admin | September 29, 2011
We stood for some moments at his door before entering; at last Kate said, ” Let us draw out enough and to spare. “We shall want other things, so it does not much matter. Let us say a hundred pounds.” I readily assented, and the next moment we found ourselves in the stockbroker’s office. If neither [...]
admin | September 27, 2011
And to plead only, in the case, the corruption of our natures that sets us at odds with God and ourselves, is to justify the thing by what is itself most unjustifiable ; or rather as some that have affected to be styled philosophers have been wont to expedite difficulties, by resolving the matter into [...]
admin | September 25, 2011
That he understood its reference to another world, and state of things, even beyond all the successions of time, and the mortal race of men ; so as to have his eye fixed upon the happy eternity which a joyful resurrection must introduce, and whereof Christ’s resurrection should be the great and most assuring pledge. [...]
admin | September 22, 2011
How often when the active part of a christian’s duty is spoken of, is the passive part studiously and expressively annexed ? Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Heb. . . The good ground brought forth fruit, with patience, Matt. . eternal life is for them that by a [...]
admin | September 20, 2011
If we more sensibly regret at any time, the persecutions and oppressions they undergo, than their spiritual distempers, their earthliness, pride, cold love to God, fervent animosities towards each other ; it speaks an uninstructed, carnal mind. We take no right measures of the interests of religion, or the church’s welfare, and do most probably [...]
admin | September 18, 2011
Do not thy own thoughts represent to thee, the amazing sights, the horrid images which shall for ever entertain and possess thy soul ? Art thou not daily haunted with divine horrors? when thou saycst at night, thy bed shall refresh thee, art thou not terrified with dreams and affrighted with visions ? Dost thou [...]
admin | September 14, 2011
Now is the eternal sabbath of love. Now it enters into rest, having finished all its works; it views them over now with delight, for lo ! they are all good ; its works of pardon, of justification and adoption ; its works of regeneration, of conversion, and sanctification; its establishing, quickening, comforting works ; [...]
admin | September 12, 2011
Only thirty-six, he had already run once for governor, denouncing the corrupt Democratic machines in Albany, Buffalo, and New York City. Ambitious, courageous, outspoken on the tie between organized crime and governmental corrup- Copyrighted material American Approaches tion, Dewey began to investigate Manton. On January , , he wrote Hatton W. Summers, chairman of the [...]
admin | September 8, 2011
Co-adjutor bishop of Philadelphia in , he wrote a pioneering work for America, a Latin treatise on moral theology. Kenrick taught that lawmakers are sinners if they “waste the Treasury’s money in matters of no importance and neglect to complete those things which would bring many advantages to the commonwealth; spend time in useless debates [...]
admin | September 6, 2011
“If I throw him overboard,” Madeleine had said to herself about Ratcliffe, “everything must go, for he is only a specimen.” When he is thrown overboard, she rejects American politics in toto as corrupt. Nothing opposes Baron Jacobi’s statement that all are corrupt and his apocalyptic prediction of a climax of corruption in America about [...]
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