Christs Power Our Warrant And The Worlds Hope PDF Download

Excerpt from Christ's Power, Our Warrant and the World's Hope: A Sermon Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at the Seventieth Annual Meeting, Held in Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1879 One more aspect of his authoritative power on earthcrowns all. These, for they are but helps and m1n1stries to it, yiz. Its produdivmess of spz'n'tual c/zanges. Merely moral ones are subordinate or included here. Indeed; the ethical suc cesses -of his religion, were they altogether separable from the evangelical ones, would still be signs of them. Lower branches of. The gospel tree, they have well beengcalled. You can beget nothing that is to be desired of the twel1're beatitudes of gautima-buddha, save by first realizing those' of the Sermon on the Mount. Let the moral philosophy of the schools, ancient and modern alike, continue to be a chaos that of Christ is a cosmos of order and beauty. The true data of ethics are in his life. N 0 Christian wonders that afheathen teacher in japan went straightway and bought forty Bibles for his school, when told of the science of doing right, and. That Christ' 8 word is the best instruction in it. The D1v1ne forces of the Gospel are historic, yet that they are also strictly personal, who can deny? If evolution is true, they are superhuman. What availed the survival of the fittest ever to introduce into this guilty world richer virtues than it even imagined - new religious virtues - and make them bloom and come to fruit on the thorny and withered stern of i) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.