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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...ART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....137 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.....143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...151 CHAPTER I.....151 CHAPTER II....160 CHAPTER III....163 CHAPTER IV....167 CHAPTER V.....168 ARTICLE I.......

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ...g system, it will be necessary to line off a certain portion of the principal ground of theology, within which this weightiest dispute may be brought... ...is is the first defect which I have observed both in the circulating and in the written theology of our churches, the omission, I mean, of Christ’s o... ...ngle eye, and a delicate hand, requiring me to make a continual estimate of the current theology, and bringing me into the midst of the prejudices of... ...ded with every convenience for writing and for consulting the Holy Scriptures. When the outlines, and divisions, and whole ground-work of the subjec... ...prophecy should have for its object, the circumstantials of an edict, and not the great outline of the persecution? Furthermore, what do the ten hor...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dian night swallow up the last lingering colours of the world. It left the outlines, it obliterated nothing, but it stripped off the super- ficial rea... ...e tethered beasts, and then a great pale space of moonlight and the clumsy outlines of the village well. The clustering village itself slept in darkne... ...l was—attenuated. He could not romance. So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines. She tried to inspire a son who seemed most unaccountably up to no... ...s wicked pictures that made him see the shrivelled absurdity of the vulgar theology. But it was Benham who stood between Prothero and that rather coar... ..., at least of the European mind— for I have some doubts about the Chinese. Theology drives obstinately towards an ultimate unity in God, science to- w... ...y neglecting factors. William James has suggested that on account of this, theology may be obstinately working away from the truth, that the truth may...

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Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

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...Contents AFTERWAR .....................................................................................................4 THE FULNESS OF LIFE ...............................................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT?S ................................................................................43 ENTERTAINMENT.......................

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic... ...at blurred by the shadow of a projecting hat-brim. Where had she seen that outline before? She stared at it confusedly, her heart hammering in her thr... ...familiar with the melting depths of light about her, she distinguished the outlines of a landscape, at first swimming in the opaline uncertainty of Sh... ...portant fact of Mr. Mounce’s summing up his conclusions before the Muse of Theology took flight? He should be happy, he said, if the tide served, to v... ...of the familiar oval canvases, in the inevitable garlanded frame. The mere outline of the frame called up all Gisburn’s past! Mrs. Gisburn drew back t...

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...uck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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...ctronic Classics Series Publication Blix by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nded him of it—and ex- pressed himself as to the sermon and the minister’s theology: sometimes to his daughter and sometimes to himself. After dinner ... ... last even Tamalpais, resolved themselves in the vel- vet gray of the sky. Outlines were lost. Only the masses remained, and these soon began to blend... ...eech. Her hair was nothing more than a warm col- ored mist without form or outline. The sloe-brown of her little eyes and the flush of her cheek were ... ...iraculous, he must slowly build up, brick by brick, the plan his brain had outlined in a single instant. It was all work—hard, disagreeable, laborious...

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...Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ... Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- n... ...o rapidly al- tering under the hands of man, that it only resembled in its outlines the picture she had so often studied with delight in childhood. Im... ...ere the hills fell away in long, low points, and broke the sameness of the outline, or setting to the long and wide field of snow, which, without hous... ...y of the hills that rose on this side of the valley , yet the undulat- ing outlines of the distant mountains, covered with forests of beech and maple,... ...t difference between a saving faith and the corollaries of a philosophical theology; and it teaches us to reduce our self-examination to the test of g...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...cs I was anx- ious to evade. I had developed my own view about low- Church theology long before my father’s death, and my meditation upon that event h... ...h an assumption of exhaustive knowledge. We certainly had no shyness about theology. We marked the emancipation of our spirits from the frightful teac... ...onsequence but failure, no promise but pain… . But while I was fearless of theology I must confess it was comparatively late before I faced and dared ... ... assimilated in- fluence in my training, always to round off and shadow my outlines. I hate them hard. I would sacrifice detail to model- ling always,... ...arlia- mentary tilt backward; I found I was surveying this states- manlike outline with a weak approval. “A member!” I felt the little cluster of peop... ...numerable fellows who didn’t belong and never came up. I would fill in the outline of him with memories of my uncle and his Staffordshire neighbours. ...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...an- other year of preparation, so as to be able to study both He- brew and theology more thoroughly than would be possible when pastoral labour should... ...eson wrote a little book of sixteen pages, containing the statement of the outlines of 208 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the faith, and of Scriptur... ...hen I will tell you what the Word of God teaches;—and these with the great outline of the Faith.’ Every village in the island had the platforms, poles... ...ave here. Ther- mometer 81°; T anna and Erromango, with their rugged hilly outlines, breaking the line of the bright sparkling horizon. ‘I managed to ... ...quite right and true, but does not to me quite savour of the healthy sound theology of the Church of England; the fragrance is rather that of an exoti... ...lergy in relation to the work that they have to do. They have not to teach theology to educated Christians, but to make known the elements of Gospel t...

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells.

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...ics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...tude is found flatteringly associated with softness of hue and delicacy of outline. I was just wondering how that picture, to me so interesting, would... ...colour of his eyebrows, nor of his eyes either; I saw his stature, and the outline of his shape; I saw, too, his fastidi- ous-looking retrousse nose; ... ...le I gaze on their vapoury forms, and strive to ascertain definitely their outline, the sound which wakened them dies, and they sink, each and all, li... ... arcana of the Roman Catholic religion, and I am not a bigot in matters of theology, but I suspect the root of this precocious impurity, so obvious, s...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...y. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he bridge of Alcantara spans the gorge of the Tagus, and with its bro- ken outline and crumbling walls makes such an admirable pendant to the square s... ...eserted Alcala the traveller sees now as he goes from Madrid to Saragossa. Theology and medicine may have been the strong points of the university, bu... ...at the same time with a careful avoidance of anything like caricature; the outline has been filled in where filling in was necessary, and, vivified by...

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Excerpt: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...omas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ... ought to be especially sacred to me, I decide to fling down on paper some outline of what my recollec- tions and reflections contain in reference to ... ...ong which I began to breathe, I retain no recollection more clear than the outlines of a cloud in a moonless sky. But of L——, the village where I afte... ...initely of Sterling as a contemporary existence; and laid up some note and outline of him in my memory, as of one whom I might yet hope to know. John ... ...ling already intimated his intention to become a clergyman: He would study theology, biblicalities, perfect himself in the knowledge seemly or essenti... ...ation, cheerfully interesting to himself and others; though, the wrecks of theology so encumbering him, little fruit on the positive side could come o... ...tial “Mr. D.,” has given us:* “Mr. Dunn, for instance; the defect of whose Theology, compounded as it is of the doctrine of the Greek Fathers, of the ...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ...

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...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, f...

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...nic Classics Series Publication Kim by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ss called Mary, who, he gathered, was one with Bibi Miriam of Mahbub Ali’s theology. He betrayed no emotion when, after the lec ture, Father Victor d... ...ge piece of the jar where there had been three, and above them the shadowy outline of the entire vessel. He could see the veranda through it, but it w... ...times three was twelve. He clung desperately to the repetition. The shadow outline of the jar cleared like a mist after rubbing eyes. There were the b... ... Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of Indian ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is ...