The fitness of Christianity to manJames Nisbet, 1878 - 127 páginas |
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Página 22 - I commend my soul into the hands of God, my creator; hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.
Página 69 - He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
Página 123 - It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character which throughout all the changes of eighteen centuries has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love ; has shown itself capable of acting
Página 53 - For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription,
Página 92 - man. Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years Jesus Christ makes a demand which is of all others difficult to satisfy. He asks for the human heart; he will have it entirely to himself. He demands it unconditionally, and forthwith his demand is granted. Millions of men to-day would die for him. This
Página 33 - MAN, shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers
Página 125 - These are but a part of its fruits, and of its firstfruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which
Página 91 - favored ART, Sole idol long and monarch of my heart; For all is vain that man desires below. And now remorseful thoughts my soul alarm, That which must come, and that beyond the grave ; Picture and sculpture lose their feeble charm, And to that Help Divine I turn for aid Who from the Cross extends his arms to save.
Página 91 - He who was the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, has, with his pierced hand, lifted heathenism off its hinges, and turned the dolorous and accursed centuries into new channels, and now governs the ages.
Página 7 - UNTO you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.