Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
"To such readers as have reflected on man's life; who understand that for man's well-being Faith is properly the one thing needful; how with it martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it worldlings puke up their sick existence by sui...
"The times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now commandeth all men every where to repent; because He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousn...
12. CHAPTER IX.The most sharply defined issue between Science and Religion--in fact, the only real issue at the present time--is in regard to the doctrine of Special Providence and the efficac...
11. CHAPTER VIII."He hath made of one blood all the nations of mankind to dwell upon the face of the whole earth, and ordained to each the appointed seasons of their existence and the bounds of...
8. CHAPTER V.The universe had a beginning. It is not eternal either in its matter or form; it is neither self-originated nor self-sustained. The all of the finite, with its relations and law...
10. CHAPTER VII.Of the various hypotheses which seek to dispense with the immediate agency of God, and to explain the conservation of the world by "secondary" or natural agencies, the second is...
6. CHAPTER III.God is the Absolute, Infinite, and Perfect Being, in whom, through whom, and for whom are all things. This is the Christian conception of God; and it is the only conception whic...
7. CHAPTER IV.Creation was the absolutely free act of God, unconditioned by any pre-existing thing. Matter with its properties and forms, its temporal, spatial, and numerical relations; Spiri...
9. CHAPTER VI."The relations which unite the creature and the Creator compose a problem obscure and delicate, the two extreme solutions of which are equally false and perilous: on the one han...
5. CHAPTER II._God is the first principle, the unconditioned cause of all existence._ This is the answer of Christian doctrine to the great problem presented for solution in the preceding cha...
13. CHAPTER X."That they may seek the Lord, and truly feel after Him and find Him, though He is not far from any one of us, for in Him we live and move and are; as certain of your own poets h...
4. CHAPTER I.As Archimedes demanded only one fixed point in order to move the world, so Descartes desired to find one certain and indubitable principle upon which he could plant his feet and...
3. CHAPTER XI."To such readers as have reflected on man's life; who understand that for man's well-being Faith is properly the one thing needful; how with it martyrs, otherwise weak, can chee...
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