The Christian Examiner, Volume 84

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Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1868 - Liberalism (Religion)
 

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Page 91 - Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Page 213 - Commonwealth, whether . corporate or unincorporate, at any meeting legally warned and holden for that purpose, shall ever have the right to elect their pastors or religious teachers, to contract with them for their support, to raise money for erecting and repairing houses for public worship, for the maintenance of religious instruction, and for the payment of necessary expenses...
Page 155 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Page 302 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 76 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral — -easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Page 164 - Motion'd him to be silent: vainly so, He look'd and look'd again a level - No! "A Serpent!" echoed he: no sooner said, Than with a frightful scream she vanished: And Lycius' arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night.
Page 182 - When neither a premature death nor long life causes a man any doublemindedness, but he waits in the cultivation of his personal character for whatever issue; - this is the way in which he establishes his Heaven-ordained being.
Page 231 - That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the F'ather, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Page 164 - Lycius' arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night. On the high couch he...
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