Annual Report of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association

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Printed at the Press of H.L. Sheldon, 1890 - Missions

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Page 87 - I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine ; the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 85 - It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer ; but ye make it a den of robbers.
Page 105 - These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Board present at any regular meeting...
Page 18 - Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters ; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner j with such a one no not to eat.
Page 100 - ARTICLE VII. This Association shall appoint an Executive Board, to be denominated, The Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, which shall consist of a Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, to be chosen annually by the Association, together with not less than eighteen members, one-third of whom shall go out of office annually, eligible to re-election; they shall be divided into three classes, not less than six in each class; to be numbered first, second and third class. Those of the first...
Page 46 - None cometh to the Father (who is the fountain of life) except by him ; for " no man knoweth who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Page 15 - Organization, acting in pursuance of the authority vested in him by the President of the United States of America, have signed the present Agreement.
Page 43 - Schools seem to us to be of increasing importance, in view of the fact that so large a number of the Chinese children of the city are in the Government schools, where only secular instruction is given.
Page 66 - Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Page 100 - I. THE Church being divided into many separate congregations, these need mutual counsel and assistance, in order to preserve soundness of doctrine, and regularity of discipline, and to enter into common measures for promoting knowledge and religion, and for preventing infidelity, error, and immorality.

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