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...gates of hell shall not prevail:" and once again his words came to John, and he too left the fishers' boats to become the apostle of God. Unstinted prodigality of gift, met now and then by the prodigality of return--this was the story of the life of Christ...
...world for men to use, while in their ignorance they dreaded it or toyed with it, until at last one mind grasped its meaning. For centuries God's offers of the power and nobility of the spiritual life were lavished upon every man, unaccepted, until at last Jesus Christ grasped them and lived them out in his wonderful life of leadership and service...
...then shall Christ's teaching of lavishness apply to the lives of men? Here and there is a man who bends his concentrated energies in utter self-absorption to some one task of his own, to the accomplishing of some purpose, to the achievement of reputation and renown; and often he accomplishes his task only to find that the prize he has grasped has turned to ashes in his hand, that in gaining an object he has lost the sweetness of life, that in winning a place a place in men's estimation he has lost his place...
...Endicott Peabody, following Professor Moore, spoke briefly on the words of St. Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...
...Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal). Rev. Prescott Evarts. Sunday, 7.30 a.m.; (Holy Communion), 10.30 a.m., 4 p.m. Wednesday, Morning Prayer, 11 a.m. Friday, Evening Prayer, 5 p.m. Holy Communion on holy days, 7.30 or 10 a.m.; also on first and third Sundays of every month...