...has provided are the powerful ones. The world can beat us with their own weapons. In their generation the " children of this world are wiser than the children of light." The philosophy and wisdom of men will overmatch us if we go to them with armor, coat of mail, and helmet...

...useful to life. It is in the race of Cain that the Bible places the invention of arts and handicrafts. " The children of this world are wiser than the children of light,"* — this is an idea which is prevalent throughout the Bible, and recurs in the Gospel. Material civilization...

...brotherly kindness alone — but to our sense of justice. They have a right to such support. In this the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. The state provides a pension for her disabled servants. Beneficial societies, which have multiplied...

...skilfullness alone, as we do in fact restrict it when we say — " This wisdom . . . is devilish;" " The children of this world are wiser . . . than the children of light." But in philosophical strictness, probably Charnocke is right ; for a bad end is only proposed and effected...

...a Gothic Cathedral is the model to which our places of worship are to be conformed. In this matter the children of this world are wiser than the children of light. The object of a theatre is that the players may be seen and be heard by all. The architect who would...

...Latimer, for there was one in the morning, another in the afternoon ?s Both followed from the same text, ' The children of this ' world are wiser than the children of light.' The sermons are most remarkable, not only as displaying the bold and various eloquence of Latimer,...

...principle that their possessions will be their own for ever. How is it then that the Saviour can say, 'The children of this world are wiser than the children of light?' because He is careful to add the words ' In their generation.' It is. as if He said, The children of...

...Latimer, for there was one in the morning, another in the afternoon ?* Both followed from the same text, ' The children of this ' world are wiser than the children of light.' . The sermons are most remarkable, not only as displaying the bold and various eloquence of Latimer,...

...needful amount ! Hear his plain, pointed, urgent, persuasive appeals, my brother, and be convinced that " the children of this world are wiser than the children of light." In our social meetings we must have the same common sense sanctified to the cause of Christ. We desire...

...Beechers, Chapins, Bellows, Collyers, and Murrays were not Army Chaplains, (202) 203 and more is the pity. "The children of this world are wiser than the children of light." So said the Master eighteen hundred years ago, and so it is today. In a political campaign the managers...