The Deeper Meaning of the "temperance" Question: Sermons Delivered in Central Church, Sioux City, Iowa |
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... physical force at the front and sends moral force to the rear . This is a fatal error . " Thus far in our history there have been only two parties much in evidence in the " temperance " controversy . One is the attacking party consist ...
... physical force at the front and sends moral force to the rear . This is a fatal error . " Thus far in our history there have been only two parties much in evidence in the " temperance " controversy . One is the attacking party consist ...
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... physical force , or the use of moral inspiration and instruction , in the creation of character and in the building up of a state or nation of noble and happy men and women . The hopeful sign of our time is that multitudes of thoughtful ...
... physical force , or the use of moral inspiration and instruction , in the creation of character and in the building up of a state or nation of noble and happy men and women . The hopeful sign of our time is that multitudes of thoughtful ...
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... physical force are what Ly- man Abbott in his book , " The Rights of Man , " calls the " Medicine - Man . " Dr. Abbott explains that he calls him the medicine - man " because he thinks there is one medicine which will cure all the ills ...
... physical force are what Ly- man Abbott in his book , " The Rights of Man , " calls the " Medicine - Man . " Dr. Abbott explains that he calls him the medicine - man " because he thinks there is one medicine which will cure all the ills ...
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... physical force . As their method fails in the family so does it fail also in human society . ( 5 ) The present ... force , it has to be met by force , and wherever it succeeds in raising this issue of physical force it distracts largely ...
... physical force . As their method fails in the family so does it fail also in human society . ( 5 ) The present ... force , it has to be met by force , and wherever it succeeds in raising this issue of physical force it distracts largely ...
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... physical or ma- terial force upon others . This is the essence of religion by the sword , and of culture by force . It is the aggression by force of one life upon an- other , and results only in awakening resentment , and issues always ...
... physical or ma- terial force upon others . This is the essence of religion by the sword , and of culture by force . It is the aggression by force of one life upon an- other , and results only in awakening resentment , and issues always ...
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Page 121 - Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a pharisee and the other a publican ; the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican ; I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 99 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say of knowing good by evil.
Page 40 - For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 99 - Many there be that complain of divine providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 121 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 99 - If every action which is good or evil in man at ripe years were to be under pittance, and prescription, and compulsion, what were virtue but a name, what praise could be then due to well-doing, what gramercy to be sober, just, or continent?
Page 118 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 50 - Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Page 93 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 153 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.