The Christian Review, Volume 15Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1850 |
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... moral change , an intelligent belief of the truth , a deliberate and hearty consecration to the service of God . A church constituted on such a principle excludes none from the ordinances of Christ or the privileges of his kingdom who ...
... moral change , an intelligent belief of the truth , a deliberate and hearty consecration to the service of God . A church constituted on such a principle excludes none from the ordinances of Christ or the privileges of his kingdom who ...
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... moral and intellectual life of nations , has been clearly seen and fully appreciated . In this day of revolutions , when a total reconstruction of human society and government is fiercely called for by re- formers , who act on the ...
... moral and intellectual life of nations , has been clearly seen and fully appreciated . In this day of revolutions , when a total reconstruction of human society and government is fiercely called for by re- formers , who act on the ...
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... moral and intellectual position in the world's history . Every nation and every race has such a position in the moral geography and chronology of the world , and the importance of this position is the measure of the significance and ...
... moral and intellectual position in the world's history . Every nation and every race has such a position in the moral geography and chronology of the world , and the importance of this position is the measure of the significance and ...
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... moral position is in advance of the rest of man- kind . On their fidelity in the discharge of their trust depends the character of the future . God guides these races . He uses them for his high and holy purposes . He sends a Moses and ...
... moral position is in advance of the rest of man- kind . On their fidelity in the discharge of their trust depends the character of the future . God guides these races . He uses them for his high and holy purposes . He sends a Moses and ...
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... moral char- acter that makes this life distinct and peculiar . Our national life has been drawn from that combination of Scandinavian , Saxon and Frisian elements known by the name of Anglo- Saxon . Let us dwell for a moment upon the ...
... moral char- acter that makes this life distinct and peculiar . Our national life has been drawn from that combination of Scandinavian , Saxon and Frisian elements known by the name of Anglo- Saxon . Let us dwell for a moment upon the ...
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Page 80 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not THEE, marks not the mighty hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 316 - 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...
Page 572 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art, or dictated by force ; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. From this day, the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank ; the English lose all exclusive influence in the affairs of America.
Page 120 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 317 - 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 600 - For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Page 28 - Kemble.— The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman Conquest.
Page 113 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Page 111 - Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 121 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...