The Prayer-gauge DebateCongregational Publishing Society, 1876 - 311 страница |
Друга издања - Прикажи све
The Prayer-Gauge Debate Richard Frederick Littledale,John Tyndall,Francis Galton Приказ није доступан - 2019 |
Чести термини и фразе
absolutely action admit answer to prayer answering prayer appear argument assertion ATHENÆUM CLUB believe blessings cause Christian Church cogency conceive creatures death Deity deny desire divine effect efficacy of prayer eternal evidence existence experience fact faith Father favor feeling Francis Galton free-will Galton God's GRANBOROUGH grant heart human idea ignorance influence inquiry instinct intellectual intelligent interference intuitive JOHN TYNDALL kind Knight Littledale man's matter means mind ministers of religion miracle missionary moral natural law nature never object Pall Mall Gazette patient perfect persons petition phenomena physical law physicists practical pray present Prof proposal Protagoras question reason recovery religion religious reply result scientific sense sick simply soul special prayer SPECTATOR sphere spiritual supernatural suppose supreme Supreme Intelligence surely theory thing thought tion true truth Tyndall Tyndall's uncon universe whole wisdom words
Популарни одломци
Страница 82 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend t For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Страница 82 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Страница 54 - The Age culls simples, With a broad clown's back turned broadly to the glory of the stars. We are gods by our own reck'ning, and may well shut up the temples, And wield on, amid the incense-steam, the thunder of our cars. " For we throw out acclamations of self-thanking, selfadmiring, With, at every mile run faster,—' O the wondrous, wondrous age...
Страница 77 - Now in the case of an alleged miracle, the assertion is the exact opposite of this. It is, that the effect was defeated, not in the absence, but in consequence of a counteracting cause, namely, a direct interposition of an act of the will of some being who has power over nature...
Страница 77 - A miracle, as was justly remarked by Brown, is no contradiction to the law of cause and effect; it is a new effect, supposed to be produced by the introduction of a new cause.
Страница 82 - God day and night to remove the obstacles which stand in the way of his work and give him no rest till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Страница 54 - Little thinking if we work our SOULS as nobly as our iron, Or if angels will commend us at the goal of pilgrimage. "Why, what is this patient entrance into nature's deep resources But the child's most gradual learning to walk upright without bane! When we drive out, from the cloud of steam, majestical white horses, Are we greater than the first men who led black ones by the mane?
Страница 77 - O grave,' I said, ' O mother's heart and bosom, "With whom first and last are equal, saint and corpse and little child ! We are fools to your deductions, in these figments of heart-closing ; We are traitors to your causes, in these sympathies defiled.
Страница 111 - Father which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to shine on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Страница 276 - It is the soul of man engaging in that particular form of activity which presupposes the existence of a great bond between itself and God.