This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...origin of evil--is one that has fascinated, perplexed, bewildered, tortured, all who have ever attempted to deal with it; they could neither let it alone, nor mitigate by a single shade the blackness of its darkness: the attempt to solve it has proved as vain as the search for the philosopher's stone or the elixir ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...origin of evil--is one that has fascinated, perplexed, bewildered, tortured, all who have ever attempted to deal with it; they could neither let it alone, nor mitigate by a single shade the blackness of its darkness: the attempt to solve it has proved as vain as the search for the philosopher's stone or the elixir vitas; every solution yet proposed contains within it the very mystery which it attempts to clear up. The Evangelist has the opportunity of giving some relief to the mind by throwing light upon the mystery; indeed it appears as if the line of thought he is pursuing must necessitate some utterance on the subject, it seems to lie so directly in his way. Yet he says not a single word. There is the " darkness "---unaccounted for, unexplained, a dread and undeniable fact of almost infinite magnitude. Is not his silence significant? "The light shineth" in this darkness. This statement does not refer merely to the personal ministry of Jesus and the promulgation of His gospel: we are not to think merely of the rising up of a great Teacher who came to instruct an ignorant and benighted world; the statement sweeps over all time, and embraces all the illuminating activities of the Word, both before and since the Incarnation. It is not "BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER!" 125 merely that the light shone for a period of three or threeand-thirty years; but from the beginning of human history it has gone on shining, and shineth still. This world has never been given over to the unchallenged reign of darkness: there have always been souls wherein the life has been kindled, and through whom it has shot its rays into the world's gloom--God's candles lighted and placed according to His own will. In this respect the Father of lights has never ...
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