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Again, the multitude is ignorant, and if Christ pitied and taught the ignorance of the people two thousand years ago, how would He feel in the terrible ignorance of New York? You ask, "Have they not public schools that will give them at least a saving conception of what an education is?" You think that the best schools are where they are most needed; but instead of this, as soon as the unlearned multitude comes to a neighborhood, the churches and schools forsake it. In the parts of New York where most is needed least is given...
...life of the eternal God. He who truly lives, lives in God and God in him. The "life indeed" is something that cannot be lost. Death is but an end of the visible life, what we might call the picture of life, but the life indeed is in Christ and is eternal. This eternal life is what is sought, or at least it is the chief object of study, in all colleges. Mere knowledge amounts to nothing beside the possession of true life. So what we are looking for in college is the truth of God, that having found...
This verse is the key-note of the New Testament, which is European, in contrast with the Old Testament, which was wholly Asiatic. Between the book of Malachi, the last of the Old Testament series, and the birth of Christ, tour hundred years elapsed. These four centuries mark the transition period of the Jewish people from a simple, agricultural community to a powerful commercial people, whose land had been changed and improved under the influence of Roman civilization. If we are to understand the means by which the religion of Christ was spread abroad among the nations of the world...
...Sadducees and agnostics pretended not to believe in it. All this change and much more was brought about during those four lost centuries. Alexander the Great overthrew the vast Persian Empire and, as a great poet has said, "his chariot wheels smoothed the way for the gospel of Christ." Then the Roman Empire began to spread and extend its influence over all the civilized world. When Augustus defeated Antony the unification of Europe, Asia, and Africa was completed and the reigning of universal peace began. He must be blind who does not see the hand of God during these four...
THERE will be a special celebration of the Holy Communion for members of the St. Paul's Society in Christ Church on St. Paul's Day, Friday...