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... present century , to spring up more or less , among Christians of every name , and to promise in the end a rich and glorious harvest . - Specific efforts in this cause are of recent date . The first effectual appeal was made in a ...
... present century , to spring up more or less , among Christians of every name , and to promise in the end a rich and glorious harvest . - Specific efforts in this cause are of recent date . The first effectual appeal was made in a ...
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... present century , to spring up more or less ,. among Christians of every name , and to promise in the end a rich and glorious harvest . — Specific efforts in this cause are of recent date . The first effectual appeal was made in a ...
... present century , to spring up more or less ,. among Christians of every name , and to promise in the end a rich and glorious harvest . — Specific efforts in this cause are of recent date . The first effectual appeal was made in a ...
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... present in the hospitals after the battle of Water- loo , says , The wounded French continued to be brought in for several successive days ; and the British soldiers , who had in the morning been moved by the piteous cries of those they ...
... present in the hospitals after the battle of Water- loo , says , The wounded French continued to be brought in for several successive days ; and the British soldiers , who had in the morning been moved by the piteous cries of those they ...
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... present form of their religion ? It has for ages tolerated the war - system , and suffered Christendom to remain a vast hot - bed of war . Will such a religion , if spread through the world , put an end to war ? No sooner than a rum ...
... present form of their religion ? It has for ages tolerated the war - system , and suffered Christendom to remain a vast hot - bed of war . Will such a religion , if spread through the world , put an end to war ? No sooner than a rum ...
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... towards redressing wrong , and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses . Had the money which has been spent in the present war , been employed in making roads , and constructing canals of nav- 3 A * TESTIMONIES AGAINST WAR . 5.
... towards redressing wrong , and multiplies instead of indemnifying losses . Had the money which has been spent in the present war , been employed in making roads , and constructing canals of nav- 3 A * TESTIMONIES AGAINST WAR . 5.
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Page 51 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 49 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 495 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 498 - When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword ? 50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Page 562 - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till at length after infinite effort the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word
Page 503 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 190 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 410 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 52 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 190 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...