Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive FriendsPennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1891 - Quakers |
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... become respect- able and wealthy as a class . Their business relations with the South were close and often precarious . Southern patrons must be conciliated . Slavery , though driven from the North , was entangled in all the interests ...
... become respect- able and wealthy as a class . Their business relations with the South were close and often precarious . Southern patrons must be conciliated . Slavery , though driven from the North , was entangled in all the interests ...
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... " says John Weiss . " He has ever new things for new spirits who become the most religious when they submit to this onward tendency , and break away in pursuit of the Infinite Mystery . " What a 19 Christian Science By REV F E MASON.
... " says John Weiss . " He has ever new things for new spirits who become the most religious when they submit to this onward tendency , and break away in pursuit of the Infinite Mystery . " What a 19 Christian Science By REV F E MASON.
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... become fit places for our children to live in without the help of women ? Take New York City , for instance . The women of that city are called upon to help make it a fit place in which to live . I have been seeking for a public office ...
... become fit places for our children to live in without the help of women ? Take New York City , for instance . The women of that city are called upon to help make it a fit place in which to live . I have been seeking for a public office ...
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... become of the sweet helpless babes while the women were at the polls ! For an answer , I should say I think it would be perfectly safe to leave them in the charge of those who formerly cared for them while the women went to pay their ...
... become of the sweet helpless babes while the women were at the polls ! For an answer , I should say I think it would be perfectly safe to leave them in the charge of those who formerly cared for them while the women went to pay their ...
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... become , like the one who wrote the book , a mathematician . Writer and reader would both be inspired , for both the letter- veil would be rent in twain and the enduring temple of demon- strable principle stand revealed . The reader of ...
... become , like the one who wrote the book , a mathematician . Writer and reader would both be inspired , for both the letter- veil would be rent in twain and the enduring temple of demon- strable principle stand revealed . The reader of ...
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Page 21 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Page 41 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Page 36 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Page 34 - As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 18 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Page 22 - Of the men o' the South? What whets the knife For the Union's life? — Hark to the answer: Slavery!
Page 41 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Page 36 - Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.
Page 43 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death.