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Story of Chester Lawrence

CHAPTER VI
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Some looked at the minister as if he ought to speak, but that person remained silent.
"The attributes of God, as far as we know them, are easily put into words; but try to think of goodness and mercy and love and long-suffering and wisdom outside and apart from a conscious personality, an individual, if you please.

Try it." Some appeared to be trying.
"Pagan philosophers have largely taken from the world our true conception of God, and given to us one 'without body, parts, or passions.' The Father has been robbed of His glorious personality in the minds of men.

Christ also has been spiritualized into an unthinkable nothingness.

And so, to be consistent some have concluded that man also is non-existent; and it naturally follows that God and Christ and man, with the whole material universe, are relegated to the emptyness of a dream." "If God is in the form of man He cannot be everywhere," suggested one of the ladies.

"And that's not a pleasant thought." "Our friend here," continued the speaker, nodding to Mr.Strong, "quoted a passage in his splendid sermon last Sunday which explains how God may be and is present in all His creations.


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