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... Inspiration on Literary Merit ; in What consists its Literary Superiority ? . 238 LECTURE XVII . Study of the Scriptures as Classics , concluded . - Professional Value of Biblical Models to a Preacher . - Biblical and Theological Forms ...
... Inspiration on Literary Merit ; in What consists its Literary Superiority ? . 238 LECTURE XVII . Study of the Scriptures as Classics , concluded . - Professional Value of Biblical Models to a Preacher . - Biblical and Theological Forms ...
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... inspired preach- ers disclose their inspired knowledge of human condi- tions more clearly . The world of to - day needs the same adaptation of the pulpit to its wants . We preach to a struggling and suffering humanity . Tempted men and ...
... inspired preach- ers disclose their inspired knowledge of human condi- tions more clearly . The world of to - day needs the same adaptation of the pulpit to its wants . We preach to a struggling and suffering humanity . Tempted men and ...
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... instincts over his moral purposes . Such a revolution in the character of a candidate for the pulpit is usually irremediable . The best thing we can do with him is to make a pro- fessor of him . The inspiration of the pulpit has.
... instincts over his moral purposes . Such a revolution in the character of a candidate for the pulpit is usually irremediable . The best thing we can do with him is to make a pro- fessor of him . The inspiration of the pulpit has.
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... inspiration of the pulpit has gone out of him to return no more . We need to face this fact squarely . The very disci- pline of literary culture to which we subject ourselves in a course of collegiate and theological training is at ...
... inspiration of the pulpit has gone out of him to return no more . We need to face this fact squarely . The very disci- pline of literary culture to which we subject ourselves in a course of collegiate and theological training is at ...
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... inspiration . God does not permanently abrogate the law by which the superior governs the inferior mind ; but temporarily , and when inspiration and miracle can not be interpo- lated into the system of affairs , he does suspend that law ...
... inspiration . God does not permanently abrogate the law by which the superior governs the inferior mind ; but temporarily , and when inspiration and miracle can not be interpo- lated into the system of affairs , he does suspend that law ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.