Old Gospel In The New Century

Author : James Dailey McCaughtry
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ISBN 13 : 9781331167488
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Old Gospel in the New Century (Classic Reprint) written by James Dailey McCaughtry and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Gospel in the New Century In the years of childhood we accept with unquestioning faith the instructions of our parents and teachers; but as the years pass and the faculties of the mind expand, as the reason grows stronger and we begin to broaden the foundations of our faith, we come to a point where we begin to ask questions about our environment and want to be able to give an intelligent reason for our faith. We come at length to a place where we awake to the fact that we are in a world that is several thousand years older than we are, that we are living in the midst of laws and institutions that have come down from hoary antiquity, and we very naturally want to know the meaning of these facts and institutions. We find among these institutions the Church with its system of doctrine and its forms of worship, and we begin to ask ourselves, What is the Church? What is its mission to our age and what its relation to our life problems? Our fathers believed that it was a divine institution founded by Christ for the purpose of saving men and women from sin and at length establishing the reign of righteousness in the earth. There are those in our day who tell us that the church is merely a human institution like the lodge, the school or the lyceum; that people of like tastes and aims have banded themselves together for mutual improvement and have called the society thus formed a church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.