The foes to progress, the defenders of the decaying privileges of the nobility, burned the book, while the friends of the new ideas, and especially the rising generation, saw in it the gospel of a new era.
Peace was therefore concluded, the king swearing by the Gospel and the sultan by the Koran.
I preach the gospel of love and of justice; but bran for the belly and stripes for the back beget brute creatures that know not how to love.
The mass begins; after the gospel the priest preaches a practical sermon with impressive solemnity.
How beautiful upon the mountains," says a Canadian historian of the work of these devoted men, "are the feet of those who bring the gospel of peace.
Yes, I could, freely, promptly and fully forgive him, on the gospelcondition of practical repentance.
Therefore, do not despair; by speedy repentance secure gospel peace to your tempest-tossed soul.
But I cannot but feel that in God's sight, it was regarded as an echo of Christ's dying prayer for his murderers, prompted by the same spirit of gospel forgiveness of enemies.
For my heart has ever yearned to forgive them, from the first to the last, on this gospel condition.
Would that Mr. Packard's eyes might be opened to see what he is doing, and repent, so that I might be allowed to extend to him the forgiveness my heart longs to bestow, upon this gospel condition.
Each prison victim of despair Shall, in thy book, see written there Another gospel to thy race, Of sweet "Requiescat in pace.
I have heard that at each one of these "Gospel places" there was kept up a mound on which it was usual to rest a corpse on its way to the churchyard, during which time some portion of the gospel was read.
Here is precisely the same loving gospel that Shakspeare himself used to preach, in that series of Sonnets which we may call his In Memoriam to his friend; the same loving tenacity, unchanged by three hundred years of science.
They move, as if on a leash, within a fixed radius of acquaintances according to the law and the gospel of their social set.
That gospel was fixed by the necessity that in Jefferson's time no one could have conceived public opinions that were not spontaneous and subjective.
The boots of a warrior, a hunter, a woodsman,--these are my preparation of the gospel of peace.
What shoes can stand the wear of these journeys but the preparation of the gospel of peace?
Recently, the Society for Propagating the Gospelhave employed Rev.
He enthroned love and preached the gospel of humanity like an angel.
Christ Jesus unto good works; that they might live to God, and not to themselves; and offer up living prayers and living praises to the living God, through his own living Spirit, in which he is only to be worshipped in this gospel day.
The other reason of their refusal is, because these ministers are not gospel ones, in that the Holy Ghost is not their foundation, but human arts and parts.
Most of the western nations had received their knowledge of the Gospel through the Roman Church, and on this account they looked up with respect to it as a mother.
You shall hear by-and-by how the Gospel was introduced among the Saxons.
Among those who suffered were some of his own near relations; for the Gospel had now made its way among the great people of the earth, as well as among the poor, who were the first to listen to it.
From that time he wrote very bitterly against the Church; but he still continued to defend the Gospel in his books against Jews and heathens, and all kinds of false teachers, except Montanus.
I might give an account of the spreading of the Gospel in Poland, Hungary, and other countries; but let us keep ourselves to the north of Europe.
While the light of the Gospel was darkened by the Mahometan conquests in some parts of the world where it had once shone brightly, it was spreading widely among the nations which had got possession of western Europe.
It ends with the replanting of the Gospel in our own land.
But, whatever his faults may have been, we are bound to hold his memory in honour for the zealous and successful labours by which the Gospel was a second time introduced into the southern part of this island.
Norway had another king Olave, who was very zealous for the spreading of the Gospel among his people, and, like the elder Olave, was willing to do so by force if he could not manage the matter otherwise.
This did not, however, affect her spirit, for she was too much filled with the power of the gospel to sorrow over the trials which were given her.
So beautiful was this gospel in the eyes of the ardent girl, that she felt that all that was needful for her parents to share in her joy, was simply to tell them the story.
Setting forth the restoration of the gospel and the great work that had commenced on the earth.
He stated that the last dispensation had come, and the words of Jesus were now in force--"Go ye into all the world and preach the gospelto every creature.
Now it happened that the Calif, with those shrewd priests of his, got hold of that passage in our Gospel which says, that if a Christian had faith as a grain of mustard seed, and should bid a mountain be removed, it would be removed.
A rudiment of the same legend is contained in the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy.
He saw that all must be accepted, or none; and there was too much evidence, too much inherent truth, a morality too divine, to allow a mind like his to reject the gospel altogether.
Thus may the terror of the Lord make a pharisee; but only the sweet voice of mercy in the gospel can make a Christian.
The new-born child of gospel grace, Like some fair tree when summer's nigh, Beneath Emmanuel's shining face Lifts up his blooming branch on high.
By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Even the ears that are deaf to the Gospel are continually entertained, though without knowing it, by sounds for which they are solely indebted to its Author.
How readily, upon the Gospel plan, That question has its answer--What is man?
Upon the gospel scheme I saw at least a peradventure of hope, but on every other side I was surrounded with black unfathomable despair.
I saw clearly that if the gospel were true, such a conduct must inevitably end in my destruction; but I saw not by what means I could change my Ethiopian complexion, or overcome such an inveterate habit of rebelling against God.
We boast some rich ones whom the Gospel sways, And one who wears a coronet and prays; Like gleanings of an olive tree, they show Here and there one upon the topmost bough.
May the hallowed influence of the Gospel be instrumental in producing a still happier change!
She was indifferent to some of her maxims, and in the last years paid little attention to the gospel of the open window.
Miss Nightingale's fervour in preaching the gospel that a man's latter years should be his best appears in a series of letters which touch successively on three of the main interests of her life.
In her own pieces written at this date, Miss Nightingale preached more especially the gospel of Health Missionaries for Rural India.
She made acquaintance with natives of India and strove to spread her gospel among them in their own country.
The Gospel will yet be preached throughout the whole world.
The first verse of this Gospel takes us back long before this world was created.
Jews rejected the Gospel of the grace of God, and then God graciously visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people to be called by His Name.
The question is sometimes asked, Has the Gospel lost its power?
In St. Luke's Gospelwe read that He said, "Behold My hands and My feet.
The Gospel of St. John tells us very plainly that the Holy Ghost was sent, not only to make us see the meaning of Christ's finished work, but also to prepare our hearts to receive it in all its fulness.
When we read about "the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ," we know it means the beginning of His life on earth.
But it is not strange that this old warrior should doubt of the courage or capacity of one who preaches the gospel of peace.
But if," he continued, "the Lord permits me to preach His gospel of truth and love and peace in Norway, I shall count the sufferings of this present time as nothing compared with the glory yet to be revealed.
Then Fathers Ortega and Vellarnao penetrated into the mountains of the Chiriguanas, and began to preach the Gospel to the Indians.
Jack's words were allowed to be good words; but what was the Gospel in comparison of the trumpet?
It is otherwise with the Pentateuch, the Gospel and the other divine books: the prophets received them under the form of ideas.
They failed because like the earlier scholastics they had no gospel to proclaim to men, no tidings to give of a new life which could enable wearied humanity to bear the ills to which it was subject.
