PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 11
James Hastings · 198,579 words · 206 reading sections
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* R. W. Moss, The Discipline of the Smil, 27. 442 GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD species than in others, and in some individuals within each species. Weak vitality in animals is marked by dulness of sensation, by a more restricted range of action, by less sensibility to pain, and by the comparative absence of intelligen…
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* C. H. Sptu^eon. 444 GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD little ones, are infinitely more sacred spots, so near are they seen to lie to the gate of heaven. Common business rises in import- ance when by it you have to glorify your Saviour and serve your brother-men. Social and political problems of the hour do not claim less…
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^ C. C. AlbertsoD The Gospel According to Christ, 193. 446 GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD in Heaven caring for His children, and the "hope full of im- mortality " which He disclosed, ought to be the happiest of men and to show it. ^ No wonder the Christian has joy. No wonder the Apostle Peter could exclaim, " Believing…
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Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end; that end, To those who dwell in Him, He most in them, Beginning, mean and end to all things, God.^ ^ Bailey, Festus^ The Good Shepherd. ST. JOHN — 29 Literature. Alford (H.), Quebec Chapel SermonSj vi. 226. Arnold (T. K.), Sermo…
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ST. JOHN X. II 453 And so it was the ordinary duty of every shepherd not only to gather and feed and watch the flock, but also to lead them, to know them and to run some risk for them. A great deal has been made out of these last three points in the application of the metaphor to Christ, showing how Christ is the Good…
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* J. Learraount, In ChxTs Orchard, 221. ST. JOHN X. II 455 11 This question, " Was Christ merely a good Man and a great Teacher, or was He something more ? Is He to be to us simply one of many teachers, to be discarded possibly sooner or later because, however valuable in the past, the world is destined more and more…
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^ H. Rashdall, Doctriv^ and Development^ 86. ST. JOHN X. II 457 crucified Him. He lived a life that none other lived, and He died a death that none other died. He lived because He willed to live, and He died because He willed to die. The law of love never expressed itself so gloriously as in the death of Jesus Christ…
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ST. JOHN X. II 459 Better it is to give than to receive, All to forsake than unto aught to cleave ; — *Tis in the act of giving that we live. All spiritual Being lives by this — The ground and basis of the Godhood's bliss; Who turn therefrom the Life Eternal miss. For though discharged in full strict duty's roun…
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» M. 0. Albright, Tht dmrnon Heritage, 77 i The Resurrection and the Life. Literature. Adams (J. C), The Leisure of Gody 129. Alford (H.), Quebec Ghapel Sermons j i. 285. Atwool (H. C), At His Feet, 107. Bickersteth (C), The Gospel of Incarnate Love, 17% Brookfield (W. H.), Sermons, 117. Brooks (P.), The More Abund…
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A double consciousness spoke in these words : Our Lord knew that He was standing near the grave of a dead disciple : He felt perhaps even more vividly that He was standing in the midst of a dead world. He spoke these words with reference to the occasion He was then dealing with; yet there was a larger meaning in them, …
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\ A gentleman stepping into a poor woman's house saw framed and glazed upon the wall a French note for a thousand francs. He said to the old folks, "How came you by this?" They informed him that a poor French soldier had been taken in by them and nursed until he died, and when he was dying he had given them that little…
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^ " God is not the God of dead beings but of living beings, for all live unto him." All do not live to us; to us the dead are dead, but to God the dead are living ; all live unto Him ; as He sees men there are none dead. In proof of this, witness the resurrection of Lazarus. What was that miracle ? Merely this ; ^ Ste…
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In deserts of the Holy Land I strayed, Where Christ once lived, but seems to live no more, On Lebanon my lonely home I made, I heard the wind among the cedars roar, » T. T. Mirnger, Th^ Freedom of Faith, 285. ST. JOHN XI. 25, 26 473 And saw, far off, the Great Sea's solemn shore: " But 'tis a dreary wilderness," …
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Did not Christ then really die, and do we not all die, even if we believe in Him ? In one sense Christ did die. He suffered 1 J. M. E. Ross, The Self-Portraiture of Jesus^ 183. ST. JOHN XI. 25, 26 475 this housing of the soul to be torn away, the tabernacle to be taken down, but He will not call it death. It does not…
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^ The Bishop of Caledonia had opened a Mission on the Skeena river, which he and his wife had carried on for a year. Then a Missionary and his wife were left in charge. And now let us hear the Bishop's own words. He says — " They recoiled from the horrors of savage life, and to our great surprise, at the end of one yea…
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Be assured, come what come will. What once lives never dies — what here attains To a beginning, has no end, still gains And never loses aught.^ 3. " He that believeth on me " — " Whosoever lelieveth on me." — Christ asks us to believe in Him, but not without first giving us a proof of His belief in us. " I came that t…
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4t3 Literature. Arnot (W.), Roots and Fruits of the Christian Life, 224. Banks (L. A.), Christ and His Friends, 310. Belfrage (H.), Sacramental Addresses, 241. Eadie (J.), The Divine Love, 268. Fry (J. H.), TeoA-s, 21. Gibbon (J. M.), Evangelical Heterodoxy, 53. Knigbt (G. H.), In the Cloudy and Bark Day, 149. …
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1 Canon Bonney. ST. JOHN XI. 35 487 things which belonged to their peace. There would be no such thought in His mind as He drew near to the grave of His faithful servant. What drew those silent tears from Jesus was His sympathy with the mourning sisters. His tears were the answer of His human heart to the appeal of t…
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But His calmness was not attained without an efifort. We read that He " groaned in the spirit and was troubled " and the words indicate a physical commotion, a bodily trembling which might be perceived by the witnesses of this scene. Such grief would have been excusable in view of all that the present scene meant to Je…
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2. They are an example. (1) The following of Christ does not free us from suffering. It often leads to it. Not only are we liable to the ills which press upon humanity, but special chastenings are set apart for us. Believers have sufferings in common with others ; but they have also trials adapted particularly to them…
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Fruitfulness through Death. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone ; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.— John xii. 24. 1. Jesus was always alive to the beautiful and instructive analogies between the natural and the moral world; but this occa…
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I. Death the Condition of Feuitfulness in Nature. The illustration which our Saviour employs is generic. Take a particle of grain into your hand. It is round and complete; hard and self-contained. It seems to be dead, but there lies within it the possibility of a wondrous and manifold life. The mystery of life sleeps…
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502 FRUITFULNESS THROUGH DEATH elevation of mankind. In His brief public career He suggested much to the influential men of His time, set all men who knew Him a-thinking, aided many to reform their lives, and removed a large amount of distress and disease. He communicated to the world a mass of new truth, so that thos…
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* Fergut Ferguson, 504 FRUITFULNESS THROUGH DEATH than these outward effects, men should carry out the idea of the cross, call their trials crosses, take them up in His Spirit, bear them meekly, patiently, as He had borne His.^ III. Death to Self the Condition of Fruitfulness in the Christian Life. 1. The law of t…
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2. The seed must die if a harvest is to spring fi cm it. That is the law for all moral and spiritual reformations. Every cause must have its martyrs. No man can be fruit-bearing unless he ^ TJie Life of Henry Drummond, 338. 5o6 FRUITFULNESS THROUGH DEATH sacrifices himself. We shall not "quicken" our fellows unless w…
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» Walter 0. Smith, " OlHg Gromge." 5o8 FRUITFULNESS THROUGH DEATH hero-death, and victory's fire-chariot carrying men to the Immortals, shall never be thine. I pity thee; brag not, or I shall have to despise thee.^ The great obdurate world I know no more, The clanging of the brazen wheels of greed, The taloned hands…
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