 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - Society of Friends - 1808 - 132 pages
...may ''be used in the power of the resurrection of the life of Jesus in him. GAMING AND DIVERSIONS. AS our time passeth swiftly away, and our delight...and others in membership, to prevent their going to stage plays, horse races, music, dancing, or any such vain sports and pastimes? and being concerned... | |
 | New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings - New England - 1841 - 154 pages
...holy Being, tend to increase the mass of iniquity, and are a reproach to any people. Amusements. — As our time passeth swiftly away, and our delight ought to be in the law of the Lord, we believe it to be incompatible with that self-denial which is enjoined upon the disciples of Christ,... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) - Hicksites - 1843 - 148 pages
...his appointments, with the enriching reward of sweet comfort and solid peace. GAMING AND DIVERSIONS. As our time passeth swiftly away, and our delight...that a watchful care be exercised over our youth, to prevent their going to stage-plays, horse-races, music, 4 dancing, or any such vain sports and pastimes;... | |
 | 1869 - 878 pages
...have a testimony against. Philadelphia Discipline, under the head of Gaming and Diversions, says :* " It is advised, that a watchful care be exercised over our youth to prevent their going to stag-e-play.s, horse-races, music, dancing, or any such vain sports or pastimes... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - Society of Friends - 1890 - 216 pages
...religious visits, to meetings within the limits of this Yearly Meeting. — 1834. GAMING AND DIVERSIONS. AS our time passeth swiftly away, and our delight ought to be in the law of the Lord, it ia advised that a watchful care be exercised over our youth and others, to prevent their going to stageplays,... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - Hicksites - 1894 - 148 pages
...their use as medicine, since the appetite acquired grows with the indulgence. GAMING AND DIVERSIONS. As our time passeth swiftly away, and our delight ought to be in the law of the Lord, we tenderly entreat all to submit to its restraining influence, which if lived under will lead us to... | |
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GAMING AND DIVERSIONS. As our time passeth swiftly away, and our delight ought to be in the law of the Lord, it is advised that a watchful care be exercised over our youth and others... 