Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more than useless to repeat these prayers and phrases that are only so many empty words. It hurts ourselves and it hurts the Church. We can bring ourselves, however, to say these prayers and to mean them by comparing our own very imperfect lives with the life of Christ, and when we see, like Peter, how far below what we might have been we have fallen, we can say with sincerity, "Lord, have mercy upon me, a miserable sinner...
...Washington Gladden spoke last evening from the fifth chapter of the first epistle of John. His text was from the first and fourth verses: "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world...
...assertion that belief in the kingly character of Christ brings victory over the world seems, at first sight, hard to believe. The problem is a practical one and it concerns every man. Among men of different interests and pursuits different idols are worshipped as all-powerful. At different times cotton, or coal, or sugar has been called king, and at all times among business men money has been held the highest power. Scientists believe knowledge to be the greatest ruling power. Yet no one of these powers can be truly called king of mankind. Money, that is representative...
...that none of these powers can be a true king of mankind. Yet Christ, whose life and death are the incarnation of love, represents the only power that can abide. Other interests can secure ephemeral power, but they can not bring permanent peace and stability...
...duty to realize that the power of the kingdom of God is a present power and not one that is to come at the day of judgment. God's dominion is growing stronger day by day and is gaining power over the world. He who accepts Christ and the love that Christ's life symbolizes, partakes of this victory over the mind, and gains the only true happiness...