The Church in the Furnace: Essays by Seventeen Temporary Church of England Chaplains on Active Service in France and FlandersFrederick Brodie Macnutt Macmillan and Company, limited, 1919 - 454 עמודים "These essays by Clergy of the Church of England who are serving, ... are the expression of thoughts which have come to us, ... about the life and work of the Church as we left it when we embarked for the front, and as we see it now from afar."--Foreword. |
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עמוד xxi
... pray that out of the fire of this great war we may emerge cleansed and purified of the dross , to start afresh with bigger ideas and larger hopes , not content with any lesser objective than that aimed at and prayed for by the Unseen ...
... pray that out of the fire of this great war we may emerge cleansed and purified of the dross , to start afresh with bigger ideas and larger hopes , not content with any lesser objective than that aimed at and prayed for by the Unseen ...
עמוד 44
... nature - did the Absolute ? but with anyone ever pray to the Absolute ? God in His manward relations . And there , if we - - ' transcend ' our consciences , we transcend religion altogether 44 II THE CHURCH IN THE FURNACE.
... nature - did the Absolute ? but with anyone ever pray to the Absolute ? God in His manward relations . And there , if we - - ' transcend ' our consciences , we transcend religion altogether 44 II THE CHURCH IN THE FURNACE.
עמוד 49
... long days cease , And a million men are praying for an ultimate release From strife and sweat and sorrow - they are praying for peace But God is marching on . E We pray for rest and beauty that we know we II 49 FAITH IN THE LIGHT OF WAR.
... long days cease , And a million men are praying for an ultimate release From strife and sweat and sorrow - they are praying for peace But God is marching on . E We pray for rest and beauty that we know we II 49 FAITH IN THE LIGHT OF WAR.
עמוד 50
... pray for rest and beauty that we know we cannot earn , And we are ever asking for a honey - sweet return ; But God will make it bitter , make it bitter , till we learn That with tears the race is run . And did not Jesus perish to bring ...
... pray for rest and beauty that we know we cannot earn , And we are ever asking for a honey - sweet return ; But God will make it bitter , make it bitter , till we learn That with tears the race is run . And did not Jesus perish to bring ...
עמוד 56
... pray for those at home , for them far more intensely than for themselves , is truly Christian and impressive . The one way to be sure of holding men in speaking to them at our services is to grip on to the thought of home . One feels ...
... pray for those at home , for them far more intensely than for themselves , is truly Christian and impressive . The one way to be sure of holding men in speaking to them at our services is to grip on to the thought of home . One feels ...
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adventure Army attitude B. H. STREETER believe body British Army cause chaplains Christian Church of England claim clergy common Communion Creed devotion difficulties discipline Divine duty Essay Eucharist Evensong evil experience face fact failure faith Father feel fellowship fighting force France give God's Gospel heart Heaven Holy Holy Communion Holy Orders human ideal individual J. A. HADFIELD Jesus Christ Kingdom Kingdom of God labour laity lives Lord Lord's Prayer loyalty matter means membership mind ministry moral nation never officers padre parish peace perhaps pray prayer Prayer-book preach present priest question realise reality recognise religion religious education Reserved Sacrament Sacrament sacrifice seems sense sermon soldier soul spirit Sunday school taught teaching theological colleges things thought tion to-day trenches true truth understand whole words worship
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עמוד 381 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God : All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood. 3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet ? Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
עמוד 96 - While man knows partly but conceives beside, Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, And in this striving, this converting air Into a solid he may grasp and use, Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts' : God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
עמוד 92 - Wash it, we pray thee, in the blood of that immaculate Lamb, that was slain to take away the sins of the world ; that whatsoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miserable and naughty world, through the lusts of the flesh, or the wiles of Satan, being purged and done away, it may be presented pure and without spot before thee.
עמוד 127 - Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of Thy grace ; Keep far our foes, give peace at home ; Where Thou art Guide no ill can come.
עמוד 383 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
עמוד 431 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's, the same shall save it.
עמוד 7 - We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have...
עמוד 256 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
עמוד 256 - From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto plp an"' my Name, and a pure offering: for my Name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
עמוד 331 - Almighty and everlasting God, by whose spirit the whole body of the church is governed and sanctified, receive our supplications and prayers, which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy church, that every member of the same in his vocation and ministry, may truly and godly serve . thee, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.