 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...accordance with orderly and fixed laws" (p. 90). " The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe ; the rules of the game...what we call the laws of nature. The player on the one side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient ; substitute for... | |
 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...one of the two players in a game of hie or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to oar cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 688 pages
...the assertion I have italicized is strange to me. And it is false : — " The World is a Chessboard. The Player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always just and patient. But w« aim know to our cost that he never overlook* a mistake or maleen the smallest... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. All we know is that his play is always fair, just, and patient ; but, also, that he never overlooks... | |
 | Great Britain - 1886 - 924 pages
...one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. \Ve know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know to our cost that he never... | |
 | Carl Adolf Buchheim - 1868 - 296 pages
...being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. All we know is that his play is always fair, just, and patient; but, also, that he never overlooks... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 660 pages
...players in a game of his or her own." "The chess-board," he goes on, "is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe ; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature." Take these words in their full meaning; understand by "phenomena" not merely whatever our senses tell... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1870 - 174 pages
...one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.... | |
 | 1870 - 590 pages
...being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. All we know is that his play is always fair, just, and patient; but, also, that he never overlooks... | |
 | Alexander MacLeod - Church and social problems - 1870 - 328 pages
...being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are...nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. All we know is that his play is always fair, just, and patient ; but, also, that he never overlooks... | |
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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. 
