This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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11198 | Finally, the third question,"Was the Qoran, the word of God, created or not?" |
11198 | In the Qoran, God says,"Hast thou, Jesus, said to men, Regard me and my mother as Gods by the side of God?" |
11198 | May not as much be said of Christianity? |
11198 | Who then could bring to the Arabs the glad tidings which should guide them to the happy fields of Paradise? |
17213 | How could Mohammed Towfik''s necessity to Islam be reconciled to his necessity to Europe? |
17213 | How indeed should it be otherwise when we look back on history? |
17213 | What Christian missionary takes a negress to wife or sits with the negro wholly as an equal at meat? |
17213 | What would be his line of action to secure Mahommedan acceptance? |
17213 | Where should he fix his capital, and on what arms should he rely? |
17213 | Who shall fix the term of its power, and say that it can not renew itself and live? |
17213 | Whose flag should he display? |
22337 | Their death is eternal, why pray for them? |
22337 | At each blow inflicted by the redoubtable follower of the Prophet, Remain cried out,"Do you then wish to kill me?" |
22337 | Does a Mohammedan suffer by calamity? |
22337 | How, then, can we give alms? |
22337 | How, then, can we make the prescribed ablutions? |
22337 | Is he plundered or ruined? |
22337 | The fast of Ramadan is a useless command to persons who fast all the year round; and, if God be everywhere, why should we go to Mecca to adore him?" |
22337 | Who is not familiar with the Alif lita wa lilin, or the thousand and one tales, commonly known as the Arabian Nights''Entertainment? |
22337 | { 256} Indeed, what superstitious, enthusiastic people has ever neglected these? |
10163 | But did Mohammed himself come to these conclusions in the last part of his life? |
10163 | How, then, are we to explain the starting- point of it all-- Mohammed''s sense of vocation? |
10163 | Is it to be supposed, he asks, that a religion as ridiculous as the Islâm described by Christian authors should have found millions of devotees? |
10163 | Must this monarchy be continued after Allah''s mouthpiece had ceased to exist? |
10163 | This was to be expected; had not Mohammed from the very beginning referred to the"people of the Book"as"those who know"? |
10163 | To which he cuttingly replied"And ye, are ye canonists of the better, the ancient time?" |
10163 | Was Mohammed conscious of the universality of his mission? |
10163 | Was it a disease of the spirit, a kind of madness? |
10163 | [ 2] Through whose mouth? |
21512 | Did I? |
21512 | Yes God knows everything but what do you say of your hope? |
21512 | Are there any remains of Persia''s ancient beauty and grandeur? |
21512 | But the question arose, Where is the man qualified for the work, who can overcome the difficulties? |
21512 | Have the laws of the Medes and Persians undergone no change? |
21512 | I have been asked questions like these: Is there a solid foundation established by missions in Persia? |
21512 | If mothers were asked to send their girls, they asked,"What is the use? |
21512 | Is it as large as the state of Michigan? |
21512 | Is the king still absolute as in ancient times? |
21512 | The writer has often asked of Mohammedans:"Have you any hope of heaven?" |
21512 | Those who are interested in politics and government, have asked: Is modern Persia a province of Turkey? |
21512 | Were they awakened to their spiritual condition? |
21512 | What are some of the fruits of our mission work over there? |
21512 | What are some of the temporal improvements? |
21512 | What changes have taken place? |
21512 | What has the gospel done? |
21512 | When he was dying in the arms of Ayesha, Omar asked him:"Prophet where do you wish us to bury you?" |
21512 | Who was once born in the East, Who preached and was crucified in the East, When wilt thou again visit the East? |
16996 | How can that be? |
16996 | Was it cold water,they asked,"that was brought unto thee?" |
