{"id":15904,"date":"2016-08-18T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/barnumphineas-taylor\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:35:04","slug":"barnumphineas-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/barnumphineas-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"BARNUM,\nPHINEAS TAYLOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (July 5, 1810\u2013April 7, 1891), was an American exhibitor and philanthropist. He originated <i>The Greatest Show of Earth.<\/i> Phineas Taylor Barnum stated:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Christ was sent into the world by our kind Father in Heaven to teach that \u201cGod is Love\u201d; that love is the fulfilling of the law; and turn us away from our transgressions by showing us that the \u201cway of the transgressor is hard,\u201d and always will be hard as long as we transgress; but charity, unselfishness, and a godly life is filled with joy and peace\u2014that at the last the Almighty Father, being Almighty, and being our Father, will bring about immediate harmony.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The old Bible I believe to be as correct a history as could have been formed in remote ages\u2014containing accounts of various lives and experiences by which we ought to profit. The New Testament abounds in testimony of the undying love of our Saviour for all, and especially for the poor, the unfortunate, and the erring. His mission was to teach them, and to save them from their sins by reconciling them to their Heavenly Father, and not reconciling Him to His created beings, for He was never unreconciled.&#65279;2426&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Most persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing too little, than by believing too much.&#65279;2427&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 5, 1810\u2013April 7, 1891), was an American exhibitor and philanthropist. He originated The Greatest Show of Earth. Phineas Taylor Barnum stated: Christ was sent into the world by our kind Father in Heaven to teach that \u201cGod is Love\u201d; that love is the fulfilling of the law; and turn us away from our transgressions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/barnumphineas-taylor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BARNUM,<br \/>\nPHINEAS TAYLOR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}