The Presbyterian Historical Almanac and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, Volume 9Joseph M. Wilson, 1867 - Presbyterian Church |
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... friends can desire . During the period covered by this publication , over five hundred and fifty bills and overtures and judicial cases were acted upon ; these pre- sented the various views held upon the polity of the Church , the forms ...
... friends can desire . During the period covered by this publication , over five hundred and fifty bills and overtures and judicial cases were acted upon ; these pre- sented the various views held upon the polity of the Church , the forms ...
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... friends of a pure and free Church around the banner which God has given us to be displayed because of the truth , " as to be able to defeat in great measure the schemes of those who seem by their acts to be saying , concerning the ...
... friends of a pure and free Church around the banner which God has given us to be displayed because of the truth , " as to be able to defeat in great measure the schemes of those who seem by their acts to be saying , concerning the ...
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... friends nor the foes of slavery ; that is to say , we have no commission either to propagate or abolish it . We have no right , as a Church , to enjoin it as a duty , or to condemn it as a sin . * * The social , civil , and political ...
... friends nor the foes of slavery ; that is to say , we have no commission either to propagate or abolish it . We have no right , as a Church , to enjoin it as a duty , or to condemn it as a sin . * * The social , civil , and political ...
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... friends of all parties . Aside , however , from these mistakes of facts in the premises , a far more important matter , in our judgment , is the dangerous error in principle in- volved in such action , even were the facts as charged ...
... friends of all parties . Aside , however , from these mistakes of facts in the premises , a far more important matter , in our judgment , is the dangerous error in principle in- volved in such action , even were the facts as charged ...
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... friends that they may more efficiently do the work of enemies . While claiming membership in the Presbyterian Church and representa- tion in this Assembly , they denounce that Church as apostate ; its highest court as the support of ...
... friends that they may more efficiently do the work of enemies . While claiming membership in the Presbyterian Church and representa- tion in this Assembly , they denounce that Church as apostate ; its highest court as the support of ...
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Popular passages
Page 263 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Page 172 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
Page 378 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 48 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America would proceed forthwith to the First Presbyterian Church.
Page 390 - And thus on many accounts it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.
Page 263 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 177 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 503 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye should ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Page 445 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 178 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die. Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing thy power to save ; When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave.