The Christian Examiner
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ISBN13: 9780217072847
Paperback|9780217072847
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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: Miiller must be naturally calm, or he could not live through such a pressure of diverse cares; must have been endowed with a noble constitution, or he could never have worked so incessantly and so energetically; must have had an ingrained spirit of trust, or his faith would have given way when sometimes his own table lacked bread; must have shared the Saviour's love for children, or their destitution would not have held him back from the heathen field, and anchored him for life in a community swarming with benevolent institutions. His narrative has no other grace than that highest grace which the Spirit bestows; it has no eloquence but that of deep conviction; there is very little meditation in its artless pages, and yet few books prompt more. The incessant repetition of nearly similar offerings may weary, the childlike acknowledgment of entire dependence may seem superfluous. Yet no biography is better fitted to draw forth charitable effort than this; none, we believe, will contribute more to philanthropize Christendom, comfort suffering humanity, and build up that kingdom of good-will for which we all pray. Art. VII. ? REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE. rf ., /, // THEOLOGY. -/, /, V / V- / The pride of Reason nowhere shows itstlf in sublimer audacity than in the speculations of men as to the Divine nature and attributes; unless it is in their dogmatizing on the dealings of the Almighty with their fellow-men. Professor Park (though he writes hardly a line in his own name) must expect the public to understand him as indorsing the portentous body of theology which he lias lately edited, when he speaks of the system it contains as promising to become the prevailing faith of Evangelical thinkers; and says that they (the writers of the school of Edwards) ha...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217072847 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217072844 |
| Weight | 1.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 In |
| List Price | $28.29 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 376 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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