The Brahmo Year-book for ...: Brief Records of Work and Life in the Theistic Churches of IndiaWilliams and Norgate, 1876 |
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Adi Brahmo Somaj Adi Somaj anniversary Babu K. C. Babu Keshub Chunder Barisal Bhakti Bill Bombay Bose Brahma Dharma Brahma Mandir Brahmic Brahmo community Brahmo marriage Brahmo Public Opinion Brahmoism bride bridegroom Calcutta celebrated ceremony Chandra Charan Christian Church congregation Dacca Dás daughter Ditto Durga Mohan Durga Mohan Das East Bengal English faith friends gentlemen girls Hindu hymns idolatry Indian Mirror Kayastha Keshub Babu Keshub Chunder Sen Krishna Kuch Behar ladies lecture letter Maharaja of Kuch March married meeting minister missionaries Mofussil Mohan Babu Mozoomdar Mymensingh Náth Native Nowgong object Pandit party prayer present principles Protap PROTAP CHUNDER MOZOOMDAR protest Rám Reform religion religious rites Sádháran B. S. Sádháran Brahmo Sadharan Brahmo Somaj Sankirtan School Secretary Sen's Shib Chunder Deb society solemnized Somaj of India spirit Sunday Sunday Mirror Thee Theism Thou truth Widow worship Year-Book
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Page 6 - Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow. Ye alight in our van ; at your voice, Panic, despair, flee away. Ye move through the ranks, recall The Stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, re-inspire the brave. Order, courage, return. Eyes rekindling, and prayers, Follow your steps as ye go. Ye fill up the gaps in our files, Strengthen the wavering line, Stablish, continue our march, On, to the bound of the waste, On, to the City of God.
Page 15 - So much of any law or usage now in force within the territories subject to the government of the East India Company as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property, or may be held in any way to impair 500 or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of any religion, or being deprived of caste...
Page 38 - Whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subject, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true, is said to give false evidence.
Page 36 - ... 2nd Proviso. — No law or custom as to consanguinity shall prevent them from marrying, unless a relationship can be traced between the parties through some common ancestor, who stands to each of them in a nearer relationship than that of great-great-grandfather or great -great-grandmother, or unless one of the parties is the lineal ancestor, or the brother or sister of some lineal ancestor, of the other.
Page 9 - Universe, to the promotion of charity, morality, piety, benevolence, virtue, and the strengthening the bonds of union between men of all religious persuasions and creeds...
Page 8 - Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 29 And there shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 11 - No created object shall be worshipped here. No man, or inferior being, or material object shall be worshipped here, as identical with God, or like unto God, or as an incarnation of God ; and no prayer or hymn shall be offered or chanted unto, or in the name of any except God. No carved or painted image, no external symbol which has been or may hereafter be used...
Page 37 - Registrar, sign a declaration iu the form contained in the second schedule to this Act. If either party has not completed the age of twenty-one years, the declaration shall also be signed by his or her father or guardian, except in the case of a widow, and, in every case, it shall be countersigned by the Registrar. 11. The marriage shall be solemnized in the presence of the Registrar and of the three witnesses who signed the declaration. It...
Page 70 - Men have attempted to prove that I have been guided by my own imagination, reason, and intellect. Under this conviction they have from time to time protested against my proceedings. They should remember that to protest against the cause I uphold is to protest against the dispensations of God Almighty, the God of all Truth and Holiness.
Page 38 - CD [the bride] in any degree of consanguinity or affinity which would, according to the law to which I am subject, or to which the said...