The Religious Aspects of the Age: With a Glance at the Church of the Present and the Church of the Future, Being Addresses Delivered at the Anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Union of New York, on the 13th and 14th Days of May, 1858Martin Thatcher, Orren Hutchinson |
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Page 151 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 151 - At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth ; and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Page 146 - God foolishly, by ascribing that to him, or the nature he has given us, which is owing wholly to our own abuse of it. Men may speak of the degeneracy and corruption of the world, according to the experience they have had of it ; but human nature, considered as the divine workmanship, should, methinks, be treated as sacred : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 7 - ... inquiries into human affairs is doomed to great, perhaps fatal error. The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true and only happiness. All prosperity, not founded on it, is built on sand. If human...
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Page 163 - ... that can make that assumption for any man that walks upon the face of the earth. OSTENTATION is the signal-flag of hypocrisy. The charlatan is verbose and assumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious, because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master-sin of the devil ; and the devil is the father of lies. THERE is the large-souled brother, who preaches in Brooklyn, and who will permit every honest man to call him brother, however much he may differ in opinion from him ; — why, his great heart, at...
Page 43 - Doctrinals would then be only varieties of opinion concerning the mysteries of faith, which they who are true Christians would leave to every one to receive according to his conscience, whilst it would be the language of.
Page 136 - This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom He hath sent, for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 42 - There are three essentials of the church — an acknowledgment of the Lord's divinity, an acknowledgment of the holiness of the Word, and the life which is called charity.