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... never think of forsaking their ances- tral religion , and why should they press upon others what they are unwilling to do themselves ? No doubt large numbers of people are influenced by such considerations as these , and yet every ...
... never think of forsaking their ances- tral religion , and why should they press upon others what they are unwilling to do themselves ? No doubt large numbers of people are influenced by such considerations as these , and yet every ...
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... never thought and acted for themselves and lived no higher life than the beasts of the field ? Let us follow our ancestors by all means , only let those ancestors be the noblest and the best . We do not urge on others what we are ...
... never thought and acted for themselves and lived no higher life than the beasts of the field ? Let us follow our ancestors by all means , only let those ancestors be the noblest and the best . We do not urge on others what we are ...
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... never done in the past - the spiritual needs and aspirations of the human soul . To Brahmoism must be added the Christian doctrines of the Trinity , the Mediator , and the Atonement for sin . III . There are some who will entirely ...
... never done in the past - the spiritual needs and aspirations of the human soul . To Brahmoism must be added the Christian doctrines of the Trinity , the Mediator , and the Atonement for sin . III . There are some who will entirely ...
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... never be free from imperfection and error . But we believe it will amply suffice to guide our conduct in this present life and to prepare us for a higher life hereafter . We must remember too that it is for the search rather than the ...
... never be free from imperfection and error . But we believe it will amply suffice to guide our conduct in this present life and to prepare us for a higher life hereafter . We must remember too that it is for the search rather than the ...
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... never read the Bible ? If we wished to present the best book of Reference , we should choose the English Bible . Further , if books are valuable at all , we may certain- ly expect much from the most widely circulated and influential ...
... never read the Bible ? If we wished to present the best book of Reference , we should choose the English Bible . Further , if books are valuable at all , we may certain- ly expect much from the most widely circulated and influential ...
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Page 206 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 145 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 211 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 236 - And what shall I more say ? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah ; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets...
Page 103 - And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy ; Son, be of good cheer ; thy sins be forgiven thee.
Page 157 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 188 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 66 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 51 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last - far off - at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.