New Horizons of the Christian FaithMorehouse publishing Company, 1928 - 287 pages |
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Page 32 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 93 - I am not He;" and whatsoever are in it, confessed the same. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the living creeping things, and they answered, "We are not thy God, seek above us." I asked the moving air; and the whole air with its inhabitants answered, "Anaximenes was deceived, I am not God.
Page 157 - Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest Cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny ; Yea with one voice, O world, tho' thou deniest, Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.
Page 33 - This earth is not the steadfast place We landsmen build upon; From deep to deep she varies pace, And while she comes is gone. Beneath my feet I feel Her smooth bulk heave and dip; With velvet plunge and soft upreel She swings and steadies to her keel Like a gallant, gallant ship.
Page 81 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 158 - If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.
Page iii - Springfield, of the City of Cairo, Illinois, do make, publish, and declare this, as and for my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. First. First of all, I commit myself, soul and body, into the hands of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, in Whose Merits alone I trust, looking for the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to come.
Page 38 - God is the ultimate limitation, and His existence is the ultimate irrationality. For no reason can be given for just that limitation which it stands in His nature to impose. God is not concrete, but He is the ground for concrete actuality.
Page 132 - The problem I have set myself is a hard one: first, to defend (against all the prejudices of my 'class') 'experience...
Page 58 - The essentially simple idea is that the present is the child of the past, and the parent of the future.