PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
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Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899 · 127,927 words · 195 reading sections
MICAIAH.
Micaiah was the son of Imlah, a prophet of Samaria, who, in the last year of the reign of Ahab, king of Israel, predicted his defeat and death, B. C. 897. This was three years after the great battle with Ben-hadad, king of Syria, in which the extraordinary number of 100,000 Syrian soldiers is said to have been slain, w…
472 wordsSECTION 182MOSES.
Moses loses nothing by diffuseness. Even in days that were made long by intolerable monotony--in which men lived centuries because of weariness--Moses did not shrink from a condensation unparalleled in human literature. Considered as embracing the history of one month only, the third Book of Moses may claim to be the …
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The wonder is that Christians should be so willing to regard the Pentateuch as obsolete. This is practically a foregone conclusion--to such an extent, certainly, that the Pentateuch is tolerated rather than studied for edification by the rank and file of Christians. Without the Pentateuch, Christ as revealed in the Go…
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It is generally admitted, for example, that the Old Testament law has been displaced by a New Testament principle. So Ritualism and Law, in their ancient forms, have passed away. But let us be careful. When we say Ritualism and Law, we mean in reality the letter, and it is evident that if any one letter can be displace…
655 wordsSECTION 185NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
The moral character of Nebuchadnezzar is not such as entitles him to our approval. Besides the overweening pride which brought on him such terrible chastisement, we note a violence and fury common enough in Oriental monarchs of the weaker kind, but from which the greatest of them have usually been free; while at the sa…
406 wordsSECTION 186QUEEN OF SHEBA.
The Queen of Sheba is a model to all inquirers. It was not enough for her to have heard of the fame of Solomon and to have admired him at a distance as a unique genius. Her admiration excited her interest and suspicion, and, being a woman of penetrating mind, she desired to put riddles and enigmas whereby she could tes…
379 wordsSECTION 187REHOBOAM.
“So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying: ‘Thy father made our yoke grievous. Now, therefore, ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.’” A cause so stated must succeed. There will be difficulty, but the end is assured…
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Marvelous is the power of kindness. They will do most in life who are most considerate. They may be charged with sentimentalism by those who do not understand the power of human feeling, but they will be given credit for philosophy by men who understand the genius of sympathy. What a message would this have been to re…
531 wordsSECTION 189SHISHAK.
Shishak was a king of Egypt contemporary with Jeroboam, to whom he gave an asylum when he fled from Solomon. This was indicative of his politic disposition to encourage the weakening of the neighboring kingdom, the growth of which under David and Solomon was probably regarded by the kings of Egypt with some alarm. Aft…
186 wordsSECTION 190SOLOMON.
The first prominent scene in the reign of Solomon is one which presents his character in its noblest aspect. There were two holy places which divided the reverence of the people--the ark and its provisional tabernacle at Jerusalem and the original Tabernacle of the Congregation, which, after many wanderings, was then p…
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Solomon is represented as first most anxious about the Temple, giving himself wholly to its erection, occupying his thoughts night and day, turning every thing to account in its relation to the Temple. Having finished that marvelous structure, he was prepared to descend to other levels and do the commoner work which la…
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Yet there is a point to be noted here which is common to human experience. Why should Solomon have married the daughter of Pharaoh? Why should he, in the first instance, have placed himself in so vital a relation to heathenism? Are there not men who first plunge into great mistakes, and then seek to rectify their posit…
676 wordsSECTION 193BASELESS PRIDE.
(This pride-humbling survey of man and his destiny was written by William Knox, a Scotchman.) Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the wil…
525 wordsSECTION 194CHICAGO, ILL.
All Handsomely Bound in the Best American and English Cloth, Uniform in Style of Binding--Together They Make a Handsome Library--Separately, They Make Handsome Center-Table Volumes.…
25 wordsSECTION 195PRICE, SENT POST-PAID, $1.50 EACH.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains; or, The Last Voice from the Plains--An authentic record of a life time of hunting, trapping, scouting and Indian fighting in the Far West. Copiously illustrated by H. S. De Lay and by many reproductions from photographs. By Capt. W. F. Drannan, who went on to The Pla…
661 wordsSource & rights
Public domain in the USA; original historical text digitized by Project Gutenberg.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.