The Things Which Remain - An Address To Young Ministers by Daniel A. Goodsell
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the life of God in us. It is the indwelling, all-pervading Holy Spirit,
which interprets that great word, "I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be one as We are." [Sidenote: The Doctrine of Energy.] And if the most advanced philosophy should yet be confirmed as true that there is nothing really but energy, none the less would the doctrine of the Holy Spirit abide. Back of all the individual energies of humanity; back of all the forces of nature is the supreme energy of God. If creation be our theory, it is the Spirit of God which broods on the face of the waters. If evolution be our creed, it is "in Him we live and move and have our being." All science is but the knowing of His way of working, and all theology is but the discovery of His mind. To know Him is to know all things. The latest Christian will be saying, "I believe in the Holy Ghost." * * * * * [Sidenote: The Forgiveness of Sin.] [Sidenote: Huxley on Depravity.] [Sidenote: Not All Born Good.] [Sidenote: Experience of Hell.] And what becomes of the doctrine of the "forgiveness of sins" in this outlook for "the things which remain?" Accepting Huxley as the incarnation of the skeptical spirit of our time, I quote from him his |
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