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The church's only thought should be to turn the hearts of men to God." How the Finances are Managed. The Work of the Deacons. The Duties of the Trustees. "The plain facts of life must be recognized," says Dr. Conwell. The business affairs of Grace Baptist Church are plain facts and big ones. There is no evading them. The membership is more than three thousand.
For civil suits there was a provision against 'wager of battle, and the accused again cleared themselves by compurgation. Unlike Archbishop Gerard, who had supported the church's privilege against the sheriff, de Gray actually joined the sheriff in invading it. Thus the division of jurisdictions received from the State an undoubted sanction.
I do not affirm that a Christian cannot serve his Master in any other sphere or calling than the Gospel ministry, but I do affirm that the ambition for worldly gains and worldly honors is sluicing the very heart of God's Church, and drawing out to-day much of the Church's best blood in their greedy outlets.
If it did not answer, the Church was not committed; if it did answer, the Church's professional penmen could follow it up with something more decisive. Professor Mivart perceives, like the Bishop of Chester, that Christianity must alter its teaching with respect to Hell, or lose its hold on the educated, the thoughtful, and the humane.
Finally, in the fifth century came Augustine, bishop of Hippo. Des Esseintes knew him only too well, for he was the Church's most reputed writer, founder of Christian orthodoxy, considered an oracle and sovereign master by Catholics.
The Church's weight was wholly on the British side. Canadians who joined the rebel Americans died without her last rites. Only one priest, M. de Lotbinière, a man, it is said, of profligate character, espoused the cause of the invaders.
The longing to found a hermitage like the Portiuncula among the savage rocks of Donnaz, and live there in gentle communion with plants and animals, alternated in him with the martial ambition to ride forth against the Church's enemies, as his ancestors had ridden against the bloody and pestilent Waldenses; but whether his piety took the passive or the aggressive form, it always shrank from the subtleties of doctrine.
"Admirably clear. But we have our Lord's example of how to live here." "If we could be sure," said Eleanor, "just what that example meant." Hodder was silent a moment. "You mean that you cannot accept what the Church teaches about his life?" he asked. "No, I can't," she faltered. "You have helped me to say it. I want to have the Church's side better explained, that's why I'm here."
'The king he movit his bonnet to him, He ween'd he was a king as weel as he. Johnie Armstrong. The end of the Church's troubles in Scotland was still far off.
"Oh, then, for the fear of God, who visits with misery and death such as be harmless, tarry not here, but fly! This place is under his curse and his Church's." "Let me come in and help you you are sick and in trouble." I was better used to the dim light now. I could see her hollow eyes fixed upon me. I could see how emaciated she was. "I tell you the place is under the Church's ban.
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