Excerpt from Old Wine, New Bottles: Some Elemental Doctrines in Modern FormGone forever, but their theories concerning re ligion imply that so far as he is related to the universe, and especially to men, he might as well have no existence. Beside these cold and cheero less speculations - the first of which results from undue emphasis upon phenomena, and not enough upon spirit, and the second from a tendency in human nature to exalt the past, which is found not only in Christian nations but also among the heathen, and which IS the same in reality as Ancestral Worship in China - I place the teaching of Holy Scripture, which thrills with Inspiration, hope and power. Peter said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and the emphasis is no more on the first clause than on the second.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.