The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator, Volume 1Elliot Stock, 1868 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 14
... reason to believe that the origin of any institution is known , we impose too much upon belief when we maintain that the author who is credited with its original is responsible for it as it exists . Our school books tell us that Alfred ...
... reason to believe that the origin of any institution is known , we impose too much upon belief when we maintain that the author who is credited with its original is responsible for it as it exists . Our school books tell us that Alfred ...
Page 51
... reason , learned to dread and to hate . He greatly disliked the thing called Parliament . on his accession was a violation of the English Constitution ; his brief reign a series of gratuitous insults and provocations . of his people ...
... reason , learned to dread and to hate . He greatly disliked the thing called Parliament . on his accession was a violation of the English Constitution ; his brief reign a series of gratuitous insults and provocations . of his people ...
Page 53
... reason , and moved solely by ambition , made war upon a neighbouring people , but has been conquered in the struggle . The conquerors are in a position to make their own terms . They deem it necessary to occupy the country of the ...
... reason , and moved solely by ambition , made war upon a neighbouring people , but has been conquered in the struggle . The conquerors are in a position to make their own terms . They deem it necessary to occupy the country of the ...
Page 56
... reason to bless or curse our rule . The question is not one of blessing or curse , but of right or wrong , and we are anxious to judge it only so . We have no sympathy with Fenianism , though we are intensely anxious for complete ...
... reason to bless or curse our rule . The question is not one of blessing or curse , but of right or wrong , and we are anxious to judge it only so . We have no sympathy with Fenianism , though we are intensely anxious for complete ...
Page 58
... reason in the world why , with a few more alterations of law on our part , and a great deal more improvement of their own position by themselves , they should not be as happily a part of Great Britain as Scotland . One thing , however ...
... reason in the world why , with a few more alterations of law on our part , and a great deal more improvement of their own position by themselves , they should not be as happily a part of Great Britain as Scotland . One thing , however ...
Common terms and phrases
atonement authority baptism believe Catholic character Christ Christian Church of England Church-rates clergy confession congregation course denominations Disraeli Dissenters Divine doctrine doubt duty earnest ecclesiastical England English Episcopalians Erastian Established Church Establishment Evangelical evil fact faith Father favour feel Fenianism Free Church friends give Gladstone God's Gospel Government hand heart Holy honour human idea influence interest Ireland Irish Church Jesus labour Landamman Landsgemeinde less Liberal Liberal party Liturgy living look Lord Lord Raglan means ment mind minister miracles moral nation nature never Nonconformists Nonconformity opinion party political position prayer preaching present principle Protestant Protestantism question racter regard religion religious result rolling stone Scripture seems sins society soul speak spirit sympathy teaching theological things thou thought tion true truth union utter voluntaryism Whigs whole words worship
Popular passages
Page 562 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 513 - And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Page 315 - By thine Agony and Bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the Coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 437 - God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 407 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 986 - Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 5 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 600 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 997 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here!
Page 362 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.