Christ and LabourGanes & Company, 1922 - 146 páginas |
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... brings us to the most wide - reaching and important of all the labour problems , which the early Church was compelled at once to face , -the fact of human slavery . For labour , ' in the Greek and Roman world , was mainly performed by ...
... brings us to the most wide - reaching and important of all the labour problems , which the early Church was compelled at once to face , -the fact of human slavery . For labour , ' in the Greek and Roman world , was mainly performed by ...
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... bring back the simpler living of the old Roman republican days . But the vicious circle of capitalism , once entered , is not easy to escape . Its effects in degrading the poor , in oppres- sing the slave , in establishing vast areas of ...
... bring back the simpler living of the old Roman republican days . But the vicious circle of capitalism , once entered , is not easy to escape . Its effects in degrading the poor , in oppres- sing the slave , in establishing vast areas of ...
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... bring him food and other gifts ! We gain a picture of this early Christian com- munity during the days of persecution strangely differing from the Empire in its conduct with regard to wealth . Continual distributions of goods and pro ...
... bring him food and other gifts ! We gain a picture of this early Christian com- munity during the days of persecution strangely differing from the Empire in its conduct with regard to wealth . Continual distributions of goods and pro ...
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... brings a sudden awe to their wild hearts . The next morning finds them upon their knees before the Abbot Walter , eager to leave their wealth and knightly station for a life of holy poverty as monks . These great renunciations are not ...
... brings a sudden awe to their wild hearts . The next morning finds them upon their knees before the Abbot Walter , eager to leave their wealth and knightly station for a life of holy poverty as monks . These great renunciations are not ...
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... effecting his object . There appears to be nothing disgraceful in it . On the contrary , his new wealth brings him a thousand fresh admirers . But , if we read the parable of Christ aright , God is 42 CHRIST AND LABOUR.
... effecting his object . There appears to be nothing disgraceful in it . On the contrary , his new wealth brings him a thousand fresh admirers . But , if we read the parable of Christ aright , God is 42 CHRIST AND LABOUR.
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Página 124 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Página 22 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory...
Página 4 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Página 135 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for -this is the Law and the Prophets.
Página 22 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Página 138 - Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh : so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Página 125 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Página 84 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Página 4 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Página 137 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.