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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: Thirdly: They commune: they will talk to thee. They are full of meaning; they are echoes of the Divine mind. They shall talk with thee about spiritual re lations, about duty and destiny. Fourthly: They animate. Keep- my commandments, amd live. They are the life-giving power of the soul. Ipulprt nrift its THE ATONEMENT. Let 118 try to meet a difficulty which we may have heard not unfrequently stated, and which, at the first glance, appears to have much weight. Can it he believed, say some, that Christ, the Creator and Preserver of countless worlds, would come to this little speck in immensity, would live here in human form for three-and-thirty years, and hero would suffer and die, all to geek and to save that which was lost, all to work out fallen man's salvation ? And truly, when in the starry night you look np at the glittering host above you, and think of their incalculable number and vast- ness, and remember how it is the creed of the philosopher, and, as some have maintained, the faith of the Christian, that each of these gigantic orbs, among which the earth is a sand-grain, has its own teeming population of rational and immortal life, do you not fool as the psalmist felt when ho said, in the contemplation of that grand sight, What is man, that Thou art mindful of him; or the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Was it worth the Saviour's while to come down to so little a world, to seek and save a lost thing so very small ? Yes. Reason and experience come in here to confirm the teachings of Revelation; it is quite credible, quite natural, by the very make of all things, that the Son of man, creator of the universe, as He was, should come to seek and to save that which was lost. By the very make and nature of the universe, if a thing goes wrong, it...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217893572 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217893570 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $22.35 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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