Permanent Temperance Documents: Report of the American temperance society, 4th-9th, 1831-36American Temperance Union, 1852 - Temperance |
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Page 31 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 3 - I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Page 94 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 14 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty,
Page 54 - For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still : woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless...
Page 209 - Even if they come to the light, and it shines upon them, it shines upon darkness, and the darkness does not comprehend it. While multitudes who thus do evil, will not come to the light, lest their deeds should be reproved.
Page 217 - For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them and rose again.
Page 68 - Esq., a committee to cooperate with committees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, and the General Association of Connecticut, in devising measures which may have an influence in preventing some of the numerous and threatening mischiefs, that are experienced throughout our country, from the excessive and intemperate use of spirituous liquors.
Page 38 - He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.