Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture yesterday Prof. Lyon showed the close relationship between the first eleven chapters in Genesis and similar narratives in the Babylonian-Assyrian literature. In some cases, as the Deluge, the cuneiform account is almost completely recovered; in others. owing to the terrible fate that befell Assyrian libraries, only small fragments have yet been found. The use to which the Hebrews put this material constitutes the great superiority in the Hebrew versions. The writer of Genesis replaced polytheism by monotheism. Some things he left out, and retained only echoes of other portions. Thus, we find in Genesis a serpent which...
...then spoke, taking for his text the words from Matthew, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy strength and with all thy soul." The speaker said it was impossible to command ourselves to love God unless we feel the fundamental intrinsic relationship between God and man. To love a being truly, we must stand before it and feel the magic of its presence. We can stand in the presence of God by "standing in the way of his commandments." Dr. Brooks spoke of the habit of making good resolves at this season...