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... . IX . GOOD GOVERNMENT . X. THE SOCIAL EVIL AND THE LOW SALOON .... 69 89 106 120 .. 137 .... 157 XI . THE CROSS THE RESOLVENT OF DIFFICULTIES ....... 178 XII . NO VISION , NO PEOPLE . A 192 I. THE MARKS OF THE MESSIAH . * " Jesus vii.
... . IX . GOOD GOVERNMENT . X. THE SOCIAL EVIL AND THE LOW SALOON .... 69 89 106 120 .. 137 .... 157 XI . THE CROSS THE RESOLVENT OF DIFFICULTIES ....... 178 XII . NO VISION , NO PEOPLE . A 192 I. THE MARKS OF THE MESSIAH . * " Jesus vii.
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... evil has been in- creased by rapacious usury . . . . And to this must be added the custom of working by con- tract , and the concentration of so many branches of trade in the hands of a few individuals , so that a small number of very ...
... evil has been in- creased by rapacious usury . . . . And to this must be added the custom of working by con- tract , and the concentration of so many branches of trade in the hands of a few individuals , so that a small number of very ...
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... evil . The law of heredity , as science interprets it , avers that there is a ten- dency in the evil as well as in the good to per- petuate itself ; and so the great question arises , Can hereditary good be protected and preserved , and ...
... evil . The law of heredity , as science interprets it , avers that there is a ten- dency in the evil as well as in the good to per- petuate itself ; and so the great question arises , Can hereditary good be protected and preserved , and ...
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... evil I leave to the statisticians ; but you can easily calculate for yourselves that it would be much less . The third reason , as I have said , why we should do what we can to prevent crime and to reform criminals springs out of the ...
... evil I leave to the statisticians ; but you can easily calculate for yourselves that it would be much less . The third reason , as I have said , why we should do what we can to prevent crime and to reform criminals springs out of the ...
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... evil , like as Lot fled from Sodom . And I believe that it is edu- cation in justice and righteousness that makes us to avoid wrong - doing , rather than hereditary tendencies to goodness . We who are of the edu- cated classes are ...
... evil , like as Lot fled from Sodom . And I believe that it is edu- cation in justice and righteousness that makes us to avoid wrong - doing , rather than hereditary tendencies to goodness . We who are of the edu- cated classes are ...
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Page 1 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 120 - And, as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
Page 106 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 20 - Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 137 - And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them, "Whose is this image and superscription?" They say unto him, "Caesar's." Then saith he unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Page 114 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 184 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 199 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 205 - Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth ; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Page 52 - ... for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.