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. 1904 Excerpt: ...to all the assaults of the universe; he will outlast it at any rate in its present constitution. It is not the disposer, but only the minister, of his highest interests. This springs from the fact that man belongs to a higher order of being than the material world; or, perhaps, it is better to say that he belongs to a ...
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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. 1904 Excerpt: ...to all the assaults of the universe; he will outlast it at any rate in its present constitution. It is not the disposer, but only the minister, of his highest interests. This springs from the fact that man belongs to a higher order of being than the material world; or, perhaps, it is better to say that he belongs to a superior grade in the one vast order of created things. The grade is determined by how far each being is capable of receiving and reflecting the glory of God, which consists preeminently in reason, will, righteousness, and love, and consequently of entering into fellowship with him. Man stands in three relations to the universe: Man'tniahe is a spectator and student: he is a part of it, " subject to its forces, and under its laws; and he is an agent who reacts upon it to subdue it to his thought, imagination, and convenience. In every respect the Christian man maintains his supremacy and makes it subserve his highest ends. The forms which the Christian character as-Forms of sumes in these relations are obvious from what characUr has been already said, and may be treated briefly. 1. As the universe has been created by God, "-,"f"M the natural and is the sphere of his ceaseless activity, and is orderandUs therefore a manifestation of his attributes, es-Iampecially of his power and wisdom, the Christian man regards it with awe and reverence. These feelings are preserved from passing into the terror to which they are akin by his confidence that the ends of God, and the means through which he accomplishes them, are infinitely wise and good. Austere in themselves, they are commingled with the delight with which, as we have seen, the loving child of God regards his Father's works. In the orderly sequences of the external worl...
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