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Christ in Modern Life; Sermons Preached in St. James's Square, London
Christ in Modern Life Sermons Preached in St James's Square London Author:Stopford Augustus Brooke General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Subjects: Unitarian Universalist churches Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has ... more »no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. ' Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge hia floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff ho will burn with fire unquenchable.' -- Luke iii. 17. ' It is the glory of Christianity,' says a modern writer, ' that it carried the golden germs hidden in the schools and among the silent community of the learned, into the market of humanity.' Yes, that is one of the glories of Christianity as contrasted with esoteric schools, with that aristocracy of culture which reserves truths to itself or does not care, in learned laziness, to spread them among the common people. Granting that the Jewish doctors possessed, before Christ came, many of the truths He taught, it is plain that, in spite of the large extension of schools, there was no organised missionary effort to spread them among the masses. The phrase, ' this people who knoweth not the law are cursed,' to whatever date we assign the gospel in which it occurs, has its importance when we compare it with another in the gospel of S. Luke : ' The common people heard Christ gladly.' Whatever may have been the excellence of the teaching which lay hid among the wise men of the Pharisees, it is plain that it lay hid, that the mass of the Pharisees stood apart from theuneducated masses of the people, and felt that to throw truth broadcast before them was casting pearls before swine. It is plain that though they p...« less