Journals of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 2Carlton & Philips, 1855 - Methodists |
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Page 174 - For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men. I should not be the servant of Christ.
Page 161 - Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Page 125 - Whereas, in the event of a separation, a contingency to which the declaration asks attention as not improbable, we esteem it the...
Page 172 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Page 175 - Enable us ever to realize that there is one body and one spirit, even as we are called in one hope of our calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism ; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all...
Page 161 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Page 113 - When any travelling preacher becomes an owner of a slave or slaves, by any means, he shall forfeit his ministerial character in our Church, unless he execute, if it be practicable, a legal emancipation of such slaves, conformably to the laws of the State in which he lives.
Page 153 - The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Page 202 - 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 80 - Freedom,' half horse and half alligator, with a dash of earthquake, whose country is bounded ' on the East by the Atlantic ocean, on the North by the Aurora Borealis, on the West by the setting Sun, and on the South by the Day of Judgment.