The ideal man of this age is the Christian man—that true
embodiment of all that is pure, refined, tender, dignified, consistent, humane,
self-forgetful, noble, chivalric. His kindly manners, his cheery conversation,
his courteous welcome, his hearty Godspeed, his delight in comforting and
helping and bestowing little kindnesses and lifting better up to best, are but
the legitimate fruits of Christ love. Pg345
In
conclusion, the strongest of all arguments for Christianity is the argument
from Christian experience, that subjective conviction which springs from a
personal acquaintance and communion with the Saviour, that sense of Christ
within one through which he knows the realness of his belief with the same
unswerving certainty that he knows his own existence. This cannot be shaken out
of the believer in whose heart Christ dwells. Pg353
QUACKENBOS
Enemies and evidences of Christianity : thoughts on
questions of the hour (1899)
Have you this sense of God within you? If not,
you are hardly equipped to discuss the problem with those who have, for there
is no common ground on which you can meet them. I can only advise you who may
be agnostic to make a personal experiment. Honestly try Christianity. Permit
your souls to be touched by its sweet influences, to be waked by its call to
the finer and deeper and nobler issues of life. I have no fear for the result; for
I am confident that you will recognize a mysterious change in your motives and
wills with a sense of forgiven sins as a genuine experience ; I am sure that
you will become conscious of a progress begun toward spiritual perfection ;
that eternity will seem truer to you than time, and that you will incline to look
upon death as a swinging open of the gates of happiness.pg354
“The kingdom of heaven cometh not by observation” of the outside world. “Stop gazing among the ways of men hoping to find a cure of their scourges. Turn your eyes backward and see into that kingdom of heaven that hath its everlasting abode within you. There your eyes will catch fire, light, miracle shining rays, and wherever you look after that, something new and strange will happen.” “The kingdom of heaven is within you. Behold! Heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead. These signs shall follow.” “Unto us a Child is born.” For Unto Us A Child Is Born ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins ~ 1984-12-23
God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed;
all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake. Lesson 359
All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake. Lesson 359
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