A Young Man's Perils and Bible Difficulties
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ISBN13: 9780217314275
Paperback|9780217314275
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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: III. goitbfs flf to solbt tfwm, My object in this address is to relieve the doubts on religious subjects which meet a young man in these days. With some, to doubt is constitutional. They are not able to give easy credence to any tidings. With others, the very stupendousness of religious subjects causes the mind to pause in hesitancy; the revelations of Christianity are so transcendent, that thought wavers before their very grandeur. There may be doubt, also, from those appalling miseries of human life which it is the mission of Christianity to heal; or from the terrible sense of loneliness which falls on some spirits; or from the strangely un-Christian lives of Christian men. But doubts just now are the weakness, or the temptation, or the fashion of the age. This isno longer an age of faith. Unbelief within the Church and disbelief without form the prevailing and portentous disease of the times. Doubts are therefore to be treated tenderly. There are thousands of doubters among young men at this hour, and they are not to be denounced, but helped. On the other hand, there is a pretence of doubting which is the simple outgrowth of flippancy or conceit. We hear Tennyson quoted, that there lives more faith in honest doubt than in all the creeds. Let me, however, remind you, that Mr. Tennyson did not mean resting in doubt; he meant an honest doubt, that was bent upon inquiry, and was open to conviction. He therefore thus speaks, in this same passage, of one? He fought his doubts, and gather'd strength; He would not make his judgment blind; He faced the spectres of his mind, And laid them: thus he came at length '' To find a stronger faith his own, And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217314275 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217314279 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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