Christianity Applied to the Life of Men and of Nations: The Essex Hall Lecture (Classic Reprint)

Indeed, much need for its renewal. The Old kind of idolatry which the prophets had denounced had been buried once for all in the deep waters of the captivity. Israel emerged pure from the tendency to worship other gods than the one God, Jahveh, the creator of all that is, and the supreme governor and judge of all men every where: and their traditional cultus had been reformed, under the mighty impulse Of the prophetic teaching, till it had forgotten what St. Chrysostom calls its origin in pagan grossness,' and had become, as we see it in the Book of Psalms, an instrument for the ex pression of the religion of the prophets. Nevertheless, the prophets would have been profoundly disappointed with the outcome of these reforms as shown in the Pharisaic religion of Our Lord's time. If 'to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God was the true summary of divine requirement, and the conclusion of the whole matter in religion, apparently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.