ordained of God, man shall not make an idol affirmation of the word of God. The dark tones of man''s present life are toil, and pain, and care, through life''s brief day, if they lift man how the living principle of God''s relation to you, to man, as Father and 33520 sin-sick soul filled with leprosy here to-night, if you come to Christ London, and that good Samaritan represents the Son of God. Young man, city which He loved, the great heart of the Son of God was moved with Now let us go back to the man to whom Christ said these words. hid with Christ in God." Man is safer with the second Adam out of Eden and God said to Joshua, "Take this country, and no man shall be able that man said the Jews had the honour of killing the Christian''s God; If a man is in Christ, let death come. Young man, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and The Lord''s word is "now." God says, "Come now, and let Christ Jesus at the right hand of God. That is the only faith that That men might believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. Every 33596 saints of heaven we have powerful protectors and advocates with God. Through their intercession they obtain for us from Him the grace to lead the Church: "Thy birth, O virgin Mother of God, has brought joy to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me! name, saying, "Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and MARY most holy, I see that thy obedience united thee so closely to God, the intercession of the Mother of Thy Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. CYRIACUS, great servant of God, loving Christ with all thy heart, O GOD, grant us through the intercession of thy holy virgin and martyr merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, of Mary, His most blessed Mother, of O my Mother, by thy love for God I beseech thee 33607 man of wealth, a business friend of Pathema''s father. eyes, which rested for a time in peace on her visitor''s tender face. the olive trees," said Pathema, feeling keenly, while she held the listen to the life-giving Word," answered Pathema, looking tenderly Demonicus and Timon stood at the open door of the Christian church, not "Content thee, my dear Tharsos, thou hast done thy best; and strive to Tharsos turned and looked up at the serried mass of living faces behind for a little time; or if thy desire be to speak a word with mother thou "And in the face of thy brother''s strong desire thou art waiting to "The maiden comes: see, yonder," said Coryna, looking intently towards "I rejoice to hear thy hope," replied Pathema with brightening eyes. "The hospitable home of Tharsos and Pathema," was the reply. deep blue eyes, the first-born son of Tharsos and Pathema. 33635 had least thought about life''s great things, we have come face to face to-day expressed the greatest wish that the lips of man can utter--God There comes an hour in life when the heart realises But to-day it is different; the great thing now is prayer. things that have been done with the name of God on men''s lips; of enthusiasm, but the God of our Fathers who made us a great nation and For the new man "words like Empire, Patriotism, Duty, Honour, Glory and sit on the throne of the world''s soul, not a ruthless tribal god, but the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, the living God came stirring the foul places of humanity, and the eyes, come to God. She knows that her son has walked along that road, and flung wide open, and no burdened heart will find the House of God 33649 concert inviting thee to the love of God.--VEN. God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, actions, we have in view only the good pleasure of God and the goodness of God.--VEN. Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. When you do a good action, have the intention of first pleasing God, and Prayer is the only channel through which God''s great graces and favors Mary being in heaven nearer to God and more united to Him, knows our of Mary, therefore let us always have the fear of God.--ST. thy humility that God hath done great things in thee, obtain for me the If the love of God is in your heart, you will understand that to suffer love with which Our Lord did all things for the glory of God and the of God, and obtained from Him all they desired.--VEN. 33671 IN THY conception, O Virgin Mary, thou wast immaculate; pray for us to the Church: "Thy birth, O virgin Mother of God, has brought joy to the Mary, the virgin selected by God to become the Mother of His Son. On Virgin Mary, Mother of God, pray to Jesus for me! name, saying, "Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and MARY most holy, I see that thy obedience united thee so closely to God, MARY, the virgin Mother of God, was conceived without original sin. O GLORIOUS Virgin and Mother of God, Mary! O GLORIOUS Virgin and Mother of God, Mary! O GLORIOUS Virgin and Mother of God, Mary! O GLORIOUS Virgin and Mother of God, Mary! O GLORIOUS Virgin and Mother of God, Mary! O GLORIOUS Virgin and Mother of God, Mary, queen of heaven! 33672 Christianity by their belief in the Unity of God and the consistency of of the strict Unity of Jehovah, the divine authority of Jesus Christ, entirely man; divine indeed in his derived power and spiritual remained Jews, ascribing to God alone all divine attributes, worshiping respecting the nature or person of God. They speak and write of Him as to the Christians as to men ''sanctified by God the Father;'' and in As a power, as influence exerted by God himself, is the spirit given by God through Jesus Christ, and comfirmed by miraculous power, Like Christians of the present day, they believed the Holy Spirit to nature and far inferior in power to the firm and clear faith with which through the spiritual world of which God has made every man an conception of the nature of the Christian Church. spirit and in truth.'' We have said that the essence of Christian faith 33676 Jesus, do Thou wound my heart with a great contrition for my sins, and a committed; I pray and beg of thee by these dear pledges, Jesus and Mary, holy sacrifice of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, my TO THEE, O Lord, I raise my heart in gratitude for all Thy mercies. merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, of Mary, His most blessed Mother, of My Jesus, I love Thee with my whole heart. unworthy to obtain mercy, yet the sight of Thy holy cross, on which Thou We adore Thee, O Christ, and praise Thee: Because by Thy holy cross Thou O my Mother, by thy love for God I beseech thee Give us, O Lord, a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy name, for Thou Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in Thee, have mercy on us. 33678 The prayers of the Mass are offered to God. Hence when the priest says Mass he is speaking not to the people, but to the true and living Jesus Christ, God and man, hidden under the Let us always ask God when present at the holy Mass for a lively faith Catholic Church teaches that Jesus Christ is really present in the If you remember that Jesus Christ is God, that He had the power to make Do you understand how Jesus Christ is both God and man? HOLY communion is receiving the body and blood of Christ in the Blessed Good Christians frequently receive their Lord and their God in holy made head of His Church--thrice denied his Lord and his God. After the descent of the Holy Ghost, what a change! The people of God in the Old Law believed, and Jesus Christ and His 33701 Religious, called to reproduce the three great virtues of Jesus child of God, the member of Jesus Christ, and the sanctuary of the Thus it is that charity poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, TO love our brethren as ourselves in relation to God, it suffices It is impossible for religious to love their brethren with a true, RELIGIOUS who have the family spirit wish to know everything which Charity, by uniting its good wishes and interest to the deeds of IN order to excite ourselves to fraternal charity, let us try and thoughts inflame my charity in the fire of your Divine love? brethren and myself are children of God and members of Jesus THERE are six sorts of religious who wound fraternal charity more community without great necessity the faults of religious would be good odour of religious houses, which are the family of God. Guard 33742 Soul breaks forth out of its Nature-self and enters into "God''s this Love of God to Man. _Inwardly_ he has a seed of the Divine Life And if thou dost this, know that God will speak unto thee, and will as thy Lord Christ hath said: In me ye may have rest, but in the World separation of thy mind from the World, then thou also wilt begin to love of Love, which will hence appear to thee as great as God _above Nature_ of God in Christ, to bring thee out of thy Darkness into his marvellous to the Light of God, thou must consider that there are in thy soul two if thou desirest to see God''s Light in thy Soul, and be divinely love_ the Light of God, and attract the Divine Power into itself, God manifesting himself in Love, there thou findest Heaven, without 33765 Bishop of Rome, sends alms, according to the custom of his Church, to the the Church, as he will give an account of his acts to the Lord_." St. Stephen received this decision of the African Council so ill, that he would were read in a Council of thirty-six Bishops, at the head of whom was St. Cyprian, who answered in the name of all by a letter addressed to the the Council of Chalcedon to preside over the Church Catholic, that of Rome transmission of St. Peter''s primacy over the whole Church to the Bishop of Father, our fellow-minister, Coelestine, Bishop of the Roman Church,--we authority of Peter, as we read set forth and acted on in the same Council. Council of Chalcedon, the Bishop of Rome appeared at the head of the West, Peter: so that the most blessed Bishop of the Roman city may have power to 33831 He was the son of William Penn, who, trained to nautical life, had by When a little over fifteen years of age, William Penn entered as a to William Penn, who, with other Friends, was waiting on him, "Bear thy and that William Penn was right in demanding the law upon which it was William Penn, anxious to have the cases of himself and his friend death, he said: "Son William, if you and your friends keep to your plain In 1680, William Penn petitioned the King, that in order to act of the King and Council could make him, William Penn published a William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682, and in that year and the William Penn returned to England, and for a number of years continued to Duke for William Penn appeared to have continued after he became King; William Penn brought with him certificates from three meetings of 33950 "These are for thee and for thy followers," it said, and then Francis Francis tried timidly to tell people a little of what God was gracious, humble, God-fearing, Francis, the more he liked him. Francis was soon convinced that Bernardo and Pietro were led of God, "Francis," said Bernardo, a little later, "What wouldst thou do the way Francis thought he would like to try the young man and see Leo, whom they called "the little sheep of God," who became Francis'' power, and led only by God, came and joined themselves to Francis, Assisi, who always called Francis his son, said to him once, "Go my son," he said to Francis, "and pray to God that He may let you followers, and one after another heard Francis, as the voice of God After he had stared for a time, he went over to Francis and said-"My son," said Francis, "God is calling me! 33992 When the day came for me to be named, mother said, said father, one day to mother, "this out not to be, we are one in said boys, that the training of a child should begin a hundred years that morning, mother said to father, "Have you looked to see if the In due time, (1830) father and mother with their two little boys, At the time of father''s arrival, Indiana was only 14 years old and We liked Clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, Sunday said, "Father is better." The doctor asked me several questions family, Rufus Wiley, was a little over five years old. of my school boys, a young man, came to me and said he wanted me to preaching in the school house about this time, possibly a little 15 years I have preached but little. 33998 Latin hymn, "Lord God, we praise thee." death''s strong grasp the Saviour lay," "Come, Holy Spirit, God and Lord," Christ Jesus, Thy beloved Son. When Luther, on the other hand, sang of God''s free grace to men in Christ Another hymn for the dying, "Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God," Light," "Lord, Thy death and passion give" and "Faithful God, I lay thou but suffer God to guide thee." The hymn was written in 1641, at Other noted hymns by Tersteegen include "Jesus, whom Thy Church doth His communion hymn, "The death of Jesus Christ, our Lord," is a classic His passion hymn, "Thy Cross, O Jesus, Thou didst bear," is a gripping The Traveler''s hymn, "How are Thy servants blessed, O Lord," was written to the world, the Lord is come!" Another hymn, "O God, our help in ages hymn, "Lord, with glowing heart I''d praise Thee," was first published. 34012 party is the economic organization of the working class. terms and cast a united vote for the party of their class as the forces working class politics that there is between capitalism and Socialism. to perpetuate class rule and the Socialist party organized and financed and for the first time the Socialists of the United States have a party In the name of the workers the Socialist party condemns the capitalist capitalist parties, creating a new issue, and driving the working class Socialist party the working class. the capitalist class character of the Republican and Democratic parties working class in this campaign and the only party that has a moral right The Socialist party being the political expression of the rising working The economic organization and the political party of the working class workers come in the Socialist party. The working class is in politics this year. 34191 D.D., entitled "John Knox and the Church of England"; and (4) the Of that party the head at this time was David Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and a Cardinal of the Church. ordinance of the Lord''s Supper was observed in England by John Knox KNOX AND THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1551-1553. KNOX AND THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1551-1553. appointed to John Knox, preacher of the Holy Evangel of Jesus Christ, very late time was given to the Church of England by the king''s Such was Knox''s share in the working out of the English Reformation; monograph, "John Knox and the Church of England," a most valuable and word; let it be remembered that at the very time of Knox''s writing, This "Book of Common Order" has often been called "John Knox''s shortness of the time within which Knox did his work for Scotland, the 34377 On the evening of that day, Mr. Müller gave an address at a meeting in meeting was held at the College Church, when Mr. Müller addressed the There, at half-past 3, Mr. Müller preached at the English Church in German; but, as the weather was Mr. Müller preached at the German Church in the evening; but, in On Sunday morning, Dec. 22nd, Mr. Müller gave an address at a meeting morning of Christmas Day, held a meeting at the Chapel belonging to Mr. Empaytaz, where he preached in German, without translation. Bay. There, at 2 o''clock, in a large salon of the Hôtel de France, Mr. Müller held a meeting for the English, of whom he addressed a There, on the following day (Sunday), Mr. Müller preached at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in the morning, preached both morning and evening at Immanuel Church, held a meeting on 34483 Humphry having parted from his friend, went down at once to join the "I hope, however, that you are getting better now," said Humphry. Humphry, wishing Matcham good evening, went on deck. "Ay, ay, sir," answered Humphry, making his way along the deck. "Surely you could manage to come on shore with me," said Humphry. Humphry followed Ned without ever stepping on deck, and took his seat meat in it, recollecting that salted beef requires a long time to boil, Three years had passed away since Humphry landed on the island. Ned insisted that he could walk across the island, and with Humphry''s "You see, Ned, all things are ordered for the best," said Humphry one "I hope He may take me before any ship comes to the island, for if I Ned was surprised to find how much Humphry had done during the time he 34513 work he published many historical, philosophical and scientific essays, philosophical work entitled Love is God. Died at Paris, 11 Dec. 1874. L.), French author of a work on the Christian Superstition, published his works, which included Essays Written to A. He wrote many works on natural history. he published Buchanan''s Journal of Man, and has written several works a member of the French Academy, wrote a treatise on the Authority wrote Principles of Physical Chemistry, a work in French on The New Debierre (Charles), French writer, author of Man Before History, 1888. He died at Paris, April, 1886, and his son published he wrote on philosophy and Christianity, and in ''41 his work called the following year he published his work on The Science of Man. His Metchnikov (Léon), Russian writer in French; author of a work on He published a work on The Philosophy of himself by publishing works on Freethought, religions, philosophy 34596 Blake''s time was not wholly spent in copying the works of others. It is impossible to trace accurately what books Blake read at this time. Blake at this time was an extraordinarily difficult man to live with. In the early years of married life Blake continued with his wife''s company while Blake by his vision of the things behind words not only preserved Swedenborg brought order, reason, and system into Blake''s chaotic mind. abiding place in Memory, and Blake was about to write fine things about There was one great name that held Hayley and Blake alike at this time. Blake''s engravings for the Cowper _Life_ were after designs by other Once Blake saw his man in his setting in eternity, he escaped from his Hayley was occupied with his _Life of Romney_, Blake was hard at work on a When Blake discovered that the Real Man in each one of us has imagination 34632 are in Christ Jesus_; ''tis the Spirit of God that gives faith in him, if the Spirit of God communicated to the soul comprised all good things: creation; so the Spirit of God may act upon the minds of men many ways, proposition to the mind, it teaches no new thing of God, or Christ, or Secondly, A true sense of the divine excellency of the things of God''s light is immediately given by God_, and not obtained by natural means. viz., the divine glory or excellency of God and Christ. great evil of sin, and have their hearts turned to God, and are influenced ''tis an awful judgment of God on that people, and worthy of great the right hand of God in an unseen world, shall then meet their people in conversing together of the things of God and Christ and heaven. 34727 most powerful and effective preachers that ever lived; that he was a man Now, the times when Whitefield lived were, unquestionably, the worst Whitefield was just the man for his times. Whitefield''s early life seems to have been any thing but religious, of that day was not ready for a man like Whitefield. thousand of the men who received the tithes of the Church of England, Whitefield had no notion of flattering men, and speaking smooth things of the man: "Let the name of George Whitefield perish, so long as Christ that we had many living ministers in the Church of England like George For another thing, Whitefield''s preaching was _singularly lucid and guileless man, who lived for one thing only, and that was to preach my ability, Whitefield''s time, and life, and religion, and preaching, our day with the Church of Whitefield''s times. 34974 should give a toleration to any opinion against any truth of God. He that is willing to tolerate any Religion, or discrepant way of and his Peoples Peace: let good men stand still, and behold his further God. I desire all good men may be saved from their Lunatick Creed, by First, that Truth is the best boone God ever gave the world: what I intend for the present to men; I shall speak a word to the women rejoyce that the work is faln into so good hands, heads, and hearts, who of Gods time and way, he will so hamstring him, that hee shall make legs not to a mortified heart: it is good to let God have his will as hee your selfe are sicke of it, God hath given the Parliament a gift to will never trust that State more with a good King, that will doe ill to 34981 Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, for the sake of Thy most pure Mother, our O Christ God, bless the food and drink of Thy servants, for Thou art O Christ God, bless the food and drink of Thy servants, for Thou art O Christ God, bless the food and drink of Thy servants, for Thou art "Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, "Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, God, have mercy on my wretched soul, for Thou art Holy and most glorified Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, for the sake of the prayers of Thy most Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, through the prayers of Thy most pure Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, through the prayers of Thy most pure Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, through the prayers of Thy most pure 34994 Eternal God, Merciful Father, I lift up my hands unto Thee as an evening soul trusts in Thee, the living God, for Thou art my refuge and my For by Thy grace and mercy Thou hast kept me this night from all of Thy mercy, Thou Savior of the world, and enlighten my heart and eyes, O Thou Mighty and Everlasting God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, I thank Thee that by Thy divine power Thou hast this day preserved me from Lord, Merciful God, Holy Father, in the daytime do I cry unto Thee with O Thou Very and Eternal God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be Thou, Lord God Sabaoth, who art merciful unto all, that I pray Thee, graciously perfect Thy goodness which Thou hast begun in me, O my dear Lord, Jesus Christ, I thank Thee, that to the present day, Thou 35067 To-morrow morning, after my son and I shall have left the house to come "I shall run for him," said Madam Estienne; "Christian and he will go "Dear wife," said Christian, "I have brought Monsieur John along for "Josephin," said Christian, smiling and filling the Franc-Taupin''s cup, The moment the Franc-Taupin left the house the stranger said to "I shall join monsieur after Josephin''s departure," Christian answered Franc-Taupin broke off, while he left Christian to hold up the head of The monk answered the Franc-Taupin: "My dear brother, if the larger part "Yes, mother; it is he; it is Hervé," said Hena, opening the window. "Good, dear mother, you but forestall father''s wishes," observed Hervé, hand, and without raising her eyes to her brother, Hena answered: "The young monk shall ride behind me on my nag," said the Franc-Taupin. those words of his father''s: "I shall soon embrace you." He said to the 35221 When asked if prison work paid, Mr. Herr said: "Who will ever know the Herr is bringing out a book on prison life which is George Herr says that the old life, with its bondage in sin and its day comes many of these men may testify that the sunshine of God''s great But as the days follow on, and the newness of the prison life the name of God. Works Without Pay. If you were to ask a prisoner to what church Brother Herr belongs he years ago, is the Louisville prison evangelist, the Rev. George L. concerning the work of the Rev. George Herr as prison evangelist," says Bro. Herr knows the prison work as few men do. Bro. Herr knows the prison work as few men do. Herr, prison evangelist, returned yesterday from St. Louis, where he went in the interest of the men "behind the bars." The 35333 Says Heber: "We saw brother Joseph Smith and had a glorious time; County, Missouri, the chosen site of the great city and temple of God. Their purpose, to fulfil prophecy, to found the modern Zion, New day, Brother Joseph got up in a wagon and said he would deliver a "At a conference of the Elders of the Church of Latter-day Saints, "_Presiding Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day spending a few days with us," says Elder Kimball, "he and brother and "as little children" the Saints rejoiced in doing the will of God. Heber spent the principal part of his time in the country, "leaving "To the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," Heber replied. President Young had left the city two days before, Heber, DEATH OF VILATE, THE WIFE OF HEBER''S YOUTH--PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG DEATH OF VILATE, THE WIFE OF HEBER''S YOUTH--PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG 35350 blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of God. But that also every Christian may know of what religion and belief we are, which from the beginning of the world, Man''s Wisdom, either through God''s those great Letters and Characters which the Lord God hath written and found out by men, although that great Book of Nature stand open to all World there hath not been given unto men a more worthy, a more excellent, most like to God, and doth come most near to Him. But whatsoever hath been follow, that all the Goods which Nature hath in all parts of the World said, Ye should pray to God; for a good and holy man can offer no greater are about to learn how to command nature; God above shall be your master, great things (as you will know in time), would never do this honour to 35385 the dying man''s couch was a lovely little maiden who offered her cheeks child would not hear; he promised to afford the little maiden loving or for a little maiden like Blanche, who would receive a kind of "Blanche is eighteen years old!" stormed Dame Auberive; Gottfried recognised in him a certain Henri de Lancy who, at the Hence it was that Blanche came to the assistance of Dame Isabella and her Uncle Gottfried in the care of De Lancy, and as her hand was the Lancy opened his eyes, which, though at times blue as the heavens In the cool, lofty rooms of the Castle of Montalme Blanche wandered But one day Dame Isabella whispered to her, "He is desperately in love One day when Blanche, with her hands in her lap, sat brooding, Dame "A tear for Blanche of Montalme; for Henri de Lancy--a prayer!" 35399 THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEGRO RACE IN SLAVERY years, the Negro race as a whole had learned, as I have stated, to the contact of whites and blacks during slavery, the Negro found given for either black or white people, either North or South. cities, but they catered to white trade; the Negro business man to-day new industrial solution of the problem of Negro labor. laborers." "We do not want educated Negro artisans," cried the white "It shall not be lawful for any number of slaves, free Negroes, There may be in the South a black man belonging to a white church "If any slave, Negro or free person of color, or any white person, shall teach any other slave, Negro or free person of color to read or 35470 between God, angels, spirits, and men, by means of visions, dreams, "_This is life eternal: to know the only true and living God, and An immortal man, possessing a perfect organization of spirit, flesh, of the powers and attributes of the Eternal God, or, in other words, attributes of eternal life, and light, and power. revelation of the oracles of God to man upon the earth; the power and God, for the man or men last holding the keys of such power, to return the Church and kingdom of God, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and to be Son of God, cannot receive the gift of the Holy Spirit through the The spirit world is not the heaven where Jesus Christ, his Father, and the eternal world, but of the Holy Spirit, through the ministration of governed by the law of God, the keys of the eternal Priesthood, and 35514 Published by the Missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day destruction of the Church established by Jesus Christ,--to be regarded Primitive Church as established by Christ and His early apostles. peculiar to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is shown is to destroy the pure work of God."--(Milner, "Church History," Cent. and author of a comprehensive "History of the Church of Christ" (5 7. Persecution of the Church by Roman authority may be said to have history as the third persecution of the Christian Church took place in the persecutions of the Christians by the heathen nations,--the Church Such a doctrine is foreign to the gospel and to the Church of Christ, temple of God is the Church of Christ; and the man of sin''s sitting The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims to the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims to the 35554 the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and and he has said, in plain words, that the Lord shall come at the very the knowledge and glory of God shall cover the earth as the waters This new city, placed upon the new earth, with the Lord God and the and earth shall pass away, but not one word of all that the Lord has chapter of his Prophecies: "The Gentiles shall come unto thee from the on this land; and when it shall be brought forth by the power of God, New Jerusalem, which shall come down from God, out of heaven, upon the any generation which shall come after, unless God should raise up men 35556 time of the martyrdom of Presidents Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Sidney prophet; that no man could be a successor to Joseph; that the church Joseph presided over the Church by the voice of the people. Joseph to succeed to the office of President of the church after the right the President of the church founded, under God, by his father. Joseph the prophet to be the President of the church, and to possess Following Mr. Smith''s acceptance of the church at the hands of Mr. Gurley, he was ordained to the office of President of the high Joseph" to be the President of the church is the following: give the Presidency of the church to young Joseph, when the latter ordaining "young Joseph" to be President of the church. to the Presidency of the church since the death of the prophet Joseph. As I have said, Joseph Smith organized the Church. 35562 Increasing Complexity of the Universe--Man and the Great Law--The Man Helped by God on Earth--The Plan of Salvation for All-offers the entire plan of life in the universe; and man may engage for The doctrine that God made the earth or man from nothing becomes, **Man''s Help to God.** The progress of intelligent beings is a mutual In God''s Plan for life on earth, is a system of laws, The Great Plan provided that man should come upon earth with the man''s origin and destiny and the meaning and duties of the earth-life. **Man Helped by God on Earth.** It was not intended, in the plan of to work out their mutual salvation under the settled authority of God. The purpose of the Great Plan can not be wholly fulfilled until all Church, and the work differs greatly, for man''s life is complex. the least, the progress of man under the Great law. man''s earth-life. 35577 beautiful man in the world," said Tamara, "how canst thou wish to marry "Lead us to the temple of thy God," they said, "before having us and having fasted a long time, they prayed to God and decided to thou didst convert people to the faith of a foreign God for the sole "If Thou wilt save me, God of Nina, then I pray to Thee, lighten the Saint and her followers preached the word of God day and night, boy, said to him: "Thou dost believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God, then Saint Nina, "and of God the Father, who hath sent His son, who praying as long before the cross, got back his sight and glorified God. A woman who had the misfortune of having the devil in her for eight At that time Saint Nina, the Tsar, and the nation received a message 35663 to your Protestant Church, the Catholics and Dissenters will reply, the In the Catholic times of England, the church course, then, when the word (Catholic) is applied to a Church, it must Speaking of the great body of the Roman Catholic Church, Macaulay says, for were any Catholic Priest to go over to the Protestant Church, she of England, that _your Protestant_ Church as by Law established, is But _this_, Reverend Gentlemen, I must say, that if the Catholic Church, Gentlemen, where was your Protestant Scriptural Church, during this _mind_, he uttered these words _after_ he had left the Catholic Church) prayer-book, of the Church of England as by Law established. assert, that our Common Prayer-book, and that our Protestant Church, do prayer-book, and of your scriptural Church, just tell me, most Reverend after he had left the Catholic Church, proves, in the following words, 35737 knowledge of Thy dear Son Jesus Christ, unto a blessed and eternal life. We adore and praise Thee, Lord God, Father of heaven and earth, that Thou Jesus Christ, Thy dear Son, Thou wouldst graciously forgive all the sins heart and mind, and thank Thee again, that Thou hast by Thy boundless I thank Thee, O almighty God and kind Father, that Thou hast this day Jesus, take my soul into Thy hands and let me be commended unto Thee. life unto Thy good pleasure; and since Thou hast also helped me to enter teach me Thy paths; for Thou art the God of my salvation, on Thee do I save us but Thou alone, hold out to Thee thy word with believing hearts, thank and serve Thee, my God and Lord, and Thy dear Son, my Saviour Jesus Thanks be unto Thee, my God and Father, that Thou hast this day so 35777 [Frontispiece: Winthrop''s Statue in Scollay Square.] GOVERNOR JOHN WINTHROP, Winthrop''s Life and Services WINTHROP''S STATUE IN SCOLLAY SQUARE . Governor Winthrop''s Return to Boston. Governor Winthrop''s Return to Boston. Governor Winthrop''s Return to Boston. of John Winthrop, in Scollay Square. the founder of the First Church of Boston, of the City itself, and of church organization, it will stand for centuries to come, and will This poem represents the spirit of Governor Winthrop returning to the upon the good deeds done by the church he established, and predicts for 3_s._ 4_d._ money." Winthrop, of course, would be struck with the of all the costly churches in the new part of Boston for fitness, [Illustration: First Church in Boston. place of his heart''s and life''s devotion for the spirit land of his honor in Scollay Square, rather than on Boston Common, which he had [Illustration: The Winthrop Cup.] 35811 the love and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, speaks to us in a German And I said to the Lord, ''O loving God, what canst Thou find in me? that Thy children may so receive them into their hearts, as Thou, O Lord, Thus the revelation of the love of God, which was to the soul the opening became a good steward of the manifold grace of God. It is to be carefully remarked in the writings of Matilda, that she does God and the loving soul in a blessed meeting-place, and they speak The Complaint of the Loving Soul, and the Answer of God. Thy love hast Thou told from the days of old, Between God and the Soul only Love. ''Twixt God and thee but love shall be, Love of God, I thank Thee that Thou hast brought to me so many helpers on 4. The book of love, between God and the soul. 35883 war system of nations, and of having founded the first peace society unlawful upon gospel principles, I shall now endeavor to prove that WAR war hardens men''s hearts it is not a Christian duty, and of course it WAR IS INHUMAN, AS IN ITS NATURE AND TENDENCY IT ABUSES GOD''S ANIMAL If war is a Christian duty, why should not the example and precepts of professing Christian nations, while at war and bathing their swords in however, are the laws of war among Christian nations, that rendering sang, "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will to men." If God is the moral governor of the world, then all his laws over men, command of God they judged and made war and conquered their enemies and precepts of the gospel; but how does the lawfulness of war follow from The Son of God came into the world to set up the kingdom of heaven, 35953 Giuseppe Sarto was to be for ever consecrated to the service of God. The Bishop of Treviso was then at Castelfranco, and it was here that been for our dear Don Giuseppe," said an old man in later days, "I "I have it!" said Bishop Zinelli, "Don Giuseppe Sarto is the very man new bishop," he had said on the appointment of Monsignor Sarto, "they cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, and three days later appointed him "It is a good and beautiful thing," he said, "for men to ask God''s that God may send to His Church a shepherd after His own heart," said children of the Church to help in the great work. goods of the Church and too little of her good," said the pope. "In order that Christ may be formed in the faithful," said Pius in Sacred Heart of Jesus, went to Rome to obtain the pope''s blessing on 36081 Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, We should fear and love God, and live a chaste and pure life, in words We should fear and love God, and live a chaste and pure life, in words No; God has in love sent His Son Jesus Christ to save man. I believe that Jesus Christ is true God, begotten of the Father from I believe that Jesus Christ is true God, begotten of the Father from Christ my Lord, or come to Him. This is the work of the Holy Spirit Christ my Lord, or come to Him. This is the work of the Holy Spirit that by His grace we believe the Word of God, and live holy and that by His grace we believe the Word of God, and live holy and 36216 the history of God''s ancient people, the time when Israel, redeemed Israel have come against the land and Jerusalem from all four earth, the new Jerusalem come down out of heaven from God (Rev. xxi: to the Lord in that day and shall be My people._ This promise is The wealth of the nations shall come unto thee, the _In that day, saith the Lord of Hosts, shall ye call every man his restoration of Israel until the Lord comes with His saints. Lord of hosts, It shall yet be that nations will come, the nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to pray And it shall come in that day, I make Jerusalem In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; And Jehovah my God shall come, "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord 36269 walked in his ways to do only that which was right in the sight of God. The Philistines rejected the traitor''s aid, and saved David from the this is the family of the man "who walked in God''s ways all the days of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." It is true, Abraham owned slaves, was not God never did tempt any man at any time, but he "did tempt Abraham" to Christian body affirm that Jesus was God incarnate on earth, the It was Simon Peter who, having told Jesus he was the Son of God, was the words "thou shalt surely die" were spoken by God to man. exists independently; but it can not be caused by God, as in that case others: that man can do no good of himself or without God''s aid, but yet that each man has a free will; that God is all-powerful, but that few 36327 Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of "But God hath made known unto our fathers that all men must repent. father Adam spake unto the Lord, and said, Why is it that men must Son of God, even as our fathers did, and ye shall receive the Holy and the other bitter; wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the and the Holy Spirit, which bears record of the Father and the Son. That so great was the faith of Enoch that he led the people of God, 36402 Let nothing remain which could come between thy soul and God, that so heart cleave unto God. Withdraw as much as thou canst from thy acquaintance and from all men, and to unify and tranquillize thy heart and mind in God with loving of God. Strong in the love of Jesus, go forth from thyself, with a heart pure, a powers, be recollected in God and form but one spirit with Him. It is in this that the highest perfection possible to man here below creature, that thou mayest tend to the Lord thy God with thy whole heart soul passes beyond himself, and does in very truth ascend to God. Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn created objects, and the closer thy union with God, the nearer wilt thou please God alone, to love Him only and cling to Him. Concern not thyself with anything except thy Lord Jesus Christ, Who 36407 Blessed John Ruysbroeck, surnamed the Admirable and the Divine Doctor, by servant of God, John was blessed with a good mother, a devout woman who lead the soul to loving union with God. Some thirty years after Ruysbroeck''s death, in 1410, the Archbishop of van Coudenberg, John Ruysbroeck and their companions in the canonical Very frequently in his works Blessed Ruysbroeck takes occasion to treat love for the venerable Dom John Ruysbroeck, the first Prior of love of God--these were the salient points of Blessed John''s example and the direct heir of the virtues and teaching of Blessed John Ruysbroeck. In no one work, as already remarked, does Blessed John Ruysbroeck give a In common with most of the German mystics, Ruysbroeck starts from God and the works of Blessed John Ruysbroeck can be of profit only to those who Servant of God, John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular, called the Blessed." 36433 have in heaven about it, God may give our mother some little good thing, mother of God. I suppose the little children in heaven especially belong Do you think God said it to your father from heaven, in a "God and the saints help thee, Brother Martin!" I said. "Think of the father and the children, Eva," I said; "If our mother and Dr. Luther said also, that the best name by which we can think of God is "Ah, little mother," said my father, "women are too tender-hearted for But Dr. Luther''s books are a living voice,--a heart God has Just now the hearts of the little band among us who owe so much to Dr. Luther are lifted up night and day in prayer to God for him. But Eva said she could not remember the time when she did not think God Some little time after her death, Dr. Martin Luther said,-- 36476 In my youthful days I felt a deep desire to work for God and longed to In a short time the peace of God gently flooded my soul, and I knew way God would work out his purpose concerning my life if I would knowing that "all things work together for good to them that love God" time why God permitted such trials and sufferings; but now as I look God" and "keep yourself in his love." After years of experiences and These words broke my heart, and I began crying, "If there is a God, come scripture came to me, "Fear them not; for I the Lord thy God shall fight "Fear them not; for I the Lord thy God shall fight for you." I said, heart, though I feared God and did at times try to draw near to him. My heart said amen, and God made my husband willing, blessed my soul in 36486 their way to join Joe Smith, the prophet at Nauvoo." I walked into that craft, thirteen Mormons on their way to the meeting in Nauvoo, proceeded that precious old book called the Bible." Now God had promised to judge Nauvoo to look at the prophet Joseph--old Joe, as they profanely termed believers in the book of Mormon, who felt disposed to take stock, to the question, whether Joseph Smith was, in fact, a prophet of God. He solemnity was produced by hypocrisy and false doctrines respecting God. That the Mormons despised long faces, and all religions which required Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Latter Day Saints." Having hieroglyphic representation, one of the Mormons said, "Mr. Smith informs book in my hand, numerous Mormons came forth from their dwellings, came Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of for Christians of the present day to determine whether Mormonism shall 36501 sorrows of her people, and said, "_I_ will pity and love the Indians, as been lifted up to Him night and day, that thy heart might find rest in their love, and his father looking upward said, "My God, I thank thee! "Dear mother, I think I hear their voices now." Little Eliza climbed sleep, pray to God for a heart to love peace." father, received tender care and love from his mother and a younger dear father!'' his protector said, ''Thank God, my son, that thy own life Poor child, be comforted, and lift up thy soul to God.''" of the great and good man, whom they called their Father. "Dear child," said his father, "this grieves us to the heart." breathed out his soul into the bosom of his Father and his God. Life. loving sister embraced him with tears, and the mother said, "Praise be 36519 influence of love, for the five little girls appear to have been good her love of the Greek language, led the young girl to study deeply, and to love God''s Holy Word, and very shortly before her sorrowful death, When the Lady Selina was nine years old, a child just her own age died, Queen Elizabeth, who was the second daughter of King Henry VIII., was When Elizabeth was between two and three years old, her mother, whose God, we owe a deep debt of gratitude, for the long and happy years which young daughter''s tastes, and at the early age of seven years the little Early in life, Felicia visited London, but cared little for its gaiety; Mary, Queen of Scots, led a gay, dissipated life, and her death was sad Perhaps if Mary had read God''s Word herself, and seen the beauty and 36582 ADVICE TO SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN. When our blessed Saviour was upon earth, little children were brought from their sins; you have learned that God Almighty will punish all But Jesus Christ loves little children who come to him; he things, if you would behave like children who love their Saviour, and consider it well, and pray to God for grace, that you may profit by it. with worldly things; on this day you are taught to read the word of God, 8. _Read daily in the Bible._ It is the word of God himself; it points follow its directions; and when you read it, pray to God to give you blessed Saviour, who died for your sins, and pray to God to prosper Oh, may you, dear children, sing his praises in the same blessed children; and may he bless this little book to you, and give you grace 36584 A long while ago a blind man sat begging by the side of the road. know why there was such a crowd, so he asked the people passing by why The blind man had heard before of Jesus. But the Lord took no notice of him, and a great many people came people to bring that blind man to him. At last the blind man heard some one speak How glad he was to hear that Jesus had sent for him! If all people would pray as this blind man did, Jesus would hear them sins, and give me thy Holy Spirit." My dear child, do make this little Jesus would hear you. very little food in the cupboard, but Jesus knows where you live, and with him about the love of Jesus in saving your souls. Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, May all people love Thee, 36585 Movement--History of--Abdul Baha on war--Bahaism dogmatic American Bahais are of this class, with faith in Baha Ullah as God the _Gazette_ says of Egypt where Abdul Baha resided for two years, "The new addresses Abdul Baha names certain principles as new in the Bahai faith, (_b_) The Bahais claim superiority for the books and writings of Baha said: "Baha Ullah spread the teaching of Universal Peace sixty years But what becomes of the claims of Abdul Baha and other Bahais, mentioned City Temple, London, with Abdul Baha, states the claim of Bahaism as the most part American Bahais regard Baha as God the Father, and Abdul Bahais put Abdul Baha in the place of Christ as Son of God and Divine as well as Persian Bahais, though Baha says:[252] "Visiting the tombs of Abdul Baha said in New York,[289] "The Bahais have taken no Proofs," representing the new Bahais of Abdul Baha, nor Doctor Kheiralla 36614 colour is seen on the cheeks; the eye can look at us no longer, nor this world who made dead people alive. Jesus; he was not only a man, he was God too; he was the Son of God. Most people would not believe that he was the Son of God, though he man he could not have made dead people alive again. One day a rich man came to Jesus, and fell down at his feet, and begged Before he reached the sick man''s house, some people came and said to When Jesus came into the room where she was lying, he said to I wonder whether that young girl loved Jesus. Some children at twelve years old begin to take great pains pray and to say, "Merciful God, give me thy Holy Spirit, for the sake Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, May all people love Thee, 36655 Christ shining through the pages of the Bible, it becomes a new book to Thy law; and nothing shall offend them." The study of God''s Word will but the skeptic said again, "I don''t believe a word of it." The man kept A man said to a young convert: "How can you prove that the Bible is Bible, but they believe the teaching of Jesus Christ in the four and then Christ comes and adds these words: "Heaven and earth shall pass wants is the Word of God. There is no book that will draw the people Give the people the Word of God. Some men only use the Bible as which shall be to all people!'' ''This is the Lord''s Christ,'' said Simeon, want to get people to come to hear you, lift up Christ; He said, "I, if _Believe!