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    You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because
we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no
expectation.  But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is
alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may
happen any hour.  And thus to Him any smallest incident was a
magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities.
A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with
that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will
defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness
at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his
crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands
of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite
sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview
with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women
being saved.
                   ... A. J. Gossip, The Galilean Accent [1926]

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Christian Quotation of the Day
August 17, 1999

    Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more
millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon;
without science and learning, He shed more light on things
human and divine than all philosophers and schools combined;
without the eloquence of schools, He spoke words of life such
as never were spoken before or since, and produced effects
which lie beyond the reach of any orator or poet; without
writing a single line, He has set more pens in motion, and
furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions,
learned volumes, works of art and sweet songs of praise, than
the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.  Born
in a manger, and crucified as a malefactor, He now controls the
destinies of the civilized world, and rules a spiritual empire
which embraces one-third of the inhabitants of the globe.
There never was in this world a life so unpretending, modest,
and lowly in its outward form and condition, and yet producing
such extraordinary effects upon all ages, nations, and classes
of men.  The annals of history produce no other example of such
complete and astonishing success in spite of the absence of
those material, social, literary, and artistic powers and
influences which are indispensable to success for a mere man.
                                  ... Philip Schaff (1819-1893)

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