The Governing Race: A Book for the Time, and for All TimesT. McGill, printer, 1860 - 102 pages |
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... labor . Will any Christian say that this sentence of God was unjust ? Will any man of right reason contend that this judgment ever has been set aside without worse evils to the human race than hard labor being the result ? When the ...
... labor . Will any Christian say that this sentence of God was unjust ? Will any man of right reason contend that this judgment ever has been set aside without worse evils to the human race than hard labor being the result ? When the ...
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... labor , is founded in mercy as well as righteousness , and that its failure to reclaim man arises from his own sins against this righteous ordinance ? So , too , of the second penalty : God's sentence on Eve . She was subjected to ...
... labor , is founded in mercy as well as righteousness , and that its failure to reclaim man arises from his own sins against this righteous ordinance ? So , too , of the second penalty : God's sentence on Eve . She was subjected to ...
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... labor of his slave wives , we find two condi- tions of life , polygamy and slavery , everywhere . Till the first is overcome it is in vain to talk of freedom or improvement for the black race . The whole negro population of Africa ...
... labor of his slave wives , we find two condi- tions of life , polygamy and slavery , everywhere . Till the first is overcome it is in vain to talk of freedom or improvement for the black race . The whole negro population of Africa ...
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... labor in order to gain bread is for man , or the sufferings of women in childbirth and the subjection of the wife to her husband are compatible with His righteous- ness . The aim of just punishment is to make those that suffer it better ...
... labor in order to gain bread is for man , or the sufferings of women in childbirth and the subjection of the wife to her husband are compatible with His righteous- ness . The aim of just punishment is to make those that suffer it better ...
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... labor one - seventh portion of time is the privilege of the slave ; thus showing that God cares for all men equally , and has so framed His statutes that all may serve Him acceptably , in whatever condition of life He has placed them ...
... labor one - seventh portion of time is the privilege of the slave ; thus showing that God cares for all men equally , and has so framed His statutes that all may serve Him acceptably , in whatever condition of life He has placed them ...
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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.