The Psalter And the Sword a Sermon Preached in the Broadway Tabernacle Church
The book The Psalter And the Sword a Sermon Preached in the Broadway Tabernacle Church was written by author Thompson, Joseph Parrish, 1819-1879 Here you can read free online of The Psalter And the Sword a Sermon Preached in the Broadway Tabernacle Church book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Psalter And the Sword a Sermon Preached in the Broadway Tabernacle Church a good or bad book?
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Pagan or Christian. It came when the positivism of Comte and the social laws of Buckle were asserting themselves as the true theory of society, and the philosophers of Nature and of Progress were relegating the Deity to some obscure unknown — to some forgotten Past. Like the plagues of Egypt to the haughty and stubborn king, like the confounding of tongues to the au- dacious builders of Babel, like the handwriting on the wall to the impious revelers at Shushan, has been this interposition of di...vine Power; baffling all calculation, defeating every hope, abasing all pride, crossing every plan, turning wisdom into foolishness, power into weak- ness, boasting into contempt, and making wickedness in its fury and hate do the work of righteous retribution against itself. Men speak no more of fate, of chance, of, ; the logic of events", of proximate causes, of the laws of development, of manifest destiny : but, as in the Arab legend, when the vases of gold and amber are broken and their treasures spilled, and only the poor vessel of clay remains, ther find in this the name of God !
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