PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 9
James Hastings · 191,666 words · 197 reading sections
Section 181
A hidden cross for daily wear Along a common road. Let that be the spirit of our life, and the Christ-Cross we carry shall verily " purify our conscience from dead works, and cleanse us from all sin." ^ The bonds that press and fetter, That chafe the soul and fret her. What man can know them better, 0 brother men,…
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' H. E. Mackintosh. 474 THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE from them. In each life meriting the Christian name there will be found self-denial, sacrifice, loss, humiliation, that would have been impatiently, or even indignantly, thrust aside, had Christ not chosen them, but which are made welcome, even if it be falteringly…
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Who speaketh now of peace? "Who seeketh for release? The Cross is strength, the solemn Cross is gain. The Cross is Jesus' breast. Here giveth He the rest That to His best belov'd doth still remain. How sweet an ended strife ! How sweet a dawning life ! Here will I lie as one who draws his breath With ease, and hea…
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1 Bishop Gore. ' T. Lloyd Williams. ST. MARK 481 2. The command is accompanied with a reproof. — He up- braided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen (ver. 14). Eemembering that there are still millions of the human race who have never hea…
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You will perhaps say that this is to beg the entire case ; and so it would be, if man were no more than a rational creature. But man is an irrational as well as a rational creature, and all that is noblest in him springs from a kind of redeeming irration- ality. Love, heroism, martyrdom, are all acts of sublime irratio…
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1 R, F. Horton- » Phillips Brooka. 486 THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE and selfish and small, then, lo ! God will give you your desire, and send leanness withal into your soul. You have none of the eagerness and generosity of desire which belong to the really blessed. " Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after …
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^ We have an example in the hymns of the universal Church. What do they say ? Now I have found the ground wherein Sure my soul's anchor may remain; The wounds of Jesus for my sin. Before the world's foundation slain. When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died. I ST. MARK 489 Eock of Ages, …
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T There came to my office one day an old lady with white hair, starved features, and tottering steps, leaning upon a cane. There was a scared, timid look on her careworn face as she sank heavily into a chair and told me her pathetic story. It was very simple. An utterly debauched and worthless son, who for thirty years…
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She lifted their heads with her tender hands. And sustained them with rods and osier-bands; If the flowers had been her own infants, she Could never have nursed them more tenderly. And all killing insects and gnawing worms, And things of obscene and unlovely forms, She bore, in a basket of Indian woof. Into the rough …
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498 THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE brevity. The sacred writer is content to mention the event in the simplest language and with a complete absence of detail. It would be a mistake, however, to suppose that our belief in the Ascension rests upon such a slender foundation as a twofold mention by St. Luke (who was probabl…
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^ What power Christ put into one word ! The human voice is wonderfully musical. God has filled creation with music. The birds carol, the brooks murmur, the trees sing in the breeze. The ocean is always in tune. When the storm whips the billow into foam, or when the waves ripple idly on the sand, the voice of the ocean …
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The world has not seen the last of Jesus Christ. Such an Ascension, after such a life, cannot be the end of Him. " As it is appointed unto men once to die, and after death the judg- ment, 80 Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear the second time, without sin unto salvation." As ine…
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ST. MARK 505 somewhere on earth in His glorified body ; or, what is still more inconceivable and contradictory, have died a second time under circumstances that precluded any eye from witnessing it. But, finally, fix your attention upon that which, as being of paramount importance, imperatively challenges it, the auth…
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3, WTiat is the practical hearing of the Ascension on our lives'! Our Lord's Ascension leads us to think of Him and to follow Him in mind and heart. By His rising from the dead and ascending into heaven He gave us a model to follow no less than by His suffering and death. By His ascension our Lord would show us that a…
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5IO THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE BIBLE ^ The exalted Man, sitting at the right hand of God, is the Pattern of what is possible for humanity, and the prophecy and pledge of what will be actual for all that love Him and bear the image of Him upon earth, that they may be conformed to the image of His glory, and be with Him whe…
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Who is the King of glory ? And yet gathering new music and new meaning the surging anthem rolls, Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle . . . He is the King of glory. Thus the song is also of One who was mighty in battle. Looking upon Him, the glorified One, and listening to His words, the wonder grows.…
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1 F. W. H. Myers, Saint Paul. ^ST. MARK 515 ^ We remember that it was once given to a man to look through the opened heavens (through which Christ had " passed ") and to "see the Son of Man standing" — not sitting — "at the right hand of God." Why to the dying protomartyr was there granted that vision thus varied ? W…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.