item: #1 of 14 id: 13433 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion" date: None words: 60267 flesch: 64 summary: [49:1] I regret very much that some ambiguity in my language (_S.R._ i. p. 483) should have misled, and given Dr. Lightfoot much trouble. [10:3] _S.R._ ii. keywords: antioch; argument; case; contemporary; date; diatessaron; divine; epistles; eusebius; evidence; fact; gospel; greek; i. p.; ibid; ignatian; ignatius; john; lightfoot; martyrdom; miracles; note; papias; passage; place; point; question; references; review; rome; second; statement; tatian; testimony; time; version; westcott; words; work; writers; | | cache: 13433.txt plain text: 13433.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 15905 author: Huxley, Thomas Henry title: Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays date: None words: 113934 flesch: 56 summary: If the concurrent testimony of the three synoptics, then, is really sufficient to do away with all rational doubt as to a matter of fact of the utmost practical and speculative importance--belief or disbelief in which may affect, and has affected, men's lives and their conduct towards other men, in the most serious way--then I am bound to believe that Jesus implicitly affirmed himself to possess a knowledge of the unseen world, which afforded full confirmation of the belief in demons and possession current among his contemporaries. But the number of such men, driven into the use of scientific methods of inquiry and taught to trust them, by their education, their daily professional and business needs, is increasing and will continually increase. keywords: account; authority; belief; body; case; century; character; christianity; church; course; day; doctrine; doubt; duke; eginhard; events; evidence; evolution; existence; fact; faith; form; gadara; gadarene; general; gladstone; good; gospel; hand; having; history; jesus; jews; judgment; know; knowledge; law; laws; life; lord; man; mark; matter; matthew; means; men; mind; miracles; nature; new; opinion; order; paul; people; physical; place; point; present; question; right; science; second; sense; set; subject; theory; things; thought; time; truth; wace; way; work; world; years cache: 15905.txt plain text: 15905.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 20336 author: Shaw, Bernard title: The Miraculous Revenge date: None words: 8377 flesch: 85 summary: I fear Mr. Hickey is mad. It is less gratifying to have to record that it has been found possible to obtain two hundred signatures to a memorial embodying the absurd defence offered to the committee, and expressing unabated confidence in the integrity of Mr. Hickey. keywords: father; grave; graveyard; hickey; man; mile; miracle; night; place; uncle; water cache: 20336.txt plain text: 20336.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 26190 author: Cox, James A. title: A Choice of Miracles date: None words: 3833 flesch: 92 summary: Andy Larson was a hard-headed Swede. The only thing Andy Larson had heard was the water and the far-away whine of the patrol ship on its grid track search pattern. keywords: andy; ears; elsie; miracle; voice cache: 26190.txt plain text: 26190.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 26397 author: Whiton, James Morris title: Miracles and Supernatural Religion date: None words: 17700 flesch: 53 summary: Those who thus define miracle regard miracles as having ceased at the end of the Apostolic age in the first century. [Note that Incarnation and Resurrection are terms which Dr. Nicoll construes as denoting physical miracles.] keywords: case; christian; death; fact; god; history; jesus; life; man; miracles; nature; new; order; power; present; religion; resurrection; revelation; testament; thought; time; world cache: 26397.txt plain text: 26397.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 36584 author: Mortimer, Favell Lee title: The Blind Beggar of Jericho date: None words: 1133 flesch: 99 summary: Jesus, who was so very kind, Who came to pardon sinful men, Who heal'd the sick, and cur'd the blind: It is very common to see blind men begging in the streets. keywords: jesus; lord cache: 36584.txt plain text: 36584.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 36614 author: Mortimer, Favell Lee title: The Child Who Died and Lived Again date: None words: 1275 flesch: 97 summary: Yet once there was a man in this world who made dead people alive. Yet we are sure he said true, for if he had been a wicked man he could not have made dead people alive again. keywords: jesus; people cache: 36614.txt plain text: 36614.