Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive FriendsPennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1891 - Quakers |
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... freedom to effect the peaceful abolition of slavery . We have held our anti- slavery meetings and the church does not come to us . We must carry our doctrines into the churches at whatever cost to ourselves or to them . And moved by a ...
... freedom to effect the peaceful abolition of slavery . We have held our anti- slavery meetings and the church does not come to us . We must carry our doctrines into the churches at whatever cost to ourselves or to them . And moved by a ...
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... freedom . They now met on a common ground , -belief in religious liberty . A meeting dedicating the new house was held the day before the opening of the Yearly Meeting in 1855 . Theodore Parker , at mention of whose name our hearts ...
... freedom . They now met on a common ground , -belief in religious liberty . A meeting dedicating the new house was held the day before the opening of the Yearly Meeting in 1855 . Theodore Parker , at mention of whose name our hearts ...
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... freedom to worship God , according to conscience , is not a right to be long or successfully questioned now by the civil power . But the controversies of to - day so agitating several of the great denominations , and in some degree ...
... freedom to worship God , according to conscience , is not a right to be long or successfully questioned now by the civil power . But the controversies of to - day so agitating several of the great denominations , and in some degree ...
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... freedom of thought had a point in politics where he became intolerant . It is quite human to knock down big popes and set up little ones . But all this is no argument against the principle of freedom ; it only shows the inconsistency of ...
... freedom of thought had a point in politics where he became intolerant . It is quite human to knock down big popes and set up little ones . But all this is no argument against the principle of freedom ; it only shows the inconsistency of ...
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... freedom of thought and utter- ance . IMMIGRATION . BY HENRY S. KENT . A government in which the authority resides in the people can only continue so long as a certain measure of intelligence and virtue is maintained collectively in its ...
... freedom of thought and utter- ance . IMMIGRATION . BY HENRY S. KENT . A government in which the authority resides in the people can only continue so long as a certain measure of intelligence and virtue is maintained collectively in its ...
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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.