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. 1900 Excerpt: ...as I had never learned before, that it is the yawning gulf between what we say and what we are, that, more than all else besides, keeps men back to-day from the Master's feet. Read again the story of the early Christian Church, as it is written in the opening chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. See how, again and K ...
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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. 1900 Excerpt: ...as I had never learned before, that it is the yawning gulf between what we say and what we are, that, more than all else besides, keeps men back to-day from the Master's feet. Read again the story of the early Christian Church, as it is written in the opening chapters of the Acts of the Apostles. See how, again and K again, the blood-red hand of the persecutor was uplifted to smite and slay the infant Church in its cradle; and yet, despite all that Annas and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and the whole might of the Sanhedrim could do, "the more mightily grew the Word of the Lord and prevailed." And the first blow that was struck at the Church that hurt it was struck by a hand that should have been the hand of a friend, when Ananias and Sapphira, from within the Church, sought to turn it to their own base and selfish ends. It is a saying in literary circles that no man is ever written down except by himself; and the only foes who have, or have ever had, power against the Church to hurt her are the traitors within her, who stab her in secret, and hide the devilry of their doing amid the plentiful folds of the cloak of profession. We need, as Dr. Dale was never weary of telling us, an Ethical Revival within the Church. Every one knows the evils which befell Europe in the days before Luther came, the snares into which England stumbled in the days before Wesley and Whitefield came, the darkness which lay over Scotland in the days before Chalmers came, when the lamp of truth was hidden under the bushel of error, and ignorant men by their ignorant counsel darkened the way of salvation; but, our peril is not one whit less grave or one whit less menacing, if we neglect the great moral revelation which in His Word God has given to His Church. We must stri...
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