The Christian Examiner, Volume 84Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1868 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... ministers in the liberal body . It would seem that in these last years this topic has been sufficiently discussed ... ministry at all , and could trust , like the Quakers , the instant motion of the Spirit . We tire of listening to this ...
... ministers in the liberal body . It would seem that in these last years this topic has been sufficiently discussed ... ministry at all , and could trust , like the Quakers , the instant motion of the Spirit . We tire of listening to this ...
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... ministry , uneducated men seem to have no such reluctance , confident in their ability to instruct and edify . They observe , in the lists of the younger clergy , that less than half , hardly a third , have had the advantage of a ...
... ministry , uneducated men seem to have no such reluctance , confident in their ability to instruct and edify . They observe , in the lists of the younger clergy , that less than half , hardly a third , have had the advantage of a ...
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... ministry is much smaller than it was in the last generation , and that skill in some branches of theological study has ceased to be a praise of the Unitarian body , we cannot allow that it has been seized , or that it is as yet ruled by ...
... ministry is much smaller than it was in the last generation , and that skill in some branches of theological study has ceased to be a praise of the Unitarian body , we cannot allow that it has been seized , or that it is as yet ruled by ...
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... ministry of Jesus a failure among those ignorant Jews . The class which preferred the gospel when it was of the simplest type , - the worship of a good Father by works of humble obedience and brotherly love , - was the poorer class ...
... ministry of Jesus a failure among those ignorant Jews . The class which preferred the gospel when it was of the simplest type , - the worship of a good Father by works of humble obedience and brotherly love , - was the poorer class ...
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... ministry ? Why should we spend so much time and zeal and money , in preparing men for a duty which is so simple , and so little dependent upon the aid of culture ? Why should it be needful to force a college train- ing upon the ...
... ministry ? Why should we spend so much time and zeal and money , in preparing men for a duty which is so simple , and so little dependent upon the aid of culture ? Why should it be needful to force a college train- ing upon the ...
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