The Upward Leading Pulpit Talks Under Various Auspices
The book The Upward Leading Pulpit Talks Under Various Auspices was written by author James Henry Potts Here you can read free online of The Upward Leading Pulpit Talks Under Various Auspices book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Upward Leading Pulpit Talks Under Various Auspices a good or bad book?
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Saul was in this condition when pursuing David, and so intense was his bitterness that he killed himself in the vain and mad pursuit, simply to end his own agony. Proud flesh and blood are the cause of revenge. The carnal mind will not yield. "By pride cometh contention and strife," whereas humility would keep peace. Pliny tells of two ill-natured goats meeting upon a narrow bridge over a deep chasm. Neither could pass the other, and for a moment they began to fight. Perceiving their danger, ho...wever, one of them lay down and allowed the other to walk over him, and 78 The Upward Leading. both were saved. The example of these brute beasts teaches us that it is better to let persons trample upon us sometimes than, by squabbling and discord, to endanger the destruction of both ourselves and others. A man who is meditating revenge can not go to God and say as Christ hath taught him, "For- give us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." If he uses this petition with his heart full of revenge, he does no more than to imprecate a curse upon himself.
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