The Mystery of Iniquity: and Other SermonsMacmillan and Company, 1893 - 362 pages |
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... enemies fall back before them . We believe in this steady gain . Truth is stronger than error , mercy than cruelty , love than hate ; and yet with this great creed I think few things are more bewildering than THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY . 7.
... enemies fall back before them . We believe in this steady gain . Truth is stronger than error , mercy than cruelty , love than hate ; and yet with this great creed I think few things are more bewildering than THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY . 7.
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... enemy is mysterious , is superhu- man . Mysterious and superhuman , then , must be our safety and defence . Our foe is a spirit . A higher spirit , then , even the Holy Spirit of God , must be our champion . " We wrestle not against ...
... enemy is mysterious , is superhu- man . Mysterious and superhuman , then , must be our safety and defence . Our foe is a spirit . A higher spirit , then , even the Holy Spirit of God , must be our champion . " We wrestle not against ...
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... enemies . It was the end of a frightful period in their history . These were the men under whose arrogant lordship they had chafed and wrestled . These hands had beaten them . These eyes they had seen burning with scorn and hate . A ...
... enemies . It was the end of a frightful period in their history . These were the men under whose arrogant lordship they had chafed and wrestled . These hands had beaten them . These eyes they had seen burning with scorn and hate . A ...
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... enemy upon the doorstep ; when all our habits . and thoughts and associations have become entwined and colored with some tyrannical necessity , which , however it may change the form of its tyranny , will never let us go , it grows so ...
... enemy upon the doorstep ; when all our habits . and thoughts and associations have become entwined and colored with some tyrannical necessity , which , however it may change the form of its tyranny , will never let us go , it grows so ...
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... enemies in desperate fight , and shall we not hope to see them some day dead like the Egyptians on the seashore ? Surely it is good for us to ask that question , for nothing is more remarkable than the way in which , both in public and ...
... enemies in desperate fight , and shall we not hope to see them some day dead like the Egyptians on the seashore ? Surely it is good for us to ask that question , for nothing is more remarkable than the way in which , both in public and ...
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Page 129 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 23 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 178 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 109 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Page 109 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Page 28 - He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Page 21 - POLARITY, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature ; in darkness and light ; in heat and cold ; in the ebb and flow of waters ; in male and female ; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals ; in the systole and diastole of the heart...
Page 33 - Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well ; the rain also filleth the pools.
Page 19 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD ; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living GOD.
Page 20 - They will go from strength to strength : and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion.