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abuse affection answered Alice answered the doctor argument in favor believe better Bible blessing cause child Christian convert convince dear dear Jane death declared deny DIE IS CAST Doctor Howell Dudleian Lecture earthly existence facts faith false Fanny Wright father fear feel felt free inquirers future give hand happiness hear heart heaven hope husband immortal infi infidel James and Alice JAMES MUNROE Jane Jane's Jesus kingdom of heaven knew lieve ligion little Fanny live look marry means ment mind miracles miracles of Jesus Miss Wright mother nature never night opinions pain poor pray promise prove question Ralph Vincent reason religion religious seemed senses sick silent soon soul spirit story superstition sure talk teach tell thing thought tion to-morrow Tom Paine true truth turned unbeliever whiskey-punch wife wish words
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Page 32 - Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 132 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 90 - Hume proves too much, and therefore proves nothing. It proves too much; for if I am to reject the strongest testimony to miracles because testimony has often deceived me, whilst nature's order has never been found to fail, then I ought to reject a miracle, even if I should see it with my own eyes, and if all my...
Page 95 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Talmud and the Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 28 - how could they help believing that he spoke the truth? " "If," said her mother, " they had been innocent and true themselves, they would have believed him without requiring miracles." " How happy Jesus must have been, mother, to possess such great power; because he could make sick people well, and bring the dead to life, and make the blind see and the dumb speak. And how very happy he must have been when he raised Lazarus from the grave." " Now, father," said Jemmy, " do tell us the story of the...
Page 5 - Church, there is underneath apparent conformity a striking absence of spiritual faith — that faith which is "the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for.
Page 91 - ... that the credibility of facts, or statements, is to be decided by their accordance with the established order of nature, and by this standard only. Now, if nature comprehended all existences and all powers, this position might be admitted : but if there is a Being higher than nature, the origin of all its powers and motions, and whose character falls under our notice and experience as truly as the creation, then there is an additional standard to which facts and statements are to be referred...
Page 26 - Alice observed the serious and even sad expression in her husband's face; but she attributed it to his sorrow for Ralph, and thought it was because he was convinced that Jane was right in refusing to marry him while he held his present opinions. CHAPTER IV. MIRACLES. "WHAT does a miracle mean? " said Fanny to her father, as she and Jemmy came, to claim their place on his knees, during that short, happy hour to children, just before bed-time. " Our teacher in the Sunday school told us to try to find...
Page 30 - So is it," said Alice, with a sigh, " that this material sun blinds our dazzled eyes to the glory of Him who placed it in the firmament. The very perfection of the works of God hides their Creator from his creatures. Do you remember, James, those beautiful lines which the minister quoted in his sermon a few Sundays since from a foreign writer? I think I can repeat them. ' He veils himself in everlasting laws, Which, and not him, the skeptic seeing, exclaims, " Wherefore a God ? The world itself is...