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 37231 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 1 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 141147 flesch: 55 summary: If we proceed to examine Paley's simple case a little more closely, however, we find that not only is it utterly inadmissible as a hypothesis, but that as an illustration of the case of Gospel miracles it is completely devoid of relevancy and argumentative force. It is clear that, this large class of Gospel miracles being due to the superstition of an ignorant and credulous age, the insufficiency of the evidence for any of the other supposed miraculous occurrences narrated in the same documents becomes at once apparent. keywords: "(1; "(2; account; angels; apostles; argument; belief; canonical; case; character; christianity; church; course; critics; demons; divine; doubt; epistles; eusebius; evidence; existence; fact; form; god; gospel; gospel miracles; greek; hand; ignatius; instance; jesus; justin; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; lightfoot; lord; luke; man; mark; matthew; memoirs; miracles; miraculous; mozley; nature; order; papias; passage; peter; place; point; power; present; question; quotation; quotes; reality; reason; revelation; second; source; spirit; statement; states; testament; testimony; text; time; tradition; truth; version; words; work; writers cache: 37231.txt plain text: 37231.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 37232 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 117798 flesch: 59 summary: They assign to the Homilies an origin at different dates within a period commencing about the middle of the second century, and extending to a century later.2 In the Homilies there are very numerous quotations {6} of sayings of Jesus and of Gospel history, which are generally placed in the mouth of Peter, or introduced with such formulae as: The teacher said, Jesus said, He said, The prophet said, but in no case does the author name the source from which these sayings and quotations are derived. We need not do more than remark that there is not a single quotation in the fragment, and that there is not a single one of the references to Gospel history or to ecclesiastical dogmas which might not have been derived from the Epistles of Paul, from any of the forms of the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Protevangelium of James, or from many another apocryphal Gospel, or the oral teaching of the Church. keywords: apocalypse; apostle; author; canon; canonical; case; century; character; christ; church; date; disciples; doctrine; epistle; evidence; fact; father; fourth; god; gospel; irenæus; jesus; john; justin; life; logos; lord; luke; man; marcion; passage; paul; peter; place; point; quotation; reason; reference; says; second; son; spirit; statement; synoptics; tatian; testament; testimony; text; things; time; tischendorf; use; valentinus; way; westcott; word; work; writer; writings cache: 37232.txt plain text: 37232.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 37233 author: Cassels, Walter Richard title: Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation date: None words: 147972 flesch: 59 summary: It is maintained that the desire to equalise the sufferings of the two Apostles in the cause of the Gospel, as he has equalised their miraculous displays, probably led the Author to omit all mention of those {72} perils and persecutions to which the Apostle Paul refers in support of his protest, that he had laboured and suffered more than all the rest.(1) If Paul was called by a vision to the ministry of the Gentiles,(2) The statements of the Apostle Paul leave no doubt that persecution against the Christians of Jerusalem must have broken out previous to his conversion, but no details are given, and it can scarcely be considered otherwise than extraordinary, that Paul should not in any of his own writings have referred to the proto-martyr of the Christian Church, if the account which is given of him be historical. keywords: account; acts; apostle paul; apostles; author; belief; case; character; christian; church; circumcision; course; critics; death; disciples; epistle; evidence; fact; form; gentiles; god; gospel; hand; holy; james; jerusalem; jesus; jews; law; lord; luke; man; miracles; miraculous; narrative; nature; passage; paul; peter; place; point; present; question; resurrection; second; speech; spirit; statement; time; tongues; unto; use; vision; visit; words; work; writer cache: 37233.txt plain text: 37233.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 37611 author: Mortimer, Favell Lee title: Christ in the Storm No. 26 date: None words: 1080 flesch: 99 summary: O Merciful Lord, pardon my sins, Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, Died upon the cross for sinners. It is Jesus, the Son of God. keywords: jesus; thou cache: 37611.txt plain text: 37611.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 57202 author: Nodier, Charles title: The Legend of Sister Beatrix date: None words: 6372 flesch: 75 summary: It's you, dear Beatrix, said the sister in a voice for the dulcet tones of which there is no word in any language known to man. The Legend of Sister Beatrix Charles Nodier (1780-1844) Not far from the highest peak in the Jura, but descending a little down its slope facing west, one could still see, going on for half a century ago, a mass of ruins that had belonged to the church and the convent of Our Lady of the Flowering Thorns. keywords: beatrix; day; holy; lady; life; mary; sister; time; virgin cache: 57202.txt plain text: 57202.