Letters to John H. Hopkins, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Diocese of Vermont: Occasioned by His Lecture in Opposition to the Temperance SocietyPrinted at the Chronicle Press, 1836 - 168 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 49 - Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
الصفحة 150 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 114 - Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
الصفحة 129 - ... liquor. The Persians, however, as well as the Turks, are very fond of wine; and if one asks them how it comes to pass that they venture to drink it, when it is so directly forbidden by their religion, they answer, that it is with them as with the Christians, whose...
الصفحة 166 - It shall be the duty of the President, or in his absence, of the Vice-President, to preside at each meeting of the Board.
الصفحة 86 - Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter ; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
الصفحة 86 - Cleanse first that which is within, that the outside may be clean also"; and if ever the truth of this precept was made manifest, it was made manifest then.
الصفحة 114 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
الصفحة 155 - There is reason to believe also, that thousands and tens of thousands are now impenitent, unbelieving, and on their way to the second death, who, had it not been for the sale and use of ardent spirit, had been ripening for glory, and honor, and immortality, and eternal life ; and that tens of thousands more have passed the boundaries of hope, and are weeping and wailing, who, had it not been for this, might have been in heaven.
الصفحة 120 - Younger speak ; Pliny, than whom a purer patriot or a profounder sage lived not, out of Palestine, among the nations : — ' If we examine closely, we shall find there is nothing on which more pains are bestowed by mankind, than on wine. As though nature had not liberally furnished water, with which all other animals are content : we even force our horses to drink wine,* and we purchase, at great pains and expense, a liquor which deprives man of the use of his reason, renders him furious, and is...