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41) Heralds of God
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This classic book on evangelical preaching by Scottish minister James S. Stewart, which was first published in 1946, has inspired generations of preachers to strive for greater effectiveness in their proclamations. The pages contained within this book were originally addressed as lectures in the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews to Divinity students and ministers, and it is the author's hope that they will "have something to say to the wider...
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Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity, first published in 1949, begins with the assertions that a true history of Christianity has never before been written and that the roots of the Christian religion lie in earlier religions and philosophies of the ancient world. The author, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, asserts that Christianity as we know it took the form it did due to a degeneration of knowledge rather than to an energization produced...
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TOCCOA FALLS, GEORGIA
"Where Character is Developed, with Intellect"
DR. R. A. FORREST (about whom this book is written) and the Toccoa Falls Institute are, in a sense, synonymous. He it was who breathed into the school the breath of life; he has been its mainstay throughout its forty-five years of existence; and he is still exerting a guiding and steadying influence in shaping its destiny.
For those of you who may first become acquainted with this...
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The central figure of The Silver Chalice is Basil of Antioch, a young sculptor of Antioch, once a slave, who is charged by the dying Joseph of Arimathea to fashion a frame worthy to hold the silver Cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper. His task takes Basil first to Joseph's house in Jerusalem where he meets the gentle Deborra who is destined to be his wife, and then on a journey, pursued by Jewish Zealots and ever in danger of Roman persecution,...
45) Finding My Way
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This is an inspiring story of the author's adjustment to total blindness. It is the autobiography of a woman who faced and conquered a sightless world with strength, courage and a profound, yet beautifully simple faith in God. Life for her became a re-education; of relearning how to do the simplest everyday tasks, cooking, ironing, filling a cup and getting dressed. 'All my life I have had bad eyesight. This time the battle to save my sight lasted...
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Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, “on his own”. His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress upon the reader a special feature of St. Thomas’s...
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The history of America's commercial growth is highlighted with the names of a few great men whose contributions to their nation have far transcended ability in business, manufacturing and industry. Elbert Hubbard, John Wanamaker - these men were merchant princes in one sense, leaders of thought and belief in another. Through their autobiographical writings and essays, they have given us a rich, poignant, inspiring picture of their fruitful lives and...
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Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in 1261. As a brilliant and well-respected Florentine, he entered politics. In 1301, after a political upheaval in Florence, Dante was unjustly banished from the city of his birth. Exiled for the rest of his life, Dante turned his poetic genius to writing a masterpiece of Italian poetry, The Divine Comedy.
The Divine Comedy endures as a great Christian drama about sin, redemption, and salvation. Reading...
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MIRACLE OF THE LENGTHENED LEG
I SAW LITTLE WILLIE LOOKING SO lost and helpless. Something got hold of me, and I entered the room. I said, "Son, do you want to be healed?"
Little Willie said, "Yes sir!"
I was too tired to pray, so I just reached out with my forefinger and touched his forehead and prayed a brief prayer in the name of Jesus of Nazareth for God to heal the deformed leg of Willie Phelps. Then I left the building.
The next day, Willie...
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Written for the average reader, Major Religions of the World, which was first published in 1959, is a compact survey of the founders, the holy writings, the worship, and the basic beliefs of the major religions of the world-Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Judaism, Confucianism and Taoism, Shinto, Island, and Christianity. Dr. Marcus Bach's approach is one of understanding and appreciation. He looks at each religion first through the eyes of a...
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The do-it-yourself appeal which is somewhat popular today is not just a fad. It meets the basic need in man to be creative.
This DO-IT-YOURSELF RETREAT makes the same appeal to your highest creative instincts.
However, in this case, you are shown not how to make something, but HOW TO BRING OUT THE REAL GOOD IN YOU and make yourself into the truly great person that God intended you to be. These pages will help you to discover who you really are,...
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Rivers of Thought, first published in 1959, is a small book of verses and poems written by the late Martin Buxbaum, who was best known for his publication of 'Table Talk' with the Marriott Hot Shoppes restaurants. When the world has become so stressful, sometimes thoughts forever stand to give us comfort. Rivers of Thought is a book that can easily be put in a pocket or a purse, to draw some peace from. Almost sixty years after his thoughts were...
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In The Kingdom of God, which was first published in 1959, author Francis D. Breisch Jr. himself perfectly summarizes the message of the Old Testament: "It exhibits the unity which exists in the Old Testament. It shows the historical development of God's work of redemption. It emphasizes the fact that the entire Old Testament prepares for the coming of Christ, the eternal King. To trace the growth of the Kingdom of God is to keep one's finger on the...
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Perhaps no religious group enjoys such wholehearted esteem as the Society of Friends. Ever since their founding, the Quakers have proved a stimulating and inspiriting force in the Christian Church. Standing for Jesus' program for world peace, practicing non-resistance, and performing miracles of mercy and relief in a world of hatred, they have achieved a position almost unique in Christendom. Their astonishing history is here told by one who is of...
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Change Your Life Through Love is Stella Terrill Mann's second book on inspirational living. Filled with concrete examples from life of how others have solved their problems by learning the spiritual laws and how to work them, this book will be welcomed by Unity and all New Thought students, but is by no means confined to this field. The author is widely known through former writings, especially her first book, Change Your Life Through Prayer.This...
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First published in 1959, this is the fascinating biography of Blessed Anne-Marie Javouhey (1779-1851), a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. Widely regarded as an outstanding religious figure of the 19th century, Blessed Anne-Marie Javouhey was the foundress of the order of Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny. Venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, she was also known as the Liberator of the Slaves in the New World, and as the...
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Here is a record of glory, revealing the method of achieving the heights, the way to unfold understanding of the Almighty Truths of God. If you would awaken your soul to the divine symphony of the Universe, follow the way of 'overcoming,' the Way Christ trod. The record of His Path, the eternal, inner truths of power and fulfillment are now open, the sacred, inner knowledge that has lain dormant and in the depths of your being. Ludwig Van Beethoven,...
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More than half a century has passed since Arthur S. Maxwell first wrote these words in 1962. Is the world a safer place now than it was then? Honest observers are bound to say "No." In fact, if anything, life today has become even more uncertain, even less stable, than it was fifty years ago. What do we need in times like these? Maxwell says it isn't "a mere knowledge of the crisis, but courage to meet it." And where can we get that courage? Maxwell...
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The following messages are printed in response to many requests for their publication. I have allowed the local coloring to remain in the discourses, because I felt that these elements might add to the vitality of the messages, and make them more concrete and real.
I have not softened the messages, either, by 'retouching' them. These messages were stenographically reported, and they are given here just as God gave them to the messenger,-hot from...
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The Gospel of the Holy Twelve is a publication from the early Christian era which was first serialized in The Lindsey and Lincolnshire Star newspaper between July 30, 1898 and March 10, 1901. The first collected edition of essays (or 'Lections') by the author, a former clergyman, Rev. Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley (1834-1906) was published in 1901. The Gospel of the Holy Twelve presents vegetarian versions of traditional teachings and events described...
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