The Christian Examiner, Volume 87Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1869 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... opinion on the relative value of the ancient and modern languages may be , no one now denies actual value , and high value , to the German language ; placing it next to the classics , at any rate , if not above them . There are ...
... opinion on the relative value of the ancient and modern languages may be , no one now denies actual value , and high value , to the German language ; placing it next to the classics , at any rate , if not above them . There are ...
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... opinions and thought of foreign writers we get from their own words . Translations are better than nothing , and in many cases we must be content with them . Comparatively few scholars in our time have leisure or patience to read Plato ...
... opinions and thought of foreign writers we get from their own words . Translations are better than nothing , and in many cases we must be content with them . Comparatively few scholars in our time have leisure or patience to read Plato ...
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... opinions he had taught in the pulpit , and his fidelity to the high standard of purity and piety he had there upheld , have lived and died in the communion of that church , of which , having once been ministers , they always 3 * 1869 ...
... opinions he had taught in the pulpit , and his fidelity to the high standard of purity and piety he had there upheld , have lived and died in the communion of that church , of which , having once been ministers , they always 3 * 1869 ...
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... opinions , or of conventional standards of conduct . The old rules and the old creeds are not abolished , but the feeble hands that administer them are too conscious of relative weakness to seek to enforce them . The nation has thus ...
... opinions , or of conventional standards of conduct . The old rules and the old creeds are not abolished , but the feeble hands that administer them are too conscious of relative weakness to seek to enforce them . The nation has thus ...
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... opinions of men of science , in exploring the works of the Creator , or in unfolding his laws ? Now , until theology is brought up to the experience and actual state of men's con- victions , attained through other and independent ...
... opinions of men of science , in exploring the works of the Creator , or in unfolding his laws ? Now , until theology is brought up to the experience and actual state of men's con- victions , attained through other and independent ...
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Page 318 - ... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 136 - There shall never be any bond slavery, villeinage, or captivity amongst us unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us.
Page 79 - And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears : But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, And reprove with equity for the meek of the earth...
Page 294 - O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Page 81 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 303 - The time of their visitation will come, and that inevitably; for, it is always true, that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge.
Page 78 - And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Page 85 - Consider, my children, what that signifies, he finished them in six days. The meaning of it is this; that in six thousand years the Lord God will bring all things to an end. For with him one day is a thousand years; as himself testifieth, saying, Behold this day shall be as a thousand years.
Page 78 - I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
Page 154 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.