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The Deeper Meaning Of The Temperance Question - Sermons (1915) (Paperback)
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The Deeper Meaning Of The Temperance Question - Sermons (1915) (Paperback)
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"What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh."?Rom. 8:3. "Not having a righteousness of mine own, even
that which is of the law."?Phil. 3:9. "Many there be that complain
of divine providence for suffering Adam to transgress: foolish
tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose,
for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial
Adam."? John Milton. "A rabid temperance advocate is often the
poorest of creatures, flourishing on a single virtue, and quite
oblivious that his temperance is making a worse man of him and not
a better." ?Henry Drummond, in "The Changed Life." "I am not
ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God."?Rom. 1:16.
CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM. A SERMON IN CENTRAL CHURCH, GRAND THEATER,
SIOUX CITY, IOWA, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1915. During the last year of his
earthly ministry, when Jesus was apparently spending a few days of
retirement with His disciples, He told to them a story which we
commonly speak of as "the parable of the unjust steward.'' The
conduct of the steward in the parable was a plain case of deception
and trickery. But the story illustrates a truth which Jesus was
seeking to impress, viz., the desirability of adjusting the means
to the ends sought, so that the result shall be that which we seek
and expect. The heart of Jesus was undoubtedly made heavy often by
the inability of the "good" people about him to exercise good sense
in their efforts to promote the Kingdom of God. So Jesus told to
His disciples the parable of the steward who cheated in order to
gain his end. Cheating is of course always foolish and
short-sighted and wrong. But the very boldness of the parable
serves to emphasize the urgency of the single truth which Jesus in
this parable sought to teach. The un...
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