Religious Bodies, 1926

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - Church statistics
 

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Page 661 - Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...
Page 962 - That it is the sense of this General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this office so long as this impediment remains.
Page 651 - I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul ; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Page 661 - The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home...
Page 395 - Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.
Page 24 - It is all old wives' fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day.
Page 727 - New England: Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts . Rhode Island Connecticut Middle Atlantic: New York New Jersey ... Pennsylvania East North Central: Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan ... Wisconsin West North Central: Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota . South Dakota Nebraska Kansas South Atlantic: Delaware Maryland . District of Columbia . Virginia . West Virginia North Carolina...
Page 651 - ... that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee.
Page 170 - Among the maxims examined and confuted is one that was cherished by the mercantilist economic writers of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries: that people are the riches of a nation.
Page 693 - I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed ; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign States ; a perfect union, one and inseparable ; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice , and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

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