Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...history there is only one opening through which God has been clearly seen - the life of Christ. He conquered evil and the world is being re-created. To those who do not see that God's thoughts are as far above man's as the heaven is above the earth, sin may seem dying too slowly. To the pessimist it may even seem gaining strength, but to the Christian, God's purposes are revealed in Christ. He sees the beauty and stainlessness of that character gaining the victory in the world and the new creation advancing when the world, concerning...
...being fulfilled. I turn to one of these promises. "And God said let us make man in our image after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth...
This promise was made when the most enlightened people in the world worshipped idols, the sun, the moon, the Nile and the crocodile that burrowed in its mind and the cattle that browsed on its banks, even the beetle that rolled its ball of earth in the dusty roads at their feet Now man calls lightning down from the sky and bids it play for him, he marries fire and water, and makes their child steam do his work. So it is with the other promises...
...escape the eyes of Nancy. They gazed up in to his from the clear waters, they looked down from the blue sky, and as he threw himself in a frenzy on the ground and buried his face in his hands, they peered out of the depths of the earth. But the Christian need not fear remorse; his thoughts are not for the past but for the future. He knows that his sins are abundantly forgiven...
...Connor, the champion oarsman of America, has issued a challenge to any man on earth to row three miles for the world's championship...