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... Church . It is true that other important topics are introduced , and not infrequently occupy a considerable space ; but this is solely on account of their relation to the one great subject of the apoca- lyptic page , and for the purpose ...
... Church . It is true that other important topics are introduced , and not infrequently occupy a considerable space ; but this is solely on account of their relation to the one great subject of the apoca- lyptic page , and for the purpose ...
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... church of God still prophesies in sackcloth against the horrid abuses in church and state which fill almost every kingdom in Christendom ; -the blessed jubilee sound of the seventh trumpet still remains to gladden the earth ; -the ...
... church of God still prophesies in sackcloth against the horrid abuses in church and state which fill almost every kingdom in Christendom ; -the blessed jubilee sound of the seventh trumpet still remains to gladden the earth ; -the ...
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... church , of drawing the line of demarcation between the church and the world . Through several pages the author descants on baptisin , and on the ecclesiastical distinction of the religious from the secular life , as illustrating the ...
... church , of drawing the line of demarcation between the church and the world . Through several pages the author descants on baptisin , and on the ecclesiastical distinction of the religious from the secular life , as illustrating the ...
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... church , ' the author exhibits the claims of the society which calls itself exclusively the ' catholic church , ' with strong reasons for rejecting those claims , nervously worded , and leading to the conclusion that the boasts of ...
... church , ' the author exhibits the claims of the society which calls itself exclusively the ' catholic church , ' with strong reasons for rejecting those claims , nervously worded , and leading to the conclusion that the boasts of ...
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... church and among the dissenters , who have shrunk from them , ' - to the infidelity into which multitudes in both the upper and the lower classes of society have been scared by these words of Scripture , —and to the apparent anxiety of ...
... church and among the dissenters , who have shrunk from them , ' - to the infidelity into which multitudes in both the upper and the lower classes of society have been scared by these words of Scripture , —and to the apparent anxiety of ...
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Page 137 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 1 - Or sculpture, speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence, And all the shows o' the world, are frail and vain To weep a loss that turns their lights to shade. It is a woe 'too deep for tears' when all Is reft at once, when some surpassing Spirit, Whose light adorned the world around it, leaves Those who remain behind, not sobs or groans, The passionate tumult of a clinging hope, — But pale despair and cold tranquillity, Nature's vast frame, the web of human things, Birth and...
Page 447 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 331 - I, AB, do swear, that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria...
Page 645 - Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook; Like crested leader proud and high...
Page 209 - ... it had eyes lifted up to heaven, the best of books in its hand, the law of truth was written upon its lips, the world was behind its back ; it stood as if it pleaded with men, and a crown of gold did hang over its head.
Page 512 - When JESUS, therefore, saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
Page 203 - The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Page 459 - This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule : Life's theatre as yet is shut, and Death, Strong Death, alone .can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
Page 386 - The destinies of our Indian empire are covered with thick darkness. It is difficult to form any conjecture as to the fate reserved for a state which resembles no other in history, and which forms by itself a separate class of political phenomena.