A History of the Friends in AmericaWinston, 1905 - 246 Seiten |
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... feelings of regret that it has seemed to be unavoidable to use the titles employed by the United States Census of 1890 to distinguish the different branches of those calling themselves Friends . To adopt the words of the fair - minded ...
... feelings of regret that it has seemed to be unavoidable to use the titles employed by the United States Census of 1890 to distinguish the different branches of those calling themselves Friends . To adopt the words of the fair - minded ...
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... feeling is that in spiritual matters majorities are not safe guides , and among Friends the decision oftener turns upon the sentiments expressed by the more experienced and spiritually - minded members than upon the actual number of ...
... feeling is that in spiritual matters majorities are not safe guides , and among Friends the decision oftener turns upon the sentiments expressed by the more experienced and spiritually - minded members than upon the actual number of ...
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... feels it right to go to a place more or less distant to engage in some form of religious work , he asks the monthly meeting to which he belongs for liberty to go . When he ex- pects to engage in a more extensive work it is re- quired ...
... feels it right to go to a place more or less distant to engage in some form of religious work , he asks the monthly meeting to which he belongs for liberty to go . When he ex- pects to engage in a more extensive work it is re- quired ...
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... feeling , but with the desire that the record should stand as a testi- mony and as a memorial , directed that " suffer- ings of Friends ( of all kinds of sufferings ) in all the countries be gathered up and put together and sent to the ...
... feeling , but with the desire that the record should stand as a testi- mony and as a memorial , directed that " suffer- ings of Friends ( of all kinds of sufferings ) in all the countries be gathered up and put together and sent to the ...
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... feelings of George Fox toward the Indians have already been referred to . In his travels he held a number of meetings with them , and after his return from his visit to America wrote to Friends in that country urging them to preach the ...
... feelings of George Fox toward the Indians have already been referred to . In his travels he held a number of meetings with them , and after his return from his visit to America wrote to Friends in that country urging them to preach the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adopted American Friends appointed Baltimore Yearly Meeting Barclay Bible Bowden Burnyeat called Christian church colony committee conference Constitution and Discipline delegates disowned doctrines document early Friends Edmundson elders Elias Hicks England Yearly Meeting Epistles established faith Five-Years Meeting Foreign Missions Foster's Report Fox's Journal Friends in America George Fox Gurney held Hicksites History Indiana Yearly Meeting Indians Janney Jersey Jesus Christ Joseph John Gurney labor London Yearly Meeting Margaret Fell Maryland matters Meeting of Friends meetings for discipline meetings for worship membership ment ministers Monthly Meeting North Carolina Ohio organization Orthodox body Orthodox Yearly Meetings peace Penn's Pennsylvania Phila Philadelphia Yearly Meeting position practice preaching Quakers quarterly meetings Records religious says Scriptures sent separation Sewel slaves Society of Friends Spirit statement Stephen Grellet suffer Swarthmoor Hall teaching Thomas tion truth Virginia Yearly Meeting visited Wilburite William Penn women Yearly Meeting Orthodox York Yearly Meeting
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 30 - Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Seite 90 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 30 - And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do; then, Oh ! then I heard a voice which said, ' There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition.
Seite 237 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Seite 113 - A Paper being here presented by some German Friends Concerning the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Buying and keeping Negroes, It was adjudged not to be so proper for this Meeting to give a Positive Judgment in the Case, It having so General a Relation to many other Parts, and therefore at present they forbear It.
Seite 29 - At another time, as I was walking in a field on a First-day morning, the Lord opened unto me, • that being bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to fit and qualify men to be ministers of Christ :' and I wondered at it, because it was the common belief of people.
Seite 30 - I saw the infinite love of God. I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings.
Seite 84 - Wasse ; there we lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as men and Christians, that they may not be brought in bondage, but by their own consent ; for we put the power in the people...
Seite 180 - Indian agencies being civil offices, I determined to give all the agencies to such religious denominations as had heretofore established missionaries among the Indians...
Seite 179 - From the foundation of the Government to the present, the management of the original inhabitants of this continent, the Indians, has been a subject of embarrassment and expense, and has been attended with continuous robberies, murders, and ware.