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. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...bears it up. Israel and the modern successors of Israel may ignore it; but many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven--the foundations of which are laid by a love of obeying the Divine law as the law of life from God. For an ...
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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. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...bears it up. Israel and the modern successors of Israel may ignore it; but many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven--the foundations of which are laid by a love of obeying the Divine law as the law of life from God. For an admirable account of the failure of the ancient loyalty and the establishment of the new, see Dean Church's lectures on Roman Civilization, and Civilization after Christianity, in "Gifts of Civilization: " The Macmillan Co. In Peter's house, his wife's mother was laid, and sick of a fever. Peter stands for the new faith, and his wife for the enjoyment in the life according to it. Her mother stands for the enjoyment or good of the former faith--more formal and literal, with much hope of reward. Her fever is from fear of the loss of the good she had, in the new and wiser ways of doing good which the Lord taught. Thus, for example, the change in the keeping of the Sabbath, from the formal represent ative passiveness, to the Christian laying aside of self for the sake of instruction in truth and of doing works of charity, must have caused much disturbance to the faithful, until they received the true Sabbath spirit from the Lord. The Lord's touch gave her hand a pleasure in the wiser service which He himself loved to do and to teach. Her faithful loyalty gained a new expansion; and she arose and ministered unto them. With the word of His own new life from God, He relieved men from the pressure of many evils and discouragements, that their life on this plane of natural conduct and use might be full. But there was another plane of life, that of recreation, by enjoyment of natural pleasures of instruction, of beauty, of food, of repose; and...
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