Word: christly
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SERMON.Hebrew xiii., 8 - Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and forever...
...intelligence, and affection, and will. It is not an uncommon power. The first powers are not those which are exceptional and rare, but those which belong in general to all humanity and constitute the proof marks of its excellence. In every age the member of the body of Christ has seen the great expression of Christ's life, of which he was a part, stand forth sublime and gracious, as mother church. In every time of national peril and preservation the patriot has been able to cry out to his beloved land, standing before him in beautiful distinctness...
...some larger life, or else she fails; of her best growth and good, and to see how that large life in which hers must be inclosed and out of which it is to be fed, is expressed in these words of the Old Epistles of the Hebrews: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." The necessity of which I speak is universal. There is no life which fulfils itself entirely and worthily, except as it is inclosed within the grasp of a life larger than its own. Such enclosure may be represented, as an obedience, to which...
...years? What is this universal and eternal power within which these and all the temporary struggles of mankind are enriched? We open the sacred book. We turn to the majestic letter written centuries ago to members of the great sacred nation, and there we find our answer: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever." And what and who is Jesus Christ? In reverence and humility, let us give our answer. He is the meeting of the divine and the human. The presence of God in humanity, the perfection of humanity in God. The divine made human, the human proves...
What does it mean to do that, she asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much...