Radical Discourses on Religious Subjects: Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, MassA series of lectures promoting spiritualism, with references to Mormonism and Mormon polygamy. |
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... spirit of Christianity . Belief in Jesus , then , does not save from ignorance . Poverty is a great calamity . When it is so great as to produce hunger , it masters the man , possesses him , and sends him into society a human wolf ...
... spirit of Christianity . Belief in Jesus , then , does not save from ignorance . Poverty is a great calamity . When it is so great as to produce hunger , it masters the man , possesses him , and sends him into society a human wolf ...
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... spirit is extinct . A revival of orthodox religion is a revival of uncharitableness and hate ; then men think most of its damnatory creed ; their hatred of infidelity and the infidel is proportioned to their love . of souls . Here is a ...
... spirit is extinct . A revival of orthodox religion is a revival of uncharitableness and hate ; then men think most of its damnatory creed ; their hatred of infidelity and the infidel is proportioned to their love . of souls . Here is a ...
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... spirit in the tree , push- ing , urging day and night , and that never allows it to rest . What carried the earth upward from the monot- onous wilderness of heated rock to the ocean - bearing , lake - gemmed , mountain - crowned planet ...
... spirit in the tree , push- ing , urging day and night , and that never allows it to rest . What carried the earth upward from the monot- onous wilderness of heated rock to the ocean - bearing , lake - gemmed , mountain - crowned planet ...
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... spirit bounded the country over . As his intelligence further in- creased , he levelled the hills , filled the valleys , bridged the streams , united distant lands by highroads and railroads , over which flies the locomotive ...
... spirit bounded the country over . As his intelligence further in- creased , he levelled the hills , filled the valleys , bridged the streams , united distant lands by highroads and railroads , over which flies the locomotive ...
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... spirit in all organic existences , and its conscious , continued ex- istence in man ; and comforted millions by giving them the absolute assurance of life after death has destroyed the body . It says to the mourner , “ Dry up your tears ...
... spirit in all organic existences , and its conscious , continued ex- istence in man ; and comforted millions by giving them the absolute assurance of life after death has destroyed the body . It says to the mourner , “ Dry up your tears ...
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Page 218 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Page 60 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Page 281 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 11 - Almighty and most merciful Father ; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Page 282 - Thus saith the Lord ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season ; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Page 109 - 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,» 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away : so shall also the coining of the Son of man be.
Page 250 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 106 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 191 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 219 - But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.