Word: lift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...passions is constantly at work to keep a man where he is or to make him worse. This is not the only thing. The great difficulty comes from the fact that the reformed must also be the reformer. It is a case of a man trying to lift himself, a case offering obvious difficulties...
...choir sang the following anthems, "My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord," West; "Try me. O God," Roberts; "To Thee do I lift up my soul," King Hall...
...condemning the world, men lift their own inventions to the dignity of God's creation. They impute to the Creator's laws the preventable evil and ugliness for which the human race is responsible and with regard to which it so shamefully neglects its duty. Again, the pessimist neglects the truth that this is a remedial world. Sin has in its company that which will eventually annihilate it. The sinner's conscience sets itself against him uncompromisingly; God's voice calls him from evil. Sin struggles hard but it is surely disappearing, and man's hope may well be strong...
...first place it is a doctrine of a person, and a person is a reality. In the second place it is a farce. If you believe in Christ he will lift you out of doubt. It is a supernatural force, and all attempts to account for Him naturally have failed. Other great men have stood in clusters of lesser men, Christ stands in a vast solitude. Christ is sinless, Christ is truth. In answer to the three great questions "Is there a God, a soul, a future life," he without doubting speaks to the soul and says "He that...
...Harvest Anthem," Stainer; "O Blessed are Ye," Barnby; "Lift up Your Eyes," Waring...