The Christian Society

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Fleming H. Revell Company, 1894 - Broj stranica: 158
 

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Stranica 124 - By the light of burning heretics Christ's bleeding feet I track, Toiling up new Calvaries ever with the cross that turns not back, And these mounts of anguish number how each generation learned One new word of that grand Credo which in prophethearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned.
Stranica 103 - ... no longer either be, or be thought to be, impossible for human beings to exert themselves strenuously in procuring benefits which are not to be exclusively their own, but to be shared with the society they belong to.
Stranica 63 - They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat : 17 for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life : and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Stranica 117 - We are not our own, we are bought with a price, and we would therefore glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits, which are the Lord's.
Stranica 126 - Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.
Stranica 76 - Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him ? But ye have dishonoured the poor man.
Stranica 103 - ... industrious ; when the rule that they who do not work shall not eat, will be applied not to paupers only, but impartially to all ; when the division of the produce of labour, instead of depending, as in so great a degree it now does, on the accident of birth, will be made by concert on an acknowledged principle of justice...
Stranica 106 - The very idea of distributive justice, or any propor"tionality between success and merit, or between success " and exertion, is in the present state of society so manifestly " chimerical as to be relegated to the region of romance.
Stranica 109 - Alas, sir ! a commonwealth ought to be but as one huge christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body ; for look what the grounds and causes are of single happiness to one man ; the same ye shall find them to a whole state...
Stranica 100 - To invent formulae and organizations, and neglect the internal man, is to desire to substitute the frame for the picture. Say to men, Come, suffer ; you will hunger and thirst ; you will, perhaps, be deceived, be betrayed, cursed ; but you have a great duty to accomplish...

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