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... existence . What are those needs which have urged men into religious fellowships , and induced them to elaborate the various inadequate philosophies called theologies , and the numerous systems of worship , prayer and sacrament ? Can ...
... existence . What are those needs which have urged men into religious fellowships , and induced them to elaborate the various inadequate philosophies called theologies , and the numerous systems of worship , prayer and sacrament ? Can ...
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... existence , in the shape of a distinct contribution to the effort of human providence ; just as , undoubtedly , each of the political groups strikes some note which is indispensable to the full symphony . Individual religious bodies are ...
... existence , in the shape of a distinct contribution to the effort of human providence ; just as , undoubtedly , each of the political groups strikes some note which is indispensable to the full symphony . Individual religious bodies are ...
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... existence for just forty years ; it numbers to- day in this country little more than 3000 members , divided into five Societies . At such a rate of progress , how soon could it be ready to assume the functions and responsibilities of ...
... existence for just forty years ; it numbers to- day in this country little more than 3000 members , divided into five Societies . At such a rate of progress , how soon could it be ready to assume the functions and responsibilities of ...
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... existence . Experiment and innovation are as necessary here as in the life of science and of industry . Now , just as in science a few men can make experiments , which if successful can be adopted by the scientific world at large , and ...
... existence . Experiment and innovation are as necessary here as in the life of science and of industry . Now , just as in science a few men can make experiments , which if successful can be adopted by the scientific world at large , and ...
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... existence both of the sacraments and of the Church which ministers them . Yet how completely has this verifiable and most important side of the work of the Church been forgotten or neglected during the last fifteen hundred years ! 5 ...
... existence both of the sacraments and of the Church which ministers them . Yet how completely has this verifiable and most important side of the work of the Church been forgotten or neglected during the last fifteen hundred years ! 5 ...
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Page 157 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 79 - And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God : but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables...
Page 156 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
Page 88 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 82 - And they come again to Jerusalem : and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, 28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things ? and who gave thee this authority to do these things...
Page 170 - Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Page 152 - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty— the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life — thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page 181 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, I use it but like my Globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 113 - I was going up into this court, or while I was speaking, at anything which I was going to say ; and yet I have often been stopped in the middle of a speech, but now in nothing I either said or did, touching this matter, has the oracle opposed me.
Page 171 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.