16996 | [ 79][ Sidenote: Is Islam suitable for any nation?] 16996 An error in the pronunciation of the mystic text might bring destruction on the worshiper; what could he do but lean upon the priest? 16996 Could conceptions of divinity so incongruous co- exist? 16996 Disliked and denied they may be; but forgotten? 16996 How could these be the thoughts, or those the expressions, of the imperfectly civilized shepherds of the Panjab? 16996 How far, in fact, did there exist inducements or hinderances to its adoption inherent in the religion itself? 16996 How is the marvel to be explained? 16996 How is this great falling- off to be explained? 16996 However desirable freedom might be, slavery was not inconsistent with the Christian profession:Art thou called being a servant? |
16996 | It is a solemn question, Had he said it when his career was ended? |
16996 | Need we say how gloriously rich the Gospel is in having in the character of Christ the realized ideal of every possible excellence? |
16996 | Now what is Christianity? |
16996 | Say, now, which are the more worthy to be called martyrs, these, or thy fellows that fall fighting for the world and the power thereof? |
16996 | What could explain it? |
16996 | Where then is our merit? |
16996 | Wherefore wast not thou slain before him? |
16996 | Which bears the impress of man''s hand, and which that of Him who"is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working?" |
16996 | and which the artificial imitation? |
26981 | Papers? |
26981 | Was the poor little beggar hit? |
26981 | Who fired that gun? 26981 Apart from the safety of white colonists in Africa, is the welfare of African negroes beneath the consideration of a free- born American? 26981 Are other people''s spiritual affairs of no account, or do we arrogate to ourselves a monopoly of such matters? 26981 As one of the more intelligent remarked,If the Holy Places are really in danger, what are we doing down this way?" |
26981 | Can there be any more damning indictment of such a system? |
26981 | Could there be any more glaring example of the cart before the horse? |
26981 | Do proselytising missionaries in the Islamic field ever sit down and think what they are really trying to do? |
26981 | Does a dog wag his tail or the tail wag the dog? |
26981 | Does it even try? |
26981 | Does the social ostracism of a human being, the damnation of his folk and the salvation of none but a remnant of mankind mean anything to them? |
26981 | How should we like Christianity to be judged by the public behaviour of certain classes in London or other big towns? |
26981 | If so, why does he( or she) subscribe so liberally to support missions in Africa? |
26981 | Is Japan hopelessly benighted and devoid of the activities described as the monopoly of Christianity? |
26981 | Is St. Sophia to remain a mosque or revert to its original purpose as a Christian church? |
26981 | Is a cross or the quadrant and compasses the more potent charm? |
26981 | Moreover: Can Christian teaching or preaching pacify the embittered struggle between labour and capital which threatens yet to wreck civilisation? |
26981 | Then the question will arise, What are we going to do about it? |
26981 | This being so, what are these infidel_ pigs_ doing in our mosque?" |
26981 | What does modern surgery, or any other science of accurate manipulation, not owe to modern steel? |
26981 | What is the use of bolstering up a presumably sincere religious movement with these puerile and mischievous statements? |
26981 | Which is the stronger appeal,"Anglican communicant"or"Freemason"? |
26981 | _ Par exemple_, I think myself a better Moslem than any Turk, but what would you?" |
15262 | An non poteritis vos infernalia claustra adire, nisi nos comites habeatis? 15262 How is it, then,"asked the judge,"that he remains a good Moslem, while you have apostatized?" |
15262 | If,he says,"Christ is an adopted Son of God, and Christ is also God, then is God the adopted Son of God? |
15262 | What are thirty barbarians perched upon a rock? 15262 Whither,"they triumphantly asked,[2]"has that bravery of your martyrs vanished? |
15262 | Why,said they,"if your God is the true God, does He not strike terror into the executioners of his saints by some great prodigy? |
15262 | 156- 163), refers with disapproval to those(? |
15262 | 19,"Why callest thou Me good? |
15262 | 6--"Is not this the fast that I have chosen? |
15262 | :--"And when God shall say unto Jesus at the last day: O Jesus, son of Mary, hast thou said unto men, Take me and my mother for two Gods, beside God? |
15262 | But when the monk asks leave to depart Abdurrahman says:--"After waiting so long to see one another, shall we part so soon?" |
15262 | For connection of Adoptionism with this, see letter of Adrian to bishops of Spain( 785?). |
