History of St. John's Church, Newark

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Press of the New Jersey Trade Review, 1908 - 217 pagina's
 

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Pagina 190 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Pagina 188 - But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well-founded expectation. We see that during the last two hundred and fifty years, the human mind has been in the highest degree active — that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy — that it has produced innumerable inventions tending to promote the convenience of life — that medicine, surgery, chemistry, engineering, have been very greatly improved — that government, police, and law have been improved, though not...
Pagina 188 - Nay, we believe that, as far as there has been a change, that change has, on the whole, been in favour of the Church of Rome. We cannot, therefore, feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which has, to say the least, stood its ground in spite of the immense progress made by the human race in knowledge since the days of Queen Elizabeth.
Pagina 171 - Although we differ from the witness and his brethren in our religious creed, yet we have no reason to question the purity of their motives, or to impeach their good conduct as citizens. They are protected by the laws and constitution of this country in the full and free exercise of their religion, and this court can never countenance or authorize the application of insult to their faith, or of torture to their consciences.
Pagina 123 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Pagina 145 - All power is given to Me in heaven and in earth; going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold, I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world
Pagina 14 - It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Pagina 186 - Edinburgh so many public schools for the instruction of those classes ? I doubt it. Berlin, with a population about double that of Rome, has only 264 schools. Rome has also her university, with an average attendance of .660 students ; and the Papal States, with a population of two and a. half millions, contain seven universities. Prussia, with a population of fourteen millions, has but seven.
Pagina 189 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Pagina 170 - Law would place the witness in such a dreadful predicament ; in such a horrible dilemma, between perjury and false swearing: If he tells the truth he violates his ecclesiastical oath — If he prevaricates he violates his judicial oath — Whether he lies, or whether he testifies the truth he is wicked, and it is impossible for him to act without acting against the laws of rectitude and the light of conscience. The only course is, for the court to declare that he shall not testify or act at all.

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