Lectures to Young People in Manufacturing VillagesPerkins & Marvin, 1836 - 220 pages |
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Page ix
... labor . Instead of the unbroken stillness of agricultural life , almost every village of New England resounds with the din of machinery ; every water - fall is laid under tribute as a centre of business and a source of wealth ; and ...
... labor . Instead of the unbroken stillness of agricultural life , almost every village of New England resounds with the din of machinery ; every water - fall is laid under tribute as a centre of business and a source of wealth ; and ...
Page x
... labor - saving ma- chinery - all point out our destiny with a distinctness which supersedes the ken of prophecy . Even now , manufactures have ceased to be exotics here . They have struck their roots so deep , and have spread upward ...
... labor - saving ma- chinery - all point out our destiny with a distinctness which supersedes the ken of prophecy . Even now , manufactures have ceased to be exotics here . They have struck their roots so deep , and have spread upward ...
Page xv
... - acterize society in many states of the old world . With the progress of refinement , and the more ex- tended application of the principle of division of labor , the employments of the laboring classes will break them up XV.
... - acterize society in many states of the old world . With the progress of refinement , and the more ex- tended application of the principle of division of labor , the employments of the laboring classes will break them up XV.
Page xviii
... , not to discourage ministers from entering these fields of labor , but to correct an impression under which , we have sometimes suspected , ministers of acknowledged power have declined invitations to the pastoral charge of such xviii.
... , not to discourage ministers from entering these fields of labor , but to correct an impression under which , we have sometimes suspected , ministers of acknowledged power have declined invitations to the pastoral charge of such xviii.
Page xix
... labor in vain , or spend his strength for naught . In no communities so much as in these , does the prosperity of religion depend so much on the exertions of private members of the church in their individual and social capacities . They ...
... labor in vain , or spend his strength for naught . In no communities so much as in these , does the prosperity of religion depend so much on the exertions of private members of the church in their individual and social capacities . They ...
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Page 143 - And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good ? there is none good but one, that is, God : but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Page 134 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Page 130 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Page 66 - To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up : and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Page 143 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go, and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Page 132 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 39 - Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11.
Page 67 - Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Page 117 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 148 - And again, whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him...