Excerpt from Twenty-Four Sermons: Preached in All Souls Church, New York, 1865-1881 HE terms used in the New Testament con cerning spiritual things require a courageous translation into their equivalent modern phrases. Nothing can be more perversive of their true sig nificance than to insist in forcing our later and fuller-grown intelligence and moral experience back into the letter of the phrases which were appro priate and expressive of the thoughts of the sacred writers. It is not merely that the Apostles and Evangelists used words that no longer convey to us the thoughts they were urging upon contemporaries; but the thoughts themselves were often not such as we can now honestly entertain. It is only the principles of Which their thoughts were the local or timely expression that we can consider permanently the same and equally important now as then. The term salvation is one of the significant words on which they dwelt with peculiar emphasis. 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.