Representative Modern PreachersMacmillan, 1904 - 423 páginas |
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... clear and the whole discourse is held in unity . There is there- fore great variety of method and there is nothing stereo- typed . The rapidity with which the final preparation was made and the influence of the audience upon him in his ...
... clear and the whole discourse is held in unity . There is there- fore great variety of method and there is nothing stereo- typed . The rapidity with which the final preparation was made and the influence of the audience upon him in his ...
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... clear and accurate . They demand careful attention , but from the German point of view the style is adapted to its work . The absence of Biblical diction and of Biblical material in general , as already suggested , is notable . Moreover ...
... clear and accurate . They demand careful attention , but from the German point of view the style is adapted to its work . The absence of Biblical diction and of Biblical material in general , as already suggested , is notable . Moreover ...
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... clear that Robertson's change of theological views was connected with changed philosophical con- ceptions . The fundamental change was in his concep- tion of God's relation to the universe . With this was connected a modification in his ...
... clear that Robertson's change of theological views was connected with changed philosophical con- ceptions . The fundamental change was in his concep- tion of God's relation to the universe . With this was connected a modification in his ...
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... clear his conception of the experiences in Paul's life that furnish a back- ground for these letters . ( 2 ) His penetration into the inner suggestiveness of his texts . He gets down under them , sinks himself into them , and throws up ...
... clear his conception of the experiences in Paul's life that furnish a back- ground for these letters . ( 2 ) His penetration into the inner suggestiveness of his texts . He gets down under them , sinks himself into them , and throws up ...
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... clear vision , and his quickened and expanded sense of the significance of Christ for his own and for all human life , was one of the influences that wrought in the change of his theological views . He found that the doctrinal standards ...
... clear vision , and his quickened and expanded sense of the significance of Christ for his own and for all human life , was one of the influences that wrought in the change of his theological views . He found that the doctrinal standards ...
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Página 194 - ... of men, and there I see a sight which fills me with unspeakable distress. The world seems simply to give the lie to that great truth of which my whole being is so full; and the effect upon me is, in consequence, as a matter of necessity, as confusing as if it denied that I am in existence myself. If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world and see no reflection of its Creator.
Página 206 - ... feel that there was a higher life than this daily one, and a brighter world than that you see; or encouraged you, or sobered you, or opened a way to the inquiring, or soothed the perplexed ; if what he has said or done has ever made you take interest in him, and feel well inclined towards him; remember such a one in time to come, though you hear him not...
Página 182 - He and His apostles left behind them, but in them ? Who but these give up home and friends, wealth and ease, good name and liberty of will, for the kingdom of heaven ? Where shall we find the image of St. Paul, or St. Peter, or St. John, or of Mary the mother of Mark, or of Philip's daughters, but in those who, whether they remain in seclusion, or are sent over the earth, have calm faces, and sweet plaintive voices, and spare frames, and gentle manners, and hearts weaned from the world, and wills...
Página 181 - While history in prose and verse was thus made the instrument of Church feelings and opinions, a philosophical basis for the same was laid in England by a very original thinker, who, while he indulged a liberty of speculation, which no Christian can tolerate, and > advocated conclusions which were often heathen rather than Christian, yet after all instilled a higher philosophy into inquiring minds, than they had hitherto been accustomed to accept. In this way he made trial of his age, and succeeded...
Página 210 - ... of the voice; action there was none; his sermons were read and his eyes were always on his book; and all that you will say is against efficiency in preaching. Yes; but you take the man as a whole, and there was a stamp and a seal upon him, there was a solemn music and sweetness...
Página 155 - When the preacher touches the Trinity and when logic shatters it all to pieces, I am all at the four winds. But I am glad I have a heart as well as a head. My heart wants the Father ; my heart wants the Son ; my heart wants the Holy Ghost — and one just as much as the other. My heart says the Bible has a Trinity for me, and I mean to hold by my heart.
Página 181 - I used to wish the Arabian Tales were true : my imagination ran on unknown influences, on magical powers, and talismans I thought life might be a dream, or I an Angel, and all this world a deception, my fellow-angels by a playful device concealing themselves from me, and deceiving me with the semblance of a material world.
Página 84 - could help it; but there are times when it is not I that is talking, when I am caught up and carried away so that I know not whether I am in the body or out of the body, when I think things in the pulpit that I...
Página 255 - THE QUEST OF HAPPINESS A STUDY OF VICTORY OVER LIFE'S TROUBLES BY NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn ; author of" The Influence of Christ in Modern Life
Página 195 - I am far, of course, from denying that every article of the Christian Creed, whether as held by Catholics or by Protestants, is beset with intellectual difficulties, and it is simple fact, that, for myself, I cannot answer those difficulties.