Inhaltsangabe
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: ... II CHARACTER REVERENCE.--LOVE.--SERVICE.--SACRIFICE.--PEACE.--COURAGE.--MEEKNESS.--CHEERFULNESS If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God. Salvation is character; redemption is righteousness; and nothing could be more appalling to the spiritually-minded soul than the contemplation of a world in which men should be allowed to go on in selfishness and sin forever, and yet in blissful indifference and unconcern. Character is not due to inheritance, will-power, culture; it is due to the life of God, wrought by his peace in the soul of man. Born, not of blood--inheritance; not of the will of the flesh--government; not of the will of man--education; but of the God who is brooding the race, of the God who has come into life in Christ, of the God who stands at the door of your heart and your life, saying: "Let me come into you and make you a child of God." The greatest and most vital power in influencing life is personality. It is greater than law, instruction, or example. Indeed all three have their chief value because of the personality which lies behind them, of which they are manifestations. Law manifests primarily, the will of the law-giver; instruction, primarily the intellect of the instructor; example, both his intellect and his will in his life. Why is the world yours? It is the universal law that the lower is made to serve the higher; the inorganic world furnishes material out of which the organic is formed. Out of the juices and minerals of the earth the tree is framed and shaped; and out of the vegetable creation the animate is formed. The ox eats grass, and the grass become ox; the ox does not become grass. The grass serves the animal, as the inorganic served the organic. The animal serves man, is made to serve him, made to be und...
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