Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... THE COMING THEOLOGY. FATHERS and brethren, nineteen years ago, I spoke to you from this Chair on "Jesus Christ and Modern Social Life." Privileged to speak to you once more as your Chairman, I choose a theme as difficult as it is urgent, as momentous in its issues as it is fitting to the hour; and with at least this advantage for me, that it is in the line of the addresses I have recently given as President of the Baptist Union. That subject is "The Coming Theology; or, the Primitive Christian Faith, the Source and Basis of a Living and Progressive Christian Theology." But I feel it would be ungracious to enter upon this discussion without first expressing the sincere gratitude I feel for the confidence and affection which prompted you to call me to this office a second time. I am deeply grateful. I belong to you, and count it the chief distinction of my public life that I have been permitted to serve you so long. Forty years ago last Monday but one, I was baptized and received into one of your village churches--churches of men, women, and children "called to be saints," made venerable and lovely as "habitations of God"; the sacred places where our faithful forerunners The Address from the Chair of the General Baptist Association, Burnley, Lancashire, June 23, 1891. s "Schooled themselves by vigil, fast and prayer, And learnt to love as Jesus loved, And bore the cross that poor men bare." You led me as a lad to attempt the preaching of the Gospel, trained me in your College, and sent me to minister to the church where I have laboured for nearly one-third of a century. But the time fails me to tell the debt I owe to you, to your generous sympathy and kindly forbearance, to your churches, and to your institutions; and now you compel a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Christian Certainties, Discourses. To get started finding The Christian Certainties, Discourses, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... THE COMING THEOLOGY. FATHERS and brethren, nineteen years ago, I spoke to you from this Chair on "Jesus Christ and Modern Social Life." Privileged to speak to you once more as your Chairman, I choose a theme as difficult as it is urgent, as momentous in its issues as it is fitting to the hour; and with at least this advantage for me, that it is in the line of the addresses I have recently given as President of the Baptist Union. That subject is "The Coming Theology; or, the Primitive Christian Faith, the Source and Basis of a Living and Progressive Christian Theology." But I feel it would be ungracious to enter upon this discussion without first expressing the sincere gratitude I feel for the confidence and affection which prompted you to call me to this office a second time. I am deeply grateful. I belong to you, and count it the chief distinction of my public life that I have been permitted to serve you so long. Forty years ago last Monday but one, I was baptized and received into one of your village churches--churches of men, women, and children "called to be saints," made venerable and lovely as "habitations of God"; the sacred places where our faithful forerunners The Address from the Chair of the General Baptist Association, Burnley, Lancashire, June 23, 1891. s "Schooled themselves by vigil, fast and prayer, And learnt to love as Jesus loved, And bore the cross that poor men bare." You led me as a lad to attempt the preaching of the Gospel, trained me in your College, and sent me to minister to the church where I have laboured for nearly one-third of a century. But the time fails me to tell the debt I owe to you, to your generous sympathy and kindly forbearance, to your churches, and to your institutions; and now you compel a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Christian Certainties, Discourses. To get started finding The Christian Certainties, Discourses, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.