Christendom Anno Domini MDCCCCI ...: A Presentation of Christian Conditions and Activities in Every Country of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, by More Than Sixty Competent Contributors, Volumen1

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William Daniel Grant
C. Holt, 1902
 

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Página ix - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Página 363 - They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy, secure Of surfeit where full measure only bounds Excess, before the all-bounteous King, who showered With copious hand, rejoicing in their joy.
Página 526 - Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible...
Página v - It often seems to me as if History was like a child's box of letters, with which we can spell any word we please. We have only to pick out such letters as we want, arrange them as we like, and say nothing about those which do not suit our purpose.
Página 140 - To secure a larger combined influence for the Churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ in every relation of human life.
Página 281 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Página 370 - There is a time to sow, and a time to reap ; and these in Nature are annual.
Página 264 - It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man's, or a nation of men's. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, in many cases not this at all. We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness...
Página 526 - Suppose that all these men ceased to believe that there was any power above them, any future before them, anything in heaven or earth but what their senses told them of; suppose that their consciousness of individual force and responsibility, already dwarfed by the...
Página 447 - ... southward. We need not dwell upon the incidents of this excursion, except to notice the fact, that, on his return, he concluded similar arrangements with the chiefs of the districts lying close to the entrance of the Strait of Fuca, acquiring exclusive privileges of trade in that neighbourhood and taking possession of the land in the name of the King of England. These proceedings of Meares constitute the first acts of actual settlement or occupation carried into effect by any power on the soil...

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