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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: SERVICE AND REWARD. St. Matthew x. 41. I Know not how it may have been with others, but, to me, this Verse was for many years more perplexing than many passages much more difficult and of far profounder meaning. But I must not assume either that many other readers of the New Testament find no perplexity, no difficulty, in it, or that they do. For it is not every man who lias formed the habit of breaking his mind 011 every craggy Scripture he meets; and even those who have formed that habit, as surely every thoughtful commentator must have done, can hardly have been perplexed by this Verse, since in no commentary that I possess is there any solution of the difficulty I used to feel in it, nor even so much as any suspicion of a difficulty which needs solution. The best commentators, indeed, take the Verse in their easiest stride, and do not so much as pause at it; nay, seem quite unconscious of anything in it to give them pause. And yet surely I cannot be mistaken in thinking that there is a very real difficulty in it, and a difficulty which will be felt and recognized the moment it is pointed out, if at least heart still answers to heart in man. The difficulty I used to feel in these words was the apparent injustice of them. To my mind it did not seem fair that there should be only one and the same reward for the prophet and the man who simply received a prophet, for the righteous man and those who simply received -- i. e., listened- to and welcomed -- a righteous man. It appeared to me that a man who, by studious cultivation of his spiritual AUGUST, 1882. G VOL. IV. gifts and a growing fidelity to the Divine Voice within him, had become a prophet; a man, that is, who could both see and teach men to see the gradual evolution of a Divine significance and pur...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217348959 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217348955 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $23.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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