Christ and LabourGanes & Company, 1922 - 146 páginas |
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... turn away from that imposing and pretentious Roman Empire , with all its superficial splendour , to the little band of Christians gathered together in Solomon's Porch in Jerusalem , who , " Being of one heart and of one soul , counted ...
... turn away from that imposing and pretentious Roman Empire , with all its superficial splendour , to the little band of Christians gathered together in Solomon's Porch in Jerusalem , who , " Being of one heart and of one soul , counted ...
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... of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire . It corrupted the rulers themselves , and made them in turn the slaves of their own vices and evil passions . A very large proportion of the early Christian con- verts THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY 11.
... of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire . It corrupted the rulers themselves , and made them in turn the slaves of their own vices and evil passions . A very large proportion of the early Christian con- verts THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY 11.
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... turn . Then was seen one of the very strangest extravagances in history . Men and women in thousands retired into the deserts of Egypt and Sinai and Syria and stripped themselves even of the bare necessities of life in order to follow ...
... turn . Then was seen one of the very strangest extravagances in history . Men and women in thousands retired into the deserts of Egypt and Sinai and Syria and stripped themselves even of the bare necessities of life in order to follow ...
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... turn , keeping the public peace and civil discipline . They seemed likely at one time to have their issue in a series of small republics . But men's passions and interests were constantly tending to over- master the principles of ...
... turn , keeping the public peace and civil discipline . They seemed likely at one time to have their issue in a series of small republics . But men's passions and interests were constantly tending to over- master the principles of ...
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... turn to modern India , the Government is still to - day making vast sums of money for revenue purposes out of opium , and conniving at its entry into China . To take another side of affairs , I have been in almost every part of the ...
... turn to modern India , the Government is still to - day making vast sums of money for revenue purposes out of opium , and conniving at its entry into China . To take another side of affairs , I have been in almost every part of the ...
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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.