The Faith Of A Middle-Aged Man - A Little Book Of Reassurance For Troubled Times (1917) (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: The Pilgrim press Subjects: Religion / General Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Spirituality Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV Faith's Inner Citadel TN the siege of Delhi, during the Sepoy -- rebellion, when the British troops were perched on the ridge outside the city through the long heart-breaking summer, the chief fear of those who knew the situation best was that the Sepoys would throw up a secondary line of earthworks behind the exposed wall, so that when at last the wall was breached and the storming party entered, they would merely find themselves confronted by a second fortification, stronger than the first, the city still lying impregnable within. The fear was not realized; but times without number, from the siege of Jerusalem down, this is the surprise that has awaited the triumphant besiegers in what they thought to be their hour of victory -- to find an inner circle of defense, still secure from their attack. Something similar to this has been taking place in our own generation, in the long series of assaults upon the Christian faith. The old defenses have slowly been giving way. They were ill adapted to withstand the methods of present-day warfare, and at last, to the consternation of the defenders, it has become only too evident that breaches have here and there been made that seem to imperil the whole position. But other forces have been at work than those that have engaged public attention. For now, at length, it begins to be apparent that while the time- honored walls of authoritative creed and confession and dogma, laid stone by stone so painstakingly through centur...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Henry Kingman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-87844-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Promotions
LSN:	1-120-87844-6
Barcode:	9781120878441

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