Luke 18:1
CHAPTER 11
CONCERNING PRAYER.
WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking
one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the
religious instinct of humanity. Everywhere, and through all times, man
has felt, as by a sort of intuition, that earth was no Ult... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 16
THE MIRACLES OF HEALING.
IT is only natural that our Evangelist should linger with a
professional as well as a personal interest over Christ's connection
with human suffering and disease, and that in recounting the miracles
of healing He should be peculiarly at home; the theme would be i... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 22
THE ETHICS OF THE GOSPEL.
WHATEVER of truth there may be in the charge of "other-worldliness,"
as brought against the modern exponents of Christianity, such a charge
could not even be whispered against its Divine Founder. It is just
possible that the Church had been gazing too steadfast... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 15
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
IN considering the words of Jesus, if we may not be able to measure
their depth or to scale their height, we can with absolute certainty
discover their drift, and see in what direction they move, and we
shall find that their orbit is an ellipse. Moving around the two... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 23
THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE GOSPEL.
COIFI, in his parable to the thanes and nobles of the North Humber
country, likened the present life of man to the flight of a sparrow
through one of their lighted halls, coming out of the night, and then
disappearing in the dark winter whence it came; an... [ Continue Reading ]