Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the Centennial of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church

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Page 59 - ONE adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists, — one only ; — an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a being Of infinite benevolence and power, Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Page 175 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 55 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 131 - Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God...
Page 233 - Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 46 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 74 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 101 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 9 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 233 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

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