Living way - 1870 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Incarnation of God: ITS FACT, PHILOSOPHY, AND GLORY. A new discussion of this subject is demanded by the present attitude of religious thought in the w... more »orld. The minds of many have outgrown the old statements. These have become quite powerless in the Church, even, and are strongly opposed by the spiritist philosophy and the radicals, so called, of the age. I think a careful attention to the statements of the Scriptures themselves will wonderfully free the subject from all rational objection, and open up views of the Divine wisdom which will rejoice every heart sincerely seeking the truth. In ancient times the Hebrews were instructed to build their altars of unhewn stones. (Ex. xx : 25.) If they lifted up their tool upon them the altar was polluted. The principle of this old direction teaches us to present facts just as we find them stated when we would bear a testimony for God. If we attempt to polish we but defile the truth. In this spirit I will bring together the narratives of Matthew and Luke as the native stones of the altar. I am not ashamed of these unpolished sentences. True, these are parts of the Bible which a popular lecturer has said are so gross that he dared any one to read them in public. But all know well that when simple narratives of natural things, given in the interests of truth, awake impure thoughts, the impurity is not in the narrative, but in the mind of him who esteems it so. I, myself, stand so in awe of the great Author of nature that I call nothing in His works " common or unclean." I look upon the narrative of the Incarnation with profoundest interest, for in it I see gleams of light, which are found nowhere else, and which solve the mystery of creation. Who shall say but what all things, and all men especially, are approximate Incarnations...« less