15262 | Is it not clear that it was not the Arabs who began persecuting, but we who began preaching? |
15262 | Numquid sine nobis aeterna vos cruciamina non adurent?" |
15262 | Quis Evangelico, quis Prophetico, quis Apostolico ustus tenetur amore? |
15262 | This is apparent from Tarik''s address to his soldiers in the heat of battle:"Moslems, conquerors of Africa, whither would you fly? |
15262 | To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free?" |
15262 | What has become of the rash frenzy with which they courted death?" |
15262 | When the latter was urged to give the word, and have the knot of Christians put to the sword, he said:"Is it not written? |
15262 | Will you let yourselves be trampled on by the Arabs, who look upon you as their slaves? |
15262 | [ 10]? |
15262 | [ 12]? |
15262 | [ 1] However, his ecclesiastical superior[2](? |
15262 | [ 3] Miss Yonge, p. 87, says the Arabs called him Sham Yakub, but what authority has this statement? |
15262 | [ 4][ 1] Sayones(?) |
15262 | [ 5] Meanwhile what was the condition of those Christians who preferred to live in their own homes, but under the Moslem yoke? |
15262 | and why do not the martyrs themselves flash forth into miracles while the crowd is round them? |
15262 | if, on the other hand, they did perform these miracles, why not adduce them in evidence against the detractors? |
10738 | And how many of his countrymen abide with him? |
10738 | And if we die in thy defence, what reward have we? |
10738 | And where is the abiding place of Abu Jahl? |
10738 | Doth Mahomet indeed imagine that it will be this time as in the affair of the Hadramate( slain at Nakhla)? 10738 Is this true?" |
10738 | Verily, we have caused It( the Kuran) to descend on the night of power, And who shall teach thee what the Night of Power is? 10738 What can be done?" |
10738 | What doest thou with unrent garments? 10738 Who will rid me of this pestilence?" |
10738 | Who will show me a way where they will not meet us? |
10738 | Wilt thou hearken to what may be better? |
10738 | Woe unto thee, Abu Sofian; believest thou not that I am the Prophet of God? |
10738 | Wouldst thou not, O Zeid,he asked,"that thou wert once more with thy family, and that Mahomet suffered in thy place?" |
10738 | Abu Bekr was afraid for his master:"We are but two, and if the Kureisch find us unarmed, what chance have we?" |
10738 | At last Mahomet waxed impatient and cried:"Who will give me peace from this Ka''b al''Ashraf?" |
10738 | Ayesha, in all the insolence of beauty, scoffed at Khadijah''s age and lack of comeliness:"Am I not dearer to thee than she was?" |
10738 | But how was this faith wrought out into his conception of himself as the Prophet of his people? |
10738 | CHAPTER I MAHOMET''S BIRTHPLACE"And how many cities were mightier in strength than thy city that hath cast thee forth?" |
10738 | CHAPTER VI SEVERANCE"Do you see Al- Lat and Al- Ozza and Manat the third idol beside? |
10738 | CHAPTER VIII THE FLIGHT TO MEDINA"Knowest thou not that the dominion of the Heavens and of the Earth is God''s? |
10738 | Had he not betrayed her kindred far more terribly upon the bloody slaughter ground of the Koreitza? |
10738 | Instantly above the tumult rose the voice of their leader:"Whither go ye? |
10738 | Knowest thou not the affliction that hath fallen on this thy city?" |
10738 | Mahomet answered:"What can it matter if ye allow me to celebrate my marriage here and make a feast as is the custom?" |
10738 | The angel knocked upon the brazen doors and a voice within cried:"Who art thou, and who is with thee?" |
10738 | The anger of the Prophet was aroused, for were they not presuming to oppose his will and that of Allah, whose instrument he was? |
10738 | What wonder, then, that when the call came to him to take up his mission it became a command to"arise and warn"? |
10738 | Who was to undertake the responsibility of demolishing so holy a place, even if it were only that it might be rebuilt more fittingly? |
10738 | Will ye never understand?" |
10738 | and that ye have neither patron nor helper save God?" |
10738 | he asked her,"even that I should pay thy ransom and take thee myself?" |
10738 | he asked the messenger;"has Mahomet verily slain these men? |
20927 | And say to those who have been given the Scripture, and to the common folk, Do you surrender yourselves unto God? 20927 And the faithful will say,''Are these they who swore by God their(_ Jahda_) utmost oath that they were surely on your side?'' |
