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... beautiful Services , to guard against the hasty adoption of innovations and practices foreign to Lutheran principles or usages , and to meet and solve the many important and practical questions constantly arising in the indi- vidual ...
... beautiful Services , to guard against the hasty adoption of innovations and practices foreign to Lutheran principles or usages , and to meet and solve the many important and practical questions constantly arising in the indi- vidual ...
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... beautiful , the true , and the good . This motive in itself is only a noble humanitarianism , not worth cultivating simply for its own sake , but of great value in its proper auxil- iary relation to nobler fruits , and very different in ...
... beautiful , the true , and the good . This motive in itself is only a noble humanitarianism , not worth cultivating simply for its own sake , but of great value in its proper auxil- iary relation to nobler fruits , and very different in ...
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... beautiful Service , but time permits us to mention but one particularly . It presents Christ our Saviour as the object and center of all our worship ; it is a living embodiment of the spirit of the First and Second Commandments , which ...
... beautiful Service , but time permits us to mention but one particularly . It presents Christ our Saviour as the object and center of all our worship ; it is a living embodiment of the spirit of the First and Second Commandments , which ...
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... beautiful and right praxis will not guarantee its main- tenance . Our Service or worship seems to be a truthful utter- ance of our faith , and at the same time is well adapted to nour- ish the right faith , and we value it because it is ...
... beautiful and right praxis will not guarantee its main- tenance . Our Service or worship seems to be a truthful utter- ance of our faith , and at the same time is well adapted to nour- ish the right faith , and we value it because it is ...
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... beautiful now than it was in their time , for our congregations are more intelligent than most of theirs were , and say and sing , for they do not need to depend upon choirs better trained . Un- hampered by tradition , we are able to ...
... beautiful now than it was in their time , for our congregations are more intelligent than most of theirs were , and say and sing , for they do not need to depend upon choirs better trained . Un- hampered by tradition , we are able to ...
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Page 56 - Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 6 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 72 - Peace be unto you : as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 54 - LORD our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day; Defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger...
Page 102 - And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said; Lord, thou art God which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is...
Page 14 - And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto Thee...
Page 49 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility...
Page 50 - God, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy ; Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy ; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal.
Page 50 - O GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed ; Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give : that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments...
Page 90 - By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name. But to do good and to communicate, forget not : for with such sacrifices God is -well pleased.