Journal of the Annual Convention

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1876
 

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Page 45 - I would not live alway : I ask not to stay, Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way...
Page 12 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Page 87 - And here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto Thee...
Page 88 - The relations to each other of Missionary Bishops and of Missionaries, in various branches of the Anglican Communion, acting in the same country.
Page 89 - ... both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that if any persons are joined together otherwise than as God's word doth allow, their marriage is not lawful.
Page 92 - Communion,' or to enjoin or even encourage any practice of habitual Confession to a priest, or to teach that such practice of habitual Confession, or the being subject to what has been termed the direction of a priest, is a condition of attaining to the highest spiritual life.
Page 124 - It shall be the duty of the vestry to take charge of the property of the Church, to regulate all its temporal concerns, to elect and call a minister, and provide for his maintenance, to keep order in the Church during the celebration of Divine worship, and in general to act as helpers to the minister in whatever is appropriate for laymen, for the furtherance of the gospel.
Page 122 - ... a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York...
Page 88 - Every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, Ceremonies or Rites of the Church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying.

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