_" If you want to persuade a man that Christ is the Son of God, 36658 any man; and to tell you true, God and love are of one accord. he saith: "If thou givest good heed, great lore shalt thou learn: _Set plight, for I love the new man of arms, Eliduc, the good knight. he shall win great good thereby, for he shall be king of all this land. The king her father hath fair peace; no man, I think, thank me all the days of your life." "In God''s name," saith the knight, love God with good faith, and all made a right fair ending, by grace of he saw come a damsel on a fair palfrey, and right rich was her array. house to ask a boon, may God let you grant it me." The old man looked "Fair father," he saith, "now come with me, for God hath guided "Nay, I have no love for thee," saith the good man; "thou hast 36662 people _all_ the time." The palm tree saint does not fool any of the There are many of God''s old palm trees, Testament, and shine for God. One day this brother handed a man a five firm for God and holiness, and finally got a meeting started and today on all over the world today are being planted God''s palm tree saints who palm tree saint, whose life is "hid with Christ in God." Drag him form if true to God. The world does not love our Christ. praise life without the grace of God within. living sacrifice to God, and right away lost his life. living in a day when many of God''s dear palm tree saints are flourishing of God in helping a man to give up his life for a lost world. these have less place in my heart, (through the grace of God), and my 36692 the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, victory shall most certainly be yours! promises of God. He is thinking of a man who takes some great truth of carrying the good cheer of the news of God''s redeeming love and grace. "the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God!" The place of battle first of all, it is the word of divine truth; God''s way of thinking hands,--"the sword of the spirit which is the word of God"--and let us reverent thought in prayer perfects communion between my soul and God. Let me offer an illustration. the soul of the waiting life and power of God. Prayer opens the soul to God. Prayer opens the life to the workings of infinite grace. battleground of life receiving the all-sufficient grace and love of God. And so the Christian soldier is to be "Praying always, with all prayer 36791 the official organ of the Mormon Church, the _Deseret News_, in its issue Published, and Mormon Church Established--Smith''s First Alleged the fact is that the great mass of Mormons do not practise polygamy, and than two years ago, the official Mormon Church paper states that "of Alleged origin of Mormonism--Joseph Smith''s early life--Finding the Alleged origin of Mormonism--Joseph Smith''s early life--Finding the growth of the Mormon Church--Brigham Young and other missionaries sent persecution on the minds of Mormons at the present time--_Nauvoo_--Its Mormon population--Value of their property in Utah--Public schools--A in Utah, for the vast wealth of the Mormon Church in the control of the proposed act to place the control of the Mormon Church property into hands Mormon leaders take great pains to keep their people in ignorance. dollars a year for every man, woman, and child in the Mormon Church is 36840 Gospel says, "He looked upon him, and said, Thou art Simon, the son of John, thou shalt be called _Rock_." No doubt Andrew had told Jesus the was the first time Jesus had ever seen Peter. called Peter." Simon''s precedence was evidently the wish of Jesus humiliation that to follow Jesus is a way of the cross, that power for avowal, "Thou art the Christ," Jesus began to teach them that "The Son functions of the Christ of God. Perhaps, too, Peter felt somewhat elated and self-important on account days"--"Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and went with "beloved disciple." "John said unto Him, Master, we saw one casting "Simon, son of John," said the Master, "lovest thou Me more than these Jesus takes up Peter''s Jesus''s closing words to Peter as we have them in the 21st of St. John Jesus who made Peter what he was. 36857 the words and the visions of the prophets of God. The fact is that Jeremiah and Ezekiel were called by Jehovah to specific Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God." It was not the time for it shall be no more, saith the Lord God. Thou, therefore, son of doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God (verses 1-14). know that I am the Lord God. Also, thou son of man, shall it not be, For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, very time of his land come, and then many nations and great Kings shall when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, 36915 My heart has known the flame-winged seraphs'' song; Gold is the Body thou hast crowned a king; Dear Love is fallen, fallen by my hand! Dear Love, come back, resume your ancient sway O woman, now thy golden day''s at morn! Love seeks, as sought each Christ-adoring king, Dreams of the lost, dead days, thy lips and kisses. Yea, I must love thee though I fall and die! Yea, hath my heart become for Love a lyre, Quench with thy lips on mine, O Heart, love''s thirst. Heart, soul, feet, hands, eyes, ears, and lips of Paul, thou like a dream in the night thou like a god in his star or Thy God shall avail Thee in vain; Joy in the thought that thy love will not cease Light, and the sound of a song that is love! Thou and thy God can perfect everything! O love that is like fire, 36989 The above, four in number, are all the cases of church discipline recorded Up to this time it had been the custom of the Braintree church that any church meeting to hear and consider Brother David Bass''s confession, confession before the Church and Congregation for the sin of death on the 7th of May, 1744; and no record of cases of church discipline Braintree church records from which the extracts contained in this paper condition of affairs revealed in the church records of the same period, Returning to the subject of church discipline and public confessions of Church of Braintree the great body of these confessions are recorded as which the entries I have read were made in the Braintree church records. That this was the case in the Braintree church is evident Hence the entries of public confession in the church records, The records in question cover the history of the Braintree church during 37104 _Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church_ Now, as a sister in the church of Rome, it is _demand_ from the very day sisters in the convents of the Roman Catholic system in the United religious, and at the same time working my hands for the Roman Catholic asked the sister superior, and then endeavored to carry out her orders. confessional--this man, whom we, as sisters and Roman Catholics look to garb of the Sisters of Charity of the Roman Catholic system--nearly sister in the Roman Catholic Church, as I soon learned after I left that THE CARE OF OLD SISTERS BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SYSTEM. THE CARE OF OLD SISTERS BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SYSTEM. old sisters--those who have spent many years serving the Roman Catholic 37137 example, he says there, the people ought to execute God''s law, even the King, contrary both to the word and oath of God, to usurp the laws of the kingdom, taken away Christ''s church-government, and changed criminals--and declare they shall, God giving power, set up government power of no king to do, being expressly contrary to the law of God. from God Creator, church government from Christ the Lord Redeemer, Head he declared, he owned all lawful authority according to the word of God, which no man hath power to do; the law of God being so gives a title; or, God hath declared it as a law, that it shall be so in seeing the law is more powerful than the king, and the people more caused kill the priests of Baal, according to God''s express law, 1 Kings "That God may destroy all kings and people, that shall put to 37141 I don''t think I am wholly in favor of Socialism, though I believe it good or intelligent man can oppose my notions of Socialism. opportunistic reformer, a Christian Socialist, perhaps a Social I am in favor of Socialism because I believe that co-operation, rather understand Socialism, is economic co-operation or the individual as being intelligent to the present-day conditions, favor Socialism. Prince of Peace makes modern Christian Socialism demand that other Christian Socialism demand that each person participate in governing, I am a Socialist because Socialism is right; because it is industrial I am in favor of Socialism because collective ownership of the earth of the large manufactury, socially operated but privately owned, way I am in favor of Socialism because I believe in the common ownership the world over, stands for social and industrial justice. I am in favor of Socialism because I believe in equal opportunities 37230 by speaking of "our father Jacob." But, like other Christian writers, he their way into the Canonical Gospels, what books would have been written Clement of Alexandria quotes from it the following: "The Lord says to agrees with Paul''s epistles, and all we know of the early Christians, which Dr. Donaldson quietly says ("Apostolical Fathers," chap, iii., Gospels in the Second Century that "The author of Supernatural Religion Clement, for instance, says: "Our Apostles also knew, through the Lord early days of the Christian Church; thus confirming the account of Luke But Irenæus tells us the Gospel of Mark was written after Peter''s death, Canon Sanday says ("Gospels in the Second Century," p. book iv., chap, xxvii.) calls it the most certain proof of Christianity, refers to the Gospel of Mark, commonly placed under the authority of Gospels, out of the authentic "Memoirs of the Apostles" and "Sayings of 37231 mere existence of the book quoted, at the time that work was written, proposition "harmless" in reference to its bearing on miracles, as Dr. Farrar evidently supposes, but merely in opposition to the character of evidence of the Gospel miracles is a special case which must be decided It could scarcely be otherwise, for in point of fact the Gospel miracles evidence regarding the alleged facts entitling the Gospel Miracles to Gospels, but actually quote passages from unknown sources, or sayings a written source different from our Gospels, but in either case the fact Gospel, Justin clearly marks it by [--Greek--], there is every reason that Justin quotes the passage from a Gospel different from ours. of the source of Justin''s quotations with our Gospels is placed by the Justin''s Gospel, as the words, "so far as saying other critics that Justin refers to a Gospel according to Peter, or 37232 of sayings of Jesus and of Gospel history, which are generally placed as ''Scripture,'' and clear references to the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John, to 1 Corinthians, perhaps also to the Epistle to the Hebrews, and regard to the last passage that Jesus merely uses the words of the Old from such a passage the use of the fourth Gospel.(5) Even Tischendorf statement in the fourth Gospel turns, but uses a totally different word, of John''s express declaration in the fourth Gospel, that Jesus is the Gospel, and the few who do refer to the passage merely mention, in Now the passages pointed out as references to the fourth Gospel, it will the author of the fourth Gospel, had he been the Apostle John, could not the author of the fourth Gospel, had he been the Apostle John, could not Son of God." (3) The fourth Gospel, instead of representing Jesus as 37234 laid by his teaching the world is slowly rising to a purer faith in God. We need now such a leader as he was--one who would dare to follow the work of God" is to believe on him; he gives "life unto the world;" he man, in order to make men acceptable to God. It is, perhaps, scarcely towards sin, and offering to God for man a perfect repentance for human infirmity which men have transferred to their idea of God. A man who has announced his intention to punish may be persuaded out of humanity, and to be an heir of God it needs only to be a son of man. man Jesus is readily grasped by a child''s intellect; the God of the Old Power which man calls God. Revelation depicts Him as changeable, nature as man, then God did not come from heaven to save men; then this is 37274 Spirit--that is by the living word of God, and of the Holy Ghost. things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your mind on things that are above, not on things on the earth. wisdom to view things as God presents them to us, in His holy Word. faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and of earnest prayer in the Holy Ghost. takes God at His word, and rests in the precious blood of Christ. that Christ is the only definition of the believer''s place before God. This gives immense power, liberty, and blessing. words of the Lord your God. And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that and all his works, and constantly believe God''s holy word and hear all that the Lord our God shall say; and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it and do 37292 God help you by His grace and Holy Spirit so to live in the world as to holy, Lord God Almighty!"--when we shall rest from sin, but not from dust of the ground, but it is finished in the breath of God. My soul, art thou living up to thy twofold origin? thy God, for His breath is in thee; thou hast a duty to the earth, for _My soul, wait thou only upon God. Psa. _I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying Lord Jesus Christ, who dwells in thee; and do great things as if they Christian, if thou wouldst know the path of duty, take God for thy inworking of God. And men shall see our good works, and glorify our gift of God, through Jesus Christ my Lord. _That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of 37311 sincere upright-hearted People, in every Society, who truly love God, Beginning; but, when Meeting was ended, I felt great Distress of Mind, Spirit takes Place in the Minds of People, which is attended with had a Meeting at a Friend''s House; in both which I felt Sorrow of Heart, continued under the Exercise, the Lord, in Time to come might open a Way Having, for some Time past, felt a Sympathy in my Mind with Friends Mind settled to attend on the Business of the Meeting; on the last Day Having felt my Mind drawn toward a Visit to a few Meetings in Truth, felt my Way open to labour with some noted Friends, who kept A Care hath lived on my Mind, that more Time might be employed by Exercises hath been opened before them, as the Way of the Lord''s People, 37345 "Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Life of men, the Lord and Inspirer of the Church, Christ has come, "We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying Faith in Christ and love to Christians--that is the Apostle''s notion of of God in Christ Jesus, apprehended by loving hearts. earth, or a Paul in heaven, look at that verse, "God so loved the world spirit is fit for heaven as soon as a man turns to God in Christ. But the great message of God''s love in Jesus Christ commends in Jesus Christ, every Christian man has the full truth concerning God Jesus Christ, who gives men a new life by union with Himself, which Christ, working by love, makes a Christian--it gives the basis for a hearts of the Colossian Christians of the "word of Christ," by which is 3743 thing at that time to believe a man to have been celestially begotten; shame at calling such paltry stories the word of God. As to the account of the creation, with which the book of Genesis opens, Did the book called the Bible excel in purity of ideas and expression person is; for the Creator is the Father of All. The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give the Bible; and I begin with what are called the five books of Moses, years after the death of Moses; as men now write histories of things point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time Jerusalem at this day; meaning the time when the book of Joshua was confusion, contradiction, and cruelty in this pretended word of God. The first book of Kings begins with the reign of Solomon, which, 37501 I have been asked to write some thoughts on answers to prayer. For what is the answer to prayer which the praying heart looks for? disregarded prayers have been most abundantly remembered before God. Thus, indeed, we can enter into the spirit of familiar words and 3. In the next place, the prayer that has power with God must be a asking for benefits from God. Christians believe that prayer _is_ a was a strong conviction that God would answer the prayer, and, the that time forward I would ask no man for money, but trust God for woman, said, "We must just pray that God will send what is needed," and unmistakable proofs that God answers prayer. anything of the love of God, that this prayer was speedily answered, and still feeds faith in God as the Hearer and the Answerer of Prayer. 37564 Jesus, the Son of God, is in heaven; he is sitting on the On the day that he meant to go up to heaven he took a walk with some said that he would send the Holy Spirit down from heaven to be with hearts, for the Holy Spirit makes people good and happy. Where was Jesus when he took his last walk with his friends? These angels had come to comfort the friends of the Lord Jesus. not have told lies; they know that Jesus will one day come down here glad, my dear child, to see Jesus this day? told them, and in ten days Jesus did send down the Holy Spirit upon But no mother can comfort as the Holy Spirit can. My child, ask God for his Holy Spirit, and he will hear you. Great God, Thou art in every place; Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, 37583 The highly respected subject of this memoir was the youngest son of Mr. Boswell Brandon Beddome, who for many years filled the office of a God unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Soon after I began, said he, to preach the gospel of Christ at Everton, good old man to my friend, you shall pray with me. and feelings of our churches in this country, respecting revival subjects are as follow: "On the Divine nature--On the Eternity of God, the Atonement of Jesus Christ--On God, as the Original of Man''s Love to hope, that day when the world itself shall become the church, of men for those of God. You mean to say, said she, that the Church of work of Christ, and the gospel of the grace of God. On the 20th of July I went to read to the house of one James McPartlin, 37611 Jesus, the Son of God. When we are unhappy, if we cry unto him, he Now he is in heaven, and he is a man still as well as God. I will tell you how he helped some of his friends out of trouble when ship on the water when the wind began to blow very hard indeed. One of the disciples, named Peter, said, "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." Jesus said, "Come." So Peter got out of the ship and walked on the water to go to Jesus. sinking, and he cried out, "Lord, save me." Jesus heard that short Jesus went into the ship and took Peter with him, and as soon as he It is this Jesus who can help you in your troubles. Do not be like Peter, and only trust him a little while, but go Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, 37670 This promise was fulfilled by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came day, in the city of David, a Savior which is Christ the Lord." shepherds then went to their homes praising God, and telling every one Herod was the king of Judea at this time: and when he heard of the new So the wise men went to Bethlehem: and the star which they had seen in the east went before them till it came and stood over the place where When the wise men were ready to return, the angel of the Lord appeared When Herod was dead, Jesus returned with his parents from Egypt, and When he was twelve years old, he went with them to Jerusalem to the told him, that this impostor having declared within his life time that This great agent in the first persecution of the Church of God was 37694 of God, so from our own rational nature we learn an idea of his moral moral rectitude of the divine nature is infinitely well pleasing to God, unerring guidance of the providence of God. Animal nature consists of a regular constitution of a variety of organic contradiction in nature, and consequently impossible for God to inspire, AND AGENCY OF GOD, AS IT RESPECTS THE NATURAL AND MORAL WORLD, WITH in the nature of things possible for us to receive, or for God external and natural revelation, in which God is supposed to make use human mind, through which God reveals to man the knowledge of nature, of God, either in his eternal constitution of nature, or in a supposed power of God, countermanding his eternal order of nature, and impressing any alteration in the nature of things, or providence of God, is knowledge of things is derived from God, in and by the order of nature, 37705 Americans will bear in mind that Roman Catholics believe their church to be permitted to appoint bishop or priest to any church, diocese, living, Popes and priests forbid Roman Catholics from uniting with them? spiritual matters but my own conscience and the word of God. POPISH BISHOPS AND PRIESTS ABSOLVE ALLEGIANCE TO PROTESTANT GOVERNMENTS. Americans, that Roman Catholic bishops and priests teach their people the Pope of Rome, and by every bishop and priest in this country. I would again ask Americans whether Roman Catholic priests, or bishop, Every Irish Roman Catholic priest, who comes to this country, is Catholic bishops and priests still continue to assert that their church be governed by the Pope of Rome, and his priests, and bishops, I shall priest nor an Irish Roman Catholic, and _true_ son of the church, who holy Roman Catholic church would extend to you, your Protestant religion 37730 Fawsley Church, old Mr. Dod, minister of the place, preaching his About a year and a half from this time, _i.e._, February 25th, 1698, Mr. John Hunt was chosen the pastor of this Church. twenty-one years pastor of this Church, died at Lisbon, to which place The following testimony was borne to the sentiments and preaching of Mr. Davis, by the members of the Church at Rowell:-In the year 1709 Mr. John Wills became pastor of the Church. been formed into a regular Christian Church under the ministry of Mr. Shuttlewood; and for about ten years they were destitute of a pastor, or College; was pastor for some years of the Independent Church at He had been pastor of the Church more than 21 years, the year 1709, and became the minister of an Independent Church at St. Ives, in the county of Huntingdon, where he continued to labour for many 37734 blessing resting upon the work of Jewish converts baptized and ANGEL, Rev. B., convert and missionary to the Jews in New York. Christians," "The Jewish Missionary Intelligence," and wrote about a London Jews'' Society''s missionaries at Amsterdam, where he then went, Professor Cassel baptized 262 Jews in Christ Church; amongst them Christian man, laboured as missionary for some time under the British Christ who are converted Jews, preaching the Word of Life to perishing Jews in New York City under the name, "Hebrew Christian Work." By his his pastoral duties missionary work among the Jews, receiving a grant "After some years of Christian life, I was called to the service of God, Christianity among the Jews, under whom for years he laboured with great of "The Hebrew Christian Witness." He also wrote the following works, Christian life he took a great interest in the mission to the Jews, and 37794 Christ in God--their character and true glory hidden from the same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like altogether lovely." Christ is the King whom God the Father hath exalted to God any true love or acceptable service without divine grace unto sin, and alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared defeat, the word of God is sure, and wisdom shall triumph at the last. glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and the Redeemer began to be my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God; when shall I come and upon his God. Christ never doubted his Father''s love, nor feared the "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy in Christ as our Saviour, we shall confide in God as our Father. 378 "My lord," said Tirant, "many gentlemen of great authority and "The king-of-arms left Tirant and went to the hermitage where the two knights of the Order to the ship, to ask Tirant to come on That night the king and Philippe and Tirant said farewell to the Tirant took his leave of the infanta and went to the king and "Virtuous knight," said Tirant, "I have seen your great goodness "Tirant," said the king, "I know very well that there are good The following day the emperor held a great banquet for Tirant. "Tell me, my lady," said Tirant, "for a knight, which is most "Tell me, Tirant," said the princess, "who is the lady that is "My lord," said Tirant, "I asked for Your Majesty, but they told princess and other ladies went to Tirant and asked the doctors "My lady," said Tirant, "didn''t I tell you that the day we left I 37883 house and to all the liberty of the sons of God. So _he thought_ of saving a little money and of investing in some "I know," said the man, "you were a Christian in Louisville, but you are city and town had such a man in it to work for God and souls. Steve Holcombe, the converted gambler, in his mission work among men who and if God will help me no man shall ever know of me using well at that time, made a good deal of money; and you know how a man make a living." He said, "Look to God, and He will help you." I went And to-day, having tried this life one year, you don''t know of a man conscientious, because he works and lives not to please men but God. Hence, such a one is always wanted. And a man whose life is given to God is industrious and loves to work. 37915 Lord." Christ, having perfectly satisfied God about sin, the only We shall now consider man''s place, as set over the works of God''s The 8th Psalm furnishes a fine view of man set over the work of God''s the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." (John xvii. to nature and to earth,--faith belongs to God and to heaven; they are All that the man of faith needs, is to know that God has spoken; this They did their own pleasure, and forgot God. And, my reader, remember the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, how he the great foundation truth of man''s coming to God, in the way of for that day, knowing that then "every man shall have praise of God." "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath 5.) Man has no heart for the things of God. The present is every 38092 The Bible is said to be inspired, but the man who reads it is not. Dean Farrar''s book contains nothing that is new to fairly well-read The first chapter of Dean Farrar''s book deals with the Bible Canon. true," Dr. Farrar remarks that the Bible is "not a single nor even a Having examined Dean Farrar''s observations on the Bible Canon, and seen No Christian, says Dr. Farrar, is called upon to believe in an actual God, but Dr. Farrar says that on this point the Jews were mistaken. influence of time and civilisation that makes Christians like Dr. Farrar Meanwhile we venture to suggest that the Bible texts referred to by Dr. Farrar, as requiring us to exercise the right of private judgment, are The Bible is no longer to be called _the_ Word of God. Ruskin says, and Gospels the criterion of the Word of God in the rest of the Bible, he 38094 _true_ ideas of God; and it is by our reason alone that we are able a word, every thing in religion announces a despotic God, whom his Christian religion, God does not cease, for a single instant, his Behold, Madam, the God whom this religion orders you to adore _in spirit of God''s goodness; they tell you they will be eternal,--a thing which The true means, Madam, of living happy in this world is to do good to the entire system of the Christian religion, it is evident that God did religion, which supposes its God as cruel to exact sufferings from men Christian virtues is _Charity_; that is, to love God above all things, The power of loving a God whom religion nature in the breasts of men; in the name of the God of goodness, God is the author of reason, we can only wish that men who are possessed 38095 The Church persecutes the living and her God It is claimed that God wrote a book called the Bible, and it is Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy Why should the Church pity a man whom her God hates? should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn Every church pretends that it has a revelation from God, and that this It was claimed that God had founded the Church, and that to deny the authority of the Church was to be a traitor to God, and such is the history of the Church of God. I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their heretics and infidels, the Church perpetrated all these crimes. Men and women have been burned for thinking there is but one God; that John Calvin, the founder of the Presbyterian Church. 38102 Nevertheless the Acts of the Apostles and the writings of Paul, prove to do not see that the epistles of St. Paul, or the Acts of the Apostles, do not see that the epistles of St. Paul, or the Acts of the Apostles, Life of St. Paul, according to the Acts of the Apostles St. Paul styles himself the Apostle of the Gentiles--Causes according to the Acts of the Apostles, Paul thought it necessary to Apostles declare themselves authorised by the Holy Spirit, Paul and in his time the Apostles did not possess the divine right that men had have at all times held up St. Paul, as a man divinely inspired; have Apostles, whom the Christian church regards as an inspired writer There is reason to believe that Paul performed great miracles amongst Peter, and those of Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles. 38106 helps men to think freely, does the Man and the State and the Age good liberty, and I want to see the time when every man, woman and child will to worship God as he thinks best." They said: "Religion is an individual a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man far better than the word of God. In the world of science, Jehovah was clergyman, "Do you believe that God made this world in six days?" "Yes I Why should the Church pity a man whom her God hates? Now, I read the Bible, and I find that God so loved this world that he What man who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? And no God can put a man into hell in another world who has Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man 38110 "God," said he, "it is great pity that so fair a damsel should be "Fair child," said she, "do you know Aucassin, the son of Count Garin "Sir knight," said Aucassin, "great thanks; good counsel, above all "Aucassin," said she, "fair sweet friend, let us take thought together "Fair sweet friend," said Aucassin, "know you naught of this Nicolette, "Lady, for God''s love, tell me truly, when my lord went to Compostella "Sir," said the priest, "in the hand of God am I set as your pledge." "Sir," said the gentle lady, "you speak truly; so, if it pleases God, I "Fair father," said the lady, "you shall hear it in good time. "Sir knight," said the lady, "he will do the thing that pleases him; "Lady," said the knight, "in God''s name, so let it be. The gentle knight who had set his heart on the love of the fair lady 38147 learned Father Passaglia''s "Commentary on the Prerogatives of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, as proved by the authority of Holy Peter the chief figure among the Apostles as Christ before 133 THE PRIMACY OF PETER INVOLVED IN THE FOURFOLD UNITY OF CHRIST''S KINGDOM. his son;" and "Simon Peter answering, said, Thou art the Christ, the rests, so is Peter specially made a witness of his Lord''s "power and Catholic Church, by Almighty God, and Christ our Lord.--We are not Accordingly by the law of Christ unity with the faith of Peter is Christ, was in these words committed to Peter by the Lord, is the Rock of the Churches, as the Lord says, ''Thou art Peter, and upon Christ leads, the Apostles follow; in the Acts, Peter takes the provides that Peter holds in the Church, and among the Apostles, a unity of faith and preaching with that Church of Peter, which is the 38162 people, who know nothing of heart-religion, never come to the Lord''s purchased for us by the eternal Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ. They lie, as it were, in the middle, between man and God. Doubtless no one can change his own heart, or wipe away one of his sins, God. I think of the new order of things, which that day will bring in; I day, and tell these things to the Lord Jesus Christ, if you really are coming into the world of Jesus Christ, the God-man, to save soul saved, you must study the written Word of God. The Bible is "_able to make a man wise unto salvation, through faith conscience from the eye of God. The pleasures of the world cannot comfort a man when he draws near things:--"I am living in sin, and cannot come;--I know Christ commands Bible-reading, God-fearing, Christ-loving, Sabbath-keeping Christian 38198 "Mr St. Cyr," said Frederica in a moment, "I am very little, I know, said Frederica, and seizing her little brother Hubert, she danced with "Mama," said Selina, "I think this is quite the best way--about the then Mrs Vane and Selina were left to rest, while Frederica went out "Mama," said Tessie, "I don''t think it says much for Fred''s good sense I am such a little thing, you know," said Frederica; "but Tessie said he would be sure not to care, and Frederica thought so too, "Yes," said Frederica, with a little hesitation, "if we ask right "I like you to teach me far better than I should like Mr Jerome St. Cyr," said Frederica, "because, I know you believe what you say; and "Miss Agnace says something like that too," said Tessie, "and I think we "If only papa could come home," she said a hundred times a day to 38232 1. This doctrine of predestination makes God the author of sin. procures the sinful act--God wills the salvation of the reprobate, whom natural nor moral ability to serve God, nor makes it possible for him to the decrees or purposes of God and the responsible acts of man? charge in the sermon, that Calvinism makes God the author of sin, the it is objected to predestination that it "makes God the author of sin, The sermon charges predestination with making God the author of sin. choice is that power which the mind has of acting in view of motives, responsible subject of God''s moral government, and actually sins with a entirely dependent upon God''s grace for moral power"--in other words, "annihilates the whole doctrine of grace." Because God, if he held man then man has power, at any time, by an act of the will, to love God. Let 38330 house with the drunkard, the visitor looked at her and said, "Take care corner house, once said bitterly, "Down here we are all by God and man took hold of her little hand, and said, "If you are good in the new good-natured little man became ill-tempered, sharp with his customers, the mission blessings received, the man with the Book passed out of "That poor man is right," said the Missionary, time he entered the room had sat with her hand in his, and said, "These "Wait here," said the visitor; and then he entered the house, and passed bad men have, he addressed the Missionary, and said, "What business has The man looked unutterable things at his wife, and said, "Should think Thirteen years of Christian work in public, coffee, and night-houses, missionaries, but unless they are men of God, unless they know the Word 38354 told that no person is taken to the prison of the holy office without by an heretic, or a person condemned by the holy office; all treatises the king''s brother, inquisitor-general in the preceding year. council being consulted, commanded the inquisitors to condemn and punish The Pope, informed of these decisions, commanded the inquisitor-general demanded, authorizing the inquisitor-general to create the new tribunal, inquisitor-general, the Archbishop of Seville, demanded and received king had authorized to reside at Seville as vice-inquisitor-general. with the council of the general Inquisition, that the following order denounced person, the inquisitor shall not cite him to appear, or The inquisitors shall not permit any person to enter the prisons Some days after the inquisitor-general caused the tribunal to be king''s order was sent to Monsignor Quintano, inquisitor-general, and his Philip and the inquisitor-general, Don Carlos and other persons, with as the Inquisition, ordered the inquisitors of Valladolid to obtain 38374 The following are the religious views Lincoln is said to have held as Christianity is thus related in Holland''s "Life of Lincoln:" "I believe that Lincoln was a Christian, and that he was God''s chosen convert from Infidelity to Christianity as great a mind as Lincoln, why true, would be evidence of his Christianity; but, unfortunately for Mr. Arnold''s claim, Lincoln did not entertain this belief. he said: "Lincoln was a rational Christian because he believed in that Mr. Lincoln was a religious man but not a Christian, and this is century, says: "Herndon knew Lincoln''s views better than any man in In the second place, Mr. Stuart complains that the rumors concerning Dr. Smith''s attempted conversion of Lincoln which he had mentioned to Mr. Herndon at the time of giving his testimony, were omitted. fact is, he did not believe that Lincoln became a Christian; but with "I am not a Christian" (Holland''s Life of Lincoln, pp. 38375 the light of Nature and reason--to degrade and crush the human mind in priest-led fanatic has of his God (for instance the Jewish one), form a THE ignorance of the natural causes of the effects which man sees around times the Christian priests performed a similar miracle in favor of the about 900 years after the pretended time of Moses.* If a man, without the Christians, in after times destroy the work abovementioned, and leave his "Natural History?" Because he did monstrous credulity of calling such a book the word of God? with what is called an "immortal soul,"* our Christian priests have ever miscellany called the New Testament should be the new Will of God. The amount of moral evil done by this fable, is enormous beyond all following observations:--If, says he, God deigned to make himself a man, or Nature, has made man invent deities as causes of the effects he sees 38376 was, as was the _Logos_ of Philo, the Son of God. With such ideas, Paul made his way among the Greeks. means by which the Christ of Paul was made the Son of God in the sense A Bishop in a Christian church is the work of the second century. was in Ephesus at the time Paul went to Rome, in the year A. that Christ, the Son of God, was the founder of the church on earth, and church at Rome, founded by such great lights as Peter and Paul, Irenæus men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised the Christ of Paul was made to give way, in time, to the Logos of Philo. When Paul was a prisoner in Rome the first time, the church at that God. As Paul has nowhere declared how and in what way Christ was the son 38383 I try to raise my thoughts to mother''s God, Benjamin Gould, the father of Rebecca Steward, passed away on the 18th Neither my father or mother were Christians at the time of marriage. father and mother bow, and unitedly pray, "God bless our offspring in of this life, we shall be a family united around the throne--children, After five years of Christian life and labor she came I had thought to pass over this part of my mother''s work for fear it Looking upon this life, shall we ask what there is in it which has won saying: "Great and marvelous are thy ways, Lord God Almighty. As a father pitieth His children so the Lord pitieth them that love Then repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, are the love must be toward God, with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, 38446 to the two poles of the religious life; for in all true piety man Religion is simply the subjective revelation of God in man, and revelation is religion objective in God. It is the relation of subject religious life the revelation of God in order to constitute it into a with the progress of the moral and religious life which God begets and nothing moral in human life that is not truly religious. This perfect relation between God and my soul, this supreme religious relation between God and man, and if Christianity is that life carried discipline, religiously faithful to the principle of Christian piety, religious or moral knowledge--God, the Good, the Beautiful--these are of religion, _i.e._ God. Observe the natural and spontaneous movement of piety: a soul feels of religious life, not to the objective order of science. religious notion of God it is not the metaphysical nature--it is the 38500 Jesus in the home of Lazarus Luke 10:40 HOFMANN _Hofmann, Plate 1,_ shows the moment when Gabriel says: "Blessed art _Merson, Plate 8,_ has illustrated Luke 2:4-7. _Plockhörst, Plate 14,_ illustrates Luke 2:8-11. _Hofmann, Plates 38 and 39,_ illustrates (Luke 2:46). _Bida, Plate 46,_ illustrates John 1:35. _Hofmann, Plate 52,_ with his usual literalness, gives Jesus the whip _Bida, Plate 57,_ shows Jesus "as he passed by," and Matthew leaving _Jeune, Plate 67,_ has selected the moment when Jesus says, "Consider _Hofmann, Plate 72,_ has illustrated the raising of the widow of _Hofmann, Plate 76,_ tells of Jesus preaching from the boat (Mark _Doré, Plate 107,_ illustrates the parable of the Rich Man and _Hofmann, Plate 146,_ represents Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary [Illustration: Christ on the Cross and the Three Marys.] [Illustration: John and the Mother of Jesus.] [Illustration: John and the Mother of Jesus.] _Hofmann, Plate 171,_ illustrates the next verse. 38544 obtained favor with God and man, and the Lord added daily to the church In later years Luther said in praise of his father: "He friends and said, "Let it pass; God grant that good may come of it." Luther endeavored to gain the grace of God. Day and night he tortured Christ." Thus God had led Luther to the Scriptures, and he made them his the true doctrine, he summoned Luther to appear within sixty days in In this way the Word of God will gain the heart of one man to-day, of Luther wrote to one of his friends: "You have confessed Christ and Luther, on the contrary, proved from the Word of God that this doctrine to light the saving Word of God. When the news of Luther''s death reached Luther and contained in the confessions of the Lutheran church is the "God''s Word and Luther''s doctrine pure shall through 38557 bring the hearts of men to love and obey the Lord, for "he said unto least wrong thing, on a day which is called the Lord''s Day. The time was not yet come for Jesus to give up His life, and Gospel, and learn how to please God. Multitudes of the people continued to come to Christ, to hear him, and "When the men" whom John had sent "were come unto" Jesus, "they said, Many other things Jesus said unto the people, teaching them also by Jesus, a man, the honour due to the Messiah, "said unto him, Master, of his new-born faith, "he said unto Jesus, Lord remember me when thou calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." He then told them 38593 Templars by the kings of England--The Masters of the Temple at Templars--Hugh de Payens chosen Master of the Temple--Is sent to holy places, thus speaks of the Temple of the Knights Templars. the Knights Templars at the Temple in that city, the chief house of the by the kings of England--The Masters of the Temple at London--Their B._, Knight of the Order of the Temple, just now appointed Master commands, the king of Jerusalem, the Grand Master of the Temple, and Jerusalem, the Knights Templars established the chief house of their order appointed the Knight Templar Brother Gaudini Grand Master.[317] The Temple Knights Templars in Palestine, by the Grand Master, Brother William de Master of the Temple; the Knights Templars Philip de Mewes, Preceptor of Master and Chapter of the Temple, in the time of the Knights Templars, time of the Knights Templars there were _two halls_ in the Temple, so that 38599 THE MIRACLE SONGS verse through his volume _The Song of the Prairie Land_, published in The poem, _The Miracle Songs THE MIRACLE SONGS OF JESUS Jesus, the poet of Galilee, Jesus, the poet of Galilee, And the wise men heard and they tried to scan And Jesus, the poet, grew sick at heart And the songs He sang to the desert sea The miracle song that few would hear-A miracle deed is a simple thing When they heard the miracle man would perform. And the dead men breathed by a strange, new law. Who saw and breathed through the poet''s song. And hear the Poet of Galilee. And hear the Poet of Galilee. The men to take to the world His news, Who came to hear His miracle songs. As a miracle deed from a man who could sing A miracle song that sheds its power Who love to hear the Miracle Songs. 38600 to this God and rival Savior of Jesus Christ, by having been previously Gods, is of astrological origin--the story of Jesus Christ included. "Lord Jesus Christ" Narayan of Bermuda was styled the "Holy Living God." Christian writers admit the belief in earth-born Gods (called Sons of How "the man Christ Jesus" came to be worshiped as a God, is pretty such converts to worship "the man Christ Jesus" as a God on account of God, our Master, Jesus Christ, to be born of a virgin without any human tell us, in effect, that God sent his Son Jesus Christ into the world the Christian incarnation--the divinity of Jesus Christ As some of the WHEN Christians are asked for the proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ, They never speak of him as the God Christ Jesus, but as "the man the Christian''s man-God, Jesus Christ. 38620 Provincial Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock; M.P. for First Monument to General Brock at Queenston Heights 33 of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, Kt., and Colonel John Wreath placed on Brock''s Monument, Queenston Heights, by Six Nation Indians celebrating Brock''s Centenary at Queenston mindful of others, thus died Sir Isaac Brock, the hero of Upper Canada. representative of Colonel John Macdonell, the Attorney-General of [Illustration: FIRST MONUMENT TO GENERAL BROCK AT QUEENSTON HEIGHTS. Hon. John Macdonell, Provincial A.D.C. to General Brock); Dr. Alexander the family of Colonel the Honourable John Macdonell, General Brock''s [Illustration: WREATH PLACED ON BROCK''S MONUMENT, QUEENSTON HEIGHTS, BY Isaac Brock, the hero of Upper Canada, died in battle upon this field in General Brock had on the affection and memory of the Canadian people Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonell, Attorney-General of Upper Canada--a fine, service has experienced in the death of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. 38644 the present day, who like to know why a book was written, and what it Valley--Walnut Hills--Lane Seminary--Dr. Beecher--Woodward College--Dr. Aydelott--The old Kentucky man--Louisville--The Galt House--View Smith, the Mormon prophet--His early history--First pretended revelation--His would read to her out of God''s holy book, and in the day he sought some The father sat for a long time on the ground gazing upon his dead children. "We came into this country from western New York several years since. imposture thought of calling this pretended revelation the BOOK OF MORMON. Mormon, who lived about four hundred years after the coming of Christ, did go forth to a place which was called Mormon, having received its name the waters of Mormon, how beautiful are they to the eyes of them who there testified that they had seen the plates of the Book of Mormon; that God''s boldly that Joseph Smith is the prophet of God, and that the Book of Mormon 38695 every school boy knows that Ireland was known at that time throughout But, it may be asked, why did this great man leave Ireland to seek different dress for every day in the week, and to look beautiful in "This great sea fight took place," said the narrator, "in the Bay of I soon saw the church of San Carlos, a large building of dark stone, regards the higher order of progress, the Catholic Church is in advance that the night of Christmas Day had a new significance for these Irish Christ is like the ancient year, the great year, the year full of days, very far behind in works, in the great race of Catholic American "Well, here''s to the good old year of ''82," said Patrick, raising his To the men and women of Boston and New England who love the cause of 38716 instruction of the negroes, it is stated that slaves are "connected with "If any person shall teach any slave, negro, or free person of shall procure, suffer, or permit a slave, negro, or person of color, "If any slave or free person of color shall preach to, exhort, or "No person of color, whether free or slave, shall be allowed to "It shall not be lawful for any slave, free negro or mulatto to that, "whenever any negro-slave shall be taken up in this State as a Throughout all the Slave States, the law presumes every free negro to be chance in a thousand that all their new masters would be like Dr. Fuller, or that they would escape the lot of most other slaves,--a state slave in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, slave by his master, which the Constitution of the United States was 38745 faith, she had peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." Who said, "The Lord is good, a Stronghold in the day of trouble," &c.? saved"--"one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus," who Another time she said, "I think I shall soon reach my journey''s end now. That which remains to the people of God. A place where the children of Israel provoked the Lord to wrath. be a faithful follower of the Lord Jesus, and God Almighty will bless said, "If the Lord has given you those words, He will, in His own time, he had experienced of the wrath of man and the love of God. May we, with him, be favoured to "taste and see that the Lord is good," Another time he said, "Oh, I don''t mind bearing a little pain for Jesus. So "all things work together for good to them that love God," and Jesus 38775 reaching a solitary place on a mountain, prayed to His Father, God. Then from village to village, Jesus carried His message and ministry One day a poor leper came to Him. Jesus touched him, and he The following Sabbath day Jesus publicly healed a man in the Then came the calling of the men whom Jesus named the Apostles. [Illustration: JESUS AND HIS APOSTLES.] Following the choosing of the Apostles, Jesus gave to the crowds who been in the tomb for three days before Jesus appeared at the home of Jesus knew the malice in their hearts, and went away to a As Jesus pursued His way to Jerusalem, the roads were thronged with [Illustration: MARY ANOINTED JESUS'' FEET.] The news of Jesus'' arrival at Bethany soon reached Jerusalem, and Crossing the bridge over "the brook Kidron," Jesus entered Jerusalem. Pilate then asked what he should do to Jesus, and as one great voice 38801 and ignorance, called "faith." What man, who ever thinks, can believe become as gods, knowing good and evil." For this reason, religion This belief in good and evil powers had its origin in the fact that man do believe that it is better to love men than to fear gods; that it is as the enemy of man and God. In all ages reason has been regarded as the God will forever reward the true believer, and eternally damn the man they are ordained of God;" suppose the church could control the world Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? believe there is any god in the universe who will damn a man simply for believe that God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn the Humanity is the grand religion, and no God can put a man in hell in 38803 Scotland, New England--In the Dark Ages--Let us Live for Man--X. The poet lives in the world of thought and feeling, and to this the shell lives a poem, and all the great men of the world, and all the This man believed in human love, in making a heaven here, At this time Voltaire was not interested in the great world--knew very in this infamy has ever been touched by the wrathful hand of God. Now and then a man of genius, of sense, of intellectual honesty, has The men of thought now know that all religions and all sacred books have The intelligent man now knows that we live in a natural world, that gods Intelligent men now know, that if there be an infinite God, man cannot Living for God has filled the world with blood God to the brain and heart of man--millions who regard this book as a 38805 of Immoral Books--"Assassinating" God--Mr. Talmage finds Nearly All the Invention of Modern Man''s Life?--Satisfactory Reasons for Not Believing that the Bible is inspired. Mr. Talmage knows that it is not necessary to understand the Bible in order to believe it. Sunderland, of this city, in his sermon on the assassination of Garfield, takes the ground that God permitted the murder for the purpose of opening the eyes He believes that God damns a man for his own glory; God, in his infinite justice, damns a good man on his to the Bible, it took this infinite God six days to make Is it possible that the God of Mr. Talmage could not have made man a success? According to the Bible, his God made man knowing that in with one exception, believed the Bible to be the inspired word of God, the man who was the exception lived--a believer in God, and a friend of man. 38806 If the Bible is inspired, Jehovah, God of all worlds, actually said: kill his wife because she suggested the worshiping of some other God. I also insist that the Old Testament would be a much better book with right-minded, sane man, except Mr. Black, who now believes that a God of believe in the wrong God. In order to know the difference between right reasonable to believe that a good God would assist his chosen people to According to your creed, man must believe in your God. All You believe that Christ was God, that he was infinite in power. It is far better for a man to love his fellow-men than to love God. It Is it in accordance with reason that an infinitely good and loving God natural man cannot know the things of the spirit of God, because they 38807 Whiskey--Eulogy of Tobacco--Human Stupidity that Defies the Gods--Rev. Charles Deems--Jesus a Believer in a Personal Devil--The Man Christ. World?--Would an Infinite God make People who Need a Redeemer?--Gospel I believe in Man, Woman and Child--the Blessed Trinity of Life and Joy. I have said, and still say, that you have no right to endeavor by force thought it necessary to hear what any man said in order to answer him. 4. "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread repetition of the old story: That God made the world and a man, and the church forgive a man whom it thinks its God is waiting somewhat show that all men have an equal right to think, and that a man is only God made a poor world; that he made man and woman and put them in the Orthodox Christians say that a man must believe on Christ, must have 38855 of Union Prisoners--Colonel Walter''s second visit--Day of comes a war between the North and the South, let us do as Abraham ALMIGHTY GOD--We would present our country, the United States of guard--Priceville--General Gordon--Bound for Tupelo--The Prisoners Several times a day officers would come in and order a specified number of Yankees, adhesion to the United States government or Unionism, acting as were no guards stationed on the south side of the prison during the day; As the officers passed Captain Bruce, he asked where the prisoners were of the Union men in prison and within the rebel lines. good in the case of Union men who are citizens of the South. night I escaped from prison, were placed under close arrest, and were Soon all the prison-guards on duty during the night, thirty-three in In the slave States all those born north of the "nigger line," are 38881 The holy man, turning, looked fixedly for some time at the young The old woman, who had waited all this time for her blessing, said For this man and woman were Shama Sahai''s parents-in-law going home Looking at the old woman, he said sharply, "What is the matter with "Why didn''t she come to you?" asked the man as they got the old moment later as he had turned around to look at the old woman and interested eyes watched the girl as, laying the old woman''s head old woman''s forehead and turned away, confident that in a short time "I didn''t think it looked exactly like heaven," the old woman added And as the English woman looked upon Old Sarah''s happy face and old woman had simply wanted the child to come to her, for at the against the door of the house and the old man looked up with a 38922 "I like stories about heathen," said Maggie. "I know people drink," said Maggie, so gravely and sagely that the "Why, Maggie," said Meredith, smiling and passing his hand gently over and my house." "There my first church shall stand," said Landolf, glad "Well!" said Flora, "you''ve come in good time. Don''t you think we want dinner some time?" said Esther; "Ditto," said Maggie, "can''t we see about all those Saxon gods now?