Proceedings of a Council in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York, for the Installation of the Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., as Pastor, and the Ordination and Installation of the Rev. Howard S. Bliss, as Assistant Pastor, Held January 16, 1890, with a Sermon by Lyman Abbott, D.D., on the New Theology |
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Page 46 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Page 49 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 46 - And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Page 12 - But, grievous as it was, I should be the most ungrateful of men, if I did not ever bless God, publicly as well as in private, for the grace that delivered me, and if in doing so, I did not also give my humble thanks to Him through Jesus Christ our Lord, that the grounds on which I...
Page 56 - Love is and was my Lord and King, And in his presence I attend To hear the tidings of my friend, Which every hour his couriers bring. Love is and was my King and Lord, And will be, tho...
Page 24 - We believe that the Church of Christ, invisible and spiritual, comprises all true believers, whose duty it is to associate themselves in churches, for the maintenance of worship, for the promotion of spiritual growth and fellowship, and for the conversion of men ; that these churches, under the guidance of the Holy Scriptures and in fellowship with one another, may...
Page 13 - Latin notion of an anthropomorphic Jupiter, renamed Jehovah, made to dwell in some bright particular star and holding telephonic communication with the spheres by means of invisible wires which sometimes fail to work, dies, and the old Hebrew conception of a Divinity which inhabiteth eternity, and yet dwells in the heart of the contrite and the humble, takes its place. But the...
Page 13 - ... an eternal energy from which all things proceed. That refuge is found only in the faith that God has entered a human life, taken the helm, ruled heart and hand and tongue, written in terms of human experience the biography of God in History, revealed in the teaching of Christ the truth of God...
Page 52 - And what is another question that is before us perpetually ? It is the question of the separation of dogma and life. Men are driven foolishly to say on one side that dogma is everything, and on the other, that life is everything. As if there could be any life that did not spring out of truth ! As if there could be any truth that was really felt that did not manifest itself in life ! It is not by doctrine becoming less earnest in filling itself with all the purity of God. It is only by both dogma...
Page 24 - Baptism, to be administered to believers and their children, as the sign of cleansing from sin, of union to Christ, and of the impartation of the Holy Spirit; and the Lord's Supper as a symbol of His atoning death, a seal of its efficacy, and a means whereby He confirms and strengthens the spiritual union and communion of believers with Himself.