20927 | But what is this? 20927 How can they who add gods to God be in league with God and His Apostle, save those with whom ye made a league at the sacred temple? |
20927 | How_ can they_? 20927 The angels, when they took the souls of those who had been unjust to their own weal, demanded,''What hath been your state?'' |
20927 | Will ye not do battle with a people(_ the Meccans_) who have broken their covenant and aimed to expel your Apostle and attacked you first? 20927 [ 134] Dr. Marcus Dods writes:--"But is Mahommed in no sense a Prophet? |
20927 | Did God command such slaughter of idolaters, as he commanded the destruction of the Canaanites or of the Amalekites? |
20927 | From Ibn Ishak we learn that Mohammad had said with reference to Abú Afak,"Who would rid me of this pestilent fellow? |
20927 | He said,''May it not be that if to fight were ordained you, ye would not fight?'' |
20927 | He said,''May it not be that when fighting is ordained you, ye would not fight?'' |
20927 | How much is Sir W. Muir in the wrong, who says, that fighting was prescribed on religious grounds? |
20927 | Huweisa cried,"wouldst thou have slain thine own brother at Mahomet''s bidding?" |
20927 | I do not understand why, if such was the case, Khálid did not refer the believers to the so- called"cunning device"of the Koran? |
20927 | Is there no blood in the streets? |
20927 | Then why should the execution be considered a worst act? |
20927 | They replied,''Was not God''s earth broad enough for you to flee away in?'' |
20927 | They said,''And why should we not fight in the cause of God, since we are driven forth from our dwellings and our children?'' |
20927 | They said,''And why should we not fight in the cause of God, since we are driven forth from our dwellings and our children?''.... |
20927 | Wakidi and Ibn Sád do not affirm that Mohammad, being annoyed at her lampoons, said dejectedly,"Who would rid me of that woman?" |
20927 | Where are the bodies of the thousands that have been butchered? |
20927 | Why hast thou forbidden thyself that which God hath made lawful unto thee,[363] out of desire to please thy wives; for God is forgiving and merciful? |
20927 | Will he not trample on them, torture them, revenge himself after his own cruel manner? |
20927 | Will ye dread them? |
20927 | Will you dread them?"] |
20927 | [ Footnote 10:"Will ye not do battle with a people who have broken their covenant and aimed to expel your Apostle and attacked you first? |
20927 | [ Footnote 208: Sir W. Muir writes that"Hishami says, that Mahomet, being vexed by Asma''s verses, said_ publicly_,''Who will rid me of this woman?''" |
20927 | [ Sidenote: When the word Jihád was diverted from its original signification to its figurative meaning of waging religious war?] |
20927 | bring us forth from this City whose inhabitants are oppressors; give us a champion from thy presence; and give us from thy presence a defender?''" |
20660 | ''Who shall give life to bones when they are rotten?'' 20660 And did the same right appertain to Abu Bakr, Omar, Osmán and''Ali?" |
20660 | But if you find no direction therein? |
20660 | But what if that fails? |
20660 | Has the Apostle of God taught this to men or has he left them free? |
20660 | How so? |
20660 | If then the Qurán was created, must not the word_ be_ have been created with it? |
20660 | Is He not powerful enough to quicken the dead? |
20660 | Is it not enough for you that your Lord aideth you with three thousand angels sent down from on high? |
20660 | O''Ulamá of the religion, and Muftís of the enlightened Law, what is your opinion in this matter? 20660 Say: Is this, or the_ Garden of Eternity_ which was promised to the God- fearing, best?" |
20660 | Say: who supplieth you from the heavens and the earth? 20660 The infidels will say,''shall we indeed be restored as at first? |
20660 | They will ask thee of the''Hour,''when will be its fixed time? 20660 Think they that we hear not their secrets and their private talk? |
20660 | Thinketh man that we shall not re- unite his bones? 20660 This dogma, then, is without doubt an essential part of religion, insomuch that the latter can not without it be said to be complete?" |
20660 | Was the Apostle of God acquainted with this dogma or not? |
20660 | Wherefore, then, do you desire to impose a belief regarding which the Apostle of God has left men free to think as they please? |
