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Its basis was as simple as its character , - faith in Christ . All who were drawn to
Christ by faith , and thus became his faithful disciples , were of his Church . We
read at first of no organization , no signing of creeds . All was simple and plain .
Its basis was as simple as its character , - faith in Christ . All who were drawn to
Christ by faith , and thus became his faithful disciples , were of his Church . We
read at first of no organization , no signing of creeds . All was simple and plain .
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... so suggestive of our obligations to God and Christ , and the daily crosses and
duties of the Christian life ; but to suppose that Christian churches have no object
beyond this , is sadly to mistake their character and work . The one grand object ...
... so suggestive of our obligations to God and Christ , and the daily crosses and
duties of the Christian life ; but to suppose that Christian churches have no object
beyond this , is sadly to mistake their character and work . The one grand object ...
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And the better suited the body is to the character and spirit of the indwelling soul ,
the more effectually it may accomplish its mission . But , after all , we gladly admit
that the organization is a secondary matter . The essential thing for individuals ...
And the better suited the body is to the character and spirit of the indwelling soul ,
the more effectually it may accomplish its mission . But , after all , we gladly admit
that the organization is a secondary matter . The essential thing for individuals ...
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This may be very much increased by our previous character . In the somewhat
modified words of another , “ it is not easy to be a submissive sufferer , unless
one has been an obedient child ” ; and if the little disappointments and vexations
of ...
This may be very much increased by our previous character . In the somewhat
modified words of another , “ it is not easy to be a submissive sufferer , unless
one has been an obedient child ” ; and if the little disappointments and vexations
of ...
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No ; and if I have analyzed correctly the tone of feeling that usually prevails
among assemblages of this character , made up of pastors , superintendents ,
and teachers , who have met together for mutual edification and encouragement
as to ...
No ; and if I have analyzed correctly the tone of feeling that usually prevails
among assemblages of this character , made up of pastors , superintendents ,
and teachers , who have met together for mutual edification and encouragement
as to ...
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Seite 193 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us, 'Tis Heaven itself, that points out an hereafter And intimates eternity to man.
Seite 178 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Seite 4 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can...
Seite 193 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Seite 37 - ... even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Seite 30 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment ; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Seite 79 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Seite 101 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Seite 180 - Heaven has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty ; and the business test which we have applied to the Christian enterprise, and its managers and management, low and subordinate as it is, has reached down into the great Christian heart, and tried its sincerity. It has shown plainly, if it has shown any thing, that the real nature of the claims of Christianity is but feebly realized by its professors.
Seite 92 - ... as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.