| Rose Porter - 1895 - 232 pagine
...this little Bona Dunbar is like the dear children of whom we read, that our Lord, when on earth, took them in His arms and blessed them, and said : 'Of such is the kingdom of heaven.' " CHAPTER III I WOULD fain continue these extracts, it is so pleasant to tell of a happy childhood.... | |
| 1897 - 208 pagine
...needed to learn how to meet Him at the judgment day, who, while upon earth, took up little children in his arms and blessed them, and said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." He could not endure the thought that any person whom he met should, by any oversight, or any fault... | |
| 1901 - 704 pagine
...eternity, writes the doom of the great majority of all mankind ? Can he who took the little children in his arms, and blessed them, and said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," and "You cannot enter into the kingdom of God unless you receive it as a little child," — can he... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1903 - 416 pagine
...doctrine. Where do you find it in the New Testament ? Did Jesus teach it, when he took little children in his arms and blessed them, and said " Of such is the kingdom of God " ? Did Paul teach it, when be spoke of the Gentiles, who have not the law, or a written revelation,... | |
| Thomas Wharton Phillips - 1905 - 348 pagine
...wise, the mighty; He from the innocent and pure. He is preeminently the children's friend. He took them in His arms and blessed them and said: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." This brings us to consider the first sincere inquiry in regard to eternal life. One came and said unto... | |
| Thomas Wharton Phillips - 1905 - 350 pagine
...wise, the mighty; He from the innocent and pure. He is preeminently the children's friend. He took them in His arms and blessed them and said: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." This brings us to consider the first sincere inquiry in regard to eternal life. One came and said unto... | |
| Mary S. Attwood - 1912 - 224 pagine
...when Jesus, who came to show us what thou art like, and whom thou lovest, took the little children in his arms and blessed them, and said, Of such is the kingdom of heaven. O, may this revealing of thy love cause us to love thee, that we may be ready to do thy will. Make... | |
| James Wideman Lee - 1912 - 316 pagine
...is after the idea of its nature is fully developed and realized. When Christ took little children up in His arms and blessed them and said, " Of such is the kingdom of heaven," He was thinking of them as they essentially and potentially are. He saw in them the raw material of... | |
| William Edward Gardner - 1913 - 160 pagine
..."Suffer the little children to come," was the Lord's method of taking the child's part, and when He took them in His arms and blessed them and said, "Of such is the Kingdom," He tried to visualize before the Church their teaching power; and when He said, "It were better for... | |
| Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1905 - 450 pagine
...have long since abandoned. And all this in the name of the gentle Christ, who took little children in his arms and blessed them, and said, "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." This pagan proposition of being born in sin is pollution to the mind of a child, and causes 45 * LISTINE... | |
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