Word: godding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been believed for centuries that the Kingdom of Heaven lies on the other side of death. "This," said Judge Smith, "is like saying that one moves toward an object while going in the other direction." Evil is the origin of death, and how can evil possibly lead us to God...
...adverse conditions. Dominion is not the power to work against the natural laws of the universe, or against one another, but is "the power to overcome evil by good." There are three requirements to be met before man's dominion can be realized. First: Man cannot exist separate from God. To find the real man we must therefore begin with God; that is, we must know God. Second: We must understand what is to be overcome. The human mind is like an atmosphere in which both evil and good messages are discharged. We must learn to accept only the good...
...represented by the "seven planets of Ptolemy"; the eighth heaven by the fixed stars or milky way; the ninth heaven by a crystalline sphere; and the tenth by the Empyrion, which is the furthest from earth. In this structural system, Dante shows that the further we are from God the less capable we are of entering into His Spirit, and that as the Empyrion is the centre of the heavens, yet embracing them all so God is both centre and circumference of all, for in Him we live and move...
...mastery, and the crown, the symbol of freedom of his soul. The pilgrim then bathes in the river Lethe and forgets all that is evil--symbolic of the forgiveness of sins. With renewed soul and spirit he is now, ready for Heaven and for the love and presence of God...
There will be a conference of the class in "The Essentials of Christian Faith" this evening at 7 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Professor H. W. Magoun will speak on "Famous Attacks on the Authority of the Word of God, and Some Further Proofs of Its Divine Origin...