--or "What a pity you hadn''t lived in Landolf''s time!" said Flora. "I would rather believe that God has it all in His hand," said Maggie "I hope--he won''t come--till--Uncle Eden gets here," said Maggie very "Well," said Maggie, as Meredith paused, "I should think somebody ought "Uncle Eden," said Maggie, "do you like Meredith''s story?" "And I hope you will tell him, Mr. Murray," said Flora, "what Christians "I will go on," said Meredith.--"''Some old people are yet living who 38940 These words she said, placing her hand over her womb, to the man sent to Lord Jesus Christ; where I hope we shall ere long meet to sing the new his body, to pull out his heart, he said, "Lord Jesus! thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain._" live; Herr Jesu, to thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain forth her body, and said "Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit," authorities he said later: "I thank thee, O my God and Saviour, that I he said, "O God, come unto mine aid; O Lord, make haste to help me." At daybreak he said to Cabanis:--"My friend I shall die to-day. It is also said by some authorities that his last words were, "There is It has also been said that his last words were: "For the love of God, 38950 have received in writing this little book from his life of Fletcher, Benson, for many years the intimate friend of Fletcher, wrote to Wesley writing of Mr. Fletcher''s life, having procured the best materials I Account of the Life and Death of the Rev. John Fletcher," with the was seven years of age that I first began to feel the love of God shed From the time of his conversion to the close of his life Fletcher was a forms of covenant with God prevailed, Fletcher kept by him through life The private letters written at this period of Fletcher''s life contain During the eight remaining years of Fletcher''s life, it was believed church: John Fletcher sends his best Christian love to the congregation "My life," replied Fletcher, "is secure in the hands of God." this was a call from God. Fletcher''s health at the time was not good, 39000 This volume being the first illustrated history of the Women Painters in _The Annals of the Artists of Spain_, that my painter''s portraits portrait-painters of interest, like Miss Catharine Read, of Reynolds'' portrait painter, Mrs. Matilda Heming, the landscapist, and Lady IN THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON Mrs. Mary Beale, born ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR Miss Katharine Cameron, Painter] PICTURE PAINTED IN 1902 Mrs. Mary Young Hunter, Painter] THE ORIGINAL PAINTING Lady Holroyd, Painter] family, father, mother, and daughters alike, being painters; and Mme. Vigée herself, who married the picture dealer Le Brun, was the PORTRAIT OF MADAME LE BRUN, AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING IN THE [Illustration: PORTRAIT (PAINTED BY HERSELF) OF MADAME RUDE, PHOTOGRAPH LENT BY THE ARTIST Madame Marie Cazin, Painter] [Illustration: THE SHEPHERD AFTER THE ORIGINAL PAINTING Madame [Illustration: AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTING PAINTING Madame Marie Philippine Bilders van Bosse, Painter with a portrait-painter, Olga de Boznanska (page 316), whose work 39092 god of each individual place or thing or man,"[50] and another of the laws it obeyed--mind, matter, God, man, formed one community. and gods, and by pure thought men came into contact with the divine thoughts."[89] "God," says Seneca, "has a father''s mind towards the No mind (_mens_) is good without God. Divine seeds are sown in human bodies," and will grow into likeness to understands the nature of the divine; men confuse God with his of a specially good and holy man, but as for the idea that god or dæmon Other things God gives to men, mind and thought he shares with them, God, he says, is hardly to be conceived by man''s mind as in a dream; "God," says Clement, "out of his great love for men, cleaves to man, God all things are beautiful and good and just; but men have supposed 39129 Father, I have found Thy gift of life, a sweet and beautiful thing. Our Father in Heaven, we bless Thee this morning for all Thy care and God of the morning light, with the dawn of another day we come to Thee Heavenly Father, I pray Thee that Thou wilt help me to love to-day. O Thou Eternal God who hast given us life, help us to love Thy will and day, Thou who art the God of life and light, we ask Thy help and Thy We seek Thy face anew this day, O our Father, and ask Thee that Thou Father of Life, Thy children raise their thoughts in prayer to Thee at O God, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for all Thy mercies new every day to follow the night; we thank Thee for Thy loving care that has We thank Thee, Father, for Thy love which, like the morning light, fails 39223 when Thy Son JESUS Christ our Lord shall come with all His Saints, He This is what God''s Coming in grace means--a soul in the state of grace Advent of her Lord, till God stirs up His power and comes to save it. Lord and come; and succour us with great power, that by the help of Thy messenger was John the Baptist, who was sent by God to prepare the ways "Thou shall call his name John" (the Grace of God). time the grace to trust her with all my secrets for her Son. _Resolution._ To dwell "with the King for His works" to-day. her Son. O my Mother, as I come to-day to the holy Tabernacle "prepared from the "Behold I come that I should do Thy Will: O my God, I have Come and save us, O Lord our God." 39288 Jesus had made them sons and heirs of God. If the converted Paul in turn the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ." Authority increases, the sense According to Papias our two Greek Gospels of Matthew and Mark represent the tradition of the teaching and work of Jesus, the letters of apostles (2) the gospel _about_ Jesus, represented in the Pauline Epistles, and ''apostolic'' Christianity as Luke gives it, and the ''gospel'' of Paul, we doctrine that the cross marks the abolition of the economy of Law. Both in Galatians and everywhere else Paul treats on equal terms with churches in this second period we must realize that Paul''s ''gospel of Peter writing from Rome after the recent martyrdoms of James and Paul, question of ''apostolic'' tradition, the authority of Peter was coming everywhere that Jesus was "the Christ, the Son of God." Like Luke, C. _Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ, his Life and Work, 39394 God placed side by side with the kings and priests of Israel to supply he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that the God of Israel; new things were counted more honourable, as our Lord Samuel was connected with the priestly establishment at Nob. There are two great services for God and for Israel in which we find Samuel was but the servant, God was the lord and king. fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet, notwithstanding this very serious aspect of the people''s offence, spirit of faith, and in the way in which Saul displaced the man whom God the armies of the living God. David said moreover, The Lord that nature, that as Saul was rejected by God for his wickedness, so David 39509 Bible, does not show that God ever turned a man black to disgrace him for The "black man" I boldly assert "was the Father of civilization," born in God honored the black man by allowing some of his Ethiopian blood to flow were descendants of Canaan, a black man who was the son of Ham (Genesis An early Queen of Egypt was a descendant of the Ethiopian or Negro race. Ham, the father of the black man, located in Africa. Egyptian was descended from the black man. the time of Abraham, the Egyptians were a simon pure black race. white rulers of Egypt, and the black men or the Negroes regained Chapters of Exodus), which wrecked the Egyptians'' or black man''s kingdom, So, since it is true that the black man is the father of civilization, it It is impossible for God to forget that the black man and his land (Egypt) 39532 In an epitaph in High Wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working In the churchyard of Longnor, the following quaint epitaph is placed over stone covers the grave, bearing the following simple inscription:-At Great Marlow a stone states that Mary Whitty passed sixty-three years good Man. The poet Pope caused to be placed on the outside of Twickenham Church a Edward Parr died in 1811, at the age of 38 years, and was buried in North The following epitaph, inscribed on a stone in Putney churchyard, is aged 43 years; on the same day and within a few hours of the death of The following epitaph is inscribed on a tombstone in the churchyard of St. Mary Friars, Shrewsbury, on Cadman, a famous "flyer" on the rope, In memory of THOMAS, son of John and Mary Clay, who departed this life memory of Robert Smith, who died in 1782, aged 82 years:-- 39734 that of Luther, and other great men of Christ''s church, how he arrived Melanchthon, at a certain time, wrote to his paternal friend Reuchlin, Melanchthon write and teach, and mightily build up the kingdom of God. About this time he published a work, which is doubtless not only one of were Luther''s words; he remained faithful, and God helped him. against God." However, the Elector summoned Melanchthon and Amsdorf to In a letter of Luther''s, called forth by Melanchthon, he Melanchthon expressed his decided adherence to Luther''s doctrine, and The Elector requested Luther and Melanchthon to give their opinion How true is Luther''s word in a letter to Melanchthon, man of peace, Melanchthon, to state, in a written opinion, in what way a Luther and Melanchthon in Wittenberg, in order to discuss these articles change of doctrine, but to Luther''s death, which to Melanchthon''s great 39819 epistle which link it more closely with St. Peter''s speeches in Acts under Acts VII, verse 49, to Isaiah II, 287, would be found on page 287 ---11, Romans, 313, 362; Peter, 164; John Epistles, 82. ACTS III., 4, John Epistles, 6, 7. ACTS V., 13, John Epistles, 6. ACTS V., 13, John Epistles, 6. ACTS VII., 5, Colossians, 387; Hebrews, 216. ACTS IX., 1, Galatians, 62; James, 126. ACTS XII., 2, Matthew, 240; James, 26. ACTS XIII., 1-4, Exodus, 409; Romans, 434. ACTS XVIII., 2, Pastoral Epistles, 414. ---18, Leviticus, 551; Galatians, 320; John Epistles, 18. ACTS OF PAUL AND THECLA, John Epistles, 91. ADONIZEDEK, king of Jerusalem, Joshua, 223; Judges, 12. CONYBEARE AND HOWSON, _Life and Epistles of Paul_, Acts I., 217; GENESIS IV., 1-8, John Epistles, 189. GENESIS XXVIII., 11-14, John Epistles, 201. ---King and judge, Numbers, 5. ---the Genesis of the New Testament, Matthew, 4. 39864 what I regard as a real want--a Life of John Wesley which shall include SAMUEL WESLEY, father of John, was for forty years rector of Epworth Samuel Wesley was sixteen years old at the time of his father''s death. Years after he met Mr. Wesley in St. James Park, and said to him: "Since that time, sir, thank God! ONE of the most remarkable chapters in the life of John Wesley relates In regard to the fall and consequent corruption of human nature, Mr. Wesley accepted the faith of the Church of England, which is as follows: which I trust shall never end." Dr. Coke was of great service to Mr. Wesley in many ways, preaching in London and in other parts of England It has been said, "No man in Methodism, except Wesley, did more for the to the ends of the earth!" Mr. Wesley says of him: "For many years I 40208 literary character in the country; and it did not fail to obtain for Mr. Paine universal approbation. From his connection with the leading characters at Philadelphia, Mr. Paine immediately took a part in the politics of the Colonies, and being man who writes a letter to his relatives or friends is an author, but production of "Rights of Man" will ever rank Mr. Paine among the first outlive treachery, it drew forth from Mr. Paine his "Rights of Man" Portland''s with Thomas Paine the great political writer of the United Second Part of "Rights of Man," offered Mr. Paine for his copyright, is Paine''s "Rights of Man," had the more extensive circulation. Mr. Paine had resolved to defend the publication of "Rights of Man" in the nation against such a man as Thomas Paine! further appears, that they corresponded up to the time of Mr. Paine''s Mr. Paine published various letters and 40211 instructed to allow that the general body of dissenters from the Church present mystery of the Christian Church. and a proving people are necessary to make a Church of Christ. The present state of the Church is, that it is a theatre of mystery, useful exhortation; for revelation of knowledge, or mind, or reason; ministry of the Church more afraid of knowledge than of the people''s Man''s knowledge of existence is of a twofold nature: the things that the mysterious doctrine of the Christian Church, in this way; and I am knowledge of Christ, which is not now in the Church, nor yet among any every Church; the mystery would not pass on the people without them. The mystery of the existing Church, in all its grades of dissent, having The true meaning of Church, is STATE OF MIND. Give the people knowledge in their Churches, and 40252 our friends, the ministry of that eminent servant of God, the Rev. A. Rev. John Townsend opened by prayer and reading the Scriptures. "My dear brother and faithful friend, ever yours affectionately, The service of the church of England was read by the Rev. Mr. I doubt not, was the happy case of this faithful servant of God) shall time, about the year 1250, appears from the passage in his questions: The Rev. Robert Compton, late minister of the General Baptist church and perish!" From this time he began to seek the Lord by prayer, and reading the year 1816, and was ordained pastor over the General Baptist church great affection, he continued to labour almost to the time of his death. late of Mazepond, London, stated the nature of a gospel church; Mr. Hughes offered the ordination prayer; Dr. Steadman delivered the charge, The Baptist church at Lynn appears to have been formed about the year 40443 highway," leading up to that celestial world, to glory and to God. We believe that if a reasonable, tangible idea of the constant millions of Suns--_Heavens_--planets, and worlds, standing out, or immortality to light." God, the Father, had veiled the sun, that the That God''s spirit is fire, and light, we shall be able to show to grasp His truths, and look up through Nature to Nature''s God. Now fix your mind''s eye upon that brilliant orb of--seeming--eternal elements of the Sun--fire, heat, and light--in connection with God''s Sun--its heat and light--are God''s agencies in sustaining all things? night there, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign world and city "hath no need of the _Sun_, for the glory of God doth forever with our Saviour in the glory-light of the Spirit of God. O, 40460 things come from Jesus Christ and his love in the hearts of men. pledged to a life of peculiar service to God. When John became a young man he went away from his home and lived in the "Woman, believe me," answered Jesus, "there is coming a time when men people that were sick, or had evil spirits, like the man whom Jesus had The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured But Jesus said to them, "My Father works on all days doing good to men; days he had said to all the people that Jesus was the Coming King, so Jesus said to his disciples, "Go out among the people and tell them to Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus cannot be from God, because "The time has now come," said Jesus, "for the Son of Man to be lifted 40482 by faith; so shall we ever live in God. Amen._--John Hunter. lose our faith in Thy goodness, but committing our souls unto Thee Man cannot live without faith, because the adventure of life demands Man cannot live, lacking faith, because _without it life''s richest Man cannot live without faith, because in life''s adventure the central Man''s life, interpreted and motived by religious faith, is glorious, _When faith in God goes, man the sufferer loses his securest _When faith in God goes, man the mortal loses his only hope._ _O God, we turn to Thee in the faith that Thou dost understand and Such are the experiences of man, with which faith in a personal God is The Christian faith asserts that when a man thus thinks of God in dealing with the _mind''s_ faith in God; the man''s intellect are dealing with the _heart''s_ faith in God; the whole man is Man''s faith in God 4052 The Great God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, death, judgment, eternity, heaven and curse of God, and the eternal ruin and damnation of your souls! you, repentance unto life, that you may be holy in this world, and happy But, blessed be God, a door of hope is opened by the gospel for life of faith in the Son of God, shall be saved: but such as truth, and the life, and that there is no coming to God with comfort, power of God to your souls, you must be miserable in time, and to trust, that by the blessing of God, you will enjoy peace in your souls, you live without Christ, without hope, and without God in the world. if you value your souls, pray earnestly to God. Consider your obligations to do so. shall see, believe, and rejoice in the salvation of God. 40542 to the Lord, was baptized by Mr. Thomas, and received into the church. into the first English Baptist Church, in Abergavenny; the Rev. M. Lord''s-day, a church of seventeen persons was organised, Mr. W. On the following Lord''s-day, Aug. 10th, Mr. Williams of Ryeford preached his funeral discourse, from ordinance to the church, but by following up the principles of the New Pastor of the Church in Eagle Street, London, and twenty years Conducted by Members of the Relief Church._--No. 27, for March last, contains a Review of Mr. Anderson''s Funeral Sermon The following important and interesting case of the Baptist Church in Exeter, described the nature of a Christian church; the Rev. S. as the pastor of the Baptist church meeting in Providence Chapel, Saunders, for nine years pastor of the Baptist church assembling in I then call a church-meeting, read over the names of those 40571 Hampson seemed a long time, Joseph thought, though when he looked up at Yet, at that moment Joseph _understood exactly what the man said_. Lluellyn looked Joseph in the face, and placed one long, lean hand upon "Miss Lys, I know," Hampson said, "was greatly impressed by Joseph and "What a wonderful man your friend Joseph must be," he said suddenly. "I would," the young man said, with great sadness--"would that the Holy to this man Joseph, my dear Mary," when the door of the library swung "I want you to know my friend Joseph, Lady Kirwan," Sir Thomas said. With these words the old man rose, and, turning, saw Joseph standing Joseph smiled kindly, and placed his hand upon the young man''s shoulder, The young man looked at Joseph with a white and startled face. "It is a fine thing to get these great people to go," said the old man 40609 great cause of lamentation to me," said he in riper years, "that men of learned, but God''s living word out of heaven to unfaithful man, is "In ages past," says Mr. Badger, "God has seen fit to raise power to my mind, and as no minister was present that day, energy, decision and success, which belonged to the public life of Mr. Badger, must, in the ordinary course of things, have called out much life; from which time his faith in the Son of God by the year shall end, O God, may I be allowed to see great displays of thy hearts, within a few days God has done great things for our this time the work of God in no small degree of power Wayne County, New York, a town in which Mr. Badger at different times Now is the time for the man of God to be 40688 After leaving Lance, Emery made his way to Sass Gange''s lodgings. father is rolling in wealth, and I suppose I shall come in for a good "Don''t be cast down, Master Emery," said old Sass, "I will help you if I Sass soon found an opportunity of letting Emery know where he lived, and In time Emery formed a number of acquaintances, mostly silly lads like look-out for an old man and a young one allowed Emery to pass, though not deny you, for He has promised to receive all who thus come to Him. He has said, ''Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as "And my name is Tom Martin," said Ned coming forward, greatly to "He is a good man, no doubt, Martin," observed the trader; "but his is Martin had eagerly listened to what the man said, and hoping from the 40770 If the manners of nations have gained nothing by the Christian religion, OR THE IDEAS OF GOD, AND HIS CONDUCT, GIVEN US BY THE CHRISTIAN inspired by the same God. Thus, all religions pretend to a divine Thus, we are commanded by Christianity to believe that a God having his destructive temptations, rather than the absolute commands of God. This Satan, the cause of so much terror to Christians, was evidently Christians endeavour to prove the divine origin of their religion by the sanction of God. In my opinion, however, the Christian religion, which tramples on every moral duty in obedience to its God. In a word, the religion, which boasts of having brought peace on earth, divines who pretend that, without the Christian religion there could The love, therefore, of a Christian to his God can Christian love beings who continually offend his God? 40799 obliging the slaves to live in a state of promiscuous intercourse, attainments among the free people of color--living epistles known and restore their victims to themselves, to the human family, and to God. We know, and we rejoice in the knowledge, that the gift of intellect is If we contemplate the moral character of the colored man we shall meet feeling, which God designed should exist among his creatures; it creates upon our colored brethren and sisters, we feel that it is equally colored man could not rise in his native land to an equality with his "American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the with them in their sufferings, of which the free people of color in the people of color from the slaves, to prevent all coalition between them, our God the blessing promised unto those who consider the poor, the Lord 40967 Again, what Roman law was applicable to the charges made against Jesus Did Pilate apply Hebrew or Roman law to the charges presented to him requirements of criminal procedure in Roman capital trials, at the time Jesus, Pilate said: "Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee any, were employed by Pilate in conducting the Roman trial of Jesus? ROMAN LAW APPLICABLE TO THE TRIAL OF JESUS ROMAN LAW APPLICABLE TO THE TRIAL OF JESUS prisoner, Pilate asked: "Art thou the King of the Jews?" "Jesus answered both Law and Fact as related to the Roman trial of Jesus. Pilate acted in strict obedience to the requirements of Roman law in with Pilate and the Romans, does it follow that all Jews of the days of Jesus Christ, which the Jews had laid up in the time of Pontius Pilate, Pilate accusing Jesus about many things, saying: We know this man to be 40978 say, the Jews believed in other gods, I refer him to Judges, chap. the priest found a book of the law of God _given_ by Moses, and sent it you suppose the Jews preserved the word of God. But what is most curious the Jews, God''s chosen nation, at any period, either while under his authority from God as Moses; and miracles are never wanting to prove it. doubt, read, that there was a book of the law of Moses, in which Joshua children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses only book either Moses or Joshua were ever said to have written; the mention as a book written and existing a few years after Moses, turns of God. I beg the reader will observe, that the writer of the Book of Joshua had of God. I shall follow the order of the books without attempting an 40981 Lordships apprehend, that, for want of better arguments, we shall be When the unbelievers affirm that a just God could not punish Pharaoh God came to Balaam at night and said unto him, "If the men come appears the man after God''s own heart, at the taking of the city of third day after Saul''s death, a young man came out of the camp from idol of the Christians, this man after God''s own heart, embrue his hands man after _God''s own heart!_ What an impiety, say the infidels, to the Joshua was not written till after the time of David, and by an unknown David, by the instigation of the Lord, numbered the people-of David to number them;" but God was displeased with this thing, and David repenting, was offered from God his As few even of the Christians have faith enough to believe 40982 appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ''Joseph, thou son of David, fear is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt And Zacharias said unto the angel, ''Whereby shall I know this? And the angel said unto her, ''Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found Then said Mary unto the angel, ''How shall this be, seeing I know And the angel answered and said unto her, ''The Holy Ghost shall In a long note, appended to the 16th verse of the 1st chapter of St. Matthew, reasons are given for rejecting the story of the miraculous Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ''Joseph, thou son of David, that God had got his wife with child, and that an angel had been sent to not a man." The angel replies,--"The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, Matthew''s relation, according to which Mary had said nothing to Joseph 41032 that the latter alternative is possible, although we are sure that Dr. Pusey, and men like-minded with him, would deplore it as a great When he offered it the third time, the old man said, "I have had mother who had gone, there was a thought that "Mother-Mary," as Mrs. Brewer was called by her step-daughter, looked right at Beremouth, and "I think you ought to take more time for a purpose like this," said dear child," he said, "I have had the great blessing of my life given And while she was trying to still these troublings of the mind, Mr. Brewer, by her mother''s side, was reading for the first time Mrs. Erskine''s letter, which Father Daniels had returned. great day, germs of the almost god-like forms of eternity. in the old man''s dry eyes; "I have asked of God to let me remain to 41156 years after the inception of these great works, Japan made formal The United States had set a generous example by concluding a new treaty people in the Far East that Great Britain saw her way finally to set a province; that is to say, on the north-western shore of the Japan Sea. It was therefore necessary for Russia that freedom of passage by the States, Great Britain and Japan, joining hands for that purpose, did that the dates given in Japanese early history are just 120 years too every great work of constructive statesmanship in the history of new (2 vols., New York, 1833); William Whitelocke, _Life and Times of John the great city-prophet Isaiah who calls the men of Jerusalem "a people the general with the powers of a commander-in-chief in time of war, Father General of the Society of Jesus, holding the place of God, and 41280 things shall be added unto you." Worship, faith, duty, devotion to God, essential truths of Christianity, or to make life and the human soul concerning this world; and that the one thing needful for Human Progress Religion is a blind instinct: the ideas of God, man, duty, By a true Theology, I mean one which regards God as a father, and man as At length a man comes with a religious idea, a living, powerful Jesus Christ; is perfect God. And this has been, by an old Roman In the first place, Christ teaches us of the loving providence of God. He awakens in our hearts all childlike instincts of trust and the age as Christian truth and life. If the Christ of the Church, of Christian faith, is, as some will have life, a power of truth and love over the minds and hearts of men, 41381 calling of God in Christ Jesus," is the fixed purpose of every believer. the soul at peace with God. Like the joyous sun should the Christian go The church, the great temple of God, shall stand. And how true is this of Christians, those spiritual temples which God has Christians are truly temples, as they enjoy the presence of God''s Spirit. the world as witnesses for God. They testify to men what the religion of Christians, the voice of God Almighty says, "Ye are my witnesses," and The people of God are the light of the world--luminous bodies, shining shall be done in a way which shall tell for the glory of God. Christian come up, for God''s people are the light of the world, and their mission is special manifestation of God in Christ, and there is no way left for man Christian--the children of this world and the children of God--differing 41602 the Sea of Galilee, the early home of Jesus (Matt. place where the Gospel was preached to other than the Jews (Acts 8. Jordan valley, visited by Jesus near the end of his ministry (Luke 19. hiding place of Jesus for a brief period (John 11. 3.) With each place name its event in the life of Jesus. 5. =Jerusalem.= During this period two events took place in 4. =It prepared for his ministry in Galilee.= The fame of Christ''s acts In the study of this period we note the following =Places=: study and place in order its events as a separate period in the life of attended by the disciples of Christ as by all worshiping Jews (Acts 2. church; but Solomon''s porch in the temple soon took its place (Acts 5. result followed, churches sprang up throughout Judea (Acts 9. churches visited again on his second journey (Acts 16. 41650 If Jesus was the author of perfect or even the highest ideals the world evidence is very conclusive that Jesus believed the end of the world to But do you not know, asks the man of God, that the world will soon pass To Jesus, the world was like a tavern--good only for a education, such is the hold of Jesus upon the Christian world, that in without toil or labor, so can man, if he will only put his trust in God. The kingdom of heaven which is to take the place of this world when it young man who came to Jesus to ask him the way to eternal life. It is only for this world, however, that Jesus believes in poverty. The heaven of Jesus is more materialistic than this world. The world is in need of a Jesus who can _make_ people love. 41720 Let this encourage you, dear prisoners, to know that God loves and poor, old and feeble hearts, but I pray God to stay them and help I worked all day in the prison, holding services with both men and women prisoners, visited the hospital, and went to the city prayed God to go before me to that prison chapel and lead the meeting God knows how much your letters cheer me and brighten the prison me there, I shall meet in heaven; but I know that God has said His sent of God to help people in prison to a better life." He replied, then morning, but God blessed us in holding services in the prison but I expect to meet you in heaven, dear mother, for I know God As she told of her prison work, how God could save my suffering boys in prison; and I said God bless my children, my 41766 the Society which elected Father Martin to the post of General of the Jesuit college there, entered the Society in 1623, when he was only Jesuit, but in obedience to his father''s order he returned to Ireland. About this time, the Jesuits lost a devoted friend in the person of St. Charles Borromeo, who died in 1584. volumes, "History of the Society of Jesus in New Spain" is of great Jesuit provincial, or Oliva, Father General of the Order, would issue of the states general protested, and ordered the Jesuits to write to Jesuit; and at his death, the Society had thirty-seven provinces with letters, said to be from Father Ricci, the General of the Jesuits, who When King John V of Portugal asked for ten Jesuit Fathers to make an Jesuit establishment where they lived for four years, at which time the General of the Society, addressed the following letter to the Jesuits 418 in God''s good will at all times." Without this faith the best works are times does good works "as his faith, his confidence, teaches him." Only they have no faith, no good conscience toward God, therefore the works pleases God, the work is good, even if it were so small a thing as because of your good works, but when you believed the Word of God." measured, so also its work, that is, the faith or confidence in God''s says that the works of the First Commandment are faith, hope and love. all things work together for good to the saints of God." places, which urge and tempt men to good works, if faith does all it pleases God. Indeed there is no work in which confidence and faith the works and words, and held them up to God''s Commandment, no matter good works are commanded, that you shall know what you can and what you 41994 =The New Life.= Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ. every effort to resist it, every loving gift to God, helps our life of Very specially may our money giving strengthen our life of love. Money giving a wonderful power for God._ Money given in the spirit of self-sacrifice, and love, and faith in Him great need; that abundance of money coming in is a proof of the Spirit''s the absolute claim and sufficiency of the Holy Spirit as God''s gift to the gifts of God or power over men can be obtained by money. The Grace of God makes our giving part of the Christlike life._--v. His power to conquer and to save; His path to the Glory of God. We want to know what our share in the poverty of Christ is to be, What a power then this poverty of Christ becomes to make others rich. 42026 mga igso-on salapia-non man--Are you Peter''s father?, Icao ba ang sia, apan dili palahubóg--Where is my father?, ¿Hain ba ang acong Each man shall be judged by God. Ang tagsa ca taoo pagahocman sa Dreadful shall be the punishment Daco man ang castigo nga The man whom I saw yesterday has Ang tao nga naquita co cahapon The merciful man helps to his Ang taoo nga mangilooyan nacatabang sa 4.a As auxiliaries of the verb Man, are employed the article ang The verbs, as we have said, are formed by means of roots and particles cay na-a man canimo ang ngatanan nga quinahanglan, cay aron dili ca sia canaco, nga ualo na ca-adlao ang imong paghigdá. sia: ania man dinhi ang siya nga guilingcoran nia sa masubsub. canimo sa imong mga buhat, nasayod acó nga mahal ca-ayo ang tiempo sa Nagamato-od acó canimo nga la una y media na, cay ang 42093 tell of long days of school-room routine, when Blanche at last got Morag was to know what it all meant, Blanche began to feel interested; the easy words, Morag would beg Blanche to read a little to her; and as Morag had been able to gather from Blanche''s reading a little about our Blanche wondered greatly how the good little Morag could ever have grown bairn." That was all; but poor little Morag went home feeling as if a round the little brown neck, and looked into Morag''s sorrowful face. father," said Blanche, sighing, as she looked fondly after her little every word like her little teacher, or as Blanche had said, Kirsty was "Oh, it''s all right!--Kirsty and Morag--here they come!" cried Blanche, brave at the loch to-day, Morag?" said Blanche, looking questioningly at the little girl to come near, and Morag looked at last on the face of 42164 years later a meeting-house was built, to which Eli was taken even Eli Jones and the Friends with them attended the meetings. Yearly Meeting on Seventh day, 14th, our dedicated friend Sybil Jones friends the service on my mind for the Lord my God in a distant land. The last day of the yearly meeting Sybil Jones spoke out her feelings Eli Jones improved all the time, holding meetings Eli and Sybil Jones attended the London yearly meeting of 1853, and "_2d._ Attended Friends'' meeting, and received visits from several "_3d._ Dear Eli went to Congènies to-day to attend meeting. holding meetings, visiting schools, and doing much quiet work up and called the Eli and Sybil Jones Mission, and the New England Friends for the few Friends in the place, and in the evening a good meeting Next day, 1st of 12th mo., held a meeting at the school-house. 42238 Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." These Father and Christ the Son.[76] His testimony of the existence of God direct revelation from God unto men in ancient and modern times. God the Eternal Father; (2) His Son, Jesus Christ; and (3) the Holy the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have no personal authority through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have will and purposes known unto man:--"Surely the Lord God will do words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these things forth =18.= Hear further the word of the Lord unto the people of His Church God when the Lord set His hand the first time to lead His people to 42334 high priest alone, presenting the blood of a sin-offering in the Holy risen life unto God, as our "continual burnt-offering." In this, let faith in the blood of the holy Lamb of God. THE DAILY MEAL-OFFERING. of his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when were regarded in the law as given, not by the offerer, but by God, to Thus in symbol the Israelite offered unto God, with his life, with a Holy God. Man is indeed slow to learn this lesson of the sin-offering. Israel in this part of the law of the sin-offering, that the Divine God, it was "most holy," and therefore he for whose sin it is offered sin-offering slain and its blood presented before God, we behold a accepted of God, in any case, when the great Sin-offering has been 2): "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am 42354 the common ways and works of men the ideal life realized in Christ and cease to be God. It is the task of the Church to exhibit in human life Christians and in all Churches the one Christ is the life of each. Christ''s work been its lesson in self-sacrifice, might not Paul''s life learned how great a thing human life is, and it was through Christ and stands in the wisdom of men rather than in the power of God. In what sense then are we Christians? God''s Spirit working in and by means of man''s nature love and resources of God; how quickly do men weary of life, and think we see that Christ does open the way to the true life of man; that it to the Church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not true Christian life, it matters not what the member of Christ''s body 42420 Also of Bibles, Prayer-Books, and Church Services, =ANDERSON, Rev. R.=--A Practical Exposition of the Gospel of St. John. By the late Rev. HENRY BLUNT, M.A. Rector of Streatham, Surrey. =BRADLEY, Rev. A.=--Sermons, chiefly on Character: preached at Hale, =BRADLEY, Rev. C.=--Practical Sermons for every Sunday and Principal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer of the United Church of England "The Sermons contained in this volume are generally sound and H.=--Sermons by the late Rev. JOHN HAMILTON FORSYTH, =GOODE, Rev. F.=--The Better Covenant practically Considered, from Heb. viii. Practical Thoughts, and Prayers, for Private and Family Use. Crown 8vo. Arranged and Edited by the Rev. CHARLES HODGSON, M.A. Rector of Mr. Moon''s poem is a great work."--_Church =NIND, Rev. W.=--Lecture-Sermons, preached in a Country Parish Church. =OXENDEN, Rev. A.=--Sermons on the Christian Life. ---A Plain History of the Christian Church. Edited by the Rev. CHARLES HODGSON, M.A. Rector of 42518 friends, if God has given us any power to do good, pray let us do it, Christian man working not at all for his Lord; how shall I speak of him? harvest of good wheat, by laboring for Christ, we shall grow tares to be You have let things alone till your heart is covered with sins like 4. I shall ask you also to consider the works of God in nature in their travail of the Son of God shall not bring forth a scanty good. Lord comes to plough the heart of man he ploughs all day, and herein is When God''s Holy Spirit brings a man to downright earnest prayer which soul of man, as to know God and his Christ? the springing comes, and we know that there is work for God to do soon come, when God''s people shall no longer be like a lone tuft of 42558 illustrations I have used, I have often thought of the story of the man Lord Jesus Christ said dat God so loved de world, dat he gave his only illustrates the great truth of the different appearance of sin to the to the will of God better than the telling of the story, which Mr. Gilpin gives us in his Life, of his being called in to pray with a woman he thinks, "Why, I know; my wife comes to hear this man sometimes, so use of anecdotes and illustrations, and I think it is very likely that there was such a God. The good man''s heart was meditating how he ought them an illustration or an anecdote; and I learned to tell stories from the sun; and this, I think, furnishes us with a good illustration This is an illustration of how God fits every man for his place; if he 42568 "Well, I will--thank''ee," said Wat, taking the book with respect. "Lots," said Wat. The man, after a moment''s pause, reopened his Book and read on. The man looked attentively at the Bible, while Wat, in a few words, told "Poor Sisky''s mother used to talk about the Lord," said Wat. "With right good will, my hearty," said Wat; "and I''ll pay you with part "My good fellow," said the man, "I want no pay. right for sea," said Wat. Sisky opened the Bible and began to read. "Mary dear," said Wat, many and many a time, "what blessings have come "Oh, I don''t know as to that," said the old man; "if he hadn''t thought I "She shouldn''t have given me so much tongue," said the old man. "Well, neighbour," said I, when poor Bean had come to an end of his said my poor neighbour, suddenly brightening up a little. 42657 God is the strength of his life: of whom shall he be afraid? But while it is true that every child of God knows the love of Christ, in thine heart, and then out of thee shall flow rivers of living water, day, thou mayst be dark, but I shall bid thee good by, for lo, I see the Let a man truly know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and he will be Believer, Christ Jesus presents thee with thy crosses, and they are no who know the grace of God by heart-experience. have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared God by Jesus Christ, which was not worked in us by the Holy Spirit. with God, through Jesus Christ our Lord." thou art a child of God, thy Saviour hath left thee for His legacy--"In 42707 The bishops and chief men shall elect officials for each province confession, the king of the Franks and his officials gave it thus to St. Peter and to his vicar the holy pope Adrian, promising with a solemn shall come to Rome with the consent of God, I will exalt the holy Roman bribery; and the emperor shall be by right both king [of Italy] and The pope shall be elected from the church in Rome, if a suitable Son of the living God has built his church, and the gates of hell shall churches of God. If any person, ecclesiastic or layman, shall knowingly should die first, the pope and the cardinals and the Roman church shall the king or emperor shall receive their office from the bishop, if this and his successors shall hold the said lands in the name of the Lord receive his authority as a fief from the lord of the land, and he shall 42806 Families Left.--Children Learning Dakota.--Our House Forty years ago this first day of June, 1877, Mary and I came to Fort Dakotas, the old home of the people at Lac-qui-parle. we were at work on our school-house, that an Indian runner came in Left.--Children Learning Dakota.--Our House Burned.--The Lord The mission meeting took place this year at Traverse des Sioux. Unexpectedly, the Indians found fish in the river, and Mr. Adams, with a young man, worked his way down from Lac-qui-parle, and many men the foreign mission work among the Dakotas gave to the home During these passing years, the educational work among the Dakotas was they reached Red Wood, they were met by two Dakota men--the white man Place.--The Dakota Churches.--Lac-qui-parle, Ascension.--John B. Place.--The Dakota Churches.--Lac-qui-parle, Ascension.--John B. St. Anthony, where they made their home for several years, Mrs. Renville teaching a school of white children for a part of the time. 4283 It is a beautiful city and offers a wide field for missionary work. paid evangelists in this mission, but a great many church members are to serve in a large way the moral good of his people and we thank God literature, a Home Mission Board to develop the missionary work in the heathen country, viz., the gospel is not preached to the people. We come back to it--the gospel is not preached in Brazil except as it very good church at this place which has suffered cruel persecution. Pernambuco for a missionary to come and organize them into a church. Mr. Vidal The missionary went back a few times and soon a church of one-third of the 142 Baptist Churches organized in Brazil worship in churches at home to send out an adequate number of missionaries to to preach the gospel to the people. 42945 Gently, tenderly, the rough camp preacher told the dying man of his God. Sometimes a man will come to Mr. Higgins after the services and It was after a camp service that a young man came to the Pilot and When Mr. Higgins went back to that camp in later days the road monkey camps has largely passed away, and through reading the men are less On going into a camp which he was visiting for the first time, Mr. Higgins held his service and afterwards distributed his magazines. place, helping pointing to Christ the lumberjacks, the saloon men, the After service Mr. Higgins said to the men: "It was my intention to ask Once when Mr. Higgins was preaching in A----''s camp, A---came into Higgins came to the camp in which Old Quebec worked the Frenchman in the logging camp work since 1902, when it first sent missionaries to 42984 PAUL''S supposed FIRST OR UNSTUDIED ACCOUNT.--_As per_ ACTS xxii. PAUL''S supposed ORATORICAL OR STUDIED ACCOUNT.--_As per_ ACTS xxvi. 1. _Light seen._ Between Acts account and Paul''s 1st or supposed the time comes for giving an account of the matter in the person of Paul to be afforded--the time and place are come; when Ananias and Paul have Paul "had _seen in a vision_ a man, Ananias himself, coming and putting That, from Jerusalem, about the time in question, Paul went to According to Paul''s account,--the state of things, produced in Damascus Paul, were received, says the author of the Acts, of the Church and of Yet, as, according to the author of the Acts, by Paul''s account of his day following," says he, Acts 21:18, "_Paul went in with us unto James_; 4. Occasion, as per _Acts_ Account compared with Paul''s 180 4. Occasion, as per _Acts_ Account compared with Paul''s 180 43031 out of the equity and perfect law of God. And as the Lord opened these things unto me I felt that His power be turned to God in a little time; for the heavenly day of the Lord The Lord''s power was great among Friends; but the people began to be meetings as I went; and the Lord''s Spirit and power accompanied me. priest and people coming by the house, I went with Friends into the day of the Lord, and that Christ was come to teach people Himself, by way of the Lord unto them, and told them I came to speak the Word of meeting was ended, there fell so great a rain that Friends said they people that had run out from Truth, yet the Lord''s power came visited Friends in several places, came to London, the Lord''s power First-day came, as Friends went to their meetings, many were taken 43032 nature capable of knowing and loving God, and therefore having a of the _life of God_--a true revelation of his spirit to man." "But your long words," said Euphrasie; "do they too reveal God? "It is not good for you, my dear, to be so much alone," said Mrs. Godfrey to her, as one day she intruded on the young girl''s privacy. believe that no man, however far he may have stood apart from Mr. Lincoln on political questions, can read this admirable little book created by God, and it would be the principle or form of a new life, power was called into being: but God breathed, and man became a living "God bless you, sir, and you''re right!" said the little man, wringing grew mad, until Satan entered into me, and I turned my face from God. Just at this time my master was away from home for many weeks. 43142 "''Tis _such_ a lovely day, Roy," she said to her little Faith saw a very white-faced, very ragged girl, a little older than Little Roy was very hungry, and there was that in his father''s hard tone "There be nothink wrong wid the little ''un, I ''ope, Faith," she said. "I''m so real glad yer come," she said; "h''our little Roy ha'' run away-us how yer little Roy got lost," she said presently. "Oh, please, Meg," answered little Faith, putting her hand into the h''an''t got to live wid yer mother while we''re looking fur Roy?" care fur him; yer little Roy put me in mind o'' his purty ways! "Do you think," asked Faith, "as Jesus wot loves the little children, look fur little Roy, too, right away." "But, Meg," said little Faith, "why do you say it comforts you to think The woman was Hannah Searles; the child, little lost Roy-- 4319 12 And Jesus answered him, "It is said, ''You shall not tempt the Lord 29 John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither away into the city, and said to the people, 29 "Come, see a man who come down before my child dies." 50 Jesus said to him, "Go; your son him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." 22 But Jesus said to the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, "Do you 28 So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you eyes opened?" 11 He answered and said, "A man called Jesus made clay Who is this Son of Man?" 35 Then Jesus said to 43373 _And when these things come to pass, look up and rejoice, "Yes," said my wife, "what a sermon!--so solemn. We go to church, and the things that we hear are either true or "I _do_ believe," said my wife earnestly--she is a good woman, my "I think," said my wife, "there would be some embarrassment on the part others said: "Yes, to-morrow; on Christmas Day He will be here." "Oh, John!" said the woman, turning towards him a face pale and fervent, "Best friend!" said the man, with a look half fright, half anger. "When mother comes, she will bring us some supper," said they. "Yes, my little ones," she said softly, smiling to herself; "He shall dilated, as she seemed to look into the heavens, and said with rapture: "It is enough to _be with Him_," said the poor woman. "_The great gulf_," again said the angel. 43517 [Illustration: EAST END OF CHURCH (SHOWING CATHEDRAL IN THE DISTANCE). the first church dedicated by St. Augustine." St. Pancras, a Roman boy which he supposes was the old Christian church preserved by St. Augustine, a direct line from east to west, and were all outside the Roman walls, in St. Martin''s Church, because at that time baptism was administered by in the place which is called St. Martin''s Church, and of a small there was in the church of St. Martin''s, a suburb of Canterbury, a bishop of two Roman bricks running along this part of the nave wall, below which chancel wall a piece of masonry, composed of Roman bricks, which is a of Roman bricks, not unlike the arch in St. Mary''s Church at Dover [Illustration: Window openings in West wall of St. Martin''s, Cant. west wall of a small church: in which case the signs of building to the 43524 Catholic Church in New York, Early History of, 413, 515. History of the Catholic Church in New York, 413, 515. I believe all the sacred truths the Holy Catholic Church subject, ''began a new life for the Catholic Church in Germany.''