 | 1876 - 434 pages
...important ; namely, that the Holy Spirit dwells in the midst of you as gathered according to that word, "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." When so gathered, we are called on to expect the Lord in our midst. If we wanted... | |
 | 1879 - 358 pages
...in.] AND THE FORTY DAYS. 193 of them in breaking of bread. Neither believed they them. His promise, " Where two or three are gathered in My Name, there am I in the midst of them;" "I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (See also Mai. iii. 16,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1880 - 244 pages
...burgher of the Christian ages to his cathedral. For him, the quite simply and frankly-believed text, " Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them," was expanded into the wider promise to many honest and industrious persons gathered... | |
 | Josiah Litch - Second Advent - 1880 - 204 pages
...is to deny his literal existence. The Parousia is a literal presence, as truly as when Christ says, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' It is not a figurative one, not one existing constructively, or an object of thought,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Theology - 1881 - 422 pages
...Christ's own inmost self would remain always the life and soul of the Church and of the world. " Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of you." "Inasmuch as you did it to the least of these my brethren you did it to me." " Lo,... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1882 - 372 pages
...one soul, the greatest joy ministered by one. "There is joy in the presence of the angels over one." "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." One soul is an end worthy of all the effort of Deity, and therefore worthy of all... | |
 | Andrew Turner - 1882 - 136 pages
...His Son, with its ' righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.' II. THE PROMISED PRESENCE. ' Where two or three are gathered in my Name, there am I in the midst of them.' — ST. MATT. xviii. 20. ONE of the chief motives and plainest warrants for the... | |
 | Elizabeth Hughes - Women - 1884 - 158 pages
...ability to walk in the fire of those three who had faith and feared not, realizing the promise that " Where two or three are gathered in My. name, there am I in the midst of them.'' It is a peculiar feaftire of the present period that many men and women find themselves... | |
 | Richard Morris Smith - Religions - 1884 - 638 pages
...-no longer with you, do not think that the Buddha has left you, and is not still in your midst." [" Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst.'' — Christ.] " You have my words, my explanations of the deep things of truth, the laws... | |
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For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 
