The Governing Race: A Book for the Time, and for All TimesT. McGill, printer, 1860 - 102 pages |
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... idea to His followers , and teach them that the lowest menial services did not degrade the soul , nor hinder the grace of God , but rather offered opportunity of spirit- ual improvement , Christ not only took " on Him the form of a ...
... idea to His followers , and teach them that the lowest menial services did not degrade the soul , nor hinder the grace of God , but rather offered opportunity of spirit- ual improvement , Christ not only took " on Him the form of a ...
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... idea , no conception of the " Lord God " — " God alone " - God , and not man , the holy one . " Nor could they , without a divine revelation , ever have attained to the knowledge of their duty towards God , as laid down in the first ...
... idea , no conception of the " Lord God " — " God alone " - God , and not man , the holy one . " Nor could they , without a divine revelation , ever have attained to the knowledge of their duty towards God , as laid down in the first ...
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... idea of duty or moral obliga- tion , except it has been taught them by the superior races . In religion , all negroes are pagans of the grossest sort , excepting those tribes converted to Mahometanism . All are polygamists , all slaves ...
... idea of duty or moral obliga- tion , except it has been taught them by the superior races . In religion , all negroes are pagans of the grossest sort , excepting those tribes converted to Mahometanism . All are polygamists , all slaves ...
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... idea , a principle , the recognition of human rights , " etc. Now , if the system of negro slavery in the United States is based on the law of God , it will most assuredly vindicate its own righteousness , and overcome the false idea of ...
... idea , a principle , the recognition of human rights , " etc. Now , if the system of negro slavery in the United States is based on the law of God , it will most assuredly vindicate its own righteousness , and overcome the false idea of ...
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... idea that abolishing kings , priests , and prescriptive au- thorities would remedy the sore evils , abuses , and miseries of society and of the people was deeply cherished and , we doubt not , honestly advocated by the then most acute ...
... idea that abolishing kings , priests , and prescriptive au- thorities would remedy the sore evils , abuses , and miseries of society and of the people was deeply cherished and , we doubt not , honestly advocated by the then most acute ...
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Page 36 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 32 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 102 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 14 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 102 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 30 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 32 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 36 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Page 30 - His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Page 33 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.