20660 | [ 175] If any one says to him:Wilt thou die in the faith?" |
20660 | ''And murder, and adultery, and false witness?'' |
20660 | ''Dost thou reproach me on a matter, which God wrote in the Bible forty years before creating me?''" |
20660 | ''Hast thou then any excuse?'' |
20660 | ''Who is there?'' |
20660 | ( 3) The Qurán contains commands and prohibitions; if it is eternal who were commanded and who were admonished? |
20660 | A famous mystic was brought into the presence of the Khalíf Hárún- ur- Rashíd who said to him:"How great is thy abnegation?" |
20660 | A person one day visited Imám Hasan''Askarí( the eleventh Imám) and said:''O son of the Prophet who will be Khalíf and Imám after thee?'' |
20660 | And who shall teach thee what the night of power is? |
20660 | And who shall teach thee what the pit( Al- Háwía) is? |
20660 | But if this be the first, there must be a second; what is it?'' |
20660 | But what is Súfíism? |
20660 | But what knowledge hast thou of it? |
20660 | By this means they think that they can satisfy their spiritual and temporal needs, From what do they seek this benefit? |
20660 | Dost thou confess that Muhammad is His Apostle?'' |
20660 | Doth not man bear in mind that we made him at first, when he was nought?" |
20660 | Each spirit was addressed separately, thus:"Art thou not with thy Lord?" |
20660 | First, that the Imám must be appointed by God, for if this is not the case, why did Abraham say"of my offspring also?" |
20660 | God has declared that Ramazán is a noble month, for is not one of its nights, the Laylut- ul- Qadr, better than a thousand months? |
20660 | Had he not been a follower of Abu Hanífa? |
20660 | Hast thou seen aught terrible?" |
20660 | He also relates the following story:"One knocked at the door of the beloved, and a voice from within said:''Who is there?'' |
20660 | His Excellency said:''Dost thou believe that there is no God but God? |
20660 | His Highness then said:''What is this carpet?'' |
20660 | I said:''O messenger of God, I repent to God and His Messenger; what fault have I committed that you do not enter?'' |
20660 | If any one is asked,"dost thou believe?" |
20660 | If man is free to act, why can he not make at once a human body; why does he need to thank God for grace and faith? |
20660 | Muhammad answered,"Why dost thou say I, I? |
20660 | Muhammad said to her,''Where is God?'' |
20660 | Now this doctrine that you desire to spread among the Faithful, has the Apostle taught it, or has he abstained from doing so?" |
20660 | Of all creatures are they the worst?" |
20660 | On appointing him he said:"O Mu''áz, by what rule will you act?" |
20660 | Sháfa''í quoted the verse,"God said_ be, and it was_,"and asked,"Did not God create all things by the word_ be?_"Hafs assented. |
20660 | The Sheikh told me to say to the apparition,''What is your name?'' |
20660 | The poet Khusrau says:"Love is the object of my worship, what need have I of Islám?" |
20660 | The scholastics then enquired why, since the Qurán was sent to be a guide and direction to men, were not all its verses muhkam? |
20660 | Then Aqra''bin Hábis, standing up, said:''O Prophet is it to be made every year?'' |
20660 | Then said Adam,''Didst thou see in the Bible that Adam disobeyed God?'' |
20660 | Thus,"They say,''Who will bring us back?'' |
20660 | What became of them?" |
20660 | What has befallen thee? |
20660 | When we have become rotten bones?'' |
20660 | Which now is most worthy of credence-- God, when He declares Islám to be complete and perfect, or you when you announce the contrary?" |
20660 | Why dost thou ask me, for the Prophet''s disposition is no other than the Qurán?" |
20660 | after I am dead, shall I in the end be brought forth alive?'' |
20660 | after your belief have ye become infidels? |
20660 | and who bringeth forth the living from the dead, and bringeth forth the dead from the living? |
20660 | does a woman give herself away?'' |
20660 | dost thou deny this, or have the recording angels treated thee unjustly?'' |
20660 | say: will ye inform God of aught in the heavens and in the earth which He knoweth not?" |
20660 | since Thou knowest what awaited him, Thou must have known what awaited me; why then didst Thou act for his advantage and not for mine? |
20660 | was the reply,"what excuse could we give to thy grandfather on the day of resurrection did we abandon thee to the hands of thine enemies?" |
20660 | who hath power over hearing and sight? |