... faith according to the tradition of the Catholic Church, as handed design of Holy Church--to lead the heart up to God, its true centre. "O God!" I say constantly, "the Catholic Church alone knows how to "the Roman Catholic Church was founded by Leo the Great"! great doctor and father that he knows little of the Catholic Church. other of the rising young authors in the Catholic Church of England, It must be either the church or the world, Catholicity or naturalism, THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE ISLAND OF NEW-YORK. English Church from the Catholic authority, and the time might 43550 TWO THOUSAND BIBLICAL ERRORS IN SCIENCE, HISTORY, MORALS, RELIGION, AND those morally defective books called Bibles in the hands of the ignorant of cases cited in this work prove that the Christian Bible may be ranked pleasing to God and useful to man." A text in this sacred book reads, Bible, and the revelation inscribed on man''s moral nature, and soul-saving revelation of God. Jesus refers to this natural Bible, or revelation, again when he say''s, The Bible tells us "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the The Bible teaches that "God made man in his own image." The reverse called the man of God to account for his moral defects (Gen. xx.). plant in his mind a very low standard of the moral perfections of God. We are told (Gen. xix. 1. God formed and fashioned man, according to the Bible, after his own With the characteristic moral teaching of the Christian Bible, presented 43630 The doctrine that Jesus Christ was not God himself was so generally centuries did not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Church of dogma of Trinity was believed by many Pagan sects, then the Roman Church PAGAN ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE SUPREME DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST. The Theodotians, Bergier says, believed that Jesus Christ was not God matter is eternal; that God is the soul of the world; that Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ being a man and not God. Therefore in the Church of Rome herself, the doctrine of the supreme fifth centuries, did not generally believe the dogma of endless hell. book of death; so the Partialist Christian Churches believe that Jesus into it; so the Partialist Christian Churches believe that the souls who considered as being only the Son of God. Therefore the Church of Rome does not hold the doctrine of a first 43685 the other New Testament books, especially the epistles of Paul. The chief letter-writer of the New Testament was the apostle Paul. of God Paul bases the whole of his life work. to a transitory world into communion with the holy and eternal God. The result of Paul''s vision was service. churches which Paul addresses in the Epistle to the Galatians. salvation by their works instead of receiving it as a gift of God. At heart they were still Jews rather than Christians. epistles were written, the major part of Paul''s Christian not only Paul, but also the Church generally believed that Jesus'' Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans." Ellicott, "A New Testament nature--Jesus Christ was always in Paul''s thinking both God and man. gospel of Jesus Christ" may, in the first place, mean merely, "Here show how fundamental prayer was in Paul''s life; news of the churches 43918 "Do lend me your new knife, which mamma gave you," asked Samuel; "I Just then an aunt of the little boys entered the room, and Samuel "Now do not you think, aunt, Alfred ought to lend me his knife, just Alfred left the room, looking very thoughtful; and Samuel took a seat My dear boy," continued Miss Woodford, looking into Alfred''s face, "you dreadful it is to think that God will remember that I have told a lie! go with liars away from God!" Then bursting into tears, Alfred hid his as they believed that he felt truly sorry that he had offended God. When the bell rung for family worship, Alfred appeared, with Samuel by Alfred looked at Rose very thoughtfully, and asked, "Do you not know "O yes, mamma," said the sorrowful Alfred, "I remember the hymn you O, I wish I could be a little good boy again!" said Alfred, wiping 44053 of God came into the world to reveal the heart of the Father. undeserving hearts God offers His love in Christ; to unsusceptible the sun, comes from God, and that it gives light, life, and fruit. between life and death; but Paul knows how to state the matter: "God Eternal life is the free gift of God. Look to the cross! For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free of God that taketh away the sin of the world." He "finished the work God teaches us this in His law, but chiefly by the life of Christ His repose of the soul in Christ''s redeeming work--a yielding to God''s separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Sickness, however, affords equal testimony to the love of God. The Christian has ample reason for knowing that it is a Father''s hand 44119 confess Jesus to be the Son of the most high God, and shall not we Lord God has given unto thee the throne of thy father, David; thou The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the great in Israel; Jesus is the Lord God of the prophets, and unto him wonderful person of the Messiah, God united to the man Christ Jesus, the mysteries in the Wonderful Person of the God-man, Christ Jesus, the God-man, Christ Jesus, than to the first person of the sacred nature of the God-man, Christ Jesus, that was anointed to the great the personal presence of Jesus, the "Christ of God," "the Lord of submission to the command of the God-man Christ Jesus; when he said, We behold the God-man, Christ Jesus, The person here promising is the God-Man, Christ Jesus, for the 44140 with God. I said, ''I am undone, I am unfit to preach in thy great When the fact was told to Whitefield, he said, "O blessed God, On the day this writ was issued, Whitefield preached for Mr. Chanler, "a gracious Baptist minister, about fourteen miles from On Monday morning, Whitefield preached at Mr. Webb''s meeting-house, Whitefield''s preaching in New England, the Rev. Dr. Speaking of 1741, he says, "Mr. Whitefield preached upon our Common in the open air. On the morning after his arrival, Whitefield preached in Mr. Pemberton''s meeting-house, and says concerning the service, "Never In 1774, four years after the death of Whitefield, Mr. Hill travelled through Wales, preaching three or four times every Still, however, good was done; Whitefield preached, and God was About this time I heard Mr. Whitefield preach 29th, dear Mr. Whitefield preached for me the last sermon he ever 44241 REMAINS OF ANCIENT MASONRY, CALLED THE RUINS OF THE TOWER GATE OF THE ENTRANCE-DOOR TO THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION. PLANS AND SECTIONS OF THE TOMB OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND OF THE THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.--VIEW, PLAN, AND SECTION OF THE TOMB OF [Illustration: PLATE I., Panorama of Jerusalem, seen from the Mount Land for the Russian Consulate on the site of the ancient Church [Illustration: PLAN OF MODERN JERUSALEM, PLATE II. [Illustration: PLAN OF ANCIENT JERUSALEM, Plate III. ANCIENT JEWISH WORK IN THE NORTH-EAST OF THE HARAM WALL, NEAR ANCIENT JEWISH WORK IN THE NORTH-EAST OF THE HARAM WALL, NEAR THE HOLY SEPULCHRE--PLAN AND SECTION OF THE TOMB IN ITS ANCIENT AND IN PLAN AND SECTION OF MOSQUE SITUATED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND PLAN AND SECTION OF MOSQUE SITUATED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND PLAN AND SECTION OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS TO THE WEST OF 44280 Delamotte--A Week''s Work--Whitefield''s Preaching in New England-[28] Eighteen Sermons preached by Rev. George Whitefield. In a sermon preached before the House of Lords, at the Abbey Church Whitefield mentions certain "lecture churches" in which he preached. At ten, they all went to church, Whitefield preached, kingdom of God.''" Several of Whitefield''s London friends, hearing [148] Charles Wesley writes: "I heard George Whitefield preach to a weeks'' stay in London, Whitefield preached more than twenty times, doctrine of the new birth." Whitefield says, "God enabled me, thought it their duty to interfere, and absolutely commanded Mr. Dagge not to allow Whitefield to preach in the prison-house again, On the following day, Whitefield had the use of another church, the Whitefield preaching in any of the Bristol churches, without the says, On Sunday night, Mr. Whitefield preached his farewell sermon where Whitefield preached on October 3, 1740, God''s work was 44411 desirable that God should govern the world entirely according to His 1. It is desirable that God should govern the world, and dispose of 3. It is desirable that God should govern the world according to His 3. It is desirable that God should govern the world according to His been, if God had not governed the world according to His own good that God should govern the world entirely according to His pleasure claimed power in the future world, and always turned men''s minds to God, and the love of the world, are two affections, not merely world unto Himself, He, the God of love, so sets Himself forth in faith; and of keeping our hearts in such a love of God as shall shut secrets of the Christian life, that the more a man holds of God as Word of God, we shall now set forth the two master-feelings under 44414 people elected Brigham "President of the Church of Jesus Christ of In the mean time Brigham, having been appointed Governor of the newly Excellency Brigham Young, Governor of Utah Territory, who was valuable canyon, near Salt Lake, called City Creek, or Brigham''s following named officers were appointed:--Brigham Young, Governor; He said it was against the laws of man and God. This was undoubtedly the first time, at Salt Lake, that a gentile had People determined to believe only that Brigham Young is a good citizen, people of the United States in the Territory of Utah, "_Great Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah_, March 3, 1863." the schemes of Brigham Young, is under the auspices of the Mormon Church came to the tent of the sick man, and finding him dying, said to Mrs. Chapman, "Your husband must die; leave him in the hands of God, and 44420 form from God in nature, and that, copying the work of a divine the Church judges between the truth of God and the errors of men, stress has been laid on the divine life of the soul, love to God, are not gods, but mortal men, that know not what a day shall bring The end of Christianity seems to be to make all men one with God as liberty of the sons of God; and were all men Christians after the that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom life and death, that God had sent Him to be the Savior of the world. Christ''s words, and the truth that "God had sent his Son to be the its seeking, from love to God and man, to make all men know their giving us and all men eternal life through Jesus Christ His Son! 44439 No man of moral culture can regard human life as as religious feeling, demand that every great act of life--of joy places in those Divine Words, which declare that "God is a Spirit, sin the soul is dead, dead toward God. By the Holy Spirit, the the new spiritual life which God imparts needs continual support. His spirit working within our hearts that life becomes actual. "love of God is shed abroad" in the heart of the believer. What we need is to see God in the life both of nature, and of man. work: no man can be living a holy life who neglects it. Religion in the soul will make all the work and toil of life--its But again, if you would lead a Christian life in the world, let me man lay down his life for his friend; but God commendeth his love 44441 it says that man is so closely allied to the God who is the life of managing it; it is not till man knows God as his friend and not his believe that this God is our Lord Jesus Christ. nature; and we have recorded the answer of God to man''s prayer. answer is, that God is Lord both of man and of nature; and we say, man, Christ held communion with God in the exercise of faith and of our sorrow for man''s evils is communion with God. We have here loving contact with those whom we would help, set forth I have said that "in Christ" men know God--not merely through of God." The man born of the Spirit would answer not to the wind God has His life in the world He will live by this rule, which is of God to be lived upon the earth; He lays down the life which no man 44450 God breathed into man''s nostrils the breath of life and he became a exist as a higher type of animal: he lives a man''s life on earth, the brother of Jesus, live as a fellow workman with Christ in God''s God shall spare power and intellectual faculty to serve Him. Live induce a man to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you must hold up Has a man faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ pristine life which once had burned in Eden, when God and man held early days the Church of Christ assimilated the life, the teachings, which is God. Christ came to bring immortal faith and hope and love to man. love of God and man becomes religious, so a right spirit consecrates no peace with God, no life in Christ. 44469 fears God and loves Jesus Christ as I do, and shall do for ever." ''Pray, Sir,'' said my friend, ''what was the state of your mind in "Most certainly," said Mrs. Stevens; "to meet Mr. Ingleby and Mr. Guion together will be a great treat; they are both men of superior real life, they are apt to think, and feel, and talk, and act, like believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who came into the world to save advice, said, "I hope, Sir, I shall never forget this day; and I am "I think," said Miss Roscoe, "that the spirit of Christianity is a "Yes, my dear," said Mrs. Roscoe, "I hope you will; your father "I think, Sir," she said, "that we live in very awful times; but few "But you know, my dear," said Mrs. Roscoe, "that your religion On their return from church, Mrs. John Roscoe said, "We have heard 44524 Good St. Joseph, come this night. A new-born Babe, like tender Lamb, with Lion''s strength there smiled; That Love Divine in child-like form had God for ever been: "I bring good news to king and clown, Come where the Son of God doth lie; Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary, "The child shall be king, one day." "Thou Lamb of God, come, enter here." "This night there shall be born The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head. When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. God send our mistress a good Christmas pie; Come, guard this night the Christmas-pie, 44748 Witch withdrew, thanking God in her heart for this power he had given The Witch went home well satisfied with her day''s work, and that night Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men About this time her tired-looking husband came home from work, and For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans iii, And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I For this hath the Lord said: The whole land shall be desolate, yet He hath showed thee, O Man, what is good; and what doth the Lord Yes, thought our Witch, a day must be a long time to this poor weakling 44769 placed a chair for me, saying, as she left to go in search of Mrs. Jones--''It''s no use, Sir, to say nothing to my mother there; she is with Jesus Christ, and has felt the power of the world to come, reads it, and feels its moral power on his conscience and his heart; subdued, enlightened, and powerfully excited by the Word of God. When a man of this attractive order appears in the pulpit, by the "Yes, Sir, her father is one of your way of thinking, and I believe "Both your father and I have thought," said Mrs. Holmes, "that God and peace in believing; living through life in the fear of God, and religion; but the Lord opened the heart of a good man who lives in "We shall be happy to see you, Lucy, at any time," said Miss Holmes; "I hope, dear Emma," said Miss Holmes, "you do not now feel 44895 that day proud and luxurious Christians shall learn that God is no The soul of man, however lively in other things, is dead to God, that this good man tells us, "Truly my soul waiteth upon God;" and God, by his light and Spirit given us, of the Christian world''s way is open for great men to get honour; and such as love true often happens that great men do but little mind to give God the are daily by it crucified to the world, but live to God in that life world is, that one minds the things of heaven, and God''s kingdom, Christians of these times: no certainly, God created man a holy, to their evils: since it is a great abuse to the holy God, that men god, or be good men in this world, or have glory in another. Spirit of God in the hearts and souls of men. 44896 Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, having Prison:--Evening of a Public Day:--Song:--Obstinate Coffee Pot:--Order and Appointments:--Return to New York:--Meet with my Family:--Visit CHAPTER XLIV.--An Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day days, from morning till night, without a house or fire, wading in wonders, showing the near approach of the coming of the Son of God. All our goods, were left behind; but I obtained some of them After a journey of near one thousand miles, we arrived at New people waxed strong in the faith and in the gifts and power of God. I also labored with my hands with all diligence, when time would of truth that he opened his house for stated meetings, which I held should arrive in time to meet me before I should return home; for attendance and spirited preaching on this day three times. 44907 part of them were destroyed, and the records, (by commandment of God, cannot at this time obtain this record, for the commandment of God is on this land; and when it shall be brought forth by the power of God, manifestations of the power of God, and with the Holy Ghost, shall and when it comes to pass then know that the Lord is God, and that of the great and marvellous work which shall follow the coming forth record, by the gift and power of God, thro'' the means of the Urim and nevertheless, they were not destroyed as a nation; but the Lord God whom this work shall come, that we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, that we behold and bear record sins, after which, by the commandment of God, hands were laid upon 44941 effects of the wisdom of God. There are two kinds of rule on the earth; one with which man has God gave to man a moral agency, as head of the world, under himself. God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all of God, and place man again in his natural position on the earth. and the Lord my God shall come and all the saints with thee. hast made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign _on prophet of the Lord God. But no nation, kingdom, or king in existence be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and of the earth, and the saints possess it; when God''s designs shall be kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom." The question is, What The kingdom of God on the earth has been 44974 ill, in which state I remained for some days; at the same time the Captain of the Ship came to let my Father know that he could not wait Sea we saw a Ship, and chased her; in the mean time that we were for a long while, and having captured no Ships we went into the Town, I went and asked her for my money, that I wanted it to begin down: at the time I was pouring out my soul unto GOD in prayers, a to return the same day, I waited till morning: but what was my great I was for three weeks night and day fighting, some times came some times to see her; well, said I, if he comes I will be ready time hoping that some Ship would hear us and come to our assistance, I stay''d in that place for some time, and went home with 45053 the long history of man and his animal origin; the reign of natural articles of the Christian Faith, and who would leave the Church if if we are Christians, let us assume that Christ, as man, believed He his work on True Christian Religion, "received anything appertaining the fact that, ages before the Christian era, certain miracles were causing well-informed men and women to lose faith in Christianity. of the Christian; the fact remains that beliefs once held by devout study of ancient and even modern non-Christian [118] beliefs. latest Christian theory, with the further advance of God''s revelation), The conservative Christian believes that man was originally endowed it should be borne in mind that, although a man cannot be a Christian with the far more humane and moral conduct of men in pre-Christian been worshipped by the Christian Church as the immortal Son of God, 45054 said the Lord, "shall be given unto the elders of my Church, that every members of the Church were commanded to keep the law the Lord had given of the Church, Joseph Smith was acknowledged by the Saints in Zion as presidency, and at a later day Hyrum Smith, the Prophet''s brother, and officers in Missouri, until the coming of Presidents Joseph Smith and the Church held in October, 1840, President Joseph Smith spoke of the brother, Patriarch Hyrum Smith, President Brigham Young, Elders Heber President Joseph Smith had been presented to United States District Joseph Smith and the Presidency of the United States in authority with the First Presidency, and Joseph Smith stated that Two days later in a discourse before the Saints, President Young said: President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where and instruction given by President Joseph Smith at the time of the 45068 like the above that can prove a man a God. Has Jesus kept his promise? early Christian times, it is not Jesus, but a lamb, which is bleeding The early Fathers made this Jew admit that Jesus was the Son of God. Of course, the admission was a forgery. Paul''s time, that is to say, the earliest Jesus known to the churches single saying of Jesus in the gospels which is quoted by Paul in his religion of Jesus alone can save the world. There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus faith in the world when "the son of man cometh"; and it was Jesus who called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," Dr. Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people''s right to Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though 45149 glory of the Lord had filled the house of God."[11] Thus did the Temple God. The corner-stones of the Nauvoo Temple were laid April 6, 1841, and build an house unto the name of the Lord my God: build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee. fathers, and set about the work of building anew a House to the Lord. the Temple hill, Jesus had said, "Seest thou these great buildings? people to the sacred labor of building temples and administering temple stand, unto which all nations shall come in the last days?"[4] That the building was in truth a Temple, a holy structure accepted by time forth let my people labor diligently to build an house unto my "The second corner-stone of the temple now building by The Church invest the great commission they hold to build temples unto the Lord, 45195 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, 45282 Grandier, the _Curé_ of Loudun, accused of Magic and of having caused the Nuns of the Convent of Saint Ursula to be possessed of devils, is persons possessed, and in their convulsions to charge Grandier with As regards the presence of Devils in the possessed, the Church possessed, and to assist in the trial of Grandier, to allow some sign some order to the Devil, the nuns suddenly passed from a state of with Death: As also, whosoever shall deny God, or any of the Persons of and Acts of Parliament for Observation of the Sabbath or Lords-Day, As in Execution all Acts of Parliament for punishing all persons, who of Religion shall happen to be committed, to put the saids Acts to But if the devils, overcome by the exorcisms, at times gave evidence that the said Grandier shall be put to the question ordinary and 45303 the state of Missouri up to the time that Elder Taylor joined them, in Elder Taylor, "we belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day anything from the Saints," writes Elder Taylor, "for the Spirit of God and had come to the city of the Saints, the people of the living God; presiding over the Church at the time, Elder Taylor was associated with UNITED STATES--ELDER TAYLOR CONFERS WITH IT--CALLED TO FRANCE--FROM UNITED STATES--ELDER TAYLOR CONFERS WITH IT--CALLED TO FRANCE--FROM spirit, he can in no wise enter the kingdom of God. Chairman.--(to Elder Taylor) Do you wish to continue, the gentlemen on or defense of the work of God. Elder Taylor called upon the Saints to Elder Taylor.--"I feel to thank God that I am associated with such men, wishes for the man of God. It was a grand day in the life of President Taylor. 45315 1. That man has two real existing principles, viz., a Body and a Soul. 2. That Energy, called Evil, is alone from the Body; and that Reason, 3. That God will torment man in Eternity for following his Energies. God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. Isaiah answered: "I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical An Angel came to me and said: "O pitiable foolish young man! Once I saw a Devil in a flame of fire, who arose before an Angel that I have also the Bible of Hell, which the world shall have whether they 45317 attempt at preparing a Memoir, his duty to the Church of God forbade it. had done most, under God, to fit her for life''s duties, and its close; house, and on his day, to teach the little children, whom like her Lord, but each appear in Zion before God. It adds tenderness and force to these consoling hopes, that Jesus once DEAR CHILDREN:--On all important subjects there are certain great facts corruptions of the world; and your consequent need of the grace of God, ground of our acceptance with God; and, of course, that eternal life is DEAR CHILDREN:--"Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God, for best manner, the intellectual powers which God has given him, I hope you DEAR CHILDREN:--By the _heart_, I mean the moral feelings, dispositions, of God, not only that we should "love Him with all our heart and soul 4540 The Rev. Henry Maxwell closed the door and heard the man walk down Henry Maxwell and a group of his church members remained some time Again Henry Maxwell paused and looked into the faces of his people. not like Henry Maxwell to define Christian discipleship in this way. "I want to ask a question," said Rachel Winslow. other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus'' working man especially, who would not go to church any way, ought to SUNDAY morning dawned again on Raymond, and Henry Maxwell''s church Then Rachel Winslow rose to sing, this time after the sermon, by Mr. Maxwell''s request. Maxwell looked surprised and asked if the men would come for any man and woman in the church was saying as Rachel had said so Rachel and Virginia every time with the feeling that people may have churches and in people''s lives," said Felicia. 45414 time was), God formed it into the universe in six days of creation. spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods which thou hast And if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us. And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one of us. whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, ... And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; gods that man had become as one of them, knowing good and evil. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death; 45464 First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man''s; I believe in God, the Father, Almighty; and in Jesus Christ, his Speaking of man being formed in the image and likeness of God, he says: therefore, Jesus Christ, or God was not man before that specified time. Jesus, a personage of flesh and bone and spirit, there exists God, formed upon the passage that says God created man in his own image God''s face; "for," said the Lord, "there shall no man see me and live." Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was flesh and bone from all eternity. the positive word of the Father that Jesus, the Son, is God; for he God Revealed to the World in the Person of Jesus Christ. God Revealed to the World in the Person of Jesus Christ. tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said unto 45537 "I know," said Claire, "I was thinking about them this morning. "Claire isn''t boastful, dear, I think," she said gently. "Miss Claire, your mother wants you to come right away, and bring Miss know we miss papa; we have no need of crape to help us tell that story, "Let me see," said Miss Benedict; her head dropped a little to one those girls ever know what a cross it had been to her, Claire Benedict, as I know; and yet the verse some way made me think of Miss Benedict; "I don''t think so," Claire said, unable to help smiling over the "One would think that Claire had bought the little old church, and was Claire, not knowing what to say, waited, and said nothing. at present than ever before; the girls, poor young things, do not know "And I do not know how to help it," Claire said, with troubled voice. 45604 king accepted her present with great joy, and ordered the prisoner to father for a long time refused to have his son baptized, but at length bishop, faithful servant of God, a man of courage, loving poverty, a having founded the Church of Christ at Rome, is said to have acceptable sacrifice, unto God. After many years she was chosen, at the request of her uncle King placed thee under the protection of the Mother of God. My son, thou that Christ was merely the adopted son of God. He died twenty-two days after Charlemagne. The church on this day commemorates the other holy martyrs, whose said the monk, "give it up, my son, but keep God in thy mind as though save us," be said before an image of Christ, "Holy Mother of God, images of Christ, the Holy Virgin, and the saints, but that to God 45795 bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. of hiding with God the Father and of living your life with Him hidden thoughts and noble ambition, a life in God, then it will mean happiness All these good and pure secrets shall be revealed on the great day. "My little children, let us love not in word, neither in tongue, but in the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come is depraved in the life without God. In the church of the Lord we have life of mankind, we will recall a few of the great men of God. David was named the man according to the heart of God. But was he made miracle in nature means that God works in other ways than those Then the great miracle has happened that everywhere in the life of man 45843 power to receive baptism within the Catholic Church prefers, from some that baptism exists in the Catholic Church, that it is rightly received And these men, knowing this, choose to receive the baptism of Christ man can be baptized with the true baptism of Christ, and that yet his baptized outside the communion of the Church had no true baptism, he often given, that heretics coming to the Church ought to be baptized often given, that heretics coming to the Church ought to be baptized Church, to baptize in the name of Christ."[210] These words of Cyprian again says, I ask, how could those men baptize within the very Church Christ in the Catholic Church, without being turned to God in a true God,''[782] none in any man of power; as the Lord Jesus Christ answered PETILIANUS said: "For the Lord Christ says, ''No man 45846 that repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, are revelation of John, but believe that wherever God has a true church, apostles in ancient time, no man can _begin_ to know God, neither can that the spirit takes of the things of God, and shows them unto men: spirit of revelation from God out of heaven; and in order to end all revelation to know the only true God and Jesus Christ. Says the scripture, "no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, can call authority, doctrine, or mission of a prophet or true minister of God. For if no _one_ man can know a minister of God without revelation, then No man, in this day, can know that God ever revealed himself could know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he had sent. It was the faith of Christ to receive the revelations of God his father 45910 saying the Angelical Salutation, Páidin came before the cross and said at that, for he said to himself, "many''s the poor man in great want He and St. Peter were gone, the robber came to the blind man and said "God help you, poor man," said one of the women, "it was a hard penance When he gave it to him, the poor man said, "I don''t like you to go away "I would tell a story," said he, "but I told one this very night last The little grey man came up to him again, and said he to him, "Now, came and said, "It''s time for you to be going home." ''Go home, now,'' said the man, ''God was so good to you that He did not One day the king who was over Connacht at that time came and said, "I 45963 "Yes," Elsie said; "and I like it ever so much for a little while, but "Elsie," Mr. Travilla said softly, taking the little girl''s hand in "Fan, dear, I think the dew is beginning to fall," said Mrs. Keith, rising; "come in; come both of you. "You must allow me a little time to study it, mother," he said; "but "Dear mother," he said, taking her hand in his and speaking with strong "Yes, love," the mother said, "yours is a blessed lot--to be taken so "I shall look for Bible words," Elsie said, leaving her father''s knee "But, dear father, think how happy they are now," said Mildred, weeping "Mother, dear, it is good news; what could be better?" he said, his "You''ll see when the time comes," said his mother. "Yes," Rupert said, with an ardent look of love directed to his "Very likely not, dear mother," Rupert said, supporting her with his 46028 Evil Spirit Enters her Child--Commence Baptizing--The Lord Makes Known first time in my life, an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of On the following day I preached at the house of Brother Henry Thomas, according to the word of God. We walked thirty miles to visit another branch of the Saints at Leeds, time I visited among the people, held twelve meetings and baptized islands many days, the Spirit of God was working among the people, I spent this New Year''s Day visiting the Saints and their neighbors, This was the first time a Latter-day Saint Elder I spent four days with the Saints visiting them, holding meetings and A DAY OF GOD''S POWER WITH THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH--A GREAT NUMBER OF A DAY OF GOD''S POWER WITH THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH--A GREAT NUMBER OF day of God''s power with the Prophet Joseph. Elder of the Latter-day Saints had visited. 46099 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVE, CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY On the 6th of April, 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Such a beginning as that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day The vital character of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Church established by the Lord Jesus Christ in the meridian of "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a Gospel, without which compliance no man may see the kingdom of God. Such facts as those cited attest the consistency of the distinctive Christ unto the remission of their sins, shall be received by Most High, but where God and Christ dwell they cannot come, worlds OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. 1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, 46202 authority from God usurped power, corrupted the gospel and the church prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God its labors, if those labors are to be efficient and acceptable to God. The spirit of prophecy and revelation is necessary in the church not Joseph Smith is the New Witness for God; a Prophet Divinely Authorized Joseph Smith is the New Witness for God; a Prophet Divinely Authorized Joseph Smith is the New Witness for God; a Prophet Divinely Authorized to Joseph Smith as a Prophet and witness for God, based upon the fact Smith is a New Witness for God, a Prophet divinely authorized to teach is called of God, and has authority from Jesus Christ to baptize, shall of God to the church, and he alone receives the law from the Lord by 46208 the vision of the Lord, like clouds of light, burst upon my view. the great day of the Lord comes not upon them unawares as a thief. place to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be laid waste "To all people unto whom these presents shall come, GREETING. that a letter from your unworthy brother, in the Lord, will be received answer, that Jesus formerly said to the people, "according to thy faith when the dead, small and great, shall stand before God. Jerusalem at this time contains about twenty thousand inhabitants; the eye of a needle, or a rich man enter into the kingdom of God. But on the land of Joseph, far in the west, where the spread eagle God shall bid their sleeping dust arise, and come forth to receive the Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast preserved thy servant from 46243 you think clearly prove the divine mission of Joseph Smith, and send if the New Testament be true, that they cannot be the church of God. But the Latter-day Saints profess to have all these officers and gifts In ancient times, many great prophets were sent of God, and we have no evidence of _Joseph Smith''s divine mission?_ Such a correctness upon The professed record of Joseph, brought to light by Mr. Smith, testifies in the most positive language, that this is the age that day when the book shall be delivered unto the man of whom I have behold it, by the power of God, besides him to whom the book shall be it shall come to pass, that the Lord God will deliver again the book evidence to establish the _divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith!_ that God has _revealed_ unto them the truth of the Book of Mormon, 46244 The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine called or anointed a king or a prince by the God of heaven--not one of The true God exists both in time and in space, and has as much relation even in two places at the same instant; but God the Holy Spirit is of God. When _new revelation_ ceases to be given, officers cease to attain to an office in the kingdom of God; it matters not how great of the Holy Spirit, would have more power and authority, and could The first officers placed in the kingdom of God are apostles. a different thing from the power to build up the kingdom of God; the God." Now as no man can be saved out of the kingdom, it is necessary after the apostles and prophets of the kingdom of God, and receive 46317 "Nonsense, child!" said aunt Prudence; but she turned her back to Ella "Aunt Prudence is kind about some things, Mary," said Ella, going on "Ella," said Miss Layton, "how many times did you "Ella," said Miss Layton, "why do you not come to your class?" "I haven''t learned the lesson, Miss Layton," said Ella. "I am glad, Ella," said Miss Layton, when the child had finished her "Your mother was right, Ella," said Miss Layton, "for unless you pray, "No, Miss Layton," said she, "aunt Prudence says "Miss Layton," said Ella, "it is a great deal easier to be good at "I couldn''t have got here quite in time, Miss Layton," said Ella, "but "I know I''m not, Miss Layton," said Ella, sadly. "Just look, Miss Layton, how Ella Clinton has torn my book," said "I think I understand it now, Miss Layton," said Ella, "and I remember 46391 City.--Scrap With a Hotel Keeper.--Labor as a Cook in the Home of Mr. McLean.--The Man who Murdered Parley P. will grow to be a man yet." My father and brother Joseph added their Kanaka Meal--At Home With Kiama.--Attend Native Funeral.--Meet Mr. Emerson.--Three Days Without Food.--Saved by a Donkey.--Lose My Kanaka Meal--At Home With Kiama.--Attend Native Funeral.--Meet Mr. Emerson.--Three Days Without Food.--Saved by a Donkey.--Lose My reaching that city I walked the streets three days before I found work. When I reached Salt Lake City, President Young gave me a beautiful I persuaded him to haul Sister Burnham and children to my home in St. George, and Brother Smith''s and Cluff''s baggage to Payson. of Brigham Young''s life, and the Saints returned home, strengthened in eight miles in the rain, to visit Joseph Able and family; returned to today as the people of God in days of old felt, when men were blessed 46519 watch the face of a fellow-man kindle with a new and great hope, which them, a summons had come from the Bishop of Ely bidding Robert Annys have heard much of this russet priest who sways great bodies of men as Long after the great church was empty, the young poor priest remained Ball held up one hand for silence, a great light of love irradiating John Ball knew well that Robert Annys was a man of great power and When he had done speaking the young man on whom the poor priest''s eyes be the ideal poor priest''s wife, saw in it the hand of God. Among those that read Matilda''s heart was her cousin, Rose Westel, she "Art thou one Robert Annys, poor priest, who departed from Holy Church thy Robert Annys face me, and I shall tell him we have waited too long 46536 The Apostle Paul, in defining the Gospel, calls it: "The power of God that can make the Gospel the power of God unto salvation. Men are required to believe in God, and in Jesus Christ: and by that the assurance or faith in the minds of men that God existed; and that of that dispensation was at the baptism of Jesus, the Son of God. Matthew''s testimony respecting this revelation is as follows: "And our own day concerning the existence of God and his Son Jesus Christ. "And after this manner did the Holy Ghost manifest the word of God unto "And after this manner did the Holy Ghost manifest the word of God unto called of God, and has authority from Jesus Christ to baptize, shall go the people was faith in God and Christ, repentance, baptism for the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to 46601 the past history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. calling it "The True Church of Latter-day Saints," and presumed to time my father informed me of his desire for me to return to the States The Elders of the Church often speak of the care shown by the Lord in IN PREACHING--A FEELING OF FEAR AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD NOT IN PREACHING--A FEELING OF FEAR AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD NOT the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, years after, I saw the As soon as I began to attend, I felt the Spirit of the Lord operating of the Church of the Latter-day Saints was very great, I did not feel The same day two Elders of the Church called in to see me, and finding a faithful Elder of the Church in Missouri, who was, at the time he 46635 Even at the present time, in the noon-day of modern science and says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The that the earth is a thousand million years older than the time when flood of water because the wickedness of man was great upon the earth. progress of the nations depends upon the revelations of God. Thousands of years ago, Solomon perceived this fact. in the existence of an "unknown God." It is in the very nature of man The world has accepted God''s symbols thousands of years ago, and it the earth." Science admits that there was a "Great First Cause." The And God called the light day, and the darkness dark body of the earth was the means by which God divided the light the record given by Moses: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth 46733 The day following eight Ponca chiefs came to our camp, stating that These Ponca Indians who came to our camp were large, fine-looking men. the chief meant three days'' and nights'' travel with horses (one hundred the good time coming--of killing buffaloes and eating fresh meat. At the time the chief gave the word for the Indians to prepare to move, One day two Indians came to the village who had been visiting their The time came when we had got our robes dressed and meat sufficiently a day for prayer, and I felt many times, when praying, that the Lord Elder Grant came in, walked to the stand and opened the meeting as what was left of the man who had demanded a sign from a servant of God. In 1878, Elder Butler, of Ogden, was on a mission to the same place, 46734 Joseph and some of the brethren had met in prayer-meeting and asked the Elder Tanner replied, "Brother Joseph, you are welcome One morning he came from his bed room and told my father''s family, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came to our neighborhood he said: "Brethren, for some time Satan has not had power to tempt Even the man who received this manifestation of God''s power went back FAILS--BAPTISMS--MOB GATHERS--JOSEPH ARRESTED BY CONSTABLE--WICKED FAILS--BAPTISMS--MOB GATHERS--JOSEPH ARRESTED BY CONSTABLE--WICKED Joseph Smith being the instrument in the hands of God to restore the Brother Joseph intended visiting the Saints at Colesville on Saturday On the 2nd day of August, Brother Joseph Smith, Jun., On the 9th, in company with several Elders, Brother Joseph Smith Jun., brethren and persuading them to leave the county, a number of the mob the Prophet Joseph, and several other brethren, who arrived in Far West 46737 In the accepted Hebrew the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament Books accepted as canonical and divine by all Jews and Christians. chapter, under the head of "Lost Books cited by writers of the Bible," Most Christians believe that all of the books of the Bible, and of at least fifty books of the Bible--thirty in the Old Testament These books, orthodox Christians affirm, were written by Moses at least at Amsterdam, says: "The book was certainly written about the time books of the Old Testament: "We cannot speak of the author of Kings In the second and third books the word God occurs 206 times, while probably written a thousand years after the time claimed. the first chapter of the second book of Kings records the reign and The Bible says that for a period of two thousand years men lived Bible divinity admit that man exists and has written books, it has 46751 should remain upon earth, not subject to death, and bring souls to Him. He was to "prophesy before nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples", such a man as Joseph Smith was necessary, and Mormonism''s attitude is from ancient times, or the restoration of the Gospel in latter days." is the Everlasting Gospel, the religion of all the ages, God''s great God''s greatest gift, eternal life, has been offered to man again and Heaven, and of man a God. The House of Israel. "Mormonism" means far more than the restoration of the Gospel at God''s truth has been taught all down the ages by men bearing the his mission: "The poets of the world are the prophets of humanity. "If the Gospel was to be in the world from the days of Adam ''until the Spirit World; and there the Gospel has been preached for ages, so that 46783 Brother Evans and one or two other Elders immediately administered to ELDER JOHN PARRY''S STATEMENT--HIS BROTHER''S TESTIMONY AND DEATH--HIS ELDER JOHN PARRY''S STATEMENT--HIS BROTHER''S TESTIMONY AND DEATH--HIS Elder Parry never heard the gospel preached until five years after his At one time Elder Orson Spencer came from Liverpool to spend a few days While holding a meeting in the open air, at one time, Elder Parry and During about five years of this time he labored as a traveling Elder near Elder Evans, immediately placed his hand on the latter''s shoulder, This man came, and at the close of Elder Evans'' sermon he began asking but during the day Elder Evans happened to call at the house where the soon as the Elders placed their hands upon his head and confirmed him Brother Peck only held the office of a Teacher at the time, so Elder One day Brother Joseph came and 46947 Martyrs and Saints for whom the Church thanked God. For instance, in the and he said, "Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace to men of good Body and Blood of Christ, he said to the assembled monks, "O my sons, But the abbot said to him, "Come, servant of God, that we may take thee bishop, called Celin, a man no less devoted to God; who, being a priest, rule of life he gave, "Believe in God the Father Almighty, and in Jesus church at Aix-la-Chapelle, he felt called by God to leave a life in the days he saw Christ in a vision, who said to him, "Fear not, Julian, to looks." This holy monk, having served God eight years in perfect there are many gods?" The Bishop said, "No, I do not." "Then thou soon went into solitude, and served God in fasting and prayers night and day. 46974 essential feature of acceptance with God, faith in Jesus Christ. peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:1). Faith in God, the Father, and in Jesus Christ, the Son, and in the true God and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent, is to gain eternal of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the that day received the gospel of Jesus Christ, and were baptized for "Paul, an apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, come to the unity of the faith and a knowledge of the Son of God. The absence of that divine authority, and of the gift of the Holy Christ and his apostles required first, faith in God and Jesus know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of 46986 Theodor Keim, a German-Christian writer on Jesus, says: "The passage "The very names of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, incarnate Word of John, nor the demi-god of Matthew and Luke. of the church Christians believed that Jesus was simply a man--the Religion" says: "According to the Synoptics, Jesus is baptized by John, Matthew: "Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we Matthew: "He [Jesus] asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus following day Nathanael said to Jesus, "Thou art the Son of God; the sons of God. Referring to Christ''s claim, a Jewish writer says: Matthew, Luke and John: "Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, According to Mark Christ is a man; according to Matthew and Luke, was the original Gospel of Matthew, represented Jesus as saying, 47025 detached from the nature of man, and combined with the idea of God, in religion man denies his reason; of himself he knows nothing of God, Religion further denies goodness as a quality of human nature; man Love is the true unity of God and man, of spirit the love of God to man, the basis and central point of religion. then the proposition, "God loves man" an orientalism (religion is first appears after the Passion of Nature;--that not man, but God, laws of Nature and reason, give objective reality to human feelings It is true that, according to religion also, God works on man world, Nature, is precisely what separates man from God, although to God;--for according to religion man does not spring from Nature, but nature of Christianity;--because by the existence of God in the flesh, disunion between the divine and human nature,--to find in the God-man 47050 African slave trade, showing how slavery originated; have defined Slave Code" by Mr. Goodell; "Barnes on Slavery;" "Bible Servitude," by Seven millions of slaves in America--Slavery originated in the Slaves denied an education--Laws--Instances--Slavery disregards a slave--Slavery had no existence in the time of the the law of Moses essentially different from American slavery--Meaning NEW TESTAMENT AND SLAVERY--SERVANTS mentioned but not SLAVES--DOULOS does not mean SLAVE--New Testament does not regulate slavery Apostles--Onesimus not a slave--Character of Roman slavery--Contrary laws--Slaveholders from necessity--Slaves their property--All right Christian citizens--Slavery in the District--Territories--Slave Jubilee--Slavery cannot be reformed--Slaves prepared for freedom--Free "Slaves shall be claimed, held, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law, to a state of slavery it cannot produce any _civil effect_, because slaves WHAT IS EARNED BY THE SLAVE BELONGS TO THE MASTER, by the common law, law of South Carolina provides that slaves shall "not labor to exceed kill." But slavery authorizes in many cases the killing of slaves. 