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...last night in Appleton Chapel from the text, "For now we see through a mirror, darkly; but then face to face." This verse, he said, calls our attention at once to the contrast between our present state and the future. Now we cannot understand all things, we cannot know God perfectly. This fact troubles many people and they think that if we cannot know all we can know nothing. But Paul says "now I know in part;" partial knowledge is not to be despised. Our light now is reflected light, but while it comes through a mirror and is imprefect...
tion that God knows us, which is the real cause for this spirit...
There is one illusion, a fundamental error in all religion, which is that in the relation between God and man, man does all the work,- that man has to find God. St. Paul's correction stands against this; he shows us that God is about us everywhere, helping and aiding us with His universal experience. Before man ever proved God, God was proving him, Christ found man long before man came to Christ and since the beginning of time religion has been supporting man unknown...
...this epistle Paul makes two statements of our relation to God; first that we shall know God, and then, correcting himself, that we shall be known of God. Greek and Jew alike are the sons of God, and God has put his spirit in them. First, Paul as the theologian tells us that we have this spirit because we have come to know God, that the more we learn, the better we know how to appreciate Him. He then seems to feel that there is something more, that back of all this knowledge or ignorance there is a fund...
...very early times the laws of the state and the church were identical. Law, among men of olden times, was believed to be sacred and to come from God. This close kinship existed between theology and jurisprudence before those terms were used as the names of definite...