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...gospel must be adapted to the age. It must speak the language of today. It must recognize and meet the needs of men as they are, not as they ought to be. This has been said so often we have almost forgotten the other principle without which this idea of adaptation becomes vague and meaningless...
This is an age of doubt, not of irreligion. Its temple is one of doubt, not of denial; of unbelief, not of disbelief. Man is a ship made to steer, not to drift, and when he finds that he does not know where he is, the voyage of life becomes melancholy...
What has Christianity to say in reply to this age of questioning? It should not answer by science; because science is unsettled and preachers have only a bowing acquaintance with it; nor by trying to raise up an unpregnable fortification of theology. Christianity is something more than logic and philosophy. Christians should proclaim Jesus Christ...
...Hill was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 7, 1818. His father was a tanner, and at one time served as judge of the court of common pleas. Dr. Hill was left an orphan at a very early age, and his success in after life was due entirely to his own efforts. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to a printer for three years. After he had served his term, he attended the Lower Dublin Academy near Philadelphia for a year, and then was apprenticed to an apothecary in New Brunswick for another twelvemonth. In 1839 he entered...
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