47091 bear our testimony to all the world, unto whom these words shall come, given under heaven, whereby salvation shall come unto the children God at the time he was eight days old unto this power to overthrow the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass unto their God kings and priests--"and we shall reign on the earth." [29] It God shall be taken from you, and given unto a nation bringing forth shall have my Spirit and my word, yea, the power of God unto the receive this work; but behold, the Lord said unto me, I will not suffer But, behold, I say unto you, that before this great day shall And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of said unto the Lord, Surely Zion shall dwell in safety forever. And the servant said unto his lord, When shall these things be? 47109 Shall Come--Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men--The Key to Peace--God as God can impart that knowledge to the soul of man, that he shall live inspiration of holy men called of God until the day of the coming of the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his probation; that by his the Spirit of God as are the members of the Church of Jesus Christ world the law of God, the word of the Lord, the truth, as it has been Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, when a man led the Church, not for law of the Lord and who will not have inheritance in the Zion of God. Furthermore, we have called some of these men to go on missions, but Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as presidents, as fathers great men, not only of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 47182 "WE believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and "WE believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and "Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Faith in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ Jesus Christ in any effective and genuine sense unless that man shall authority relating to membership in the Kingdom of God. In the current age the Lord has established His Church upon the that it is by the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, the days when the Lord God shall bring these things forth unto the come to pass, that the Lord God shall bring forth unto you the words of Gospel of Jesus Christ is salvation in the Kingdom of God possible unto Eternal Father, God the Son who is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 47192 Minutes of a High Council held in the Lord''s House, in Kirtland. Greeting of President Joseph Smith to John Corrill and the Whole Church The High Council of the Church also met this day at my house for the After calling the meeting to order, President Joseph Smith spoke him as a man of God. But he said he heard President Joseph Smith of an Elder in said Church of the Latter-day Saints, till he President Joseph Smith, Jun., and the High Council in Kirtland, by in the year of our Lord 1835, the Prophet Joseph Smith called Elders following officers of the Church, viz: Presidents Joseph Smith, Elder John Smith, taking the lead of the High Council in Kirtland, This day a Council of High Priests and Elders of the Church of An insult offered to the presiding Elder of said Church shall 47316 God''s great work of the last days, and the book itself subordinate to importance of the Book of Mormon in its relation to God''s work of the God; and finally, those Nephite records, in the Book of Mormon, would Such in Joseph Smith''s account of the origin of the Book of Mormon. Following the account of how Joseph Smith obtained the Book of Mormon Joseph the Prophet, and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon_. of the Nephite record accounts for the fact that the Book of Mormon, From the Book of Mormon and the word of the Lord to the Prophet Joseph About this time God sent a prophet among King Noah''s people to warn of the Book of Mormon as a witness for God; the purposes for which under God, by Joseph Smith and these Witnesses; to the Book of Mormon 47336 prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God been verified: "Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will fifteenth verse), "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto saw God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, and received of the not by the wisdom and learning of men, but by the power of God. Other Bible prophecies might be quoted referring to the Book of Mormon, Christ of Latter-day Saints, they shall receive the Holy Ghost, and Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior said unto him: "Blessed art thou, Simon exercised by men having authority to speak and act in the name of God. Jesus promised that "these signs shall follow them that believe. the midst of the people of God. In modern revelation the Lord has said to the Prophet Joseph Smith, 47519 The labors of the Elders of the Church of Latter-day Saints in early From this latter place I went with Brother Richards into the country PRESTON--THE "TRUTH WILL PREVAIL"--MEET ELDER FIELDING''S BROTHER, A PRESTON--THE "TRUTH WILL PREVAIL"--MEET ELDER FIELDING''S BROTHER, A place, at which time Elder Hyde preached. About day-break, Brother Russell (who was appointed to preach in the them members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. truth, and in a letter which he wrote to his brother-in-law, the Rev. James Fielding, he stated that his best members had left him. number into the kingdom of God, Brother Hyde and I went about ten VOYAGE--MEETING WITH ELDERS AND SAINTS AT NEW YORK--ARRIVAL AT KIRTLAND. In the evening Elders Russell and Hyde preached, and a great effect was The brethren preached a few times in a meeting house close to the anointed Brother John Taylor in the house of the Lord, he having 47526 BROTHER THOMAS BRIGGS, of Bountiful, Utah, a man who is noted for his In the year 1848, the father heard of the Latter-day Saints, and, on The Elders at that time frequently held meetings at the Briggs home, Near the same time Thomas'' sister Elizabeth had a large and painful Thomas'' sister had married some time before, and was living at When the time for starting arrived, Thomas said to his brother-in-law: Some time later Elder Farrell received a letter from the sick girl, whose wife Elder Farrell had baptized some time before. "The Lord bless you for your faith!" said the Elder, and, leading her The next day Elder Farrell attended conference and sat by Brother sent to Elder Farrell that she had lived to see his words fulfilled, Elder Farrell and said she would like to be baptized. From that time Elder Farrell always went to the Clark home on visiting 47538 different from what the Word of God describes--a place where man''s than that of man''s polluted heart to the pure truth of God. But the other of the two inquires--he is willing at least to The truth of God is kept far away from the centre of man''s in thy fear." "Though God''s pure Word is presented to worldly men the suppression of God''s truth, the enslaving of man''s soul, seasons, than that man can dispense at times with the truth of God the truth of God is to regulate the life of man, it must be planted man''s lot--it is the simple truth of God uniting to Christ, that And the man after God''s own heart acted in the same spirit. When the Word of God has obtained its true place in any man''s heart, into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them 47621 Lastly, let us not forget that if women do great good to the community other people receive; these things delight prodigiously; they wish In order to conciliate children to people of real estimable character, impression on the lively and tender minds of children; and would fill shew religion to children adorned with every thing amiable, pleasing, when children are formed to this manner, which is natural and simple. reasons--it knows every one--it loves certain things, and dislikes soul, the ancient Romans taught their children to despise the body, and children sensible that there are really certain things, which neither shew young people, with great benefit and effect, every thing the most It now follows that we instruct our children in the reading know how each thing should be made to answer a good use. in the business: the foundation of every thing is giving their children 47630 followers of John Winebrenner called themselves the Church of God. As they professed to hold to no creed but the Bible, repudiated Two neighbors came, no member of the Church of God. O Lord, the the gospel of holiness among the people of God in all the churches invited to hold a meeting of ten days in the Church of God chapel of God. The Holy Spirit rested on me in power, and tears flowed brother in the Church of God who had rashly denounced holiness was GOD FOR PREACHING FULL SALVATION; FOR FOLLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT; holiness doctrine into the hands of Church of God members, which holiness, the divinely appointed power to bring the world to God. At this session of the Eldership, as Brother Warner says, special churches so often fear and dread the coming of God''s holy bands; The Lord wants his church so holy that no stranger to God will pass 47703 FOURTH PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS loyalty he had manifested in those trying times to the Prophet of God. Elder Woodruff was so faithful in the discharge of his duties, so first time a Latter-day Saint elder had preached in that town. Saints.--A Day of God''s Power.--Many Sick Are Healed, and a Dying Man Saints.--A Day of God''s Power.--Many Sick Are Healed, and a Dying Man "Next day Elder Kimball received a letter from President Young, who recorded in Elder Woodruff''s journal the words of President Young. States, an elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Before Elder Woodruff reached his home in Nauvoo, President Young with where President Young, Elder Woodruff said, chided the Saints for the was the first time," says Elder Woodruff, "that President Young was Woodruff, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 47707 western counties of Missouri, where the Latter-day Saints had suffered day, my family and I arrived safe in the city of Far West, having Latter-day Saints, and to transact Church business, Joseph Smith, Conference of the Church of Latter-day Saints, at Far West, on the said He, it is the place where Adam shall come to visit his people, or Far West the same day in company with Brother Hyrum Smith and fifteen This day the citizens of Caldwell county assembled at Far West, and carry on their farms out of the cities, according to the order of God. President Rigdon and Brother Hyrum Smith spoke upon the same subject. Church of Latter-day Saints; and further, said informant stated county, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, In this state of affairs, General Parks arrived in Daviess county, In this state of affairs, General Parks arrived in Daviess county, 47708 After visiting the Saints in Great Salt Lake City, I traveled north, and holy calling unto which God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, had thousand people (Saints of God) are daily offered up for my prosperity. Moved by Elder Snow, that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Elder Snow followed, calling upon the God of our fathers, in mighty people by the power of God. Having now finished the business for which we assembled, we felt thousands of Latter-day Saints, men and women in private life, can the Latter-day Saint Elders abroad on missions were called home, and Discourse by Elder Lorenzo Snow, delivered in a meeting of the St. George Stake of Zion, in the Temple, April 5th, 1877; reported by Discourse by Elder Lorenzo Snow, delivered in a meeting of the St. George Stake of Zion, in the Temple, April 5th, 1877; reported by 47730 to dwell in the presence of his God. As a further means of grace, the Church of Jesus Christ recognizes our Christian brethren to the consideration of this New Witness for God. Besides preaching the Gospel for the salvation of men, "Mormonism" has gospel of Jesus Christ, the power of God unto Salvation to all those the world shall know the Saints and the work of God better. know that the Book of Mormon was translated by the Prophet Joseph Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God, and that is "''Did Joseph Smith the Prophet, in translating the Book of Mormon, prophet of God, and that the book of Mormon is a divine revelation. calling the Book of Mormon a revelation from God, when it took from the "Because Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon by means of the "Because Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon by means of the 47747 from doctrine put forth as spiritual truth for thinking men of to-day. Artist of Life, God, through whose works of art men may perceive the life of God be in man, his spirit cannot die. Out of a knowledge of death, consciousness of spiritual life is evolved, Spirit of Life, God; can a like unfolding of the Will of Love be supreme Spirit of Life--Nature being the vesture of God, the cloak of institute symbolic evidence of the spiritual unity of life--a rite Nature--the vesture of God--is the expression of the Spirit of Life? If God be recognised as the supreme Spirit of Life, love must be seen to of God as the supreme Spirit of Life, revealed in form, and present as Communion of the Christian with God." Crown 8vo, cloth. Translated from the new German Edition by Rev. J. =THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF CHRIST''S LIFE.= 8vo, cloth. 48100 Sabbath-schools devoted to such pure, simple, child-like worship of superintendent, or a good Sabbath-school teacher. Let us look now at some of the _duties_ of the good Sabbath-school The true Sabbath-school teacher is one called and "sent of God;" for The question here arises, From whence shall Sunday-school teachers particular Sabbath-school lessons, but not in all, object-teaching can _The Sunday-School Teacher_, of Chicago, is a good illustration: What kind of questions, then, shall Sabbath-school teachers seek to A regular weekly meeting of Sabbath-school teachers for conference and Sabbath-schools through the means of a well-ordered teachers'' meeting. Sabbath-School Teachers'' Institutes is to train superintendents, Every Sabbath-school teacher should regularly visit his scholars once children in our Sabbath-schools to be made familiar with what God has It is a great mistake of Sabbath-school teachers to suppose that their It is a great mistake for Sabbath-school teachers ever to teach Bible 48213 of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me; for she said, from which was to come our Lord Jesus Christ, was in danger of being message to Israel, "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto Thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Many little incidents in Christ''s life show the man of careful resurrection of our Lord he is called "THY HOLY CHILD JESUS." Might we not think that now the man Jesus Christ would feel fully Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again." Like every like the rest, "Master, is it I?" Jesus answered, "Thou hast said a sorrowful spirit, a troubled heart, that Jesus said, "Woe unto And Jesus said unto him, _Verily, I say unto thee, to-day thou like Jesus, thou hast lived a human life, and gained a human "But, mother," says little Mary, "if God is our Father, and loves 48250 God gave unto the said Paul Craw grace to resist his persecutors, Alexander Alesius, Master John Fyfe, and that famous man Dr. Macchabeus,[23] departed unto Germany, where by God''s providence the word of peace that God sends by me; the blood of no man shall people, he said, "Yon wicked men have provoked the Spirit of God to judgment of God. When all this was done and said, my Lord Cardinal "Therefore," said John Knox, "my Lords, seeing that God hath, beyond of men for the truth of God. What our Master Jesus Christ did, we preacher (John Knox) to him, "to this day the Kirk of God hath The said John answered, "My Lord, would to God that in me were Lord," said John Knox, "ye shall speak your pleasure for the of God this day in Scotland; for thereby, as we have said, shall 48309 "Tell me, art thou a Roman?" "Yea," said Paul. "Smite thee shall God, thou whited wall! "Knowest thou this man?" the chiliarch asked of Paul. Said: "Thou--Stephen, I think they call thee--speak. "Nay, thou wert right, my lad," said Paul to him; ''Hold not thy peace, thou Lord God of my praise! "Yea," said Paul, "for words are naught "Amen!" said Paul, "thou prayest for me and thee!" "Thou art tempted then perhaps," gently said Paul, "None, Stephen," said Paul, "for none did Jesus know, "Strange being thou!" said Julius answering Paul, Then, Paul, I thought thee sane enough, as thou "Let me, I pray thee, save thy sister, Paul," "Go tell thy master that I come," said Paul; "O Paul, have thou thy will; no will have I Said Paul, "absolute lord of life and thought Myself, Thou, God, is this thy word indeed, "If thou, then," Paul said, taking Krishna''s hand 48517 said, "Lehi, I want you to get Laman, Lemuel, Sam and Nephi to go back The next morning Lehi told Laman, Lemuel, Sam and Nephi all that the "I believe the Lord will help us to get it," said Nephi. As Nephi stood looking at Laban, the voice of the Lord spoke to him, Lehi told his sons what the Lord wanted them to do, and they all said "He told our father so," said Nephi, "and everything that the Lord says "Surely, the Lord is with Nephi," they said, and they came and bowed "But, Lord," said Nephi, "I do not know how to build a ship." and He at once prepared a way for the escape of Nephi and Sam. That night the Lord told Nephi to gather together all the people that stop doing wicked things the Lord would let the Lamanites come down 48668 From the time I was eight years old, I had to work and earn something After three years of school work I was confirmed, with a very good a house where meetings could be held, the missionaries secured the "A man who has walked over the mountain alone at this time of these facts because this great mission field is little known, even now, became surrounded by a great light and a voice said to me, "Be of good my mission up among the people of northern Norway, in the days of my [Image captioned "LATTER-DAY SAINTS'' MISSION HOUSE, CHRISTIANA, MISSION HOUSE, CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY."] [Image captioned "MISSION HOUSE OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS, AT I rented a small log house, in the Logan Fifth ward, and began to work Our meeting place, at that time, was on what was known At the time that we erected our mission houses in these countries, 48771 she came near the place one day, and lay in wait till the poor woman On, on, on he went, till one day he met a little old woman, who day when the old man and her brother were both out, the king came went home he told his mother, saying, ''When I was out to-day I saw ''Come hither, good woman,'' said the king encouragingly; ''you have day the queen said to the master of the palace that very likely the ''Come along with me,'' said Monsu Mostro and the poor man followed till ''If you would repair the past,'' said the old man, as he went away, [''I know a story like that,'' said the first man, ''and a true one too; a wife came to the man who had a daughter to marry, and said, ''Give ''Never fear!'' said the peasant''s wife; and the poor man went his way. 48887 Twenty-ninth Day: Mary, like Jesus, dies of Divine Love public or private prayers in honour of the most holy Virgin Mary HOLY Church, speaking of the most Blessed Virgin, says that she went found at the right hand of the Eternal God. This Divine Mother was redeemed, therefore, in a manner becoming the to the Most Holy Virgin: ''O Mary, Mother of Grace, Mother of Mercy, Consider that Mary is become the Mother of the Son of God, and having The Most Holy Mother of God gave birth to her Divine Son as the stars _Prayer._--O most humble of Virgins, holy Mother of God, Mistress of Bless God for having given you Mary as your Mother. _Prayer._--O Holy Virgin and Mother of God! Martha the Blessed Virgin Mary received her Son Our Lord into her God, and you also, my Holy Mother, and never cease to love you through 48973 evangelistic work equal to that done by George Fox. Robert Barclay deserves to be highly honoured as one who truly devoted study and imitation at the present day than George Fox. Should this effort prove a success, companion sketches of Penn and That "a popular sketch of the Life and Work of George Fox was wanted," of the Quaker constitution and discipline to the Society of Friends, Henceforth William Penn''s time and strength were given to Quakerism. Before proceeding to speak of the great work of Penn''s life, the Christian Barclay became a minister of the Society of Friends, but how Some have imagined that Robert Barclay and his friend William Penn Friends believe that the time had come when God would do great things Barclay in 1686:--"Friends were very sensible of the great service thou with Quakers." A sermon which Robert Barclay preached at this time in 49327 as a Travelling Elder--Prayers Answered--Called to Preside During that day I had asked the Lord many times to give me one soul as I would stop at his house on a certain day when on my way to that town. work of God. Up to the time they presented me with means to return home The Elders in modern times, like those of ancient days, have generally in bringing into the light and influence of the Spirit of God. The Elders engaged in the British mission did not covet a foreign As the time passed, Elder Mayer was busy visiting and preaching to the one day the jailor came in at an unusual time and said, "Mr. Budge, you We next went to a city called Picton, and, by this time, the Lord had we started out on our labors for the day, an officer with six men came 49357 Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as restored to the earth through the "God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all. God said unto Moses, For mine own purpose have I made these things. merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me concerning this earth, "And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying, The heavens, they are many, they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command their life time here were subject to law, shall have the Priesthood growth, are in the Gospel, and the wisdom of God shall not be destroyed. spirits, and taught them this same Gospel plan, a new earth was formed, power of those who receive bodies, with which their spirits shall be the Lord their God shall command them," in their day and generation. Almighty God, until the fullness of times when Christ shall have 49432 Book of Mormon being true then Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and Q.--''Does Mr. Spaulding''s manuscript and the Book of Mormon agree?'' to be true, and the Spaulding story, as far as the Book of Mormon time the said book was published, I was seventeen years of age; that at the time of the publication of said book, my brother, Joseph Smith, at the time of the publication of said book, my brother, Joseph Smith, utter impossibility of the Prophet Joseph Smith ever having used Mr. Spaulding''s reputed romance, the "Manuscript Found," as the groundwork The Book of Mormon gives an account of a religious people, God''s TIME OCCUPIED IN TRANSLATING THE BOOK OF MORMON. TIME OCCUPIED IN TRANSLATING THE BOOK OF MORMON. time the Book of Mormon was published regarding seeing the plates than 1812, while the Book of Mormon was not published by Joseph Smith 49526 Independence sometime after the Prophet, from whom he separated at St. Louis, dedicated the land of Zion for the gathering of God''s people. The Lord commanded the saints to purchase lands in Jackson County, exciting times and unsettled state of affairs in Jackson County, it outrages committed against the saints by the Jackson County mob, as said leaders of the "Mormons," at their camp in Clay County; and now "Mormon" people who were expelled from their homes in Jackson County, public lands in Jackson County to the "Mormons," the valuation to be citizens to many of the people of Clay County were stated to be: The "Mormons" of Daviess County, as I stated in a former report, were "Mormons" should buy all the lands of the people of Jackson County and "Mormons" should buy all the lands of the people of Jackson County and the people of this county against the ''Mormons,'' without being called 49588 RESULTS OF THE GOSPEL IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN--SKETCHES AND OBSERVATIONS DENMARK--General Observations on the Country and People. SWEDEN--General Observations on the state of the Country, politically places of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. in France, the death of the old king of Denmark afforded the Danish Sweden shall follow the example of Denmark. English books; and to the Danes we read Brother Hanson''s translation hope soon to find a large public place, and we thank God that the seed university of Copenhagen has long taken the lead in this north country, Brother Zerubable,--I have received, through Elder Pratt, the letters and publication of the Book of Mormon, in the Danish language; a copy as the Lord opened their way, to read, pray, teach, baptize, translate, Book of Mormon, and warned the people to flee from the church of the GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE. The country people, generally, live in small villages, miserable 49618 and Christ is in His Church; and I know not, from the study of God''s of God. The Lord said unto Noah--commanded, directed him: "Come will avail but faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Redeemer. to the human race, and so they are described in the Word of God. We read: "Thus spake Haggai, the Lord''s messenger," and St. Paul, holy thoughts, regard God''s gift, for thus reads the text: "Thanks know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." oratorio,--honest Christian people come to hear God''s Word, to build God in His Word calls our churches "houses of prayer." It is a right hand means that Christ, the God-man, as our Catechism says, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the man whom they style "Holy Father." God''s Word says: "Ye shall call 49739 having placed benefits within the reach of young Latter-day Saints that and be an honor to yourself and to the Church and Kingdom of God. Although men will seek your life, you shall be spared and return to the For years after Brother Parkin arrived in Utah he worked land on Brother Parkin resumed work, but a few days later, after being given the Elder turned and, pointing to him, said, "You are the man, for I am Ernest succeeded in finding a chance to return home by working his One day Elder West felt impressed to remove his friend from I believe you have joined that church." The young man smiled and said When Anson was seven years old his father''s family removed to Geauga, work in that land." Pointing to Brother Call, he said "There is Anson; young man of great promise, and his death was keenly felt by his family 50302 prophet appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and said: stated that General Joseph Smith has given me authority to hold After he so suddenly left Nauvoo, he again said that the Prophet Joseph governor to the fact that Joseph had not been in the State of Missouri by the people of Nauvoo, he made a proclamation that as Joseph Smith from his people than did Joseph from the citizens of Nauvoo. go to Nauvoo, and as the Prophet Joseph had great confidence in him, governor of this State for the arrest of Joseph Smith, and that a the peace, against Joseph Smith and all the members of the Nauvoo city Such were the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith to the Nauvoo Legion founded--under God--by JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET-MARTYR OF NAUVOO. come to the City of the Saints, the people of the living God; friends 50349 the light of life." "I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Peace was one of doubt the words of our Lord Jesus: "I give unto them eternal life; and God through faith unto salvation." You need never fear that Christ day of Jesus Christ," and you shall stand "without fault before the strength, my all--Christ in me "the hope of glory." "Lord, who shall We praise thee for this work, O God. We rejoice to know that thou wilt read your testimony to God''s faithfulness: "I know, O Lord, that thy thy heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." And let your meditation be sweet Christ''s love and sympathy "look not every man on his own things, but God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all them that believe," is 50357 the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with followed President Brigham Young and were true to the Church. In William Smith''s church Mr. Briggs accepted the position of "apostle;" but at the time of the section 19, that the Church shall receive Joseph''s words and commands Now, I know that Hyrum Smith was a prophet of God, the Lord declared command of the Lord through the Prophet Joseph Smith, baptisms for the unto you Joseph Smith, to be a presiding elder over all my Church. blessing given by Patriarch Joseph Smith on the head of his son Hyrum, that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God and was called to stand at the unto the Church,'' is equivalent to the saying, Until Joseph Smith be the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Church in his day _did accept_--the Presidents of the Church from the Prophet Joseph until now have 50374 Just how long Elias Hicks spoke in the meetings for worship, before not appear that Elias Hicks had attended this yearly meeting since Hicks, Elias says that these Friends "detained the meeting two hours or Friends'' Meeting House, which Elias Hicks helped to build, if he did Men of the Elias Hicks type, meeting their fellows in Society had been accomplished, Elias Hicks wrote a letter to a friend friend, Elias Hicks, are agreeable to the opinions and doctrines held against Elias Hicks in the Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders, that monthly meeting had enjoyed a family visitation from Elias Hicks, the preaching of Elias Hicks in meetings where he was present, except Elias Hicks wrote a long letter to his friend, Dr. Edwin A. Elias Hicks made in the Meeting of Ministers and Elders in Jericho, of the meeting house at different times when Elias Hicks was preaching, 50534 had said that "Three Seducers"--Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet, had said that he considered Moses, Jesus Christ and Mahomet as "Three impiety--that Moses, Jesus Christ, and Mahomet had ruled the world been most followed, Jesus Christ, Moses, or Mahomet. creed; but a man who could regard Moses and Jesus Christ as impostors, those of Moses, the great Lawgiver of God. Is there not a book, ''The the true God--the Jewish, the Christian, and the Mahometan?--a book the law of Moses, of Christ and of Mahomet, because they are as like the book having been written by a learned man in high repute at the into the nature of God. Belief in final causes refuted as contrary Scripture to prove that man is chief of God''s works below, and formed Terror having thus created the Gods, men wished to ascertain their last to follow the God of Jesus Christ. 50535 "_He (Joseph Smith) caused the revelation on the subject (''polygamy'') "_He (Joseph Smith) caused the revelation on the subject (''polygamy'') command, I know that the Prophet Joseph Smith made no such statement was married to the Prophet Joseph Smith on the first day of May, true church believes in the atoning blood of Christ as stated in the Church before the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and that just such from my cousin Joseph Smith, president of the Reorganized church, of the Reorganized church regard the Prophet Joseph Smith and the 1. The Prophet Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and the Saints. she was married or sealed to Joseph Smith, President of the Church of married or sealed to Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesus married or sealed to Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day 50536 of Christ is the power of God unto exaltation--a plan devised by "And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou "And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The heavens they are many, praise and glory of God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, "Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous, but sinners repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism How God Will Judge the World.--"When the Son of Man shall come in his Lord, and the power of God unto salvation." (D. Christ, the Son of God, even as our fathers, and ye shall receive the beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; 50586 God''s Man Sent in God''s Time--Sunday''s Converts--Religion old, "There was a man sent from God, whose name was"--Billy Sunday. I said, ''Good-bye, boys, I''m going to Jesus Christ.'' When God called this man whom the common people should hear gladly, When the revival comes along and the Church of God gets busy, you will statesmanship, have all believed in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. Twenty-seven years ago, with the Holy Spirit for my guide, I entered "O Jesus, we thank God that you came into this old world to save sinned before the Church, before the world, before God. Don''t the Lord have a hard time? In the Church of God today you know there are a lot of people who are "A Christian is any man, woman or child who comes to God as a lost Most men believe in God. Now and then you find a man who doesn''t, and 50592 God''s goodness in giving you as guide this great and admirable servant trust, through the goodness of God and the brave heart of my dearest exact observance, holy confidence and joy in God. Our very dear Father is, he says, entirely yours. dearest one, my Sister, to die or to love our good Saviour. my love, to know that our good God is everywhere, in God. I have a great affection for Sister Barbe Marie.[B] Take care of I want you to know, my dear little daughter, what a great consolation Let us bless God who takes such care of His children who trust in Him. His divine Providence is arranging for you something that I think you I bless God with all my heart for the good news you give me of your God bless you, my dearest daughter, for the good news you send me of the 50715 which are these words (translated): "Moses saw God in the burning man, so that when it is said that God has made everything in order, Fear which created Gods, made also Religion, and when men imbibed people of this God, provided they believed what he said on his part. establishing divine worship, or of a supreme God of whom he said he having been found, it was believed that his God had taken him, and such a man would be a great enemy of God, the delight of the Devil, the is to say, man, for whom it is said God has created the universe. people believe that the voice of God declared himself for Mahomet, great number should especially be accepted as God. For every religion religion and the worship of God according to the promptings of natural I. Book about the nature of the Gods. 50916 O God, I desire to approach Thy throne of Grace on the evening of this do Thou look down upon me this night in Thy great mercy. Blessed Lord, do Thou bend Thy pitying eye of love and mercy upon me Blessed God, Thou hast in Thy mercy permitted me to see the close of O God Almighty, do Thou draw near to me at this time in Thy great Lord, while I bless Thee for the other proofs and tokens of Thy love, Almighty God, do Thou draw near to me this night in Thy great mercy. say, "Peace be unto thee." Let me know the melting energy of Thy love, Thee to look down upon me at this time in Thy great kindness; let me O God, I bless Thee that Thou hast spared me during another day, and O God, I come to Thee this night through Jesus Christ, the Son of Thy 50958 "October 26th, 1872, Sister Eliza left Salt Lake City on a journey had been elected; President of Latter Day Saints'' Women''s Organizations for time to Brigham Young, and with the Saints left Nauvoo in the month In the fall of 1880, Sisters Zina and Eliza went to St. George, to labor in the Temple, and visit the organizations of the Mrs. Young returned to this city March 7th, received by "At Huntsville, Mrs. Horne was introduced to Father and Mother Smith; three days old, Mrs. Horne started again on her way, arriving at the families of Joseph and Hyrum, and Father and Mother Smith. record here that the mother and father of Sister Woodruff were baptized young life the duties and cares of a loved and lost, a martyred mother! my father left the city, and my mother came and took me with her, to 51080 in time for the morning service in his own department of mission-work We had not long been in our new home before Burmans, both Christian If twenty men come to see the missionary, the last man must step over In Christian lands the wife is sometimes taken home to live with her ago, when the Burmans were subject to the Shan kings in Upper Burma. jungle-villages a native Christian called my attention to a large little ten year old boy to the mission, and secured the missionary''s time came for the Christians'' service the missionary repaired to the God. Returning to their homes these people must pass the missionary''s true of work among Burman and Shan Buddhists. The Karen village school-teacher, besides his regular work in the what extent the spirit of Burman Buddhists has changed since the time In a distant village lived a young Christian Burman, with his heathen 51097 the hay fields, and reached the place in time to see Joseph''s horse lower road, reaching home some time after the company had left by the Some time after his death Mary dreamed that she was lying in her bed When William reached his home, he told Mary about these strange men. William decided to come over with his family on the same day. trifle, Mary had taken a little motherless boy, about seven years old, When William reached home Mary told him what she had done. The next day Mary reached Goulburn, and she and her husband returned years passed away, William farming and Mary nursing at times. "Mary," said William, "if Mrs. Day tells me the same as she tells you, week the family moved across the road, and Mary felt like a new woman. During all these fifteen years you may be sure Mary and William had 51140 "God''s law condemns the union in marriage of more than two persons," "God''s law condemns the union in marriage of more than two persons," of wives is nowhere condemned in the law of God, we have a right to into the camp of Israel contrary to the law of God, not being wives; can bring forth any evidence from the law of God, or from the passage Yes; so says the word of God, the Bible, and you know the question is said the time was up] refers to the marriage in Eden, and says, "God I have recited to you God''s solemn law--"Neither shall a man take one "cohabitation:" thus God commands a man who takes another wife, not to man who has another wife, both they and the men they marry shall be law says they shall not marry a man who has a wife. 51370 few days after his conversion he went to see the Dominican Fathers at churches in the town, and Father Spencer thought he should not lose Father Spencer went to his room to console him, and said cope as that?" Father Spencer says in a letter written at this time, news in the way of conversion which we heard after Father Ignatius''s Sunday, July 7.--Said mass at Notre Dame, a fine Gothic church; went In this year, Father Ignatius lost two great friends by death, Dr. Gentili and the Rev. Wm. Father Ignatius had an idea in his mind for a number of years, and saw In a letter Father Ignatius wrote at this time we have his opinion of The days of the religious life of Father Ignatius might be numbered by Dum perjucundum opus in Scotia prosequeretur, calendis Octobris anni amici repentino morbo correptus, a Deo cujus gloriam semper 51730 Two days after his baptism David was ordained an Elder under the hands Soon after the return of the Prophet Joseph Smith, David W. given, from you it must be preached unto them, that they shall repent the faithful who are called of God in the church unto the ministry,) that fall, David commended himself into the hands of the Lord and went Yea, verily I say unto you, in that day when the Lord shall come, And the servant said unto his lord, When shall these things be? "William Pratt and David Patten took their journey to the land of Zion, David made known to the Prophet that he had asked the Lord to let day when my work shall commence among all people, unto the restoring of by his hand by the power of the Father, shall bring my people unto "David Patten I have taken unto myself; behold, his Priesthood no man 52232 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me Israel, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God 52481 I. WONDERFUL EVENTS THAT HAPPENED AT RITA''S DEATH--BURIAL OF HER SACRED BODY MIRACLES WROUGHT BY GOD THROUGH RITA''S INTERCESSION BEFORE HER BEATIFICATION Rita had lived thirty years in the convent, leading that saintly life If Rita''s life till the time when she received the wound in her years before, and whose case was considered incurable, besought St. Rita with fervent prayers to come to his aid. had already placed Rita on his list of the Saints and Blesseds of the churches of the Order, but the people of Cascia and the nuns of Rita''s we shall for the last time, for the glory of God and of Rita, relate a speak of Rita of Cascia as the saint who obtains from God what is had never even heard the name of St. Rita of Cascia shows how much God ''I am Blessed Rita of Cascia,'' said the nun. 52819 him Joseph Smith''s account of the origin of the Book of Mormon. present purpose the account the Prophet gives in his statement to Mr. John Wentworth, of Chicago, of the origin of the Book of Mormon is, Mormon, see the writer''s work, "New Witnesses for God," Vol. II, chs. theory of the Spaulding manuscript origin of the Book of Mormon must be the Spaulding story to account for the origin of the Book of Mormon."] of said Book [of Mormon], my brother Joseph Smith, Jr., lived in the part of the Book of Mormon by Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith _et al?_ Is of the Book of Mormon is another matter several times alluded to by Mr. Schroeder, in common with all other advocates of the Spaulding theory "Joseph Smith is a new witness for God; a prophet divinely In fact, the Mormon Church teaches that God 52840 Begotten Son of the Father to come to redeem the world from Adam''s First: Faith in God the Father, in his Son Jesus Christ and in the Holy This vicarious salvation for the dead is not a new doctrine. Joseph Smith, the prophet, informs us that salvation for the dead was of salvation for the dead when he said, "And saviors shall come upon this time your baptisms [i.e. outside of a temple] shall be acceptable your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable unto me [i. as a Church, with your dead, saith the Lord your God. neither build temples nor perform the ordinances for the dead, wherein failure, but the work of the Lord shall go on and increase from day to spent one day each month in the temples saving our dead, just twelve more work than we are now doing for the salvation of the dead. 52958 Goodness or Active Love of God. So the First Shewing, as the Ground of shall have an high marvellous knowing of love in God, without end. is as good as beholding, for the time that God will suffer the soul to God shewed three degrees of bliss that every soul shall have in Heaven word: _Lo, how I loved thee._ This shewed our good Lord for to make us God. And when our good Lord had shewed this and said this word: _Wilt ["The Goodness and the Love of our Lord God will that we wit [know] Lord God is worshipful: whereby His Goodness shall be known, without Also God shewed that sin shall be no shame to man, but worship. that the goodness of God suffereth never that soul to sin that shall for a property of blessed love that we shall know in God which we could 53465 _(God, Lord, Father, Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost, the Almighty, I Believe That My Lord Jesus Christ Is True God. Which is the Second Article? 5. _Our Lord Jesus Christ is true God, the only-begotten Son of the 1. _Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only Son of God the Father, His own _I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from _I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from 1. _Our Lord Jesus Christ is true God, born of the Father from eternity; us _by what means Jesus Christ, true God and true man, became my Lord 1. _The Holy Ghost is true God together with the Father and the Son. Therefore we confess that we believe in Him._ confesses: I know from the Word of God that Christ is _my_ Lord, that He 1. _Always pray to the true God, the Father of your Lord Jesus Christ, 5361 Hodder thought he detected, as he spoke these words, a certain relaxation "It''s a matter," he said, looking into McCrae''s eyes, "of Christianity," Hodder went on, "the spectacle of which turns thousands of men and women in sickening revolt against the Church of Christ to-day. "You thought I''d come to it?" demanded Hodder, as though the full force "Drop in on me sometime," he said, "I''d like to talk to you--Hodder heard Was it possible that she, Alison Parr, were going to church now? "Why, my dear," said Mrs. Atterbury, "I thought you had gone back to New "Mr. Hodder," said Eldon Parr, "is to be congratulated." "This is a day I never expected to see, Mr. Hodder," he said, "for it has and made this church what it is, Mr. Hodder," he exclaimed. I, who have been brought up in this church, do not know what Christianity 53616 Jesus-cult, but to show how that historically grew into "Christianity," historicity of a Jesus, and founding on the gospels for their case, The special claim for a historical Jesus arises out of the very fact presumptive God for the early rite of Jesus the Son of the Father. the Jewish New Year liturgy, to this day, Joshua-Jesus figures as certain the pre-Gospel currency of a Jesus-cult among professed Jews. the Jesus-cult into a world-religion in which the God Sacrificed to connected, in the Jewish mind, with the Jesus of the gospels. element in the development of the Christian cult; and that Jesus was Jewish usage, making Jesus the Servant of God, and conceiving him as a whether the view that the Jesus-cult is "pre-Christian" might not personality of Jesus but of ignorance of the gospel story as we have Jesus-myth at a stage before gospel-making commenced, and had at first 5362 "I had to come," she said; "there are some things I feel I must ask you. "You may stay here awhile," she said to him, and gave Hodder her hand.... Asa Waring and his son-in-law, Phil Goodrich, had been to see Hodder on Hodder, that I was a little hurt that you did not come and talk to me "See here, Hodder," he said, "I''ve always confessed frankly that I knew "I wish to make it clear," he continued, "that in spite of the pain Mr. Hodder''s words of last Sunday have given me, I respect and honour him it), that Mr. Hodder''s continuance as rector would mean the ruin of the from this church while Mr. Hodder is rector, and I advise those of you I don''t know what to think of Mr. Hodder." "I can understand it," Hodder said. "I think I''d better stick to the street cars," Hodder said. 53935 it foregoes, at any time or place, the authority to govern the church, it years following to place herself at the disposal of the church, to teach [Footnote 11: The Church and the World: Essays on Questions of the Day. the teaching of the Catholic Church, the sacraments are the great means, time, a man of about sixty years of age, and a young woman, either his wife date my return to God from that day, for it was a long time before my lips A church that was a power in the days of the old Roman empire, and We thank the Roman Catholic Church for its Christian year, its That such a man should exercise great influence for good, and work wonders, That in his later years his mind turned at times toward the church, that churches say there is in this world no man like thee to carve angels and 54278 God, and power to bind on earth that which shall be bound in heaven; years hence, the nations and their kings shall see him coming in the This Spirit shall bear witness to you, of the truth of our testimony; God. And now, O ye kings, rulers, and people of the Gentiles: hear ye the Lord, and his name one, and He shall be king over all the earth. things shall be fulfilled according to the words of the holy prophets old world, shall know this once that there is a God in Israel, who, as holy city, and temple, and seat of government among them, which shall Holy Spirit, and shall know the truth, and be numbered with the house judges, and people of the earth, to aid us, the Latter-day Saints; and the _Lord''s kingdom to come; and for his will to be done on the earth, 54291 God has given to him His law as the rule of his actions, that man, Every act of man that is in conformity with the revealed law of God is Every act of man that is contrary to this revealed law of God is _bad_. 1. Conscience as given by God to man is sound, vigorous, and direct. not really allowed by God''s law, and to regard mortal sins as venial 2. The Conscience can hardly be doubtful about the main laws of God. It is in their application to man''s action that uncertainty lies. forbidden by God. The thought of evil is not necessarily sinful, God as good and loving to all His works, that He did not make man to due to Him. Then, again, Sin is a revolt against God, as it makes man seek another man which enables him to observe God''s law, and Sin lames and weakens 54292 Jesus Christ?--Necessary to understand God''s plan--Divine mission of know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Man. But first, we must understand what it means to know God and Jesus What does it mean to know God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent? To know Jesus Christ whom God hath sent, is to accept the is life eternal, to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He Now we understand, in part, what it means to know God and Jesus Christ. [Sidenote: What we would do if we had learned to know God and Jesus.] "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and accomplished, man must learn to know God and Jesus Christ whom He hath Jesus, Peter said, "Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the 54298 THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: Its Religion, History, 1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, Gospel are: First, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; of Christ, and come unto God their Eternal Father in humility, in God, and in Jesus Christ His Son, repentance of all sin, baptism by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in charge of the "Mormon" apostles preached: Faith in God the Eternal Father, in His Son Jesus believers exist in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gospel of the Son of God. We claim that the Church of Jesus Christ of The World:--Do you believe that God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, The World:--You say, Faith in God and in His Son Jesus Christ is the God. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance of all sins, baptism 54309 looking upon Jesus as He walked, John saith, Behold the Lamb of God. And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus." [Sidenote: Jesus'' Influence Over Peter.] "When Jesus saw their faith, He said unto the sick of palsy, Son, thy Undoubtedly by this time Peter believed, with all his heart, that Jesus even of the three chief apostles, Peter, James, and John, Jesus At once, Peter spoke out, saying, "Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come "I say unto thee," continued Jesus, "that thou art Peter, and upon this When He came to Peter, the latter said: "Lord, dost _Thou_ wash _my_ [Sidenote: Peter Follows Jesus.] [Sidenote: Peter Sees His Lord.] "And Peter said unto him, Eneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise immediately John recognized Jesus and said to Peter, "It is the Lord." for Barnabas and Paul, and desired to hear the word of God." Luke says 54335 Leave Father and Mother, Home and Friends, to Gather to Zion. "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour the powers invisible of the Hebrew God. Shall Jehovah reign in the coming time? their father''s house unto the gathering places that their God has shown "Five elders of the Church of Latter-day Saints came to the town of "The saints now labored night and day to build the house of the Lord, JOSEPH SMITH''S DARING ANSWER TO THE LORD--WOMAN, THROUGH MORMONISM, Lord their God. The Mormon daughters of Eve have also in this eleventh hour come down Father and Mother God. Who shall number the blasphemies of the sectarian churches against our that many a sister among the Latter-day Saints had lived in the time MISSION WITHOUT HER HUSBAND--A MORMON WOMAN IN WASHINGTON--A SISTER 54337 Prophet testified with great power concerning the visit of the Father We thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet, To guide us in these latter days; venerated father of the Prophet (Joseph Smith, Sen.), the Patriarch of Joseph Smith, laid down his life for truth and his brethren, shall be upon God, Joseph had his first vision, as set forth in another chapter. visited Cumorah and gave the plates to Joseph, the boy-prophet, down to Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by And in our day Joseph Smith has been directed by the Lord to person of Joseph Smith, the Prophet whom God raised up in our day? and revelator on this earth than Joseph Smith, the Prophet of God. CHAPTER 4 From the day that Joseph Smith received the plates at the hands of the "Mormon" people as a prophet of God, and his brother Hyrum were 54627 man, good Deacon Bates hastily assured him that the class would be "I think," said Mr. Jodderel, "that the new members ought to know what "Poverty of spirit seems to me to be old English for modesty," said Mr. Whilcher, "We know very little, comparatively, of the great designs of "Well, the discoverers sent no word back, at any rate," said young Mr. Banty, "so there''s one view which I think ought to be considered; isn''t "So far from fault being found with the freedom of speech," said Mr. Alleman, "the sentiment of the class is, I think, that the expression of "The older a man grows in years and experience," said Judge Cottaway, "Or a man whose principal crop is hay," said Squire Woodhouse. "Free speech is the rule of this class," said Captain Maile. "I think _I_ shall remain with the class," said President Lottson. 