20660 | who ruleth all things? |
20660 | why hast Thou created mankind?'' |
20660 | { 91} Sa''dí in the Bustán says:"Art thou a friend of God? |
14867 | Does the perfect Buddha live on beyond death, or does he not? 14867 I cannot-- will not fight,"he says;"I seek not victory, I seek no kingdom; what shall we do with regal pomp and power? |
14867 | Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? |
14867 | Now, that which is created,he adds,"must of necessity be created by some cause-- but how can we find out the Father and maker of all this universe? |
14867 | [ 26] There is a deep pathos in the question which I have just quoted,How can we find out the Father and maker of all this universe?" |
14867 | ''Is Buddhism really older than Christianity, and does it really contain many things which are found in the Bible?''" |
14867 | ''Is it really true?'' |
14867 | ''Why did you not tell us all this before? |
14867 | ... Did humanity begin with a coarse fetishism, and thence rise by slow degrees to higher conceptions? |
14867 | Again, the question arises, How can responsibility be transferred from one to another? |
14867 | And how are we to account for their striking similarities? |
14867 | Are not we sons of the mighty Duryodani? |
14867 | But are they? |
14867 | But does conversion mean the same, or anything like the same, thing in each? |
14867 | But how shall the false systems of religions be studied? |
14867 | But the question may be asked,"Do we not admit a similar principle when we speak of a man''s influence as something that survives him?" |
14867 | But what is the evidence found in the legends themselves? |
14867 | But what is the testimony of the great dead religions of the past with respect to a primitive monotheism? |
14867 | But who knows whence his blessings come to him? |
14867 | But_ how_ have these conquests in Central Africa been made? |
14867 | Do the traces of a comparatively pure monotheism first show themselves in the recent periods of idolatry? |
14867 | Do they appear to have risen from polytheism toward simpler and more spiritual forms, or have simple forms been ramified into polytheism? |
14867 | Dost Thou only care for men? |
14867 | Even if change were possible, therefore, how shall the old score be settled? |
14867 | For what else have many excellent members of our faith done? |
14867 | Good men are asking,"Is not such a study a waste of energy, when we are charged with proclaiming the only saving truth? |
14867 | Have they shown an upward or a downward development? |
14867 | Have we forgotten our Rama and Arjun, Yudistar or Bishma or Drona the Wise? |
14867 | How can he be a lover of truth, which is God, if he knows not his beloved under such a disguise? |
14867 | How can there be reconciliation to God, then, without repentance and humiliation? |
14867 | How can we attain unto them? |
14867 | How could Buddhism grow out of such a soil and finally cast its spell over so many peoples? |
14867 | How did the early Church succeed in its great conquest? |
14867 | How is it with the authenticity of Buddhist literature? |
14867 | How is the young missionary, who knows nothing of their systems or the real points of comparison, to deal with such men? |
14867 | How much may we expect to prove from the early history of the non- Christian systems? |
14867 | How shall we account for the similarities above indicated, except on the supposition of a common and a very ancient source? |
14867 | How shall we explain that career? |
14867 | How then did they succeed? |
14867 | How was it that Islam gained its conquests, and what is the secret of that dominion which it still holds? |
14867 | How was such a man to be met? |
14867 | How will the mere philosopher explain this wonderful power of personality over men of all races, if it be not Divine? |
14867 | How, then, shall we draw the line between history and legend? |
14867 | If Krishna is within and without, what is the use of austerities? |
14867 | If Krishna is_ not_ within and without, what is the use of austerities? |
14867 | If Krishna is_ not_ worshipped, what is the use of austerities? |
14867 | In the old churches of the East or on the Continent of Europe, how much of virtual idolatry is there even now? |
14867 | In the receptacle of what was it contained? |
14867 | Is it any wonder that such persons have a warm side toward Buddhism? |
