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Hodder," he said, "for it has brought back to this church the man to whom it owes its existence. Mr. Bentley did more, by his labour and generosity, his true Christianity, his charity and his wisdom, for St. John's than any other individual. It is you who have brought him back, and I wish personally to express my gratitude." Mr.
Some went and put themselves into the state of clairvoyance, which was a very common practice among the Ottawas and Chippewas within my time, and is still practiced to-day where there is no Christianity predominating among the Indians. Other magicians built themselves lodges in which to call their favorite spirits in order to commune with them.
He said that it was a scandal which threatened the very existence of Christianity. He has sent me secret messages divers times expressive of sympathy, but he is not of himself strong enough. Our hope must lie either in the King of France or the Emperor of Germany: perhaps both will engage. There is now a most holy monk in Florence who has been stirring all hearts in a wonderful way.
But, unfortunately for the poor savages whose fate he was now to influence so largely, Fonseca's character had in it but little of the mild and forbearing spirit of Christianity.
Thus Professor Harnack, not to mention less distinguished historians, makes the original essence of Christianity coincide what a miracle! with his own Lutheran and Kantian sentiments.
These things, with many like to them, being the main points by this man handled, and by him asserted to be the design of Christianity, by these we must, as by a rule and standard, understand how to judge of the truth of doctrines. Ans.
Christianity softens, subdues, and renders docile the human mind, before the dark folds of heathenism have deepened and thickened with increasing years. One of these pupils, after reading in the New Testament the narrative of Christ's sufferings, one day asks "Why did Jesus come and suffer and be crucified?" I then explained to her as well as I could in her own tongue.
When he had solved the great questions those which Hypatia set forth as the roots of all knowledge how the world was made, and what was the origin of evil, and what his own personality was, and that being settled whether he had one, with a few other preliminary matters, then it would be time to return, with his enlarged light, to the study of Christianity; and if, of course, Christianity should be found to be at variance with that enlarged light, as Hypatia seemed to think .... Why, then What then?.... He would not think about such disagreeable possibilities.
'He that doeth righteousness is righteous, and he is to be righteous 'even as He is righteous. If you are God's, you will be like God. Apply the touchstone to your lives, and test your Christianity by this simple and most stringent test. But again, we may look at the thought as holding forth a great hope. I do not wish to force upon Old Testament writers New Testament truth.
But those writings of St. John and St. Paul which were our first lessons in Christianity, and those other accounts of our Lord's life and teaching to which they introduced us, can we conceive it possible, that the real meaning of all these shall be hopelessly obscure and uncertain; that if we seek it ever so diligently, we shall not find it?
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