The Church and the Changing Order, Volume 20Macmillan Company, 1907 - 255 pages |
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æsthetic agnosticism apostles appeal attitude of mind become believe better bring changing order CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS Chris church members conception coöperation criticism culture danger devotion discontent divine doctrine E. V. LUCAS economic elements eschatology eternal ethical evangelic evolution fact faith finds forces fraternity functional psychology genuine gospel grow higher critic historical Jesus human ideals immortality individual influence insist institution intellectual interest JAMES LANE ALLEN knows labor labor union leaders less live man's masses materialism matter ment methods minister ministry modern moral nature never organization Paul philosophy political preaching question reform regenerate religion religious teachers resurrection resurrection of Jesus Roman Catholicism scholarship scientific sense social order socialist society sort soul spirit stand struggle Sunday-school sympathy taught teaching Testament theology things thought tion to-day to-day's trained true truth unity universe wealth women
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Page 1 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Page 251 - Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall!
Page 125 - My associates have come to look upon the church and the ministry as the apologists and defenders of the wrong committed against the interests of the people...
Page 151 - Would the moral code stand Unshaken, and with it the reverence for law, the sense of duty towards the community, and even towards the generations yet to come ? Would men say " Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die " ? Or would custom, and sympathy, and a perception of the advantages which stable government offers to the citizens as a whole, and which orderly self-restraint offers to each one, replace supernatural sanctions, and hold in check the violence of masses and the self-indulgent impulses...