Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate of another institution where the day is always observed by special services, and has been a marked occasion many times in its history in its religious effect, it is a matter of regret that Harvard, the mother university of America. founded for the education of ministers of the Gospel, and the scene at present of so much practical religious activity, should ignore this day so generally observed and so rich a blessing in the past...
What must have been his emotions? He came to bring them the Gospel and they thrust him out. Yet this is only typical of his general treatment. We find nothing but wonder and sorrow that they should so misjudge him. There is no trace of resentment, though...
...Moxom read some selections from the seventh chapter of the Gospel of St. John, and took that as his text. He spoke in effect as follows...
...show his devotion to Jesus and to follow him as a disciple. He was restrained, however, and when the Gadarenes, being afraid of Christ, asked him to leave them, the convert was left behind as his witness. The man remained, and spent the rest of his life preaching the Gospel to the Gadarenes...
...three ways. Either the evangelists were true historians, or else falsifiers, or had evolved this ideal from the stories of the great men of former history. If the disciples were false, how could they have invented a story so wonderful and at the same time so consistent? If the Gospel is true, it must be regarded as integral, and the resurrection as a necessary part of it. The facts can not be accounted for except by the theory of Christ's divinity. Although often tempted, He remained unconscious of sin, and was finally made perfect through His sufferings. Thus...