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... religious characters are being established as rapidly . Immigrants are pouring into the country in increasing volume . These new additions to our population are not absorbed and Americanized as formerly , and are settling in masses in ...
... religious characters are being established as rapidly . Immigrants are pouring into the country in increasing volume . These new additions to our population are not absorbed and Americanized as formerly , and are settling in masses in ...
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... religion worth the name must bring cheer into every home , hope into every life— bring into close touch and sympathy ... religious atmosphere , give purpose to Christian life , and advance every good cause . It will show to all outside ...
... religion worth the name must bring cheer into every home , hope into every life— bring into close touch and sympathy ... religious atmosphere , give purpose to Christian life , and advance every good cause . It will show to all outside ...
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... religion , if it costs them nothing ? How many expect the pastor to do all the work with such help as he can get from a few " enthusiasts " in the church ? How many understand that their money is only a trust for the advancement of ...
... religion , if it costs them nothing ? How many expect the pastor to do all the work with such help as he can get from a few " enthusiasts " in the church ? How many understand that their money is only a trust for the advancement of ...
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... religion so strangely handled by its professors , what results would follow if every man were alert and consecrated ? We profess to be a Christian country , and we have advanced , perhaps , further than has been reached before - but the ...
... religion so strangely handled by its professors , what results would follow if every man were alert and consecrated ? We profess to be a Christian country , and we have advanced , perhaps , further than has been reached before - but the ...
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... religion . " They brought with them the best and most heroic blood of the peoples of Europe - of the Hollanders , the Walloons of Flanders , the Huguenots of France , the English , Welsh , Scotch and Irish , of the Norwegians and Swedes ...
... religion . " They brought with them the best and most heroic blood of the peoples of Europe - of the Hollanders , the Walloons of Flanders , the Huguenots of France , the English , Welsh , Scotch and Irish , of the Norwegians and Swedes ...
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Popular passages
Page 92 - They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 285 - WATCHMAN, tell us of the night, What its signs of promise are. Traveller, o'er yon mountain's height See that glory-beaming star ! Watchman, does its beauteous ray Aught of hope or joy foretell ? Traveller, yes ; it brings the day, Promised day of Israel. 2 Watchman, tell us of the night ; Higher yet that star ascends.
Page 111 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 274 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 50 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 242 - Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings ; for they had wings like the wings of a stork : and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Page 272 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord.
Page 140 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 128 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which he was before a citizen or subject," which proceedings must be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 47 - ... that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead...