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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with their minds all kindled with the zeit-yeixl, which, even if it become a fad, is something mightier and more God- given than any fad, turn to their own community, and, with the patient recognition that milleniums do not come in a day, set themselves to the investigation of their own social environment, and something good can hardly fail to come of it and the advent of the Kingdom of God on earth and therefore in heaven be accelerated. THK DEVELOPMENT OF ETHICAL FORCES. HY KEV. T. T. Ml NGER, NEW HAVEN, CONN. And when he was come Into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Vheuce hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son'/ Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethern, lames, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man alt these things? And they were offended in him. Hut Jesus saiil unto them. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. Ami he did not many mipbty works there because of their unbelief.?Matt., xiii. M-nn. There is a touch of naturalness in these words that puts their authenticity beyoud all doubt. It does more than authenticate the record; it uncovers human nature. Jesus had been brought up in Nazareth, was the son of a carpenter there, had played as a child in its streets, was one of a family of children, had worked at his trade, and at last had left the place, gone down into the region of the Jordan, and received baptism at the hands of John. After a time he returns in an entirely new character, ?a remarkable speaker in the synagogue and a healer of diseases. The people were astonished. AV hence this wisdom and these mighty works? They do not wonder at...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217012683 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021701268X |
| Weight | 1.11 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 342 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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