The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 154A. Constable, 1881 |
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... class meeting as its germ cell . This is a meeting which is held weekly , generally under the direction of a layman , for religious conversation . It numbers from twelve to fifteen individuals , not necessarily of the same sex . Its ...
... class meeting as its germ cell . This is a meeting which is held weekly , generally under the direction of a layman , for religious conversation . It numbers from twelve to fifteen individuals , not necessarily of the same sex . Its ...
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... classes , communicants ' classes , and Bible classes , adding a social and fervent spirit peculiar to itself . A large staff of zealous and able men have in it found occupation and an outlet for the energy of religious life ; while the ...
... classes , communicants ' classes , and Bible classes , adding a social and fervent spirit peculiar to itself . A large staff of zealous and able men have in it found occupation and an outlet for the energy of religious life ; while the ...
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... class notes every idiosyncrasy ; and when the regular minister comes once a quarter to inspect the class , and give each member a ticket of membership , he is duly informed of every promising name . At the same visit the leader is ...
... class notes every idiosyncrasy ; and when the regular minister comes once a quarter to inspect the class , and give each member a ticket of membership , he is duly informed of every promising name . At the same visit the leader is ...
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... class leader , and to have sought his counsels . We are far from suggesting that perfection has been ordinarily achieved ; but it is fairest , in judging systems , to take cognisance of some of their best fruits as a whole . Class ...
... class leader , and to have sought his counsels . We are far from suggesting that perfection has been ordinarily achieved ; but it is fairest , in judging systems , to take cognisance of some of their best fruits as a whole . Class ...
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... class . What the Rochdale Pioneers applied to manufactures , the Methodists have exemplified in the creation of religious communities . It is mutual co - operation in another department of life . Before reviewing the constitution of ...
... class . What the Rochdale Pioneers applied to manufactures , the Methodists have exemplified in the creation of religious communities . It is mutual co - operation in another department of life . Before reviewing the constitution of ...
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Page 511 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 496 - Nor wilt thou snare him in the white ravine, Nor find him dropt upon the firths of ice. That huddling slant in furrow-cloven falls To roll the torrent out of dusky doors: But follow ; let the torrent dance thee down To find him in the valley; let the wild Lean-headed Eagles yelp alone, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air: So waste not thou; but come; for all the vales Await thee; azure pillars...
Page 185 - For I know, that in me, (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me ; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 184 - For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 184 - In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 503 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 185 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 387 - The glass is as it were a shining star. (This lamp is) kindled from a blessed tree, an olive neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil would almost glow forth (of itself) though no fire touched it. Light upon light.
Page 185 - For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil, which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, BUT SIN THAT DWELLTH IN ME. I find then a law, that, when I would do good Evil is present with me.
Page 488 - And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro...