History of the Philadelphia Bible-Christian Church for the First Century of Its Existence: From 1817-1917 |
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... present . These feasts were served most bountifully with the products of the fields , garden and orchard , and of course without the sacrifice of any animal life , or the accom- paniment of any intoxicating beverages . This feature of ...
... present . These feasts were served most bountifully with the products of the fields , garden and orchard , and of course without the sacrifice of any animal life , or the accom- paniment of any intoxicating beverages . This feature of ...
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... present time we have never had a pound of flesh meat in our dwelling , and never have patronized either slaughter houses or grog shops . ' It is not to be supposed that Mr. Metcalfe adopted a vegetarian life without meeting with the ...
... present time we have never had a pound of flesh meat in our dwelling , and never have patronized either slaughter houses or grog shops . ' It is not to be supposed that Mr. Metcalfe adopted a vegetarian life without meeting with the ...
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... present at the first administration of the Holy Supper five adults , including the minister and his wife . The day - school was opened under the most flattering prospects , and my father's most sanguine expectations were more than ...
... present at the first administration of the Holy Supper five adults , including the minister and his wife . The day - school was opened under the most flattering prospects , and my father's most sanguine expectations were more than ...
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... present temperance and abstinence from flesh- food as religious duties , and renounce his scheme to build up the Bible - Christian Church , he would be certain of support . One offer was an academy , with a regular , com- fortable ...
... present temperance and abstinence from flesh- food as religious duties , and renounce his scheme to build up the Bible - Christian Church , he would be certain of support . One offer was an academy , with a regular , com- fortable ...
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... present the divine government in awful purity and majesty , and stamp iniquity with deeper odium than the increasing weight of eternal perdition ever could , exhibit at the same time , in the sacrifice of Him who is over all , God ...
... present the divine government in awful purity and majesty , and stamp iniquity with deeper odium than the increasing weight of eternal perdition ever could , exhibit at the same time , in the sacrifice of Him who is over all , God ...
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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.