The Monthly Religious Magazine And Independent Journal

Author : E. H. Sears
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483970274
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, 1859, Vol. 21 (Classic Reprint) written by E. H. Sears and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, 1859, Vol. 21 It requires but a slight survey of the religious world to observe two very distinctly marked tendencies among the friends of human progress. One pertains to those who ex pect a normal development of humanity, such as shall leave Christ and his Word away back in the past as having accomplished their work; who think these were the natural products of human nature, and only show its possibilities; and who expect new Messiahs in the man of the future, and new Scriptures as his voice of inspiration. The other tendency is of those who look to Jesus Christ as the Divine Sun and Centre, and his Word as infinite and inexhaustible, and believe that all hope of the progress of humanity is through him as its Redeemer, Regenerator, and Cleanser. These two tendencies, we think, are to become more strong and divergent, and work out each its own separate results. We hardly need say that our position is with the latter. We believe that from the Christ and his all-revealing Word the power is to come, and is coming now, which will be felt in the Christian consciousness as never before, - a power from which the soul will melt down into a more humble recep tivity of the Divine Life, and in whose revealings will be the Absolute Theology before which human creeds and philoso phies will pale away. And we shall think we have suc ceeded in the object we place before us, so far as we may be the means of bringing others into more near and tender relations with a personal Saviour. We shall not aim at uniform solemnity, but give our selves room for any by-play of fancy we may feel impelled to, always keeping our ruling purpose in view. Several writers of known ability have pledged themselves to aid us by their contributions and, bespeaking the candor and good will of the readers of the Magazine, we enter on our work in the full hope of the Divine blessing upon our endeavors. 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.