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The Supernatural. E-book. Formato PDF Lyman Abbott - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The teacher in the medical school teaches physiology and anatomy and hygiene; but when we get sick and send for a doctor, we do not send in order that we may receive a lec ture on physiology or anatomy or hygiene. We send for the doctor that he may use his knowledge of physiology or anatomy or hy giene to make us well. You break a bone you do not want the doctor to tell you about bones, you want him to set the bone. So the object of ministers is not to lecture us on the philosophy of religion; neither is it to ignore the philosophy of religion; it is to use the philosophy of religion to help men and women to live better, nobler, diviner lives. The truth, says Christ, shall make you free. Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. Truth is, then, an instrument. The object of truth is to set men free; it is to sanctify men, to make them holy. The minister who simply expounds the truth does not understand his mission. His mission is so to use truth that men shall be made free; that men shall be made holy. His ministry is, therefore, to be determined by fruits in the life. That is the best sermon, not which is a great pulpit effort, but which is helpful. If, young men, you have preached a sermon and some one comes up to you and says that was a great pulpit effort, hide your head in shame and go home and never write another like it. But if some one comes to you, with a little'quaver in the voice and a little moisture in the eye, and says, Thank you; you have helped me this morning, thank God and go home and try to write another like it. That is the end of preaching — to use theology to help life. The test of the sermon is its fruitfulness in life; and that is the test of theology.
The Other Room. E-book. Formato PDF Lyman Abbott - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Subdued if not saddened by the rebuke, they have listened appalled to his declaration that one of them should betray him, another should deny him, the rest should forsake him in his last hours. At last they begin to believe what he had often told them, that the machinations of his enemies would prove apparently successful, that he would be arrested.
The Life and Letters of Paul the Apostle. E-book. Formato PDF Lyman Abbott - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
This volume is one in a series of wholly inde pendent volumes, which attempt to apply the prin ciple of evolution to the elucidation of spiritual truth. Of these there have already been published The Evolution of Christianity; Christianity and Social Problems; and The Theology of an Evolutionist. This volume seeks to employ that principle in the interpretation of the writings of the Apostle Paul. I hope to follow it with one or more volumes in application of the same principle in the interpretation of the other Biblical writers. Much if not most of the interpretation of Paul assumes that he entered on his ministry after his retirement in Arabia with a completed system of theology, that this system underwent no material change, that it was the same in his first preaching as at the end of his life, and is the same in the epistles to the Thessalonians as in the epistle to Colossians or the pastoral epistles; that, in brief, the various epistles are to be regarded as though they were different chapters in a book written at one time, by one and the same mind, in elucidation of the same system of thought.