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... Truth . - Biblical Forms in Religious Awakenings . — Scholarship blended with Religious Feeling in Biblical Study . 256 LECTURE XVIII . The Methods of Literary Study by a Pastor.- Preliminaries . - Ne- cessity of Critical Reading ; of ...
... Truth . - Biblical Forms in Religious Awakenings . — Scholarship blended with Religious Feeling in Biblical Study . 256 LECTURE XVIII . The Methods of Literary Study by a Pastor.- Preliminaries . - Ne- cessity of Critical Reading ; of ...
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... truths have moved your own mind , and in what forms , and in what combinations with other truths . You have learned to distinguish between speakers who instruct your intellect only and those who move your sensibilities . Your memory is ...
... truths have moved your own mind , and in what forms , and in what combinations with other truths . You have learned to distinguish between speakers who instruct your intellect only and those who move your sensibilities . Your memory is ...
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... truth most helpful to success , and the entire furniture of your mind for the work of training characters which are in need of or are under- going similar changes under your ministrations . - are resources Yet does not the history of ...
... truth most helpful to success , and the entire furniture of your mind for the work of training characters which are in need of or are under- going similar changes under your ministrations . - are resources Yet does not the history of ...
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... truth , to despise the truth , or to stagnate under the truth . He is the very last man , it may be , to have responded favorably to a prophecy of his own sermons . Have you not yourselves observed the fact in the history of preaching ...
... truth , to despise the truth , or to stagnate under the truth . He is the very last man , it may be , to have responded favorably to a prophecy of his own sermons . Have you not yourselves observed the fact in the history of preaching ...
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... truth . Such truth he knows . Comparatively speaking , he knows nothing else . 2. Every preacher has also a source of rhetorical culture in the study of other men . Real life every- where is full of power in speech . Character can ...
... truth . Such truth he knows . Comparatively speaking , he knows nothing else . 2. Every preacher has also a source of rhetorical culture in the study of other men . Real life every- where is full of power in speech . Character can ...
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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.