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Page ix
... material world under our eyes abounds in mysteries . The changes of the seasons , the alternations of heat and cold , the storms in the air and in the sea , the recurrence of periods of plenty and scarcity , the unceasing motion , the ...
... material world under our eyes abounds in mysteries . The changes of the seasons , the alternations of heat and cold , the storms in the air and in the sea , the recurrence of periods of plenty and scarcity , the unceasing motion , the ...
Page x
... material world ; but philosopher and believer agree in confessing their ignorance , in praising the works of their Creator . Both bow their heads in the conviction that in this vast uni- verse all is disposed in order and measure ; all ...
... material world ; but philosopher and believer agree in confessing their ignorance , in praising the works of their Creator . Both bow their heads in the conviction that in this vast uni- verse all is disposed in order and measure ; all ...
Page xi
... material world exists for the moral world ; this universe was created for man , man for God ; moral and material world alike must hymn the praises of their Lord . God's dealings with man in the supernatural order light up the history of ...
... material world exists for the moral world ; this universe was created for man , man for God ; moral and material world alike must hymn the praises of their Lord . God's dealings with man in the supernatural order light up the history of ...
Page xii
... material world , which we under- stand so imperfectly , we may argue to the greater world , the moral world , which is all mystery to us . The same bountiful Hand which has clothed the visible world with so much plenty xii INTRODUCTION .
... material world , which we under- stand so imperfectly , we may argue to the greater world , the moral world , which is all mystery to us . The same bountiful Hand which has clothed the visible world with so much plenty xii INTRODUCTION .
Page 13
... material force , the probability is that our lives are not abstractedly much , if at all , more brief than Adam's nine hundred and thirty years . All things now are hastening to the end . They have always been hastening . But there is ...
... material force , the probability is that our lives are not abstractedly much , if at all , more brief than Adam's nine hundred and thirty years . All things now are hastening to the end . They have always been hastening . But there is ...
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Page 52 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Page 75 - I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Page 115 - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Page 101 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God : but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables...
Page 62 - And it shall come to pass, while My glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with My hand until I have passed by.
Page 145 - I reckon, that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us.
Page 146 - For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Page 3 - And in the morning : To-day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky : and can you not know the signs of the times...
Page 141 - And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Page 60 - Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.