Word: christs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...word holiness, half its force is lost. Most men of the present day would rather be called sinners than saints, and what is needed now is spiritual minded men of the world. What purposes can a man fill to better advantage than to enter into the school of Jesus Christ, and ever to press on with high ideas of holiness...
...vesper service yesterday was conducted by Rev. Phillips Brooks and Rev. Dr. McKenzie. There was no solo singing. The prayer was made by Dr. McKenzie. Dr. Brooks preached the sermon on "Christ under Temptation," from the text taken from the 4th chapter of St. John...
There is in men a spiritual insight which is unerring and which must be followed. Christ saw, and knew, he did not argue. There is a Christly possibility in every man and all we have to do is to obey this conscience, which is above reason. It is the glory of man that he may know God. Nature shows God, but some men do not see any divine agency, because God is not in them. They have schooled themselves not to see, and so they will remain, forever, in the dark. When the voice of duty is no longer heard...
...lesson which the discourse taught was the omnipresence of God to men. Our Life is in God's and his life is in ours. One of the points of difference between Jewish doctrine and that of the church of Christ was that in the former the necessity was imposed of seeking the spirit by pilgrimages to some appointed and perhaps distant spot; in the latter that He whom Christ called Our Father is ever and always with us, and we may everywhere accept his present love. Every word of the Lord's Prayer shows the nearness...
...purity, faith, fidelity, etc. Sometimes they gain admittance to a man's heart, but oftener are driven away by the all-absorbing cares and duties of every-day life. It is so even in religion. Religion is everywhere seeking ingress to the heart of man, and the knowledge of Christ is ready for those who are willing to search. The door is open, but no one enters. We can liken to this our modern discoveries. The knowledge of electricity, of the telegraph and telephone has been knocking from time immemorial at the minds of men; but it was not until...