The Christian Examiner, Volume 69Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1860 |
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... appears that the best writers of the present day habitually employ a larger proportion of Anglo - Saxon words than the best writers of a hundred years ago . The highest Saxon percentage in writers of our own day is in a poem of Mrs ...
... appears that the best writers of the present day habitually employ a larger proportion of Anglo - Saxon words than the best writers of a hundred years ago . The highest Saxon percentage in writers of our own day is in a poem of Mrs ...
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... appears , to give some account of the theories which supply its place . - - In the conception of Satan the two essential elements are , - 1. That he is a being whose nature is evil entirely ; 2. That he is opposed to a superior being ...
... appears , to give some account of the theories which supply its place . - - In the conception of Satan the two essential elements are , - 1. That he is a being whose nature is evil entirely ; 2. That he is opposed to a superior being ...
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... appear to be so many modifications of one primitive faith . Of this faith , the main features are a belief in a Supreme God , to whom it is unusual to offer worship , and a belief in demons , for the most part capricious and cruel ...
... appear to be so many modifications of one primitive faith . Of this faith , the main features are a belief in a Supreme God , to whom it is unusual to offer worship , and a belief in demons , for the most part capricious and cruel ...
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... appears at some time to have attained a high and pure development into a noble faith . There are numerous indications that the aborigi- nal race of America once existed in a state of refinement , from which it has very far degenerated ...
... appears at some time to have attained a high and pure development into a noble faith . There are numerous indications that the aborigi- nal race of America once existed in a state of refinement , from which it has very far degenerated ...
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... was assigned to each ; and yet it does not appear that any person- ality was ascribed to them , and certainly they are not placed in opposition . Of Hamitic nations , Egypt is the most interesting to 24 [ July , Analogues of Satan .
... was assigned to each ; and yet it does not appear that any person- ality was ascribed to them , and certainly they are not placed in opposition . Of Hamitic nations , Egypt is the most interesting to 24 [ July , Analogues of Satan .
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Page 162 - For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. " Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Page 158 - Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Page 162 - For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us ; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace ; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby...
Page 263 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 413 - Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet, Smiles, radiant long ago, And features, the great soul's apparent seat. All shall come back, each tie Of pure affection shall be knit again ; Alone shall Evil die, And Sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign. And then shall I behold Him, by whose kind paternal side I sprung, And her, who, still and cold, Fills the next grave — the beautiful and young.
Page 161 - I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2. For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Page 153 - THE CHURCH OF THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES ; or, Notices of the Lives and Opinions of the Early Fathers, with special reference to the Doctrine of the Trinity ; illustrating its late origin and gradual formation. Revised and enlarged edition. 8vo, $2.50. Lucy Larcom. BREATHINGS OF THE BETTER LIFE. " Little Classic
Page 128 - HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, IN CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES. A Synchronistic View of the Events, Characteristics, and Culture of each period, including the History of Polity, Worship, Literature, and Doctrines, together with two Supplementary Tables upon the Church in America; and an Appendix, containing the series of Councils, Popes, Patriarchs, and other Bishops, and a full Index. By the late HENRY B.
Page 296 - Jericho : he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun,
Page 170 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.