History of the Philadelphia Bible-Christian Church for the First Century of Its Existence: From 1817-1917 |
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... active parts in politics and public affairs , also occasionally in military service and have been faithful ( most of them during their entire lives ) to the vegetarian discipline of the Church , thus refut- ing the claim often made that ...
... active parts in politics and public affairs , also occasionally in military service and have been faithful ( most of them during their entire lives ) to the vegetarian discipline of the Church , thus refut- ing the claim often made that ...
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... active member of the church ; to him he purposed to confide its pastoral duties , if the church should grant his request . The proposition , being urged with such an evident desire to aid the sister church , was granted , the Rev ...
... active member of the church ; to him he purposed to confide its pastoral duties , if the church should grant his request . The proposition , being urged with such an evident desire to aid the sister church , was granted , the Rev ...
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... active member of several of its benevolent , literary , and scientific associations . The mournful duty devolved upon the Rev. Dr. Metcalfe of performing the last sad rites over the lifeless remains of his beloved friend . On Sunday ...
... active member of several of its benevolent , literary , and scientific associations . The mournful duty devolved upon the Rev. Dr. Metcalfe of performing the last sad rites over the lifeless remains of his beloved friend . On Sunday ...
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... active in aiding and assisting in all social and moral reform ; and his name , we are assured , is embalmed in unnumbered hearts , who will transmit the memory of his virtues and useful- ness to future generations . " Resolved , That in ...
... active in aiding and assisting in all social and moral reform ; and his name , we are assured , is embalmed in unnumbered hearts , who will transmit the memory of his virtues and useful- ness to future generations . " Resolved , That in ...
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... active and valuable in the affairs and management of the Church during this time are : Almond , Barned , Bell , Brooks , Bury , Cariss , Chorlton , Cooper , Cunliffe , Dixon , Gibson , Hey , Higgs , Horrocks , Hough , Hunt , Koenig ...
... active and valuable in the affairs and management of the Church during this time are : Almond , Barned , Bell , Brooks , Bury , Cariss , Chorlton , Cooper , Cunliffe , Dixon , Gibson , Hey , Higgs , Horrocks , Hough , Hunt , Koenig ...
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Page 163 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 6 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them...
Page 188 - ... such as these hang over the farm. Death is natural, I own, and without it this world would be cursed with life, but when it comes at the edge of the cold and sharpened steel, at the behest of man's perverted appetite and cruel will, and strikes the young and lusty and vigorous, — when death is made the chief end of life, and life becomes the handmaid of death, and nature is prostituted to the express manufacture of fattened corpses, then is death hideous indeed...
Page 35 - The principles of the Christian religion as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, are recognized as teaching men to do good, and to do to others as they would have others do to them.