Debates, May, 1844: To which is Added a Review of the Proceedings of Said ConferenceO. Scott, 1845 - 504 pages |
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... meet the table expences , & c . , of the Bishops , for four years past , $ 13,900 . Sum appropriated towards Bishop Soule's expenses to Europe , $ 1701 . The report complained of great losses from bad debts , and serious embarrassments ...
... meet the table expences , & c . , of the Bishops , for four years past , $ 13,900 . Sum appropriated towards Bishop Soule's expenses to Europe , $ 1701 . The report complained of great losses from bad debts , and serious embarrassments ...
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... meet every ques- tion fairly in the teeth- and he hoped that all objection to the recep- tion of the petitions would be withdrawn or voted down . G. F. Pierce reiterated his statements about the memorialists , and E. Robinson repeated ...
... meet every ques- tion fairly in the teeth- and he hoped that all objection to the recep- tion of the petitions would be withdrawn or voted down . G. F. Pierce reiterated his statements about the memorialists , and E. Robinson repeated ...
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... meet on this floor as opponents , we speak as men of opposite interests . Be- ing away on a sick bed part of the time , I have taken no part in the dis- cussions that have transpired here . My opinions and attachments are not committed ...
... meet on this floor as opponents , we speak as men of opposite interests . Be- ing away on a sick bed part of the time , I have taken no part in the dis- cussions that have transpired here . My opinions and attachments are not committed ...
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... meet for the last time ? I fear it , sir , I fear it . I see not how either can make sacrifices without com- promising the principles they adhere to . " - [ This address was delivered with the most touching tenderness of manner . It ...
... meet for the last time ? I fear it , sir , I fear it . I see not how either can make sacrifices without com- promising the principles they adhere to . " - [ This address was delivered with the most touching tenderness of manner . It ...
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... meet it . We do the best we can . And to pacify the people , we are obliged to say of your action in this body , what we thought true but have found to be false since coming here ! Division is talked of ; but by whom ? Has any Northern ...
... meet it . We do the best we can . And to pacify the people , we are obliged to say of your action in this body , what we thought true but have found to be false since coming here ! Division is talked of ; but by whom ? Has any Northern ...
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Page 162 - RECEIVE the holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands.
Page 222 - Peter, and on this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it...
Page 152 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Page 216 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 222 - If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
Page 214 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 251 - WHEREAS, The Discipline of our church forbids the doing anything calculated to destroy our itinerant general superintendency ; and WHEREAS, Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the estimation of the General Conference, will greatly embarrass the exercise of his office as an itinerant general superintendent, if not in some places entirely prevent it ; therefore, "Resolved, That it is the sense of this...
Page 298 - The taking the name of God in vain : The profaning the day of the Lord, either by doing ordinary work thereon, or by buying or selling : Drunkenness; buying or selling spirituous liquors, or drinking them, unless in cases of extreme necessity...
Page 281 - There is only one condition previously required of those who desire admission into these societies, a " desire to flee from the wrath to come, and to be saved from their sins.
Page 175 - Rights of Mankind, as well as every Principle of the Revolution, to hold In the deepest Debasement, In a more abject Slavery than is perhaps to be found in any Part of the World except America, so many Souls that are all capable of the Image of God. We therefore think it our most bounden Duty, to take immediately some effectual Method to extirpate this Abomination from among us: And for that Purpose we add the following to the Rules of our Society: viz.