...saw the vision of the sheet let down from heaven long before that event; and learned that "in ev^ry nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." Long before that event the apostle turned to the Gentiles, saying to the Jews, "since ye count yourselves...

...a special vision, had been instructed in this great truth, that with God is no respect of persons, but that in every " nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ;" —even this same Peter withdrew himself from the society of believers, for the sake of pleasing...

...declared his firm conviction, " that God is no respecter of persons ;" that not among the Jews only, but that in every nation, " He that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." That the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was the great sovereign disposer of all events—the father...

...margin here, Matt, xvii, 2 : Mark ix, 2. Ver. 34, 35. It is declared, here, by an Apostle of Christ, that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. But some will say, ' It is impossible for those who Lave not the Gospel to work righteousness...

...no respecter of persons ; and, as St. Peter learned with such difficulty two thousand years later, that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.1 IV All this for the older children, the high school or college boys and girls. For children of...

...children of wrath." We are naturally from beneath. What St. Peter says indeed is not to be forgotten, that in every nation "he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him." But that is no more than to say that God may have other ways of dispensing His grace than...

...made him heir, seeking to be at home with the powers above him, to which he was akin. And in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. But do I quite mean what I say, when I call religion a family matter, a matter between child and Father?...

...can not believe God will be so hard a master as to reject him. Nay, the Apostle declares expressly that in every nation "he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." We are judged according to our light and opportunities. God accepts us according to that we have and...

...simple forms of belief. I am well content to accept, in respect of these, the Scriptural assurance that, in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him. II. As to theology. A "fundamental" theology must be theistic in "basis": much of the theism of our...

.... . ) which 1 pause to answer, as I am led to believe, from reason, what is set forth in Scripture, that "In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him," in whatever form of worship he may have been taught to glorify God. Nevertheless I presume...