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Joy Power
Author: Henry Van Dyke

Three powerful messages for leaders and people who want to remain in control of their destiny and happiness. The book is a compilation of two powerful lectures delivered at the opening of the Presbyterian General Assembly, May 21, 1903 and on Baccalaureate Sunday at Princeton University, June 7 of the same year. The central theme in t... more »hese messages is that Jesus is the center of all truths and all other manifestations of divine light are radiations from this central point. van Dyke believes that perfection can only be achieved if man can align himself to this core truth. Contents i. Joy and Power

ii. The Battle of Life

iii. The Good Old Way

Book Excerpts: Romans vii. 21: Overcome evil with good. The Battle of Life is an ancient phrase consecrated by use in Commencement Orations without number. Two modern expressions have taken their place beside it in our own day: the Strenuous Life, and the Simple Life. Each of these phrases has its own significance and value. It is when they are overemphasized and driven to extremes that they lose their truth and become catch-words of folly. The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. The strenuous life which does everything with set jaws and clenched fists and fierce effort, soon becomes strained and violent, a prolonged nervous spasm. Somewhere between these two extremes must lie the golden mean: a life that has strength and simplicity, courage and calm, power and peace. But how can we find this golden line and live along it? Some truth there must be in the old phrase which speaks of life as a battle. No conflict, no character. Without strife, a weak life. But what is the real meaning of the battle? What is the vital issue at stake? What are the things worth fighting for? In what spirit, with what weapons, are we to take our part in the warfare? There is an answer to these questions in the text: Overcome evil with good. The man who knows this text by heart, knows the secret of a life that is both strenuous and simple. For here we find the three things that we need most: a call to the real battle of life; a plan for the right campaign; and a promise of final victory.

I. Every man, like the knight in the old legend, is born on a field of battle. But the warfare is not carnal, it is spiritual. Not the east against the west, the north against the south, the "Haves" against the "Have-nots"; but the evil against the good, that is the real conflict of life. The attempt to deny or ignore this conflict has been the stock in trade of every false doctrine that has befogged and bewildered the world since the days of Eden. The fairy tale that the old serpent told to Eve is a poetic symbol of the lie fundamental, the theory that sin does not mean death, because it has no real existence and makes no real difference. This ancient falsehood has an infinite wardrobe of disguises.

ISBN-13: 9781406904093
ISBN-10: 1406904090
Publication Date: 11/3/2006
Pages: 28
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Publisher: Hard Press
Book Type: Paperback
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