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Page 260 - The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as 'containing all things necessary to salvation', and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith.
Page 260 - The two Sacraments ordained by Christ himself, — Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, — ministered with unfailing use of Christ's words of Institution, and of the elements ordained by him. 4. The Historic Episcopate, locally adapted in the methods of its administration to the varying needs of the nations and peoples called of God into the unity of his church.
Page 67 - rise up early, and late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness...
Page 174 - From every one according to his ability, to every one according to his need...
Page 172 - Such independent labor politics are based upon the following program, to wit: — 1. Compulsory education. 2. Direct legislation. 3. A legal eight-hour work-day. 4. Sanitary inspection of workshop, mine, and home. 5. Liability of employers for injury to health, body, or life. 6. The abolition of the contract system in all public work. 7. The abolition of the sweating system. 8. The municipal ownership of street cars, and gas and electric plants for public distribution of light, heat, and power.
Page 176 - The evolution which is slowly proceeding in human society is not primarily intellectual but religious in character.
Page 34 - But, even while the cries of jubilation resound and this flotsam and jetsam of the tide of investigation is being turned into the wages of workmen and the wealth of capitalists, the crest of the wave of scientific investigation is far away on its course over the illimitable oceans of the unknown.
Page 240 - I must needs say that to you, impute it to what you please : I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually.
Page 70 - ... and temperament differed entirely from the discoverers." And the inference which Mr. Mallock draws is that industry and commerce and material progress depend on the amount of pay that we can give to enterprising people. They are interested in their own gain, and are indifferent to the general good. The life of all their work is wages. In addition, therefore, to the indifference which the new advance of science suggests in regard to religion, there is here an indifference which is bred in business...
Page 58 - ... in the state which is best governed and possesses men who are just absolutely, and not merely relatively to the principle of the constitution, the citizens must not lead the life of mechanics or tradesmen, for such a life is ignoble, and inimical to virtue.