The Andover Review, Volume 16Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891 - Religion |
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... possible ? I answer , only as an occurrence according to a law higher than any we yet know . If we define nature as consisting only of phe- nomena governed by physical and chemical laws , then life be- comes supernatural and miraculous ...
... possible ? I answer , only as an occurrence according to a law higher than any we yet know . If we define nature as consisting only of phe- nomena governed by physical and chemical laws , then life be- comes supernatural and miraculous ...
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... possible to take very high ground with this view , to be very aristocratic and very exclusive ; but the view itself is low , and proceeds on the want of faith in the proper supernatural character of the church , rather than on the ...
... possible to take very high ground with this view , to be very aristocratic and very exclusive ; but the view itself is low , and proceeds on the want of faith in the proper supernatural character of the church , rather than on the ...
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... possible to exaggerate the importance of the greatest of men ; while it is true that Dr. Nevin failed to see certain aspects of truth , that , in a word , he had " the defects of his qualities ; " while no doubt it is also true that ...
... possible to exaggerate the importance of the greatest of men ; while it is true that Dr. Nevin failed to see certain aspects of truth , that , in a word , he had " the defects of his qualities ; " while no doubt it is also true that ...
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... possible to be found . That there is some such feeling of opposition , more or less prev- alent , no one in clerical circles will be disposed to deny . Its un- dertone may be detected in ministerial associations , it crops out in ...
... possible to be found . That there is some such feeling of opposition , more or less prev- alent , no one in clerical circles will be disposed to deny . Its un- dertone may be detected in ministerial associations , it crops out in ...
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... possible poverty of another sort to which it can minister only by a wise adaptation and a method sympathetic with the need which it seeks to meet . The query sometimes arises , if the Master should come again to earth for a few short ...
... possible poverty of another sort to which it can minister only by a wise adaptation and a method sympathetic with the need which it seeks to meet . The query sometimes arises , if the Master should come again to earth for a few short ...
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Page 114 - Look not thou down but up! To uses of a cup, The festal board, lamp's flash and trumpet's peal, The new wine's foaming flow, The Master's lips aglow! Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?
Page 105 - More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Page 187 - I am sought of them that asked not for Me ; I am found of them that sought Me not : I said : — " Behold Me, behold Me," unto a nation that was not called by My name.
Page 348 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Page 444 - Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Page 114 - How the world is made for each of us! How all we perceive and know in it Tends to some moment's product thus, When a soul declares itself — to wit, By its fruit, the thing it does!
Page 109 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 444 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 183 - Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Page 432 - THE GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES. A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the Plantation, of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the Contest between England and Spain for the Possession of the Soil now occupied by the United States of America; set forth through a series of Historical Manuscripts now first printed, together with a Re-issue of Rare Contemporaneous Tracts, accompanied by Bibliographical Memoranda, Notes, and Brief Biographies.