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...Christ's answer to this question,. that what man has given up on earth shall be increased one hundred fold in heaven, cannot be taken literally. Jesus did not mean it as a reward or price for what had been given...
...follows Christ for the sake of heaven is not virtuous, he is only seeking heaven as a reward, he is not seeking it for its own sake...
...from Pharaoh. Again and again he helped them by wonderful miracles, showing thus not by word but by deed, that they were his chosen people, and that it was His will that they should be freed. The best of all God's revelations to man was the life of Christ on earth. God wished to reval His perfect holiness to men and he did it in the life of Christ. He wished to reveal to men that there was another life after death and this he showed by Christ's resurrection. So always we see God revealing himself...
...said that the scheme of life which Christ brought to the world was a system of prayer. Prayer is instinctive in man in times of peril and emergency. At such times it is universal; as natural to the poor heathen as to the Christian. It is the unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach...
...splendor of churches so long established and to be dissatisfied with the newness of the Methodist sect. Yet the creeds of these denominations express belief in the Holy Catholic Church and the Communion of Saints. The Catholic Church denotes in its broadest sense all who are saints in Christ. The phrase, "Communion of Saints," also should be taken in its broadest meaning. It does not refer to monks and anchorites alone, but to all who now or at any time since the creation of man have lived up to the higher thought within them. All men are saints who carry...