Word: nazareth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was a large congregation at the regular Sunday evening service in the chapel last evening. The preacher was Rev. William Lawrence. His text was Mark vi: 56. After narrating the story of Christ's second visit to Nazareth and of His seeming powerlessness to do many wonderful deeds then on account of the unbelief of the people, the speaker turned to examine the reasons for the slow progress the world has made since Christ's time in realizing the ideal of true Christianity. The chief trouble today is that there is an almost universal skepticism as to the possibility...
...Christianity it would have the effect of an electric battery, establishing a complete sovereignty in their thought, interest, and being. The choir sang the anthems, "It came upon the midnight clear," by Sullivan; "Thus said the Lord," from the Messiah, sung by Mr. Richardson, of Boston, and Gounod's "Nazareth...
...congregation which filled every part of the building. The theme of the sermon was the utterance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to the assembled guests at the wedding feast in Canaan: "Whatever He saith unto you, do it." Mary had been dwelling with her Son in Nazareth and there she had studied Him and had gradually come to understand Him. She trusted so completely that, not knowing what Christ would do, she bade the guests do whatever He said to them. She struck the note that has come down through the year. Christ has often seemed dark...
...fact that the great Book of the world is a story of life. The New Testament is a biography. Make it a mere book of dogmas, and its vitality is gone. Make it a biography and it is the Book of life. Make it the history of Jesus of Nazareth, and the world holds it to its heart forever! Not simply His coming or going - not simply His faith or His death, but his living. The total life of Jesus is the world's salvation, and the Book in which His life shines, orbed and distinct, is the world...