History of the Philadelphia Bible-Christian Church for the First Century of Its Existence: From 1817-1917 |
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... reforms the cultivation of which constituted the great work of his life . He adver- tised the Sabbath - day services held in his school - room in the newspapers and by cards . Respectable audiences were collected until the plague ...
... reforms the cultivation of which constituted the great work of his life . He adver- tised the Sabbath - day services held in his school - room in the newspapers and by cards . Respectable audiences were collected until the plague ...
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... REFORM would be of a much slower growth than that of temperance . The evil of drunkenness so openly manifests itself in the fearful blight which falls upon its victims , that but little effort was needed , he supposed , to call forth ...
... REFORM would be of a much slower growth than that of temperance . The evil of drunkenness so openly manifests itself in the fearful blight which falls upon its victims , that but little effort was needed , he supposed , to call forth ...
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... reform . He also instituted correspondence with any inquiring mind , upon the least appearance of interest in the principles which he had so deeply at heart . During the first ten or twelve years , his labors in this direction appear to ...
... reform . He also instituted correspondence with any inquiring mind , upon the least appearance of interest in the principles which he had so deeply at heart . During the first ten or twelve years , his labors in this direction appear to ...
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... reform . This was subsequently accomplished , and James Simpson , Esq . , was elected president of the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain . Mr. Metcalfe immediately proposed the forma- tion of a similar society here . He corresponded ...
... reform . This was subsequently accomplished , and James Simpson , Esq . , was elected president of the Vegetarian Society of Great Britain . Mr. Metcalfe immediately proposed the forma- tion of a similar society here . He corresponded ...
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... reform , and arranged for the organ of the cause , Mr. Metcalfe de- termined to pay a visit to England . This resolution becoming known , he was officially appointed as a delegate from the American Vegetarian Society to the annual ...
... reform , and arranged for the organ of the cause , Mr. Metcalfe de- termined to pay a visit to England . This resolution becoming known , he was officially appointed as a delegate from the American Vegetarian Society to the annual ...
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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.