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 6367 author: Chalippe, Candide title: The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi date: None words: 163981 flesch: 57 summary: He goes into retreat on Mount Alvernus--His contemplation and raptures--Jesus Christ promises him special favors--He fasts rigorously--A piece of his writing delivers his companion from a temptation--What he had to suffer from the devil--He prepares for martyrdom--He receives extraordinary favors in prayer--His perfect conformity to the will of God--Jesus Christ crucified appears to him under the figure of a Seraphim--Receives the impression of the wounds of Jesus Christ--He composes canticles full of the love of God--Tells his brethren of the Stigmata--They are seen and touched--He leaves Mount Alvernus, to return to S. Mary of the Angels--Cures a child of dropsy--Other miracles which he performed on the way--He strengthens himself with new fervor in the service of God--His patience in great sufferings--His desires for the salvation of souls--His prayer in suffering--God assures him of his salvation--He thanks Him in a canticle--He learns the time of his death, and rejoices at it--He has various illnesses, and suffers extreme pain--He multiplies the grapes in a vineyard--God gives him sensible consolation--A heated iron is applied to the temple, and he feels no pain from it--He weeps incessantly, and says he does so to expiate for his sins--He prefers the danger of losing his sight to restraining his tears--His gratitude towards his physician--A miracle is worked by some of his hair, in favor of this physician--He miraculously heals a canon--His sufferings diminish--Goes to preach--Drives away a devil--Foretells a sudden death, and it comes about--Cures St. Bonaventura in his infancy--All his sufferings increase--Causes to be found for the love of God what could not be found for money--They take him back to Assisi--They take him to Sienna--He answers difficult questions, and foretells several things--He causes the blessing which he gave to his brethren to be written--They take him to Celles, and thence to Assisi--The bishop has him taken to his palace--The state of his Order at the time of his last illness BOOK V The violence of his illness does not prevent him from exhorting his brethren--He is touched at the fatigue which his illness caused them-- Thanks God for the pains he suffered--Dictates a letter to Clare and her daughters--Rejoices and thanks God for his approaching death--Blesses his children--Has himself carried to S. Mary of the Angels--Blesses the town of Assisi--Informs a pious widow of his approaching death--Blesses his brethren a second time, and makes them eat a bit of bread, blessed by his hand--Gives a special blessing to Bernard, the eldest of his children--What we may presume were his dispositions in receiving the last sacraments--He stretches himself naked on the bare ground--Desires to be buried in the place of execution--Exhorts his brethren--He has the praises of God sung when at the point of death--He speaks to his children, and blesses them for the last time--Has the passion of Jesus Christ read to him--He recites the 141st psalm, and dies after the last verse--Miraculous proofs of his beatitude--State of his body after death--The Stigmata are seen and touched publicly--His obsequies--Clare and her daughters see and kiss the Stigmata--He is buried at Assisi, in the church of S. George--The circular written after his death--His canonization--The Church of S. Francis at Assisi--He is buried there--Researches are made to find the sacred body--The mission of St. Francis--The fruits of his labor. One must feel surprised that St. Francis, with all the assurances he had of his vocation, could have doubted for a single instant that he had been sent by God for the spiritual service of his neighbors. keywords: angels; assisi; body; bonaventure; brethren; brother; charity; children; christ; church; companions; convent; cross; day; death; example; father; following; francis; friars; god; good; great; heart; heaven; holy; humility; jesus; jesus christ; leave; life; lord; love; man; mary; men; mind; minor; miracles; order; patriarch; people; persons; place; poor; pope; poverty; power; prayer; rule; saint; salvation; saw; servant; spirit; state; things; thought; time; town; virtue; way; wish; words; world; year cache: 6367.txt plain text: 6367.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 9103 author: MacDonald, George title: Miracles of Our Lord date: None words: 54640 flesch: 78 summary: When, at a word issuing from such a mouth as that of Jesus of Nazareth, the poor, withered, distorted, contemptible hand obeyed and, responsive to the spirit within, spread forth its fingers, filled with its old human might, became capable once more of the grasp of friendship, of the caress of love, of the labour for the bread that sustains the life, little would the man care that other men--even rulers of synagogues, even Scribes and Pharisees, should question the rectitude of him who had healed him. I say that whatever Jesus did or said, he did and said like other men--he did and said as no other man did or said. keywords: believe; body; cure; dead; death; eyes; faith; father; god; good; heart; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; miracle; nature; power; prayer; son; spirit; things; woman; words; work; world cache: 9103.txt plain text: 9103.txt