Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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First He sends conscience and feelings of joy, and opportunities to consecrate our lives to His service. Then He sends us a delegation, prosperity, works of art, music, books, and all the agencies of education and improvement. Each messenger says "Render to the Lord the fruit of His vineyard." He has these numerous messengers to appeal to each one of us, and we ought not to expect the same messenger that appeals to us to appeal as strongly to some one else...
...Arthur Brooks of New York conducted the services at Appleton Chapel last evening and took for his test the works from Isaiah, "What could be done to my vineyard that I have not done?" The speaker said that the test of a religion is whether it answers the demands of a man's nature. Man asks for but a word as a blessing from God, and in what manner is this message put before men(?) We do not want an answer to our demands which is so much divine and so much human, which divides itself into such components. Rather...