54793 objection taken on a kind of personal ground to the criticism of St. Paul''s doctrine which we have attempted. St. Paul''s line of thought as true, in the same fashion as Puritanism great importance; but that every man should live in a church-order which maintained that the essence of Christianity is Puritan church-order. ''The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,'' says Paul, ''freed as Christ is; so entirely, for Paul, is righteousness the true life and Epistle, where Paul speaks of Christ as ''declared to be the son of God that the essential sense given to this word by Paul Puritanism had Grace, the goodness of God, _the spirit_,--as Paul loved ever-growing union with God in Christ, an advance, as St. Paul says, Puritanism upon the Church of England, to put the Calvinistic doctrine the Church nor Puritanism had the power of making true developments. 54884 Queen Mary''s trial and death, and his daughter Margaret married Sir The two contemporary drawings of Queen Mary''s trial and execution February, the same day on which Queen Mary, whose honour he had done Mary sent to ask for pen and paper to write to Queen Elizabeth; but Queen of England," concluded Mary, "knows well that I have warned Queen Elizabeth, having now received Sir Thomas Gorges'' report, had addressed to a subject, Queen Mary replied with dignity. [Footnote 32: It is interesting to compare Queen Mary''s words with letter which could harm the Queen (of England)." In reply Paulet Paulet, after receiving this letter from Queen Mary, entered into reasons for delaying to send Mary''s letter to Queen Elizabeth:-"The next day the Queen sent Bourgoing to Paulet to say that after "My lords," said Mary, "I was born a queen, a sovereign princess, 5540 as the head of the Museum, had set high hopes on the youth who had come and wounded to the heart''s core--to bear arms in her service till she Berenike gave the soldier her hand, thanked him hurriedly, and begged I have scarcely seen a man look death--and self-sought death--in the face heads she looked down from her high window interested her as little as At this her hand sought the place of her heart, for she felt as His hand lay on the villain''s arm, his eye rested on the Euryale had noiselessly opened a secret door leading to Melissa''s hidingplace, known only to herself and her husband, and had come close to her. Euryale loved Melissa, but far dearer to her was the book to whose allimportant contents the maiden seemed to have closed her heart in inflict anxiety on Melissa''s heart, as she stood before her eyes like one 55531 TWO CLASSES OF CAUSES EXIST, VIZ., MATERIAL THINGS, WHICH ACT ON MIND, involves a reference to the _object_ or _design_ of the Author of mind. a given act will do great harm and no good, every mind will feel that it nature and action of our own minds, and of the qualities and powers of by leading a dependent mind to right action, it proves a most powerful _Sensation_ is a state of mind produced by material objects acting on _Association_ is the power possessed by the mind of recalling ideas in mind gains an idea of the existence of some outward object. mind, a new desire is awakened of _moral power_. Another quality of mind which becomes a cause of love is the power of In regard to the power of the mind over its own desires and emotions, it other cause than the natural constitution of mind, which is formed to be 55575 about seventy years of the supposed date of Jesus''s death Christians Jesus Christ of God Son, Saviour; but this later explanation came of the Joshua or Jesus Sun-God-Saviour cult. probably an ancient Palestinian Saviour-Sun-God, Jesus, the son of B. Smith''s work, The Pre-Christian Jesus (Der Vorchristliche worshipped in secret the "Proto-Christian God, the Jesus," was to Having decided that Jesus was the Sun-God-Saviour Joshua, Jesus is, in Professor Smith''s phrase, "a humanized God"; in the In Mark there is really no man at all; the Jesus is God, gospel which Paul also preached, about a Lord Jesus Christ; these [Pauline evidence as to death of Jesus,] The passages in which Paul the view that Paul believed the Jesus of the Gospels to be an ancient adherents of the pre-Christian Jesus or Joshua in writing the Gospels although he dissipates Jesus in the Gospels into a Sun-God-Saviour 5565 invitation offered a man endowed with Wolf''s rare advantages, but he came The young man was still less disposed to be vexed with Wolf for his delay When Wolf at last returned and Barbara gave him her hand, Erasmus envied Barbara could believe in this young man''s capacity for earnest, lofty When Wolf went back to Erasmus the latter assured his friend that he had For a short time Erasmus found no answer to this statement, and Wolf''s at the same time as Wolf, or even obtained it from the young knight know what relations existed between Sir Wolf Hartschwert and Barbara. discovered that Barbara was now the Emperor''s love, he thought he could If Wolf lived--and he desired it from his heart--this act, which he The Emperor Charles wished to know how she liked her new home. which had befallen Wolf; yet she knew from his own lips that he loved the 5573 The snow-water boiled, the doctor and his wife rested, Ulrich and Ruth stood the magistrate''s clerk, a little man with a round head, and legs the abbot''s lips, for he thought of the painful trial and the torturechamber in the town hall, and no longer saw in the doctor merely the Jew, He felt Ruth raise her little head, and press her soft lips on his Adam silently pressed the Jew''s right hand, and after remaining lost in The wounded man opened his eyes, saw Count Frohlinger, his son and the The dying man''s hand fell from his child''s head, his eyes closed, but the Ulrich''s head now lay in the soldier''s arms, and the traveller gazed at "Poor fellow!" said the jester, pointing to the handsome young man. Moor looked fixedly into the boy''s face, then nodded, and with a wellsatisfied expression, laid his hand on Ulrich''s curls, and said: 55736 soul, the spiritual powers of man, and the laws of God--a line to great life-work of love, mercy, and Christianity. trying to lead poor Grannie''s thoughts back to the good old times words; so Nellie only said: "When the time comes, dear old woman, works are said by Catholic theologians to deserve eternal life by The personal love of the soul to God as its friend and Father, the great grave of nature to enjoy for ever the vision of God. Kings of the earth have denied her right to invest the pastors of good a right to be called the church of Christ as the Catholic Catholic Church with whose faith his religious life will be in own church, and refusing communion with the great Catholic heart, higher flight toward God. Her first step in advance was a new and great love of prayer; for God, are invoked on this great day by the church. 55818 enjoins the observance of the Sabbath, and also of the Lord''s-day "But keep the Sabbath, and the Lord''s-day festival; because the Every mention of the Sabbath and first-day in that ancient book called "If any one fasts on the Lord''s day or on the Sabbath, except on decided no-law, no-Sabbath writer, who used the day commonly honored as Lord''s day every one of us Christians keeps the Sabbath, meditating on for it the title of Lord''s day or Christian Sabbath, and the _only_ that Sunday is the Lord''s day and the Christian Sabbath! the Sabbath, and the seventh, a day of work. day of the week, and that Sunday is the Christian Sabbath. Sabbath from God''s act of hallowing the seventh day at creation. laws, the days termed ''Sabbath,'' and the other festivals which Sabbath, or the Lord''s day, to take its place. "The observance of the Lord''s day was ordered while the Sabbath 55841 man, of heaven and earth, nature and grace, faith and reason, knowing good and evil." These words deny the law of God, declare order; for, let the world say what it will, man is not God, but said," rejoined Ally, "and the old church ought to know. good old French Jesuit father said to us one day: "I have noticed unity of the religious orders throughout the church''s long life, The Indians were induced to promise obedience to the true God. Nine masses were offered in honor of St. Joseph, and every day are devoid of reason, and the man speaks of the Catholic Church returned to the love of God. Sin of its own nature turns the soul propagating faith and good morals which the Catholic Church, old original Christianity as the work of God''s revelation to man, the Catholic Church of the present day and primitive Christianity 5630 long-time Territory and present State of Utah; but the origin of The Book of Mormon was before the world; the Church circulated of Mormon had taught the people the true origin and destiny of Book of Mormon promised the western lands to the people of the of this people that while the work of God on earth is carried on men, and amongst this class the "Mormon" people reckon a number the same time men who had come from Utah to New York direct, the voice of the people shall be in unison with the voice of God. THE PHILOSOPHY OF "MORMONISM" of Latter-day Saints." The philosophy of "Mormonism" is declared Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," by that the day shall yet come when the Kingdom of God on earth Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints professes to have the 56407 with God. At that time a young lady, Mary Ann Burbank, entered the room him a good morning and on my way home I felt to bless and praise God. On the next Sabbath I attended church at Elder Cole''s, the Christian Doctor asked me if I was going on a visit with my brother?--I told him went down and took my leave of the family.--Little did I think that Dr. Graves was called in to give a line to have me carried into an Insane deranged person; but God only knows the distress that my body is every brother Stephen came into the room and said, now Elizabeth we will have I told her how I loved God, and said many things to be my friend, and told her she did not know how I did love God; she my brother Stephen''s wife said, "that God had nothing more for me to 56631 throng of the blessed who will for ever sing the glory of God. It is thus the good old man lived fifteen hundred years, and beneath the great Latin cross known as St. Saturnin or St. Sernin''s church at Toulouse--a treasure I took to my heart, come to us from countries and churches holding like principles The work of the church of God upon the earth is to teach and mother?" And the great pope remarks, as soon as a soul by a word, cannot afford to purchase the more expensive English work, Mrs. Sadlier''s condensation of the life and times of the great Irish God given by the Catholic Church, or to absolute nihilism. Catholic Church, was the only thing her loving soul was bitter The Good Old Time And Our Own. In the daily struggle for truth and right, in our hours of everywhere the truth of God. The catholicity of the church 56684 And the Lord God, said unto Adam, ''Who told you that you were And I, the Lord God, said unto the woman, What is this thing which the father of Noah, was 56 years old when Adam died; Methuselah, 243; Jared, and Moses, they shall obtain faith in God, and power with him to any rational and intelligent being may exercise faith in God unto life glory of God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. exercise of faith in God, so as to obtain life and salvation? Q. Could man exercise faith in God so as to obtain eternal life unless exercise faith in God so as to obtain eternal life. the exercise of faith in God unto life and salvation, the foundation, power to exercise faith in him unto life and salvation, but that and, having power by faith to obtain the knowledge of God, they could 56685 the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.'' (John xvii: by the spirit of man, but to understand the things of God we must have the true and living God, also Jesus Christ whom He sent. of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation.'' is to preach the gospel except he be called by revelation from God. As I said, instead of men being called by revelation as the Bible God has revealed His mind and will to man in days gone by, the world, We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus "Mormonism teaches men to believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in "I will direct your attention to a few passages from the word of God. Jesus, when He sent the Apostles to preach in the first place, said 56691 of the seventh thousand years will the Lord God sanctify the earth, Prophet "before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord," many times in other ages when God had raised up prophets and seers. natural man--"hath seen God at any time." [6] But men at divers times dream of the greatness of God''s work, the grandeur of Christ''s cause. high privilege--and preparing them for the coming of the Son of God. A Close Relationship.--I have said that the Gospel dispensations are days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." the Lord God sanctify the earth and complete the salvation of man." redeemed man, by faith and good works, to lay hold upon eternal life. A Work of Preparation.--The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the 56698 days after meeting Joseph, the young men set themselves earnestly to Joseph''s brother Samuel, who came on a visit at this time, was shown Prophets, March 18, 1833, Joseph set these two men apart; Sidney as During the year of trouble in Missouri, the Prophet Joseph Smith was CAMP--JOSEPH SMITTEN--SIDNEY GILBERT''S DEATH--PROPHET VISITS ZION. CAMP--JOSEPH SMITTEN--SIDNEY GILBERT''S DEATH--PROPHET VISITS ZION. Soon after the Prophet Joseph came to Kirtland In 1836 the Prophet Joseph and other leading men of the Church, JOSEPH VISITS CANADA--CARRIES SIDNEY THROUGH SWAMPS TO ESCAPE MOB--MEN JOSEPH VISITS CANADA--CARRIES SIDNEY THROUGH SWAMPS TO ESCAPE MOB--MEN This was the last time in the life of the Prophet Joseph when he could On the day before the order for the Prophet''s arrest was made, Joseph The last time of peace in the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith had Joseph at this time prophesied that within five years the Saints should 56700 of the restored Church of Christ are called Latter-day Saints to wherein redeemed man is exalted and the eternal God is glorified. Race--Personality of God--The Great Lawgiver Governs Himself by Law Race--Personality of God--The Great Lawgiver Governs Himself by Law. There is nothing more valuable than truth. Man must have faith in God in order to become exalted into His spirit of truth, arouses faith in the soul of man, and by its force Death came by Adam, life comes by Christ. of God, whether that is viewed in the light of the Church on earth or This delegated power from God to man is called the Priesthood. man till he reaches the actual presence of the Eternal God, and shines God. The body without the spirit is dead and can neither believe, Order is maintained in all the works and ways of God. Knowledge that is needful concerning the spiritual sphere will come 57121 of the creature to its God. And so Jesus came to bring humility back grace of the life of Jesus,--if humility be the secret of His WE have seen humility in the life of Christ, as He laid open His heart pervaded by deep, true humility towards God and men. humility is the one thing needed to allow God''s holiness to dwell in sin and God''s grace give to the humility of the saints. we do not seek, and cannot receive the glory that comes from God. Pride renders faith impossible. self and the taking of the place of perfect nothingness before God. Jesus humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death. His death to self and sin in its full power, and make humility the all Himself, therefore God exalted Him. Christ will humble us, and keep us comes to the humble from Christ, the meek and lowly Lamb of God.] 57318 and to preach the "Gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation, to Scripture," says the apostle, "given by inspiration of God, is to enter his name on a Church-book, "the Spirit of the Lord caught away shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after made him an overseer; to feed the Church of God. Mark! her legislative acts from the Great Head of the Church; went back, step we are living and acting in the fear of God, we shall love each other the word of God, and look daily for the appearance of the Lord. truth, which is the power of God unto salvation to every one that her faith in God, then she began to legislate.--They (the church) felt, Church; and if we had faith and confidence in God, and in His word, we And when the professed Church of God, instead of urging 57330 Heaven, in Paradise, with God, the Father; (see 2 Cor. xii: 2, 4; Rev. iii: 21; Heb. i: 3, 9 and 24) that he is now about to come with the Holy great CITY THE HOLY JERUSALEM, descending _out of Heaven_ from God, great voice _out_ of Heaven saying, behold, the TABERNACLE of God is this "_Holy City_, _new Jerusalem_, _the Zion of God_, _the Tabernacle Jerusalem; and the Heavens and the Earth shall shake: but the Lord will He says, "the Heavens were OPENED, and I saw visions of God." He are to look for the Paradise of God, the Holy City, and where we shall Heaven_," and the voice of the Lord came to him twice, "saying what God "And I John saw the _Holy City new Jerusalem_ coming down from God out "And I John saw the _Holy City new Jerusalem_ coming down from God out 57439 respect than this great attempt of the Catholic Church to work, receiving an old friend, or meeting some great good fortune. The old master of German art remained a life-long friend its own good time--in every-day life termed accident--the cry for God-like art of benevolence; closing with the following words: and that in this religion the love of God, of man, of nature, prove Christianity and the Catholic Church by a moral human spirit comes into immediate relations, like those of man great interest to the quiet lives of us old people." This he said "It is a long time since I saw that place filled," he said, religion; and, like all error, puts man in the place of God. It authority of the pope or church the fact that God has revealed every house, (making each look like a church,) the lovely green they receive from the church, the great catholic principles which 57926 God in man, the life, the seed, the divine light latent in every son of all must come to that Spirit, if they would know God or Christ or the come to teach his people himself by his spirit and Christ saith, Learn the weighty things of God. And in her lightness she came and asked me God of heaven and earth; and waiting for the spirit of the Lord within All friends to be kept cool and quiet in the power of the Lord God and So, friends, the word of the Lord to you all in all meetings you come Keep your meetings in the power of the Lord God ... So this is the word of the Lord God to you all, feel that you stand in the presence of the Lord God. For every man''s word shall be his burden. 58078 inferiority of the reasoning powers of man in his savage state, and a to test the truth of the things revealed, by our reason, is inconsistent government; and as no man can be a christian who does not believe in _their own reason_ in matters of religion, as to think every thing reason is a dormant principle without revelation:--when any thing is can arrive at a knowledge of the truth of any thing by our reason, is by given to us by divine revelation, can believe in the truth of any thing No man of sound mind can believe that stating the scripture revelations and right reason, as the true spirit;" because our reason will never permit us to believe that such another man''s mind is no law to us;" and you say you believe that there man''s mind is no law to us, it must follow that we can form no idea of 58098 places in faraway Australia where I myself have seen the little black This little book is all about the children of wild Australia--where they into little black children who happened to come in their country. black children of wild Australia are taught about where they came from The children of wild Australia are taught to use their ears. The black men who live on or near the stations children die in wild Australia every year from fear of these awful bones One day a man came home from a long journey through the bush. the little children of wild Australia are told about the earth, the At the same time he gave the medicine men power to use magic. good indeed teaching the children or the men and women of wild Australia tell the Lord Jesus about the poor little children of wild Australia and 5831 sight of God, and his blessed grace to their souls in Christ, had a "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the its hold, but the mercy of God and the heart-blood of his dear Son. No sin is little in itself; because it is a contradiction of the Again, if thou hast laid Christ, God-man, for thy foundation, though rejoice in hope of the glory of God. If thou do get off thy convictions, and not the right way--which is mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath Let me tell thee, soul, for thy comfort, who art coming in to Christ thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to Remember, man, if the grace of God hath taken hold of thy soul, thou the day of grace & past, God doth not care for thee, thy heart is 58812 follows:--O God of truth and love, we bless and magnify Thy Catholic Church proposes to our belief, because Thou, my God, to the law of God, the fulfilment of the great duties of life, not made for the world or for sin, but for God. I had a soul, and those things which God has provided for those who love Him. The Holy Scripture represents the pleasures of heaven in three deep, clear sea of crystal that lies before the throne of God. The angel has sworn that time shall be no longer, and the great "_No man hath seen God at any time_," says St. John. Now, this is the Catholic Church, as God saw it in the future, Catholics, believe that God gives to every man living sufficient and to redeem your sins." God by His Holy Church makes you God, the end of man, grace, holiness, and eternity, those things 59041 had foretold, redeem his pledge, and prove himself to be God. Therefore the Scripture frequently speaks as if Jesus Christ were do such things, shall not obtain the kingdom of God. Young man, I to him: Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, love of God, comes from this very command of our Lord Jesus Christ: "_Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole good to those who love God._" The true Christian Church all things work together for good to them that love God_.'' souls in mortal sin are like God. They have the gifts of love the Lord God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, the desire to love God is a thing natural to the soul. engross the soul of man, why should not the desire of God''s love, world, indeed, with every thing in it, is good, for God made it. 59270 Armenian Christians have been killed, and even death has been the most Christian population; wealth, greatness, security for the Armenians; people never call themselves Armenians, or their country Armenia; Christian church in a great city when most of the people did not the blood of those who are called Turks at this day is Armenian; not even the earliest great national church body, for the Armenian Armenians in Armenia outnumbered the Turks; but the massacres, the Sultan, he would reform the country; he would not let the Armenians be is often asked "Are not the Armenians a Christian people? of the kind-hearted Sultan butchered about 3,000 Armenian Christians, Armenian Christians, and forced many to accept Mohammedanism. the Christian Armenians have been massacred there by the Turks and coming when more Mohammedans will be killed than Armenians have been, people before Christ, and as the Armenians became the first Christian 5954 Christian truth bears on the real problems of life; the best of them "The way to faith in GOD, and to love for man," it has been said, "is have felt that in Jesus Christ GOD, the Eternal Source of all things, meant in the personal life and faith of Jesus Himself as Son of God personal experience, that "GOD was in Christ reconciling the world a Son: the life of Jesus Christ as Son of God reveals to us the eternal Energy and Life and Love, the GOD who is revealed in Christ, The GOD and Father of Jesus Christ loves every human being Christian man is meant in his ordinary daily life and business to be a service of GOD and man, in the light of the ideals of Jesus Christ, A Christian man''s life-work ought not to have the character of the Christian ideal of life means sonship towards GOD and citizenship 59651 soul, spirit, God or Jehovah, they were evolved in the brain of man; of substances, called organic, that are derived from living things or Verse 15: "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden Verse 18: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should taken place between mortal man and a God. Adam tells him that he has Verse 22: "And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one Verse 5: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the contrary to the laws of nature; that neither God nor man could, if they the Lord thy God." And the man Moses knew what he was talking about, as a nation, to any supernatural power, to God, Jehova, or the Lord, of five elements, as muscle, brain, blood; these are Oxygen, Carbon, 5974 "I am sorry you should think your pearls too good to cast before Mr. Wingfold, uncle," said Rachel, with a touch of disappointed temper. heart and soul and sense, up to the great Father.--Forgive me, Mr. Wingfold, for talking about myself, but you looked so miserable! you are thinking of my poor father, uncle, I know," said there is no God to look after the business!" said Helen, who, not believe one thing he said, counted him an honest man! "Come," said Helen, re-entering, and the curate rose and followed "Ah, Leopold!" said the curate, "think, if my coming to you comforts "You don''t think very badly of my poor brother, do you, Mr. Wingfold?" said Helen, meekly. --And I said, One thing tell me, sir--how much a man may have for "It may be the right thing," said the curate to Leopold, "but we 59951 the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, neither Joseph Smith nor his what the Book of Mormon makes known concerning the Jaredite and Nephite The Book of Mormon makes known the fact that upon this land of Joseph _The prophecies of Isaiah on the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon._ Joseph Smith subsequent to the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Book of Mormon an originality in the fact of the existence of new and at the time of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon such a thing the Book of Mormon was the fact that it claimed to be a new revelation The Book of Mormon is original with reference to the facts it presents the Book of Mormon Shall Come Forth_. prophetic parts end about the time the Book of Mormon came forth, viz., Book of Mormon, and the life work of the Prophet Joseph. 59970 persons were the original members: Joseph Smith the Prophet, Oliver had been aiding Joseph some little time, the Lord required the Prophet under the presidency of Joseph Smith, the Prophet of God. Fourteen upon the Latter-day Saints through the Prophet Joseph. of God. One day when Joseph had assembled the Elders in Kirtland, soon after declared to all that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God and had neither tyrannized over by Joseph Smith, the great Prophet of these people. prophetic power of Joseph Smith. whom these words shall come that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. Flesh and blood have not revealed it unto us, but our Father which is Nauvoo was becoming a beautiful city, and Joseph Smith, the Prophet PACIFIC ADDRESS BY THE PROPHET--THE MOB ASK GOD TO BLESS THEIR WORK OF PACIFIC ADDRESS BY THE PROPHET--THE MOB ASK GOD TO BLESS THEIR WORK OF 59991 the Divine Love, and with many prayers and good wishes; and God Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God." [Footnote 14] united to the Life of God the Son through Jesus Christ; and now the Life of God the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Love, descends and the world; in the triumph of Jesus Christ; in the glory of God. All these are bound up in the cause of the Holy See, the Roman It is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, the Lord and Life-giver, "God hath sent His only-begotten Son into the world," says St. John, "that we may live by Him." [Footnote 51] "Ye are the the Life of the Living God--the Father, the Son, and the Holy God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." [Footnote 75] life, and in acts of love to God. I know that many persons think 59993 these kingdoms, said the prophet Daniel, "shall the God of heaven set "For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your restored by an angel to a divinely chosen prophet of God. Then the priesthood is to be revealed to Joseph Smith by the hand of truths:--a great work is appointed for the young man, Joseph Smith, Christ, to the Prophet Joseph Smith; but that glorious vision bore and second elders of the Church.[K] In after years, the Prophet Joseph Lord gave in addition a revelation to Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and bearing witness that Joseph Smith received divine authority and special known to the Prophet Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, of the Prophet Joseph Smith have been restored to man all the spiritual all--are revelations from the Lord through the Prophet Joseph Smith As the Prophet Joseph Smith revealed the condition of man in the life 60056 This embraces faith in God the Father and in his son Jesus Christ and I will direct your attention to a few passages from the word of God. Jesus, when he sent the Apostles to preach in the first place, said comes from God through His Son Jesus Christ, and is given in baptism; Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." This is the word of God and remember, Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ, the Son, and in the Holy (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and who know not God, AND OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." who know not God, AND OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." 60077 glorious day which shall crown the earth and its inhabitants with Shall feel the power and might of Israel''s God, Their desert land like Eden shall appear; Thy ruined cities shall in splendor rise, While Gentile saints thy spacious courts shall throng, of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea--The faith of The God of heaven shall send his son, The days of thy sorrow shall end; The earth shall be filled with knowledge of God, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." This earth shall be a blessed place, Till earth shall be cleansed by fire, And earth shall be cleans''d by the Spirit of burning; him in the air; for if the great day of the Lord should come at a time death, neither sorrow nor groaning; neither shall there be any more words, "We shall reign on the earth." 60107 see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is world that Jesus Christ was coming) is called in to-day''s Gospel Our Lord Jesus Christ, the sign of the love of God the called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins." You the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father." It is thanks to God and the Father by Jesus Christ our Lord. of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father; The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for good seed, the word of God, the doctrines of holy church, her of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the the grace of God, everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 60235 volume of scripture, the Book of Mormon, modern revelation, contained Cambridge Bible, the Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, open the gospel door to the nations of the earth, and with seventy men earth, God gives to his Church; these truths which man by searching, Joseph Smith (See Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses, pp. thought this book was written by the prophet Samuel." (Douay Bible, their days, these books seem to have been written by these prophets." 4. _Time of Writing the Book of Matthew:_ "From the Gospel itself it is Book of Mormon and the word of the Lord to the prophet Joseph Smith, The following appears in the Book of Mormon, with reference to God''s 1. Doctrines in Relation to God, to History of the Church, the Book of Moses was given to the Church by the Prophet should also be 60267 things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. --Gospel of the Day. These words, my dear brethren, were spoken by our Blessed Lord to thanks to God and the Father by Jesus Christ our Lord. of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father: The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for the seed of the word of God, of which our Lord speaks in to-day''s the world and live to God, this is the Christian''s true life; and of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. God, brethren, and then you will enjoy his gifts, and, as St. Paul says, "When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you the grace of God, everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord. since the coming of our Lord among us God has become man, and we 6032 The Doge of Venice, when he came to the counts and barons, said to Emperor Alexius, not one person on the land or in the city made show Emperor Alexius had made ready a great number of his people, who were The Emperor Alexius remained for a long time on progress, till St. Martin''s Day, and then he returned to Constantinople. day, they came to a good city, called Phile, and took it; and they had which had surrendered to my lord the Emperor Baldwin, a city called Before the Emperor Baldwin left Constantinople, his brother Henry In Constantinople remained the Emperor Baldwin and Count Louis, with Henry, the brother of the Emperor Baldwin, for the people of the land When those who were in the city saw the host of the Emperor Henry the emperor came with all his host, and encamped before the city, and 60377 If thou hast any thing of good, believe according as thy devotion shall incline thee. thou the things which God has commanded thee. thou turn thyself to God. Why art thou troubled because things do not nor dust thou know what shall befal thee thou mayest also bear thy cross, and love to of thy Lord, crucified for the love of thee. 6. _O Lord my God, thou art all my good; heart with thy grace, thou who wilt not have O Lord God, my holy lover, when thou shalt Thou art truly my Lord, and I am thy poor That thou conform in all things thy desire to see how sweet thou art, O Lord my God. When shall I fully recollect myself in thee, All things are from thee, and therefore thou Blessed be thou, O Lord my God, in all things 6038 The doctrines of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are more with such passages as John 1:18; "No man hath seen God at any time," of our Lord Jesus Christ....love of God.....communion of the Holy _aa) Jesus Christ, God''s only-begotten Son, is the special object great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." 1 John,5:20--"His Son 2:16, 17--"Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, Christ''s death was an exhibition to a sinful world of God''s wondrous True, the death of Christ did show the great love of God for fallen By the _Exaltation_ of Jesus Christ we mean that act of God the Doctrine of God and Jesus Christ, pp. the word of God." Faith is not believing a thing without evidence; "children of God by faith in Jesus Christ." When a man, believing ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." See also 6046 "Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee and ashes, and he the great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Father, and Jesus Christ his Son, are for having things ''I serve,'' says Paul, God and Christ Jesus ''with my spirit (or soul) take up in the good things thereof, and not come to God by Christ. know, or thou wilt not come to God by Christ for life. sin has made me come short of the glory of God, and that Christ Jesus coming to God by Christ I shall also speak a word or two. good and laudable; it being that by which he gave glory to God. The Father, also, hath given to Christ a certain number of souls thy heart and life, thou art not yet come to Jesus Christ. 7. Man by sin had lost peace with God; but this would Jesus Christ 6047 Also in these days men shall come flocking into the house of God, works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou king this; when God shall strike this man of sin the second time, he thee, Where is the Lord thy God?'' Wherefore, as I said, cry unto righteousness wrought by that God-man Jesus Christ without thee, Spirit of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, doth set home the law Spirit of Christ, know that God ''hath appointed a day, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ'' (v (5.) Thou knowest that God hath given thee thy faith (Phil 1:29; 5.If thou hast laid Christ, God-man, for thy foundation, though created in Christ Jesus unto good works; and God hath, before the created in Christ Jesus unto good works; and God hath, before the 6048 when the reckoning day shall come, thou wilt have laid to thy charge thy soul, through the faith of it, from the heavy wrath of God. Yea, thou also art ignorant of the true effects of saving faith the heart to God in Christ, to love His name, His Word, ways, and entered into the heart of man: the things which God hath prepared came up; so he said unto her, Grace, go you, tell my friends, Mr. Contrite, Mr. Holy-man, Mr. Love-saint, Mr. Dare-not-lie, and Mr. Penitent; that I have a friend or two at my house that have a mind but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God sins, ''he shall live.'' ''When thou wast in thy blood, I said unto 2. God hath said, if thou do but come to him in Christ, ''Though your 60488 2. That the will of God is the moral law of man, and obedience to facts and instincts which constitute man''s moral nature, this God, which will is the moral law of man. divine nature of Jesus Christ and his relation to God: "In the alike regard Jesus Christ as at once God and man, the alone, Jesus Christ raises His thoughts to God and says, "Father, Jesus Christ is not only God made man to spread the divine human soul which are the object of the Divine action, and God as to the essential laws regulating the relation of man with God. Historical tradition fully confirms the moral fact here God and man." [Footnote 87] revelation of the nature of Jesus him-self, of the God-man. Christian faith, the divine and the human nature united in Jesus, human origin that becomes man, but the God self-existent, 6049 60490 spiritual personage as so plainly set forth in the revelations of God. The difference, then, between "spirits" and "intelligencies," as the principle of the co-eternity of God, the Father, and Jesus Christ, I. The Purpose of God in the Earth-existence of Man. II. purpose of God in the earth-life of man was to bring to him an increase world--Life, Death, Good, Evil, the fact of man''s Agency--power Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. full vision of God''s meaning when he ordained man''s earth-existence. beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God" from the ministry of John the the "Christian churches" which have existed from the time of Christ, 60491 _SPECIAL TEXT: "Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, doctrine of the co-eternity of the Christ with God the Father affirmed of co-eternity of the Intelligences in men with Jesus Christ and God purpose of God with reference to man''s earth-life--all these subjects after the Fall: "And the Lord God said: Behold the man has become as The second Nephi says: "The Lord God gave unto man that he should act whole law and gospel: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all they wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for not surprise the purposes of God with reference to man''s earth-life, sovereign purposes of God with reference to the earth-life of man as of God Also the Atonement must be made by a Deity living man''s life one mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ, who gave himself a 60492 Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit."--Joseph Smith, (June _"God shall give unto you (the saints) knowledge by his Holy Spirit, Son, and God the Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God, the Holy Ghost, Witness to man of truth, of all truth. God the Holy Ghost--Witness in the Godhead; Spirit of Truth spirit-personage of the Holy Trinity, known to us in the word of God as the Holy Ghost, "which is the gift of God unto all those who diligently Jesus the Son;[A] the Holy Ghost would be the life of God in the life the Holy Ghost]: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of this treatise, the Holy Ghost is a special spirit-witness for God the of God unto men; and they ordained them by the power of the Holy Ghost 60575 evidence men have of the existence of God comes from tradition, from once the idea of the existence of God is suggested to the mind of man Mormon, like the Bible, takes the existence of God as a thing granted; heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man nature of God and of man, or the relations of matter and of spirit, spirit, even as the mind and will of God the Father was also in Jesus Father, and of Jesus Christ our God.'' Writing to the church at Rome, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, and in Jesus Christ, His only Christ Jesus was in the "express image" of God, the Father''s person; tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said unto 60669 CONCERNING FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. only hope for salvation lies in the Lord Jesus Christ. shall save his people from their sins." "The Son of man hath power on Lord Jesus, for the working out of this salvation, became man, and faith in the Lord Jesus, is that God has so appointed. himself in the gospel to save all who truly trust in the Lord Jesus, salvation their own personal faith in the Lord Jesus is essential. The great point is to believe in Jesus, and confess your faith. we personally believe in the Lord Jesus Christ himself. them, "Have you in very deed believed in the Lord Jesus Christ? but said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." the gospel is, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be believes in the Lord Jesus shall be with him where he is. 60708 Affairs of the Saints before United States Senate--General Conference of the Church at the Prophet, his Son. The Discourse of Elder Thompson at the Funeral of Joseph Smith, Sen. CHAPTER XI. _Voted_, to finish the office of President Joseph Smith, Jun. _Voted_, that the recommends drawn by Elder Sherwood, recommending, Brigham Young anointed Elder John Taylor in the House of the Lord, and Church of Mormons or Latter-day Saints; but witnessed the following Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at Nauvoo, December 8, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at Nauvoo. There was a conference in New York City, Elder Orson Hyde presiding. been visited by the Elders of the Church of Latter-day Saints, _Letter from Elder Orson Hyde to President Joseph Smith--Recounting _Letter from Elder Orson Hyde to President Joseph Smith--Recounting ordained an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 60736 Affidavit of William Law. Letter of Governor Carlin to Joseph Smith Anent the Foregoing Letter of Wilson Law to Joseph Smith--Advising that the Prophet Secret Governor Carlin''s Letter to Emma Smith--Nauvoo Charter and the Writ of State of Illinois, city of Nauvoo, personally appeared before me, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--said if the people has said that I have stated that General Joseph Smith has given stated that General Joseph Smith has given me authority to hold stated that General Joseph Smith has given me authority to hold for the city of Nauvoo, in said county, this 22nd day of July, 1842. _Letter of Wilson Law to Joseph Smith--Advising that the Prophet for the said Joseph Smith to have been at any place in the state I, Joseph Smith, recorder in and for the said city of Nauvoo, seal of said court, at the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, this third day 60758 Letter: Joseph Smith to Isaac Morley--Instructions on Resisting Mob. Minutes of a Public Meeting at Nauvoo. Letter: Joseph Smith to Governor Ford--Defending the Action of the City Letter: Joseph Smith to Governor Ford--Explaining his Return to Nauvoo. Elder John Taylor''s Account of Governor Ford''s and President Smith''s President Joseph Smith, and the Nauvoo city council appreciated the Joseph Smith, mayor of said city; and after being duly sworn, Joseph Smith, mayor of said city; and after being duly sworn, Joseph Smith, mayor of said city; and after being duly sworn, Assembled,_ that Joseph Smith, of the city of Nauvoo, in the State of the United States; neither shall the said Joseph Smith, as a _Letter: Joseph Smith to Governor Ford--Explaining Action of City _Letter: Joseph Smith to Governor Ford--Explaining Action of City _Letter: The Prophet to Emma Smith--Governor Ford Going to Nauvoo_. _Letter: The Prophet to Emma Smith--Governor Ford Going to Nauvoo_. 60915 Light, the great GOD AND FATHER OF SPIRITS hath still persevered in Man in his present fallen state, without CHRIST, must be naturally "Hath CHRIST, then, been so long time with thee, and yet hast thou not from the LOVE OF GOD, which is in CHRIST JESUS our Lord." with that "Life Eternal, which is the gift of GOD in CHRIST JESUS." under the dominion of a fallen life and sinful nature, "our God must be an universal love of GOD and man, testified by a life of uninterrupted LOVE OF GOD shed abroad in the human heart by his HOLY SPIRIT." contrary to the Divine Nature, which is Life, Light, and Love, eternal were called in CHRIST JESUS--"Therefore let no man glory in men." As if outward nature, thou hast, within thee, a Seed of Eternal Life, a Birth Spirit to every man, to profit withal;" that "GOD so loved the world, 60996 best short Life of Abraham Lincoln; though the author''s New England what different authorities have said about Abraham Lincoln''s religion. Herndon''s statement concerning Thomas Lincoln''s religion is as follows: The influence of life in New Salem upon the mind of Abraham Lincoln was Lincoln never denied having written a book on the subject of religion, Of Lincoln''s habit of public worship during his Presidency, Rev. William Henry Roberts, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General hand, is it possible that in the freedom of personal conversation Mr. Lincoln may have said some things which he would not have been likely Mr. Lincoln believed in Jesus as the Christ of God, as the Christian to knowing what Bateman told Herndon that Lincoln had said to him. Herndon was a great reader; Lincoln seldom read a book a great Boston man said, ''Lincoln died at the right time,'' he did not 6107 Christianity.] Our answer to the question, Is Jesus a Myth? there was a man called Jesus, who said many helpful things, and led an like the above that can prove a man a God. Has Jesus kept his promise? early Christian times, it is not Jesus, but a lamb, which is bleeding The early Fathers made this Jew admit that Jesus was the Son of God. Of course, the admission was a forgery. the miracle-working Jesus of the gospels was not known in Paul''s time, There was ignorance in the world before Christianity; has Jesus faith in the world when "the son of man cometh"; and it was Jesus who called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," Dr. Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people''s right to Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though 6135 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the Blessed be God for this work of the Holy Spirit within the heart sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans into the family of God. But the truth is that the Holy Spirit empowered to work for God. Many have looked at the promise of power when the Holy Ghost is It is the work of the Holy Spirit to guide the people of God Now, when the Holy Spirit finds His way into the heart of a man, God is love, and the Holy Spirit is ceaselessly striving to make Jesus came into the world to reveal God''s truth and love to men, Holy Spirit, the word of God is studied, and its heavenly truths Such men talk with God as friend with friend, and the Holy Spirit 61394 people to prepare for the day of God. I had loved books generally, but, there for the first time saw that great and good man, William Miller. God raised up Paul to do a great work in his time. So William Miller, in the hands of God, was the man for his time. the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom which for the coming of the Son of man, the power of God came upon me to that to have resting upon him a solemn sense of the great day of God near when and where God works for his people, just there is the time and speedy coming, who are yet strong in the faith, giving glory to God. This winter''s campaign produced an excitement throughout New England, faith in the sure word, and the work of God in their Second-Advent 6144 Consecration of Bishop Seabury, and on the third day of August, Bishop of Connecticut and of the Episcopal Church in the United he might discharge the office of the Bishop in the Church of God Church of the Annunciation, New York, great-grandson of Bishop SAMUEL SEABURY, D.D. WAS CONSECRATED FIRST BISHOP OF CONNECTICUT AT ABERDEEN, office of a Bishop in the Church of God. It forms no part of my purpose to enter into all the details of the House of Bishops of our Church, presented and read an address Church, Hartford, a memorial to Bishop Brownell, of whom he said left by Bishop Seabury to St. James''s Church, New London. to the Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church for their helping the Diocese, from the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland here in Scotland the office of Bishop in the Church of God, and Bishops of the Church of England. 61455 "Dolly''s to be a good girl till mammy comes back," said the child, little ''un again?" said Tony, with an eager face. "I s''pose he''ll help you to take care of the little girl," said Tony. about the old man''s look of age and the little child''s sweet face But Oliver and Dolly had no eyes but for Tony, and they "No, no!" said old Oliver; "Dolly''s going to be a very good girl, and Old Oliver and Dolly made several visits to Tony while he was in the Just as Oliver was too old to feel any anxiety about Dolly, so Tony "She''s very thin, Tony; look at this little arm," he said, "wasting "Yes, my little love," cried old Oliver, moaning as he said it. "Well, I''m only Tony," he answered; "but I live with old Mr. Oliver "Ever since our little Dolly died," said Tony, in a faltering voice. 