National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volumes 1-5

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National Genealogical Society, 1912 - Genealogy

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Page 4 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 36 - The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Page 36 - Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Page 32 - Congress passed an act providing that "the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 7 - Pennsylvania as a free and independent state, and that I will not at any time do or cause to be done any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof, as declared by Congress; and also that I will discover and make known to some one justice of the peace of the said state all treasons or traitorous conspiracies which I now know or hereafter shall know to be formed against this or any of the United States of America.

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