14867 | Is it_ in pari materia_, and if not, is the comparison worth the paper on which it is written? |
14867 | Is not downright earnestness better than any possible knowledge of philosophies and superstitions?" |
14867 | May there not, after all, be danger in the study of false systems? |
14867 | May we not believe that the ideas here expressed had always existed in the minds of the more devout rulers of the empire? |
14867 | Men had begun to ask themselves the great questions of human life and destiny,"Whence am I? |
14867 | Mr. Goldwin Smith, in an able article published in the_ Forum_ of April, 1891, on the question,"Will Morality Survive Faith?" |
14867 | No man sings there,''Shall not my soul be submitted unto God? |
14867 | O Almighty One, hast Thou not power to make us other than we are, that we too may have some part in the blessings of life?" |
14867 | Of what value can heathen asceticism and merit- making be while the heart is still barred and buttressed with self- righteousness? |
14867 | Or Lactantius, or Victorinus, Optatus, Hilary, not to speak of the living, and Greeks innumerable? |
14867 | See we not how richly laden with gold and silver and apparel that most persuasive teacher and most blessed martyr, Cyprian, departed out of Egypt? |
14867 | Stop, O Brahman; why do you engage in austerities? |
14867 | The Bhagavad Gita and the Gospel both enjoin the brotherhood of men, but what are the meanings which they give to this term? |
14867 | The eating of bread is in conformity with the ordinance of God; can one forget that his blessing rests thereupon?... |
14867 | The question"Are ye not of more value than many sparrows?" |
14867 | The question, What is Nirvana? |
14867 | The real question is, what was the_ drift_ of the prophet''s character? |
14867 | Then follow other questions:''Does Buddhism really count more believers than any other religion?'' |
14867 | There is recognized no future intervention that can effect a change in the downward drift, and why should a thousand existences prove better than one? |
14867 | Was it enveloped in the gulph profound of water? |
14867 | What are the lessons of the various ethnic traditions? |
14867 | What are their aims, respectively? |
14867 | What could be more horrible than the story just brought down by the messengers who were with Major Festing? |
14867 | What could have produced them? |
14867 | What has become of the tens of thousands of peaceful agriculturists, their wives and their innocent children? |
14867 | What help, what rescue can mere infinitude of time afford, though the transmigrations should number tens of thousands? |
14867 | What human skill could have depicted a character which no ideal of our best modern culture can equal? |
14867 | What is the relation between these two currents? |
14867 | What is this mysterious being of which I am conscious?" |
14867 | What methods were adopted, and with what measures of success? |
14867 | What then enshrouded all the teeming universe? |
14867 | What was the influence of his professed principles on his own life? |
14867 | What were the elements of power which enabled the great sage of China to rear a social and political fabric which has survived for so many centuries? |
14867 | What, then, is Kharma? |
14867 | Where can we point to so easy a conquest as that of Patrick in Ireland, or that of the Monks of Iona among the Picts and Scots? |
14867 | Where did Shankar and great Dayananda arise? |
14867 | Where do violence, meanness, and deception gradually beam forth into benevolence and truth? |
14867 | Where is the system in which such an incident and such a lesson would not be wholly out of place? |
14867 | Wherein, then, consists the unique supremacy of the Christian faith? |
14867 | Who shall change the leopard''s spots or deflect the fatal drift of a human soul? |
14867 | Who would think of quoting"Paradise Lost"in any sober comparison of Biblical truth with the teachings of other religions? |
14867 | Will there not be found perplexing parallels which will shake our trust in the positive and exclusive supremacy of the Christian faith? |
14867 | Without a Daysman how shall we bridge the abyss that lies between? |
14867 | Yet where in all the wide waste of heathen faiths or philosophies is there anything which even remotely resembles the story of the Prodigal? |
14867 | or has perchance some other God made us? |
14867 | what with enjoyments, or with life itself, when we have slaughtered all our kindred here?" |