61457 was out of my hand; but I did not mean to let Chandos know that, or "But you know it wasn''t Chandos," I said, thinking he must have seen "Oh, never mind Chandos; come and rub down this mast," said Tom, "Didn''t you know Chandos was a sneak before to-day?" said Tom, "Well, who cares what you think?" said Tom, laughing; and he tried to think I shall like that better than going to his place, for I fancy "Yes, I''m off," said Tom, nodding to me; but I wanted Miss Chandos to "So do I," said Chandos; "and if I thought praying to God and trying "I tell you, Tom, you''re mistaken in thinking Chandos is a coward, tell what I have said, Chandos; but if they are together, Tom is the "Suppose you get it--and you may, you know," said Chandos; "you would 6172 I cannot believe that the Bible version of the relations of man and God I do not believe it to contain any divine revelation of God to man. other is the new theory: that the Bible is the work of many men whom God God, called by Christians "Our Heavenly Father," created all things. In the New Testament Christ compares God, as Heavenly Father to Man, to If the success of the Christian religion proves that Christ was God, 3. All Christians believe that Man has sinned and does sin against God. 6. Most Christians believe that Christ was God. Christ is said to be God Himself, come down to win back to Himself Man, Christians accepting the theory of evolution have to believe that God The Christian says God _gave_ Man a will. Man cannot sin against God. Christians speak of the will as if it were a kind of separate soul, a 62273 And saith that when the said Susanna was apprehended concerning Grace the body of the said Grace Thomas, which this examinant at first did that the said Black man or Devil with her, this examinant did do some this informant further saith--That the said Temperance did also confess And this Informant did hear the said Temperance confess that on Friday This informant further saith that he heard the said Temperance And this informant did hear the said Temperance confess that she this informant did hear Susanna Edwards confess, that the Devil did hear the said Susanna Edwards and Mary Trembles say and confess unto the said Susanna Edwards "O thou Rogue, I will now confess all: And further saith that the said Susanna did confess that the Devil further saith that she did hear the said Susanna Edwards to confess said Grace Barnes was in great pains with prickings and stabbings unto 6310 The mother anxiously looked at her son, then said, "Remember Walter, "Just try a little, Walter," said the mother coaxingly, "I know it father asked, "Walter, what part of the Bible shall we start to study "Why father," said Walter, "I did not know that you had ever read or before he could answer the boy, so said, "We know that God is good and The boy looked up and said, "I was trying to think, when God started "Yes, Walter," said his father, "it is time that we retire, for there mean by this that we all think and believe that God made man materially Before the pastor could answer, Walter said, "Mother, father thinks Many times Walter asked his father when he would take up their Bible said that God was the intelligence or mind of man; he, himself, believed "Good-night, Walter," said both his father and mother, as he turned 63298 propaganda of Democratic principles by new and young men, while the Democracy now means the people against the organized money power. party, representing the common people, gets control of the country speaker''s work, will consist of unadvertised outdoor meetings. men, helped by a dozen boys, take their places around the speaker, Our volunteers will accomplish a great work for humanity indeed if one million young people into a prayer meeting society. world has ever seen, the organizers and workers of the new Democracy life of our great cities, the place where society meets, (not that class, a church or a nation; it is to MEN for MAN. the principles of the New Democracy; so will there be rich men, who, The Democratic party in power in 1900 controlled by the common people WHEN A MAN IS ROBBED, THE WAY FOR HIM TO GET MONEY IS NOT TO WORK FOR 6367 to think that, having received orders from heaven to repair a church, Of the three churches which Francis had repaired, he chose that of St. Mary of the Angels for his residence, in order to honor the Mother of the feet of the holy man, and joyfully received the orders he gave reasoning, said to Francis: "My son, pray to Jesus Christ that He may "This king, most Holy Father," continued Francis, "is our Lord Jesus him, went to Francis, and said, "My Father, all is in good order at Francis said: "My dear brother, God preserve us from this sort of Christ, which Francis received from the hand of the living God, some great light in the Church of God, and that through him his Order would The man of God finding the day of his death, which Jesus Christ had father desired; but, instead of that, he said: "Brother Francis, God 6371 as the "Purgatory of Saint Patrick", as well as the Story of Luis vision in the night: and behold Patrick entered his palace as all on Grant me thy leave, great lord, since thou dost know I scarce dare in words to tell thee. Being my slave, thy God will free thee By God and man, should slay thee by my hand, I ask, O Lord, may from Thy hand be given, Patrick, God has heard Thy prayer, Who thy soul this day shall free If in God''s great name shall Patrick shall tell thee in Order what thou art to do, and to suffer. Torments (say the Devils to the Soldier) shalt thou suffer, except as were sufficient to chill the Blood of the most hard-hearted Man. Here (say the Devils to the Soldier) shalt thou Bath, and with that lead an ill Life and pollute thy Body with Sin; behold thou hast seen 6440 "Yes, ma''am; Elsie Dinsmore," replied the little girl. "Dear little Elsie," she said, folding the child in her arms, when they "Come in," said Rose, and Elsie entered, looking as bright and fresh "Elsie," said Adelaide, as Miss Allison and the little girl entered the "I thought you liked me, little Elsie," said Travilla, in a tone of "I will try, papa," said the little girl, wiping her eyes, and making a The two little girls were seated together at the table, Elsie''s papa "Thank you, Lucy," said Elsie, with a little sigh, "I would like to be "Yes," said Elsie, "papa wants me always to look very nice and neat; "Elsie," said her father, still looking a little uneasy, in spite of "Thank you, dear papa, for saying that," said Elsie, raising her head "Dear papa," Elsie said, when he came in again and smilingly asked if 6481 cautiously the use of the new remedies; first in mild cases of disease, and learned man, believe that Swedenborg''s writings contain truths good and them, by precept and example, to shun their use as sins against God. After reading "Heaven and Hell" I read the "True Christian Religion," which wisdom proceed, and give life to man''s spiritual body; from the natural sun doctrines, and the receiving of new light and life from the Lord. shun evils as sins against God, and strive to live a life according to the The Christian Church at this day, first of all, needs true doctrines which spiritual life--the laws of health, the causes of prevailing diseases, and believers in a new revelation of Divine truth from God to man. fermented wine in our New-Church periodicals in the course of five or six the diseases and deaths which result from drinking fermented wine and other 6494 Mr. World and Miss Church-Member entering the Valley of Conviction 3. Mr. World meets Miss Church-Member at a place called Fellowship. 1. In their journey Mr. World and Miss Church-Member come to the By-Path leading to the King''s Highway; on this Miss Church-Member urges Mr. World to travel. 2. Miss Church-Member, still hoping to win Mr. World to a better path, As I saw Mr. World and Miss Church-Member moving on, in closer After leaving the Hill of Remorse and the pleasure grounds of Apathy, Mr. World and Miss Church-Member proceeded on the Broad Highway which now Mr. World and Miss Church-Member continuing on the Broad Highway, I saw that Mr. World and Miss Church-Member next visited the hall I saw Mr. World and Miss Church-Member pass by one sub-department after The elevators were put in quick service, and I saw Mr. World and Miss Church-Member, with thousands of others, running from 6509 3 Mary, I am Jesus the Son of said, I thank thee, O God, thou 15 Mary washes Christ''s swaddling clothes, hangs them to the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. 25 And said to her son, O Jesus praised God, saying, O Jesus, son and said, Do thou place thy son in cloth of the Lord Jesus, fire went I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son boy, hearing of St. Mary and her son 15 Whereupon the Jews praise God. AND when the Lord Jesus was saying, O our Lord Jesus, son of Jesus said to the boys, Let us go Lord Jesus was with some boys away, and the Lord Jesus said to and said, O Lord Jesus, from and said, O Lord Jesus, from and said, O Lord Jesus, from and said, O Lord Jesus, from and said, O Lord Jesus, from and said, O Lord Jesus, from 6510 from the power of God. 7 The Jews replied to Pilate, 4 Pilate then calling Jesus, said, and said to him, Art thou the king 10 Pilate said, Art thou a king 19 The Jews said to Pilate, Did 19 The Jews said to Pilate, Did 19 The Jews said to Pilate, Did 19 The Jews said to Pilate, Did 19 The Jews said to Pilate, Did another Jew said, I saw Jesus but God. 43 Pilate said to the Jews, Why fifteen men who said that Jesus 4 But Jesus said, My Father, Jesus, If thou art the Christ, 13 Jesus answering, said to 13 Jesus answering, said to 13 Jesus answering, said to 13 Jesus answering, said to said, Father, into thy hands I he said, Blessed be the Lord God, said, Glorify the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ, that thou art a man from the Lord God Jesus Christ, 6511 God, and the genuine Epistle of Christ.] God. Paul replied, The grace of 11 Then Paul went into the house for they shall be the temple of God. 14 Blessed are the temperate 1 Thecla listens anxiously to Paul''s preaching. when we came to the knowledge of God. 6 Thamyris having this account people with staves, and said to Paul; 1 Paul accused before the governor by Thamyris. him the great things of God. 12 And as she perceived Paul 4 Brought with Paul before the governor. said to herself, Paul is come to see 7 Thecla discovers Paul; 12 Then said Thecla to Paul, 15 Paul answered, Thecla, wait 1 Paul and Thecla go to Antioch. and said: O Lord God of heaven and 21 Thecla replied: May that God 24 So Thecla went with Trifina, 25 But Thecla longed to see Paul, 1 Thecla visits Paul; PAUL AND THECLA. PAUL AND THECLA. 6512 3 And the Lord said unto Cain, Hold thy peace: unto thee shall world, and went unto his holy obeyed the commands of God. 5 By obedience he went out of himself from Lot, God said unto I know that the Lord your God has give, so shall it be given unto so shall God be kind to you; with we should become obedient unto God, own pride, rather than God. 6 Let us reverence our Lord God. 12 Let your children be bred and heard by God, let us fear 7 Let our praise be of God, not ministered at the altar of God. 16 From him came our Lord 8 For thus God says; Let us But unto the wicked, God said, he is placed by the gift of God. 34 Let not the strong man despise let the poor bless God, that he has Even such only as God shall 6513 unto me, saith the Lord. the Lord shall answer; thou shalt stone, written by the hand of God. 9 But having turned themselves himself to be the Son of God. For had he not come in the flesh, saith the Lord God; Enter ye temple unto the Lord. who is the Lord of all, and shall shall see Christ on that day having that he was the Son of God. 12 As therefore he shall be saith the Lord your God, (Here I that I am the Lord God. 6 And again: he shall dwell shall be bitten, let him come unto said unto my Lord, sit thou on my and two people shall come from 9 If therefore God shall have I the Lord thy God have called the Lord God will bring all things temple of the Lord shall be very unto God. Thou shalt abhor all 6514 our Lord Jesus Christ shall also according to the will of God. 12 For even Jesus Christ, our may attain unto God. Let them Lord Jesus Christ, the bishop of together unto God. 12 These things, my beloved, I according to God. 6 Be subject to your bishop, and all joy in Jesus Christ our God. 2 Forasmuch as I have at last God. 6 But if you shall love my body, of God. If I shall suffer, ye have Jesus Christ, which God hath deacons, as the command of God. 2 Let no man do any thing bishop, shall be honoured of God; things; so shall Jesus Christ you. shall attain unto God; and through our God, Jesus Christ; in whom our God, Jesus Christ; in whom our God, Jesus Christ; in whom our God, Jesus Christ; in whom towards God and towards Christ, deacons, as unto God and Christ. 6516 said, The Lord God hath heard Joseph, Fear the Lord thy God, The Lord God hath heard thy said, I thank thee, O God, thou called holy unto God. 6 At that time old Simeon saw unto God, and said, Blessed and said, Do thou place thy son in 15 Whereupon the Jews praise God. AND when the Lord Jesus was he said, Blessed be the Lord God, from the Lord God Jesus Christ, Hold thy peace: unto thee shall the Lord shall answer; thou shalt said unto my Lord, sit thou on my for he shall hardly live unto God. 23 And I said, Sir, I am restored shall live unto God. COMMAND VI. shall live unto God. COMMAND VI. his works, thou shalt live unto God. And as many as shall submit to things, cannot live unto God. 5 But hear, said he, what from God; and thou shall receive 6583 world''s gaze, which creates in the heart evil impressions, frivolous Be then full of confidence and hope, young soul, to whom God mind and heart and attract the complaisant regard of God and the It is not going too far to say that a woman''s mind is in her heart; so to speak, on woman''s heart and man''s intelligence, as on the two the soul nearest to God. Love those hidden virtues, so modest and towards God and his parents; but the woman whose heart is not Woman''s heart languishes for God, because it thirsts after the good necessary things which instruct the mind, fortify the heart, and the mind to think of God, of the salvation of your soul, the your mind and heart with a genuine love for the true and beautiful. looking for God in our own heart; but in order to find Him there we 6598 Care of the skin--Dress--Sleep--Bathing--Change of air--Habits--Dangers room, bed, and person of the patient to be kept neat--Care to preserve modes of economizing labor, time, and expenses, so as to secure health, labor from each house,)--suppose each family to train the children to a large portion of food needful to growth and health, and every night hair-like blood-vessels, called capillaries, that line these air-cells, a house constructed to secure pure and moist air by day and night for with pure air, as is rarely the case in rooms heated by stoves. stoves save labor and warm the air, the great majority of people, Rules for persons in full health, who enjoy pure air and exercise, are Persons in perfect health, and especially young children, never receive Every woman who has the care of young children, or of a large family, In case open Franklin stoves are used in the large rooms, the pure air 6657 gift of God in Christ Jesus and through the Holy Spirit; and when the from the body, but to separate sin from the soul is a work which God Jesus Christ is our sanctification, and the Holy Spirit is Entire sanctification is an act of God''s grace by which inbred sin is present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, men and women need the Holy Ghost baptism which consumes inbred sin, alive unto God through Jesus Christ, our Lord." holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by consecration to God, they were sanctified by the Holy Ghost. "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ." This is the "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ." This is the clean heart, the perfect love, the entire sanctification, the Holy 6669 may God, the Holy Spirit, help you to come out and be unto God. This is giving up sin in your heart, in purpose, in it; they wanted to live a better life, to love God in a sort of people who know just what God wants of them. and live." "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be God. Let every saint present, ask in faith for the light of the Holy "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved," and now when the Holy Ghost had come, and Paul had got the Divine Charity, think some of God''s people are afraid; they don''t like the feeling coming right out, and saying, "Now, Lord Jesus; I want to know Thy sins not, that he loves God with all his heart, and soul, and mind, 6720 The Wentworth Letter by Joseph Smith, Jun. as published in the Times and Seasons Vol. 3 No. 9, 1 March 1842 fully, believing that if God had a church it would not be split up hands of God to bring about some of His purposes in this glorious blessings of God being finally withdrawn from them as a people was record by the gift, and power of God. In this important and interesting book the history of ancient by these records that America in ancient times has been inhabited by away from me, but the power and blessing of God attended me, and rapidity, and churches were formed in the states of New York, We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in his son Jesus We believe that a man must be called of God by "prophesy, and We believe the bible to be the word of God as far as it is 6733 whose time-table on week days during winter is as follows:-devastation over the country, he privately received the holy order of In his memoir Father Vincent speaks of having bought a large tract of land near the sea in Nova Scotia, and of having built a house Tracadie with another worthy priest of his Order, Father Francis, a thought that time might be long in coming, I summoned my brothers to little town, which was called Milford, was quite near to the land twenty-six canoes filled with Indians arrived there; they came to have visit the sick in town and country, and be on my feet day and night, souls if we follow it, this religion that comes from God, whose son following: One day while I was in Halifax, a number of Indians came consolations of religion to many families of Indians who lived on the 6744 receive remission of sins for Christ''s sake, only through faith. we obtain the remission of sins for Christ''s sake, and that by faith because of our fulfilling of the Law, we have a gracious God. Paul teaches this in Gal. 3, 13, when he says: Christ hath redeemed Christ''s sake, because of His promise, they have a gracious God. Thus works can never render a conscience pacified, but only the God by faith for Christ''s sake, but imagine that good works, wrought works of ours, but for Christ''s sake by faith; nor does God owe us faith for Christ''s sake; because men judge by nature that God ought sins for Christ''s sake, that by faith we ought to oppose to God''s the remission of sins and by faith is accounted righteous before God. Neither does Christ or Paul praise virginity because it justifies, 6757 buy her flowers, sir, she has got no mother or father, God help her, little flower-girl, and he looked rather sternly at her, and said, "See, sir; you said you gave me sixpence, and Mr. Williams says there are twenty sixpences in this little bit of money." how little did good Mrs. Newton think she would be selling flowers But it came to pass, that when Fanny was nearly six years old, Mrs. Newton''s husband fell very ill; it was a very bad, and very expensive taught to know God''s works, the child looked very sad and thoughtful "Do you think I could, ma''am?" said Fanny, opening her hand and looking told him, if he was satisfied with all he saw and heard, to invite Mrs. Newton and the little flower-girl to leave London, and go and live in "Look at the little things," said William; "they thought their mother "Yes," Mary said, "these poor little birds will long teach us a lesson. 6849 "I shall ask you, Sergius, to return to the city to-night, for inquiry Like him is the man who, thinking to know God, of God; asking hearing and belief, not worship; begging men to come Next day about noon the Prince of India took the galley, and set out The Prince''s look and manner changed, and he took the monk''s hand. pausing, he pointed to the Emperor, and said, solemnly: "My Lord, thou Having heard from Mahommed, he was lord of his time, and here was noble About that time Sergius looked up to the Princess, whose face shone out One day an order was placed in the Count''s hand, directing him to find Coming near, the Prince raised his eyes--stopped--smiled--and said: Mahommed turned as the Prince spoke, and let his eyes rest a moment "Take it in hand, Lord Mahommed," said the Prince of India. 6883 Having read a French edition of the Life of Venerable Sister Bourgeois, assistance to Sister Bourgeois in after years, in the establishment of hour_, on which Sister Bourgeois received the first miraculous favor Sister Bourgeois had now lived four years in Ville-Marie, during which Having unbounded confidence in Sister Bourgeois, he desired her Sister Bourgeois burned with zeal to advance the glory of God in the New CANADA--SISTER BOURGEOIS SUCCEEDS IN BUILDING THE CHURCH OF "NOTRE DAME CANADA--SISTER BOURGEOIS SUCCEEDS IN BUILDING THE CHURCH OF "NOTRE DAME de Laval met Sister Bourgeois for the first time, during the voyage from joy, and accompanied by her new companions, Sister Bourgeois went to The following day Sister Bourgeois called upon him, Bourgeois, Foundress of the Congregation Sisters of this city, but _first_ Mother in time and in eternity, but begged Sister Bourgeois to of God. Sister Bourgeois relates that during the first eight or nine 6976 or Ten Years'' Work among the Tsimshean Indians," published by the Church on the coast was related some years ago to Mr. Duncan by an old chief:-worked, and the profound stupor which the Indians felt each time come the head chief came to beg me to give up school for a little time. originated, brought home with him a little journal kept, during Mr. Duncan''s absence at Victoria, by one of the Tsimshean boys at Fort "The next day, the 28th May, we arrived at our new home about two p.m. The Indians I had sent on before me with the raft I found hard at work, which it pleased Almighty God to visit the Indians of this coast last before, an Indian from a tribe living thirty miles off had come to Mr. Duncan, and with great emotion confessed himself a murderer, saying 6983 Chiefs has said, "the time is passed for my people to live by hunting My first service among the Indians was held in a little log-house on Indians, and during the week I visited a good deal among the people, my After I had thanked the Indians for making my little boy one of plan, and in the end I started alone by steamboat, with my tent, campbed, a good stock of books, provisions, &c., and a Garden River Indian reached a little creek, and the Indian boys told us that their River Indians--and in a little time all was packed on board his scow, some little time, and then said that the Indians were going to hold a boy." he said, "we Indians cannot bear to be parted from our children, time visiting the Indian houses, among them that of an old man of 7016 life of holiness and service to God. Did you ever see a potter at work on a piece of clay making a vessel of matter of consecration to God. You might begin this way: I desire to be wholly the Lord''s: my will I Let your faith wrap its arms around God''s promise, and the work is done. Some time ago I consecrated to God for entire sanctification and thought Pilgrim Exactly: "By the grace of God, I solemnly promise never to doubt When the little old dwarf Giant Doubtful came out that day, Pilgrim that every time I met Mistake, old Giant Discourager was with him. "Oh, Pilgrim Victory, tell us of your battle with Giants Discourager and Nearly every pilgrim in Canaan has met Giant Bad Feelings, a doughty old over old Giant Bad Feelings, Pilgrim Sunshine! How do you feel now?'' said old Giant Doubt. 7026 When I was a little girl about nine years old, my mother gave me the "But," said the first little boy, "My mother Soon the elder girl said: "You know, Annie, that a good while ago Mother There on the side-walk did these two little children ask God to send Some said: "God bless the little girl." Hearing some person say a little child; and as he left home that afternoon and looked his last side, and said: ''I thank God that he ever gave me a little praying "But, Mama, I don''t think God wants little girls to come to Him when face, and said: "Father, if I should die, will you promise to love Jesus "Mother, you have forgotten my soul," so said a little girl, three years "I would not like to have my little boy go," said the mother, looking 7069 Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast 2. Sin here appears as having power to bar men''s way to God. Much hopeful and successful, the great fact that Jesus Christ, God''s own thing that parts a man from God, and makes it impossible for a heart to presence of God.'' It is an ugly phrase, but it means a great thing, God and fails to find Him. No man has less goodness and Christ-likeness second-hand, and was much more imitation of Abram than obedience to God. Lot teaches us that material good may tempt and conquer, even after it Faith unites sinful men to God in Christ; therefore it makes faith, and by true communion of heart and life, God''s amplest provision ''The God which fed me all my life long unto this day; Lord God shall come with _strong_ hand; He shall feed His flock like a 7338 Jesus Christ recognized this desire of man to know his standing with Here was a new conception of God. Through Christ man comes into personal relations with God as the The special mission of Jesus Christ was to place man in the right taught the great love of God for man. the life of a man and that God is seeking to come directly into touch No man ever so ministered to men as Jesus Christ. 4. Belief in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour of men, who The great men, whose life stories are given in the Bible, were God spiritual life of man" through Jesus Christ (John 1:1-18), who came The Approach of Man to God.--"All men pray at some time or other, of Jesus Christ God has shown His love for man while yet a who does not love God. Heart faith in Christ leads a man to follow 7351 They said, ''No man can forgive sins but God only.'' If Christ was only a principle, and it is this: ''Do I love God in Jesus Christ, or do I Christ; but we look for that same Jesus to come the second time to be that faith in Jesus Christ puts a new nature into any man, however speech of God to men, in Jesus Christ our Saviour, the principle of how little of all this ever comes to God. Contrast the indifference of the men and the awfulness of the things life and death of Jesus Christ, regarded as God''s sacrifice for the that Jesus Christ, the eternal Word of God, left the ninety-and-nine away from, the Christ of the Gospels, who said, ''The Son of Man came of Man, ye have no life in you.'' The very heart of Christ''s gift to sins do not turn away the love of God in Christ from us. 7403 Christ, which has already received in this life the pledge of love for God light and holy desire before God that the soul will seem to fatten on his beholding with great consolation and reverence the servants of God. Beware lest thou do like mad and foolish people who want to set themselves the holy and sweet grace of God. May Christ the Blessed give thee His said words so sweet as to break one''s heart, of the goodness of God. I waited for him then at the place of justice; and waited there with keep that good and holy and true faithful will which I know that God in Remain in the holy and sweet grace of God. Forgive me should I have talked too presumptuously; the love of thy me, since for the love of God and of virtue and of Holy Church I should 7437 ''Poor little tired lamb!'' said the mother, as the weary child nestled up to ''I''ll tell you some time, Rosalie,'' said her mother gently, a minute or two ''Rosalie,'' said her mother suddenly, ''would you like to hear about the time ''Please tell me, mammie dear,'' said Rosalie, as her mother stopped ''It''s mine, father,'' said little Rosalie; ''an old gentleman in the fair ''Please, Good Shepherd,'' said Rosalie, looking up at the stars, ''come and ''Oh, Rosalie,'' said her mother, looking round, ''I didn''t come to Him ''Rosalie,'' said her father''s voice, at the door of the caravan, ''come into ''Yes, mammie dear, if you''ll come with me,'' said little Rosalie. ''Won''t you ask Him, dear Mother Manikin?'' said Rosalie. ''Yes,'' said Rosalie''s mother; ''I can talk a little now. ''But it''s true, little Rosalie,'' said her mother; ''and I want you to know ''Little Rosalie,'' said her mother, ''my darling, are you going?--must you 749 have told thee already how thy father hath dealt with the wise men and "Then, after long seasons, Christ our God shall come to judge the world God, judge thou the earth, because "the fierceness of man shall turn to the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.'' Then shalt thou call, and Again said Ioasaph, "The Lord God prosper thee, O thou Wisest of men! and wise king the way of salvation, understand thou that I, thy poor Barlaam said unto him, "I pray God to teach thee this, and to plant in good things shall give thee opportunity, then shalt thou come to us, Lord: and thou becomest a son of God, and temple of the Holy Ghost, the thee, even as thou hast approached the living and true God, so walk I thank thee, Lord, thou lover of men, and God 7495 efforts to win souls to Christ and to help bring about Christian union different peoples of the earth who know not the revelation of God in restored to me Christ, God and his Word of truth. care, "all things work together for good to them that love God." When I believe and know that he is the Christ of God (John 17:20, 23). Word of God, the question naturally arose, which church shall I join, The primary meaning of the word _church_ is a local body of Christians A Christian''s work in the local church is obligatory under Christ. needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15); "I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, The Bible names given to the church and to the followers of Christ, church of New Testament times will satisfy the demands of God''s Word. 7786 in this way we realise that there is a God, a personal living God. I asked a Christian man one day if he had prayed about some work which was "Have faith in God." St. John said, "We have known and believed the love living Father; for it means God in His infinite love has taken my life All through His life on earth our Lord always speaks to God as Father. "No man hath seen God at any time," [Footnote: St. John i. about God as Father comes from the lips of Jesus, and it is in this way He "Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." [Footnote: the Blood of Jesus Christ, God''s Son, "cleanseth us from all sin." God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ." [Footnote: Acts xx. Jesus Christ, God''s Son, cleanseth us from all sin." [Footnote: 1 John i. 7883 life, of men''s hearts, of God''s ways. O Lord, Thou art our God; let not man prevail Christians and men who really are living by the power of faith in God ''none of his steps shall slide.'' The man who walks holding God''s hand before the Lord our God, we shall best establish our ways in the sense It sets forth the stages by which men can approach to God. It is symbolic of spiritual facts, and prophetic of Christ''s work and This passage tells us how God prepared a man for a great work, and how living with God, sees earth, and sin, and life, and death, and the desires of thine heart.'' Does that mean that if a man loves God he may on the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord, as being the life which 7925 In like manner the man who has God at his right hand may be sure of the love of God, if it come into a man''s heart in any real sense, in the mercies of God, let His conquering love thaw our cold hearts into God''s love depend upon that great fact in the past, that ''the Lord was divine nature which is turned to man; or, in plainer words still, God, confident, and we shall be encouraged to expect great things of God. Have you widened your prayers, dear friend!--and I do not mean by that and heart by which a man commits his spirit to God in life may be his Would a beam of light from God, coming in upon your life, be like a treasures, and loves, that will calm and still thy soul but only God. The words of my text spring from a necessity felt by every man, 7938 Virgilia watched her mother, with an anxious look on her young face. To Virgilia in her severest tone: "Thou art exactly like thy "Not so, dear mother," said a cheerful voice, "Martius has returned to Far out on the Campagna, Virgilia knew that the Christians were Virgilia knew, however, that the time must come soon when, if she was little older than Martius and Virgilia, and the lawyer, while saying "Because Martius, son of Aurelius, is a Christian," he replied, and in detaining hand on his arm, said: "I see that thou art a man to be "Thou hast been long absent, Martius?" she said, while she twirled in their mother thought that some day the Apostle would come to Rome, it "Thou art late to-night, father," said Lidia, reaching up her hardened "For a feast, your father said," replied the slave, leaving Virgilia Martius and the Lady Virgilia went 7977 Bede says that souls in Purgatory were seen to pass from very great prayers the relief of the poor suffering souls in Purgatory? great mercy, has permitted some souls suffering in Purgatory to appear of Purgatory to a soul that truly loves God and frames a right conceit Not a prayer can be said for the Holy Souls, but God is at once prayers and good works, the soul of his sister would have suffered in account of thy prayers, I will soon release this soul from Purgatory." you truly love me, offer up for my soul Masses, prayers, alms-deeds, MORIARTY, LL.D. Purgatory is a state of suffering for such souls as have left this life indulgence for the souls in Purgatory, so great that these days are Another Mass was to be said every day for "souls of good memory," devotion to the souls in Purgatory, all their prayers and works for 7999 01:007:001 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God. 05:024:014 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set 05:028:036 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. 8044 and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and 44:003:012 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made unto God. 44:005:005 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 44:011:002 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the 44:011:027 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. 44:015:036 And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again 44:023:003 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to 8045 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus 45:002:011 For there is no respect of persons with God. 45:002:012 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish 45:002:016 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus and all the world may become guilty before God. 45:003:020 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. instruments of righteousness unto God. 45:006:014 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under 45:008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me according to the will of God. 45:008:028 And we know that all things work together for good to them themselves unto the righteousness of God. 45:010:004 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every 8046 46:001:027 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the 46:001:030 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 46:002:010 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the freely given to us of God. 46:002:013 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man''s shall every man have praise of God. 46:004:006 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 46:006:012 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not think also that I have the Spirit of God. 46:008:001 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all Christ is God. 46:011:004 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, 8047 47:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 47:001:005 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our unto the glory of God by us. 47:002:015 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 47:005:019 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. 47:008:006 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he 47:011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed 47:011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed 47:013:014 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and 8048 into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of the law shall no flesh be justified. unto God. 48:002:020 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto 48:003:011 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty 48:003:021 Is the law then against the promises of God? promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that 48:003:026 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and 8049 49:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the 49:001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who 49:001:009 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according 49:001:017 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, 49:002:010 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his 49:003:021 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all kingdom of Christ and of God. 49:005:006 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these 49:005:020 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in 49:005:024 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 49:006:024 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in 8050 the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. 50:001:012 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things that of God. 50:001:029 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to 50:002:005 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 50:002:019 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto 50:002:030 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom God in Christ Jesus. if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 50:004:023 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 8051 51:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and 51:001:002 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 51:001:003 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 51:001:004 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love 51:001:012 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ 51:002:006 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk flesh by the circumcision of Christ: above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 51:003:002 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. of God, which have been a comfort unto me. 8052 Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the 52:001:004 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. 52:001:005 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in 52:002:001 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his 52:003:011 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus 52:004:015 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8053 Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 53:001:002 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 53:001:012 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in Lord Jesus Christ. 53:002:001 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus 53:002:003 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 53:002:016 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, 53:003:003 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you 53:003:006 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus 53:003:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 8054 54:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our 54:001:002 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 54:001:008 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 54:001:018 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the 54:001:019 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put the man Christ Jesus; shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, 54:005:021 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 54:006:011 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after 54:006:012 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, 8055 55:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 55:001:014 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy 55:001:016 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be 55:002:003 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus 55:003:012 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith 55:004:001 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, 55:004:005 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work 55:004:018 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will 55:004:022 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. 8056 according to the faith of God''s elect, and the acknowledging which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God 56:001:016 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work 56:002:001 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 56:002:002 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, 56:002:006 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 56:002:007 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. 56:002:011 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; of good works. shewing all meekness unto all men. 56:003:004 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward 56:003:008 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou 8057 57:001:001 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, 57:001:005 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 57:001:009 Yet for love''s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 57:001:012 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine 57:001:020 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my 57:001:021 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing 57:001:023 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; 57:001:025 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 8058 58:001:002 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he 58:001:008 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and things is God. 58:003:005 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 58:003:013 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day 58:005:010 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. 58:007:020 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 58:011:004 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the 8059 59:001:005 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to 59:001:007 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath 59:001:013 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for 59:001:019 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 59:002:014 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath 59:002:018 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me 59:002:020 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is called the Friend of God. 59:002:024 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by 59:005:015 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord 8060 sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and 60:001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which 60:001:005 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. to God by Jesus Christ. good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of God. 60:002:021 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered 60:003:018 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 60:004:019 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God 60:005:010 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, 8061 righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 61:001:003 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 61:003:003 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days 61:003:008 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day 61:003:011 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what 61:003:012 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, 61:003:014 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be 61:003:017 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, 8062 declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness 62:002:001 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin 62:002:008 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true 62:002:012 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might 62:004:020 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 62:005:002 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love 62:005:003 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: of God hath not life. of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, 62:005:020 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an 8063 63:001:001 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth 63:001:004 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the 63:001:006 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. 63:001:007 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not This is a deceiver and Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 63:001:010 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to 63:001:013 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. 8065 65:001:001 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to Jesus Christ, and called: 65:001:002 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. 65:001:003 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and which was once delivered unto the saints. of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 65:001:010 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 8066 tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 66:002:008 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. 66:004:006 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto 66:005:010 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto 66:011:012 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, fault before the throne of God. 66:014:006 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the 66:014:013 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed 66:021:003 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the 8068 ''Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these believe that the law of a man''s life is, ''Thou shalt love the Lord thy ''When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in gathers up all duty into ''Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'' and our Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in simple word ''love,'' then it cannot but be that we shall be like Him. That is what Paul meant when he said, ''Now are ye light in the Lord.'' And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel when 8069 ''repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ,'' is experience, we are to understand that great thought that God burns away proclaim that the only food for a man is God. Jesus Christ brings the food that we need. have sinned and come short of the glory of God. By His life He The world needs God''s coming in judgment more than ever; and it says fountains of waters, and God, the Lord, shall wipe away all tears from So Christ''s work is God''s coming to bring near His righteousness, and ''The Lord God will help Me.'' So Christ lived by faith. God, which taketh away the sin of the world.'' Look at that life, that from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'' senses of the word, is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who 8071 That good news about Christ and God brings to a man salvation, if he which constitutes ''the gospel.'' The life and death of Jesus Christ for ''The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; 2. love and present power of Jesus Christ. that, if a man is not knit to Christ by heart''s love and obedience, of the characteristics which mark the true disciple of Jesus Christ. and Christ, and the true means of performing the commandments of God. There must be a passing over into us of His own life-spirit. not, like his, desire above all things the presence of Jesus Christ; Now, a great many people seem to think that what Jesus Christ brings What are the powers by which Christ works upon men''s hearts? sinful spirit needs the simple Gospel of salvation by Jesus Christ Lord, and your Saviour, and your God. The Cross of Jesus Christ 8114 thoughts; not as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--not as a appear devoted to Books: a little reading goes far with them; and the Truly, I saw that day the works of the Lord and his wonders in the great Yes, God''s works in the great deep are indeed wonders. natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, and mourned One of Jack''s lovely thoughts was this: he told me that when little in the sight of God I found no evil in those dear little books, but the and fine-looking young man, with the mind of a little babe as regards "God see poor mam one; Jesus Christ love God, who gave him to me, you may thank your young friend for what little the Lord Jesus came, and saying to God, "My Jack," would put his arm 8140 And the Lord God said, Behold the man has become as one of us, to know mother ate an apple contrary to the command of an arbitrary God. A very pious friend of mine, having heard that I had said the world was God created the world and imposed upon men certain laws, and then let time protested and said, of course, let the man think, if you call that the man came to believe that he could please God by having read a few joy." He didn''t believe that God so loved the world that He intended Do you believe that it is right--that God made one man to work for Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be Do you believe in a God that allowed a man to be In this book I read about God''s making the world and one man. 8191 Death and Work of our Lord Jesus Christ which I have contributed from time The purpose of His life and death was to manifest God in the flesh, that He became a man that men might know to what depths of love and service a one thing needful; the great multitude of the sorrowful, which no man can if he believes with his heart that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, infant life--but a _man_ in Christ Jesus, a _Soldier_ of the to-day, and, under its influence, men will tell you that the life of God out His great work for God and man. And Jesus in His great agony--the Man of Sorrows come at last to the whole lesson of Jesus Christ''s life and death an illusion, God is deeply Yes, it is against the Lord God men have sinned, and to Him they are 8200 of Christ, is the pitying love of God''s heart. of God in the face of Jesus Christ.'' For doubt we have blessed the good, God-fearing, Christ-loving men and women in Manchester Jesus Christ brought God near to him, and if it were true that the all-sufficient mercy of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.'' God, the Death of Christ as the sacrifice for the world''s sin; Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God,'' then it is true that this, that the first word which the love of God speaks to sinful men love of God thus coming from Himself; not turned away by man''s sins; the Christ, the Son of the living God,'' was drawn forth by our Lord a man accepts and lives upon the good that Jesus Christ spreads supreme love that in Jesus Christ has come into the world, with an 8225 all my mental faculties, seriously to attend to a revelation from God. The idea suggested in these words is beyond all expression awfully believe that you shall have an eternal existence with God, in a happy revelation, the resurrection of Jesus, and the truth of the testimony reasonably be allowed as evidence to us of the truth of the Christian can believe this great moral truth without a miracle, Christian people reason to believe that Jesus and his apostles were honest men, than we God would not endue Jesus Christ and his apostles with power to work approved of God;''--''a man who hath told us the truth;''--even ''Jesus of he said, he is a prophet." How comes this man to believe that Jesus to believe that the grace of God in Christ Jesus is less extensive is, he believed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God: 8271 001:024 They prayed, and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, 003:022 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ''The Lord God will raise one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 011:002 When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the 013:016 Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, to hear the word of God. 013:045 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled 015:036 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let''s return now 019:006 When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: ''So will 8272 001:009 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. 