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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "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...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "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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