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...destroy us; this we must keep in mind. He hates us because humanity represents God. There is also a tendency to attribute all evil to influences; this is a dangerous fault. In fighting temptation one must remember the immense power of Satan. Above all things we should learn obedience. Christ was not tempted in the wilderness because God had not willed that this should be the time that Christ should prove his power. Christ is the only man whose life was written before he lived...
...Paul regarded himself as a member of the body of Christ, and held his body sacred because it was of Christ. He said we should assist each other because we are the children of God. Men hold this idea too loosely now. St. Paul spoke more broadly about temptation than any other, and believed that one of the great causes of immorality is that we do not call things by their right names...
...services in Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. W. B. King of Christ Church, who took for his text II Peter I, 5, "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue." It is remarkable how single words often express in their development the history of whole phases of human history. The word "virtue" in the text is a fitting example. The Greek word used by St. Peter had a simple meaning compared with its translation, a meaning parallel to "virtus" from which we get our word. It meant all that is brave and manly, all that is distinctly...
...until after Christ's time that men began to enquire whether this masculine quality of bravery was all that a man ought to possess. As they began to enquire, they began to improve, and so the meaning of the word developed, until it has come to include not merely bravery, but all the distinctly moral virtues, which one must have today if he would be a true...
Thus in its true sense virtue means more today than it did before the days of Christ, and it is because we have the example of Christ, who combined in himself all the qualities that make up virtue, that we have this higher conception...