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. 1911 Excerpt: ...union, our whole denomination will be able to do in the near approaching day, when Christ shall show to those who are in His secret what great things may be done 1 See the Biography of David Purviance, Chapter V, for Him by a timely act of self-renouncing love. And the people, trained and ready for that timely act, ...
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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. 1911 Excerpt: ...union, our whole denomination will be able to do in the near approaching day, when Christ shall show to those who are in His secret what great things may be done 1 See the Biography of David Purviance, Chapter V, for Him by a timely act of self-renouncing love. And the people, trained and ready for that timely act, will be dear to the heart of Jesus, and will be the leaven of the church in the coming union age. XIII. GOD'S SAVING POWER IN THE GOSPEL EVERY true minister of the Gospel will intelligently and heartily adopt the words of Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ." There will be some however who will attribute any such expression of a Christian minister to the love of gain or power to dominate others, and will regard it as a matter-of-course utterance, made requisite by his occupancy of the pulpit. "You are paid for saying such things," says the opposer of the Gospel. True, but does it therefore follow that the expression must be false or hypocritical? The professor of astronomy is paid for expounding the wonderful laws and phenomena of the heavenly bodies; yet it does not follow that his teachings are untrue, or his aim utterly selfish. Though there may have been individuals, teachers of science, who have forgotten their responsibility and subordinated its truths to their own selfish ends. Yet, accredited or not, there are many ministers of the Gospel who will be ready to adopt the noble declaration of the apostle. For myself, and I do not say it boastfully, I can with ready mind and willing heart affirm that I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. And I am ready to present, on all proper occasions, to candid minds, the reasons which established me in this sentiment. My first reason why I am not ashamed of the Gospel ...
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