MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 / 2008-07-04 00:00:00

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THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL
BY
GEORGE MACDONALD


CONTENTS

SALVATION FROM SIN
THE REMISSION OF SINS
JESUS IN THE WORLD
JESUS AND HIS FELLOW TOWNSMEN
THE HEIRS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
SORROW THE PLEDGE OF JOY
GOD'S FAMILY
THE REWARD OF OBEDIENCE
THE YOKE OF JESUS
THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT
THE HOPE OF THE UNIVERSE


_SALVATION FROM SIN_.
--and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from
their sins.--_Matthew_ i. 21.

I would help some to understand what Jesus came from the home of our
Father to be to us and do for us. Everything in the world is more or
less misunderstood at first: we have to learn what it is, and come at
length to see that it must be so, that it could not be otherwise. Then
we know it; and we never know a thing _really_ until we know it thus.
I presume there is scarce a human being who, resolved to speak openly,
would not confess to having something that plagued him, something from
which he would gladly be free, something rendering it impossible for
him, at the moment, to regard life as an altogether good thing.
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