Reflection and Sublimity
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Abstract principles have no more power to lift a man than a man has to lift himself; but any man, no matter how sunk in sin, will answer to Jesus Christ when He is presented. To tell a man who is down and out to get up and do the right thing can never help him; but when once Jesus Christ is presented to him there is a reflected wish to be what Jesus wants him to be. It is appalling how many books and sermons there are to-day that simply present abstract truths. Jesus Christ appeals to the highest and the lowest, to the rich young ruler†† type of man, and to the man whom no ethics or moral principles can touch. Always keep Jesus Christ in the front; He says Himself He is to be there. “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” … More
Chambers, Oswald. The Moral Foundation of Life: A Series of Talks on the Ethical Principles of the Christian Life. Hants UK: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1936. Print
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