After visions of God dwelling in humanity, Paul brings the argument down to a child’s plain question: “Was he a good man?” Can faith mean anything if it leaves a life unchanged? In these late-19th-century sermons, Alexander Maclaren opens with Paul’s letters to the early Christian churches, where lofty promises meet the daily struggle to live well. Forgiveness, he argues, is a gift—but not a reason to rest: believers must keep cleansing themselves of evil and steadily grow into holiness, with divine grace giving strength to the effort. The challenge reaches beyond ancient Corinth: how does a person pursue purity without mistaking pious feeling for a righteous life? And what does it truly mean to become holy? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
