This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... the new year of God. It would result in the real reform of human society, the State and the world. The gospel in its essence is ethical and practical. The Bible is a practical book, and is at this moment better understood and more intelligently interpreted than ever before, being looked at as written, not by inspired machines, but by living men, who were in the midst of life, and were earnestly seeking how to live righteously, as the subjects of Gods moral kingdom. It meets these questions of conscience and every-day living, and is a human as well as a divine book. The scope of Christian preaching may be described as sweeping the whole circumference of humanity, cf which God himself is the centre. We have now the agly problem of socialistic communism confronting us in America, as it does the people of Europe; communism from a selfish point of view. But Christ taught in his gospel a communism of all the best interests of humanity in ths light of the higher law of love, of the centre of communion in God; the inference being direct and irresistible, that the great Christian principle of.brotherhood is to guide us in the most difficult questions which concern the common life of our sinful and suffering humanity. The true preacher is united to every man by the kinship of Christs renewing love, and suffers with him as a brother; he has "the enthusiasm of humanity." Should we indeed succeed in secularizing government and secularizing society, we should then have a system of political economy which would be without the gospel in it, which would be without the renewing moral element of Christian love, and which would be as powerless on all questions of political and soical evil, --such as chronic pauperism, public licentiousness, ...
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General Books LLC
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0217553877
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9780217553872
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Sermons on Faith, Hope, and Love with Horae Homileticae