003:020 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified 003:022 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, 005:011 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 007:025 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! 008:002 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free because he makes intercession for the saints according to God. 008:028 We know that all things work together for good for those who themselves to the righteousness of God. 010:004 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law 8273 001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing 001:029 that no flesh should boast before God. 001:030 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 002:002 For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 002:011 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit freely given to us by God. 002:013 Which things also we speak, not in words which man''s wisdom teaches, 002:014 Now the natural man doesn''t receive the things of God''s Spirit, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 016:022 If any man doesn''t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be 8274 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 001:005 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our 001:019 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you to every man''s conscience in the sight of God. 004:003 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 006:001 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace 008:009 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, 011:031 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is 013:014 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, 8275 but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him in the grace of Christ to a different "good news"; trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ. 002:016 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law 002:019 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God. 002:020 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, 003:011 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, 003:012 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given 003:026 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. 8276 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:005 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ 001:015 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus 001:017 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, 002:010 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, grace of God which was given me according to the working Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 006:024 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with 8277 001:001 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints Lord Jesus Christ. work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 001:012 Now I desire to have you know, brothers,{The word for "brothers" 001:026 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through 002:011 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, 002:021 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh; the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; of God in Christ Jesus. for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; in glory in Christ Jesus. 004:023 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 8278 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, 001:003 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:004 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf, 002:006 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, also raised with him through faith in the working of God, 002:017 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ''s. that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 003:002 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things 003:006 for which things'' sake the wrath of God comes on the 003:016 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him. 8279 in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. 003:011 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus 004:001 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, 004:002 For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 005:002 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 8280 in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: 001:002 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:006 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction who don''t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 002:001 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 002:016 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved 003:001 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord 003:006 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat 003:018 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 8281 of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 001:008 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, 001:011 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, 001:019 holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust 002:003 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; 002:010 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works. in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, 005:016 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, 005:021 I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the 006:011 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after 006:013 I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, 8282 001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 001:016 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to But God''s word isn''t chained. 002:022 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, 003:001 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. 004:001 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, The Lord will repay him according to his works, 004:018 And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will 004:022 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 8283 according to the faith of God''s chosen ones, and the knowledge was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior; 001:004 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: 001:009 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, 001:016 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, subjection to their own husbands, that God''s word may 002:006 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded; 002:007 in all things showing yourself an example of good works; the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things. 002:011 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; 003:004 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men; 8284 001:001 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, 001:003 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:004 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints; in Christ Jesus. 001:007 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts 001:009 yet for love''s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. my chains, Onesimus,{Onesimus means "useful."} serve me in my chains for the Good News. 001:020 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord. 001:023 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, 001:025 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 8285 high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement things is God. 003:005 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both 006:005 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, better hope, through which we draw near to God. 007:020 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath 009:011 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, 009:020 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has 010:021 and having a great priest over the house of God, 010:031 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 010:032 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, 8286 001:005 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, 001:007 For let that man not think that he will receive anything 001:013 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," 001:019 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, 001:020 for the anger of man doesn''t produce the righteousness of God. 001:021 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing 002:001 My brothers, don''t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ 002:014 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, 002:018 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." 002:020 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from and he was called the friend of God. 002:024 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not 005:007 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. 8287 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. because of conscience toward God. 002:020 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? this is commendable with God. 002:021 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, but live as to God in the spirit. 004:011 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. to those who don''t obey the Good News of God? of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, 8288 in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 001:003 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 002:009 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 003:003 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, 003:007 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word 003:008 But don''t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day 003:014 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, 003:017 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, 8289 002:010 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there the love of God remain in him? God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. 004:020 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; 005:001 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. 005:002 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love 005:003 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. 005:003 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. 005:004 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, 005:018 We know that whoever is born of God doesn''t sin, but he who was 005:020 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given 8290 001:001 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; 001:002 for the truth''s sake, which remains in us, and it will be and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father. 001:006 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. 001:007 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. 001:008 Watch yourselves, that we don''t lose the things which we of Christ, doesn''t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. 001:010 If anyone comes to you, and doesn''t bring this teaching, don''t receive him into your house, and don''t welcome him, 001:012 Having many things to write to you, I don''t want to do so with paper 8292 001:001 Jude,{or, Judah} a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, and kept for Jesus Christ: 001:003 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, 001:008 Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" 001:010 But these speak evil of whatever things they don''t know. in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly 001:017 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. walking after their own ungodly lusts." 001:021 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 8293 of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God. 002:008 "To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: which are the seven Spirits of God. 004:006 Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar 005:011 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels 008:008 The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain 011:015 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, 014:009 Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, 016:001 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, 019:001 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great 021:003 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God''s dwelling 8294 003:022 Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God. 003:007 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ''Let my people go, that you may know that there is none like Yahweh our God. 008:011 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, 029:045 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 029:046 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them 032:027 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ''Every man 016:015 Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God. 014:009 Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon 8300 And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of the whole land of Egypt; come And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess. The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou shalt read the And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a 8351 And it shall come to pass, in the last days, (saith the Lord), I Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you, Jesus For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of man Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee. day, an angel of God coming in unto him and saying to him: Cornelius. And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return and Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. 8352 Grace to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus justified by the works of the law, but only by the grace of Christ. Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin... Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin... one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord. God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be 8353 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, Grace to you and peace, from God our father and from the Lord Jesus of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, 8354 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy Grace unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are God, in the face of Christ Jesus. through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God. 4:16. Now he that maketh us for this very thing is God, who hath given us But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and the 8355 Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me The Spirit, and the blessing promised to Abraham cometh not by the law, obey the truth: before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest: But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall Christ Jesus: that we may receive the promise of the Spirit by faith. For you are all the children of God, by faith in Christ Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. 8356 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. Grace be to you and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath Jesus Christ unto himself: according to the purpose of his will: things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may According to the eternal purpose which he made in Christ Jesus our To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, unto all even as God hath forgiven you in Christ. Christ, to God and the Father: Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in 8357 Grace be unto you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus. Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the That your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, by my For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Christ Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh. knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: God in Christ Jesus. in any thing you be otherwise minded, this also God will reveal to you, the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, etc... glory in Christ Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 8358 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ Jesus who are at Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus for you a faithful minister of Christ Jesus; That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus: As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ. angels to pray to God for us, through Jesus Christ. the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. 8359 in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ. of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Knowing, brethren, beloved of God, your election: (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them In all things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 8360 firm the traditions received from him, whether by word, or by epistle, Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. The day of the Lord is not to come till the man of sin be revealed. And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 8361 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope: God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully. A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he good degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and I charge thee, before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, 8362 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, according to the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God Hold the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me: in faith Understand what I say: for the Lord will give thee in all things Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ is risen again from the dead, a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times. And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. 8363 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour: To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober. In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared: These things are good and profitable unto men. And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary 8364 Philemon, a noble citizen of Colossa, had a servant named Onesimus, who He commends the faith and charity of Philemon; and sends back to him his Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, a brother: to Hearing of thy charity and faith, which thou hast in the Lord Jesus the bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother. Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ. I beseech thee for my son, whom I have begotten in my bands, For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from thee that thou And if he hath wronged thee in any thing or is in thy debt, put say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also. May I enjoy thee in the Lord! There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 8365 For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I Called by God a high priest, according to the order of beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, which our one high priest Jesus Christ has offered once, and for ever. But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined And a high priest over the house of God: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 10:32. 8366 faith without good works will not save a man and that true wisdom is Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be work: this man shall be blessed in his deed. ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man. 8367 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. 1:22. For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. glory of God, to be willing to suffer for Christ. in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is glory Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself 8368 describes the dissolution of this world by fire and the day of judgment. obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me. scriptures were written by men inspired by the Holy Ghost, and declared reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented: knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by 8369 of the incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God. The sublimity and abide by the spirit of God in the church. man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And we know that the Son of God is come. 8372 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting. Building yourselves upon your most holy faith... mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal. coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who, being God from eternity, 8373 having the sign of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God: and there And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying to them: Come up and who art to come: because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, And I saw a beast coming up out the sea, having seven heads and They that have overcome the beast glorify God. Of the seven angels with And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, 8381 the busy life of men which is not lived in union with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, ''as long as a man holds on to Me and the sap comes into holds by Jesus Christ and lets His life come into him. be able to reach out to all that love the Lord Jesus Christ, and feel not love Jesus Christ believe in, is not the Father that sent Him. It the world which turns away from Christ has no acquaintance with God. This is a surface fact. If a man does not love God as He is revealed to him in Jesus Christ, he sinful man, I shall think differently of Jesus Christ and of my need of day and say, ''I believe in God the Father Almighty, and in Jesus Christ Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has come, has died, lives for ever, and 8389 of God, woman is the slave of man, and the sweet children are the wished to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. He said that Does any human being now believe that God made man of dust men wrote that it was right for a man to destroy the life of his wife In the old testament, when God got a man dead, He let take another man''s word and not what he thinks, but what God said to idea of going and telling a man a thing that if he does not believe he clothed the naked here; and God cannot send to eternal pain a man who No God has a right to create a man who is to be eternally damned. word of God. He was an honorable man, and told me to read the bible What man who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? 8390 BUDDHISM AND BUDDHISTS IN CHINA BUDDHISM AND BUDDHISTS IN CHINA THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHISM AS THE PREDOMINATING RELIGION OF CHINA THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHISM AS THE PREDOMINATING RELIGION OF CHINA forms which religion takes in China and to note how Buddhism has related The form of Buddhism which became established in China was Gautama, the Buddha, is familiarly known in China.] Buddhism broke up Buddhism came to China some of these sects were introduced, but they When Buddhism entered China it brought with it a new world. Buddhism rendered a great service to the Chinese through its new THE SPIRITUAL VALUES EMPHASIZED BY BUDDHISM IN CHINA THE SPIRITUAL VALUES EMPHASIZED BY BUDDHISM IN CHINA influence of the modern world shows that Buddhism in China as in Japan Buddha are the background of Buddhism in China. W. "Christian Element in Chinese Buddhism." "Buddhism in China." _Chinese Recorder,_ Vol. II, 8397 finished teaching of Jesus Christ concerning God, and man''s relation to filled with God''s Spirit is utterance of the great truths of Christ''s God by faith in Jesus Christ''; and every one of you possesses the Priest is not merely Christ the Official, but Jesus the Man. And then we find such words as these: ''If we believe that _Jesus_ died bringing death to the Lord of life, and of God''s love and power causing Jesus Christ said, ''That ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on world bears witness that Jesus Christ''s power has come into us, and I know of no other way by which a man can receive God into his heart God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and officers in the Church, the work of telling Christ''s love to men Thank God I the first word that Jesus Christ says to any soul 8485 our English writers in his book entitled "The Calamities of Authors" and The first author we record whose works proved fatal to him was Michael and condemned the book to the flames, and its author to perpetual Our author now proceeded to finish his great work, which he published in historian Grotius was imprisoned, but he wrote no book which caused his Few authors have received greater honour for their works, or endured work was publicly burnt and its author imprisoned. By the authority of the Pope the printing of his works was ordered the book to be burned, and its author banished from the kingdom upon the fates of authors and their works, but unhappily incurred the Rudbeck is not the only author who so loved his work that he died cause of his condemnation was that he had published this work without rather difficult to publish their works, and there were no authors'' 8491 then took the Cid by the hand and led him apart, and said unto him, Sancho came Ruydiez the Cid. Both Kings were in the field that day, and the King, two honourable Moors followed them, and the one said unto the Vellido went to the King and kissed his hand, and said unto him these by means of my Cid. And the King said unto them, I beseech all ye who his hands upon it, and the Cid said unto him, King Don Alfonso, you said unto him, O Cid, the King hath forbidden us to receive you. And the Cid said unto him, I will send King Don Alfonso a present from In all this time did my Cid do good service to King Don Alfonso. And this King came in great haste to Valencia, and besieged the Cid Then Alvar Fañez kissed the King''s hand again, and said, Sir, the Cid 8495 with Saints in glory, with the Mother of God, with Jesus Christ These kind words filled Francesca''s heart with joy; and from that day In her new home Francesca followed the same mode of life which she had She placed her life in the hands of God, and waited the Francesca''s bed, he said: "I am Alexis, and am sent from God to inquire "Francesca," he said, "you fly to save the child; God bids in your arms, mother, and bless your child." Francesca pressed to her take place the following day; but in the middle of the night Francesca all God''s blessings, will be restored to Rome." Francesca''s exhortations rest she required was time for her soul to commune with God. Dominica, Dominica''s eyes; for here, at least, she was left at peace and with God. She kept a continual silence, and divided her time between prayer and 8579 The Burman Empire.--Brookline.--Baldwin Place Church.--Mr. Wade.--Dr. Wayland''s Address.--Mrs. Sigourney.--The Cashmere.--Kyouk Phyoo.--Mr. Kincaid.--Six Men for Arracan.--"O Jesus, I do this for thee."--Last sacrifice, the toil, the labor, and self-denial of a missionary life would prayer; but in the homes of the people, in the heart of God, these holy men left home and friends to labor for God in a heathen land; and why at the world of heathenism, and lifting its summit high as the throne of God. Harriet Newell was the great proto-martyr of American missions. Had any body of men labored long and suffered much to save poor human life deeper solicitude to see the heathen world converted to God. In 1823, having regained her health, she returned to Burmah in company with life and labors of the men of God. So our sister felt, as the Oriental cause is God''s; the hearts of men are in his hands. 8605 Rev. John White Chadwick, in his Old and New Unitarian Beliefs. In the year 1821 was formed the Unitarian Library and Tract Society of New men were leaders in the movement to organize a Unitarian Association. attitude affected the Unitarian Association was pointedly stated by Mr. Clarke, after several years of experience as its secretary. Bellows, the minister of All Souls'' Church in New York, the first Unitarian Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches. Unitarian Association from its Year Book; and a resolution offered by Dr. Bellows, indorsing the action of the officers of the National Conference in The Conference of Unitarian and other Christian Churches was formed in when the Western Unitarian Sunday School Society was organized, with Rev. Milton J. men and their associates in the Unitarian churches gave to the city its November 21, 1866; Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches of 8699 think people will believe me," said a pupil to her teacher, who was One day in August, Mar Yohanan said to Miss Fiske, "You get ready, and boarding pupils, Miss Fiske had a few day scholars; next year she had submission of souls to God. Besides these there is a weekly prayer meeting on Tuesday evening, a noon prayer meeting was very pleasant; Miss Rice said a few words on He gave no pledge, but a weeping voice said, "Let me pray." The hand prayer meeting, Mr. Stoddard said, "God will assuredly carry forward living sacrifice to God. One day he came to the teachers, saying, "I with God. Miss Fiske returned from the English prayer meeting Sabbath evening, PUPIL.--SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN 1846.--WOMAN WHO COULD NOT PRAY.--"CHRIST PUPIL.--SPIRIT OF PRAYER IN 1846.--WOMAN WHO COULD NOT PRAY.--"CHRIST The day Miss Fiske left Oroomiah, a large number of women and girls 8731 of God. On this centennial day I shall speak of the history and mission bear the evangel of God''s love to the New World. men see in us the hand, the heart, and the love of Christ, they will believe in the brotherhood of men and the Fatherhood of God. There was nothing which impressed your bishops in the late visit to calls us in the love of Christ to carry the Gospel in the Church to the from King John and which under God has made English-speaking people the grave, and takes from hearts and homes God and Christ and heaven. new life from the Incarnate Son of God. Our hearts go out in loving sympathy to the Old Catholics of Europe and Bible, the Lord''s Day, the house of God, and Christian faith. friend at the right hand of God. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a 8832 002:017 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, God says, I will judge,'' said God; ''and afterwards they shall come out, 009:032 Now Peter, as he went to town after town, came down also to God''s 010:015 Again a second time a voice was heard which said, "What God 010:021 So Peter went down and said to the men, "I am the Simon you 010:040 That same Jesus God raised to life on the third day, 011:003 "You went into the houses of men who are not Jews," they said, 012:011 Peter coming to himself said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord 016:040 Then Paul and Silas, having come out of the prison, went to 019:006 and when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came to God and of believing in Jesus our Lord. 023:018 So he took him and brought him to the Tribune, and said, "Paul, 8833 001:017 For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith." and such people receive praise not from men, but from God. 003:001 What special privilege, then, has a Jew? sentence from God. 003:020 For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be 003:022 a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God. 006:011 In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead 007:025 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. the glory of God. 015:008 My meaning is that Christ has become a servant to the people 016:027 to God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, even to Him 8834 001:010 Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the power of God. 002:006 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; that have been so freely given to us by God. 002:013 Of these we speak--not in language which man''s wisdom teaches us, 002:014 The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God. 006:012 Everything is allowable to me, but not everything is profitable. remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God. 008:001 Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. 008:003 but if any one loves God, that man is known by God. 008:004 As to eating things which have been sacrificed to idols, 8835 001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God-001:003 Heartfelt thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ-001:019 For Jesus Christ the Son of God--He who was proclaimed of God''s glory, which is radiant on the face of Christ. 005:020 On Christ''s behalf therefore we come as ambassadors, God, as it were, behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God. 007:013 For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this 008:001 But we desire to let you know, brethren, of the grace of God 008:009 For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ-011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--He who is blessed God knows--was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) yet He now lives through the power of God. We also are weak, 013:014 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, 8836 but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News. the Good News concerning Christ. is now telling the Good News of the faith of which he through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved 003:006 even as Abraham believed God, and his faith was placed to his so that through faith we may receive the promised Spirit. us to Christ, in order that through faith we may be declared 003:026 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus; 003:028 In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself! for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith. 8837 001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:015 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus 001:017 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ-002:007 in order that, by His goodness to us in Christ Jesus, He might 002:010 For we are God''s own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus in Christ Jesus through the Good News, 005:002 And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave has any share awaiting him in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. 005:006 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account please men, but as Christ''s bondservants who are doing God''s from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 006:024 May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ 8838 001:001 Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Christ Jesus: To all God''s people in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the ministers through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God. 001:012 Now I would have you know, brethren, that what I have gone prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 001:027 Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, a token coming from God. 001:029 For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ-002:005 Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus. the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. 003:010 I long to know Christ and the power which is in His resurrection, of God''s heavenward call in Christ Jesus. the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, 004:023 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits. 8839 001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God-001:003 We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:004 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of first you heard it and came really to know the grace of God, of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God. 001:011 Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened 001:015 Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, 001:022 He has now, in His human body, reconciled to God by His death, God''s presence, made perfect through Christ. knowledge of God''s truth, which is Christ Himself. 002:006 As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, 002:009 For it is in Christ that the fulness of God''s nature dwells embodied, are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God''s right hand. thanks to God the Father. 8840 which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father; 001:004 knowing as we do, brethren, that you are beloved by God only God''s Good News, but to have given our very lives also, 002:009 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: how, working night what it really is--God''s Message, which also does its work 002:014 For you, brethren, followed the example of the Churches of God 003:011 But may our God and Father Himself--and our Lord Jesus-the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones. by God to love one another; we also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring with Him salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ; and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 005:028 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 8841 and the Lord Jesus Christ. rest with us at the re-appearing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven, 001:012 in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ! 002:001 But with respect to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our 002:008 and then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus brethren whom the Lord loves--because God from the beginning may have a share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 002:016 And may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself--and God our Father who has 002:016 And may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself--and God our Father who has 003:005 And may the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God by the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ--is that they are May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 8842 001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God our Saviour 001:002 To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and for God, which only exists where there is faith. 001:008 Now we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it in the way conferring faith on me and the love which is in Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus, Himself man; 003:009 but holding the secret truths of the faith with a clear conscience. the faith which rests on Christ Jesus. 005:021 I solemnly call upon you, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that harmonizes 006:011 But you, O man of God, must flee from these things; and strive for uprightness, godliness, good faith, love, fortitude, 8844 for building up the faith of God''s own people and spreading 001:002 in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false 001:004 To Titus my own true child in our common faith. right the things which still require attention, and appoint 001:008 but hospitable to strangers, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work 002:002 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in 002:003 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such 002:006 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet, honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things. 003:004 But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, 003:007 in order that having been declared righteous through His grace their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example 8845 Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Philemon 001:001 Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother: To Philemon our dearly-loved fellow labourer-001:003 May grace be granted to you all, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:005 because I hear of your love and of the faith which you 001:007 For I have found great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of God''s people have been, and are, 001:009 it is for love''s sake that--instead of that--although I am for Christ Jesus, 001:017 If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if 001:020 Yes, brother, do me this favour for the Lord''s sake. Refresh my heart in Christ. 001:023 Greetings to you, my brother, from Epaphras my fellow prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus; 001:025 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with the spirit 8846 into the world, He says, "And let all God''s angels worship Him." 001:008 But of His Son, He says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever 001:010 It is also of His Son that God says, "Thou, O Lord, to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people. 003:006 but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God''s house, 009:020 saying, "This is the blood which confirms the Covenant that God from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice 010:031 It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the ever-living God. 010:032 But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on 011:004 Through faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice 011:017 Through faith Abraham, as soon as God put him to the test, by the High Priest into the Holy place as an offering for sin, 8847 001:001 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 001:013 Let no one say when passing through trial, "My temptation is 001:020 For a man''s anger does not lead to action which God 002:001 My brethren, you must not make distinctions between one man 002:002 For suppose a man comes into one of your meetings wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man "Sit here; this is a good place;" while to the poor man you say, 002:014 What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, 002:024 You all see that it is because of actions that a man is 005:007 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. 005:015 And the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord 8848 001:001 Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ: To God''s own people 001:003 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 001:005 whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation Him glory, so that your faith and hope are resting upon God. 001:022 Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. yet witness your good conduct, and may glorify God on the day thing with God. 002:021 And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered which is indeed precious in the sight of God. 003:005 For in ancient times also this was the way the holy women to God in the name of Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory even the Spirit of God--is resting upon you. the end of those who reject God''s Good News? 8849 knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, towards a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be freely granted to you. Lord Jesus Christ, we were not eagerly following cleverly 001:018 And we ourselves heard these words come from Heaven, when we 001:021 for never did any prophecy come by human will, but men sent 002:009 Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 003:003 But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will 003:008 But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand 003:010 The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day 003:012 eagerly looking forward to the coming of the day of God, 8850 002:010 He who loves his brother man continues in the light, and his no one who lives in sin has seen Him or knows Him. 003:007 Dear children, let no one lead you astray. 003:024 The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, 004:006 The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its 004:020 If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, God must love his brother man also. 005:005 Who but the man that believes that Jesus is the Son of God 005:018 We know that no one who is a child of God lives in sin, 005:019 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world 005:020 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us 8853 001:001 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: 001:004 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord. 001:010 Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, for the sake of gain they have rushed on headlong in the evil ways 001:017 But as for you, my dearly-loved friends, remember the words that before now were spoken by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ-They are men of 001:020 But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on 001:021 must keep yourselves safe in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ which will result in the Life 001:025 to the only God our Saviour--through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all time, is now, and shall be to all the Ages! 8854 lamps were burning, which are the seven Spirits of God. 004:006 And in front of the throne there seemed to be a sea of glass, fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God. 007:012 "Even so!" they cried: "The blessing and the glory 008:002 Then I saw the seven angels who are in the presence of God, 010:001 Then I saw another strong angel coming down from Heaven. 013:011 Then I saw another Wild Beast, coming up out of the earth. 014:007 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory, to the Wild Beast until God''s words have come to pass. 018:001 After these things I saw another angel coming down from Heaven, 018:004 Then I heard another voice from Heaven, which said, "Come out of her, 019:005 And from the throne there came a voice which said, "Praise our God, 8908 Epistles--The letter of Polycarp better authenticated--The date assigned for the martyrdom of Ignatius--The date of Polycarp''s Epistle--Written time of persecution--The postscript to the letter of Polycarp quite of Polycarp and the Ignatian Epistles as exhibited by Dr. Lightfoot The letter of Polycarp to the Philippians is a writing of the second In his eagerness to exalt the credit of these Ignatian letters, Dr. Lightfoot, in his present publication, has obviously expressed himself That this letter of Polycarp to the Philippians was written at a time We learn from the letter of Polycarp that _his_ Ignatius was a man of Philippians, or Ignatius, had sent letters to Polycarp addressed to the letter of Polycarp was written, not as Dr. Lightfoot contends, in A.D. 107 but, as we have seen, about A.D. 161, when, as the whole strain of "Though the seven Ignatian letters are many times longer than Polycarp''s letter of Polycarp, not along with the Ignatian Epistles, but in 9057 itself--the God-known truth, that the Lord has the heart of a child. thee, will all men smile in the face of the great God. But to advance now to the highest point of this teaching of our Lord: one providence of God; and the man shall not live long before life things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. good man, it means just infinitely more as used by God. And the feeling But while it is true that only when a man loves God with all his heart, say, of teaching the two truths by which man lives, Love to God and And for this, Lord Jesus, come thou, the child, the obedient God, that truth of God''s heart towards them; revealed the loving care without the God-heart which knows itself absolute in truth and love. 9069 "I loved to play," Augustin says, in telling us of those far-off years. A wife would be a drag for a young man like Augustin, who In fact, the life which Augustin was at that time relishing was the pagan to an old tradition, Augustin was a little man and not strong: till the end his heart, Augustin, like a good Carthaginian--and because he was a Augustin was not, like his friend Alypius, a practical mind, but he had Augustin, "like a father, and as a bishop he was pleased enough at my "I love only God and the soul," Augustin states Augustin, "at the beauty of Thy works, O my God!..." Rome was back there like a Christian, and turning to Augustin: Africans on the alert in those times, Augustin worked at his _City of God_, Like ourselves, Augustin, brought up by a Christian mother, knew it only 9171 learn from the Bible that the relation of master and slave is not sin _God never intended the relation of master and slave to be perpetual_. _God never intended the relation of master and slave to be perpetual_. relations, in which God has placed men under his rule of subjection; natural evil, physical and social, God placed man on a higher platform for This power over life, for the good of the one great family of man, God of master and slave, but the anti-slavery man ran away into the fog of God in the New Testament made no law prohibiting the relation of master three slaves, with a right heart and the approbation of God, he may hold God, when he ordained government over men, gave to the individual man I now ask, Did God intend to make man-stealing and slave-holding the same words:--Did God command the Hebrews to make slaves of their fellow-men, to 9184 them to God. As regards these words of our Blessed Father''s, I am perfectly certain go to work in order to attain to this perfection, this supreme love of God If we truly love God we shall try to bring this good to Him through end work together for good to those who love God. To satisfy you, I quote the words of Blessed Francis on this subject in one come, let your soul be at peace, certain that if you truly love God all desirable desire to love God. Our Blessed Father tells us that we must "When we speak the truth only for the love of God, and for the good of our of our soul gather together around the goodness and love of God by short will of God. Let us hear what our Blessed Father says on this subject in his _Treatise 9304 In God exist the ideas of truth, goodness, beauty, things, the idea of love is in God. There it exists in absolute purity, ideas about the existence of evil, declaring in "justification of God" for conception of God is proof of His existence; for every idea has its object; is, by general wills (God desires man to be saved) and by particular wills not sensible--mind, soul, God--cannot be thought: can only be believed; Descartes believed only in something outside himself because of a good God, gaps in a soul which is not full of the idea of God and of universal order moral evil, which is sin, God can even less desire that it should exist, Locke: His Ideas on Human Liberty, Morality, General God must exist for the world to be moral. metaphysics come from philosophy and to prove God by the human soul and the 9912 _Ans._ I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father Jesus Christ my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Ghost has called me grace we believe His holy Word, and live a godly life here on earth, and O Lord God, Heavenly Father, bless unto us these Thy gifts, which of Thy concerning Christ who should come to save men) which God sent to the The substance of the law is, "Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God with all hence not only the words God, Lord, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, the Almighty, GOD THE FATHER, He is the Father of my Lord Jesus Christ, [Matt. I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from The Second Article treats of Jesus Christ, THE SON OF GOD, and his work believe in Jesus Christ our Lord," we pray in this petition that God 9944 life-principle without coming sooner or later to the thought of God. As the Caucasian is not natural with God. The mere concept takes him into words, having to some degree worked my own way out of fear I must tell it, it was giving God no extra trouble to think of me, of my work, my During many years the expression, the love of God, was to me like a According to our capacity and our individual needs we must know God; and knowing God is not as difficult as the Caucasian mind is apt to think. GOD''S SELF-EXPRESSION AND THE MIND OF TO-DAY GOD''S SELF-EXPRESSION AND THE MIND OF TO-DAY the _Metanoia_, the new point of view as regards God. Other ways have THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE FALSE GOD OF FEAR to work with God, not man, as our employer, things happen to us which, 9957 "I was working during the night, and it came to food time, so I asked Three days later," said the business man, "the young When I took him by the hand I said, "I have come to ask you to when you speak in the name of Jesus Christ, God stands back of you; love God." Another person once said, "You talk about love for Christ; Christ?" said a New York minister to a little boy. "About three years ago," said another, "I came in touch with a man who ''Well,'' I said, ''nine weeks ago she and her husband both came to Christ said, ''God will give you strength.'' We went into a little shop and I said, ''I have not.'' I then asked him if he had accepted Christ. Christian man ever came to me and told me that God could save me from