The Christian Examiner, Volume 84Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1868 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... cause to envy the adored Marchioness of Pescara . row . Another cause why our interest in her conjugal poems flags , is their entire want of characterization . Her love is as purely abstract as if it were never embodied in the flesh ...
... cause to envy the adored Marchioness of Pescara . row . Another cause why our interest in her conjugal poems flags , is their entire want of characterization . Her love is as purely abstract as if it were never embodied in the flesh ...
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... cause of pure religion who shows in the pulpit character that wears like homespun . It is men like this - faithful to the high duty of the prophet , speaking the truth of God to unwilling ears , proving that to put on the preacher is ...
... cause of pure religion who shows in the pulpit character that wears like homespun . It is men like this - faithful to the high duty of the prophet , speaking the truth of God to unwilling ears , proving that to put on the preacher is ...
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... cause is quite as much in the intellect as in the will . Many a noble nature is distressed by a secret decay of faith in the reality of religion , caused by the influence of modern thought and science in destroying old beliefs . Appeals ...
... cause is quite as much in the intellect as in the will . Many a noble nature is distressed by a secret decay of faith in the reality of religion , caused by the influence of modern thought and science in destroying old beliefs . Appeals ...
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... cause of good thinking is , after all , the cause of good liv- ing . Religion can no more dispense with theology , than the- ology can dispense with religion . Distinct as religion and theology are , and all - important as it is never ...
... cause of good thinking is , after all , the cause of good liv- ing . Religion can no more dispense with theology , than the- ology can dispense with religion . Distinct as religion and theology are , and all - important as it is never ...
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... cause of truth ? How shall we answer the question here raised , Is the preacher morally bound to pro- claim his deepest and best thought , or may he innocently suppress it because he fears its effect on the well - being of his parish ...
... cause of truth ? How shall we answer the question here raised , Is the preacher morally bound to pro- claim his deepest and best thought , or may he innocently suppress it because he fears its effect on the well - being of his parish ...
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Page 91 - Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Page 213 - Commonwealth, whether . corporate or unincorporate, at any meeting legally warned and holden for that purpose, shall ever have the right to elect their pastors or religious teachers, to contract with them for their support, to raise money for erecting and repairing houses for public worship, for the maintenance of religious instruction, and for the payment of necessary expenses...
Page 155 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Page 302 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 76 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral — -easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Page 164 - Motion'd him to be silent: vainly so, He look'd and look'd again a level - No! "A Serpent!" echoed he: no sooner said, Than with a frightful scream she vanished: And Lycius' arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night.
Page 182 - When neither a premature death nor long life causes a man any doublemindedness, but he waits in the cultivation of his personal character for whatever issue; - this is the way in which he establishes his Heaven-ordained being.
Page 231 - That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the F'ather, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Page 164 - Lycius' arms were empty of delight, As were his limbs of life, from that same night. On the high couch he...
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