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ReviewsUser Review - BHCTILibraryToo [Flag as inappropriate] OCLC: 3633333 Related Subjects: Mission of the church. | Church renewal. LCCN:BV Common terms and phrasesagencies attend beauty become bless captains of industry character chasten cheer Christian Church Church exists civilization common worship congregation conscience conviction created creed cure of souls disciples divine dogmas earnest ence eral eternal ethical fact faith feel gious give gospel hand heart heaven hope human society ideals imperfect important indifferent influence institution interest Jesus of Nazareth kingdom of heaven labor labor union larger lative lessons lives mankind methods mind minister ministry modern moral motive power Naza never noble organized outgrown particular church piety prayer preacher precious present pulpit Puritan realize religion religious repentance represents rience saints Salvation Army sanctity secular selfish sentiment simply social sorrow soul spirit of Jesus spiritual Sunday Sunday-school superstitions supreme teacher things tical tion to-day true truth vital worship young References from web pagesJSTOR: Recent Books on Preaching and Preachers Popular passagesWhile in hypothetical cases it may often seem difficult to draw the line between what is right and what is not, actually, a lawyer soundly brought up in the law, who wholeheartedly accepts his professional status, will rarely have any difficulty in realizing the difference between the normal by-product of efficient service and the unwholesome results of selfaggrandizement. Page 141 ... for chastity consists in being true to your mate and most of the men and women who devote their lives to the church do not believe in Nature. Leo Tolstoy reverences the character of Jesus and comes as near living the Christ-life as any one of whom I know, and here is what he thinks of the church : Religion is truth and goodness. The church falsehood and evil. I tell you frankly I cannot agree with those who believe the church is an organization indispensable to religion. The church has ever been... Page 68 Christian, in proportion as each section rises from the bondage of the letter into the freedom of the Spirit, from the condition of slaves into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Page 6 For, whenever he walks by my shop, I say to myself, ' There goes a true man,' and that moment everything good in me feels stronger, and I find that it is then easier for me to live as I ought... Page 164 Christ took them in His arms, and said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me. Page 119 Church; its roots are not in forms or creeds, but in the soul. But without the Church, religion can no more thrive in a community than education without schools. Piety needs symbol and service to foster it as much as culture needs books. The consciousness of God needs public worship to sustain it as much as human society needs courts to maintain order. Page 71 And probably one of the chief reasons of the present weakness of the Church is the fact that so many ministers have not come out into the real modern world and laid hold of its vast resources and applied them to human life in behalf of piety and morality, as ought to have been done. Overburdened with fading traditions and fettered by archaic forms, clergymen have often spoken in feeble and... Page 138 There never was a time in the history of the world when the Church was a greater necessity than at present, because human society was never in more need of the moral quality which it contributes to man's life. Not more legislative statutes, but more of the spiritual convictions of a rational piety ; not more luxuries, but more of the ethical motives that flow from the... Page 144 Overburdened with fading traditions and fettered by archaic forms, clergymen have often spoken in feeble and faltering tones, when in fact the world is full of newly discovered truths that reveal God more fully than ever before, and that ought to have been used to enforce moral law. The permanent duty of the Church is to transform truth into life, and the present increase of knowledge enlarges this duty. Page 138 But space forbids ; and we will close with a single allusion to the r son assigned for keeping the heart. " For out of it are the issues of life. Page 150 Other editions
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