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Page 30 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased
Page 1 - But when the Pharisees had heard that He had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. " Then one of them which was a lawyer, asked Him a question, tempting Him, and saying, " Master, which is the great commandment in the law? "Jesus said unto him, Thou shall love the Lord thy Q-od with all thy heart, and with all
Page 8 - of wealth or intellect, or bodily strength or other resources, to crowd out and grind down their fellows according to the methods of modern commercial competition ? The prophet Isaiah shall tell us: " Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may bo placed alone in the midst of the earth.
Page 13 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee ; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. • " Take thou no usury of him, or increase, but fear
Page 3 - as a shepherd divideth his sheep from his goats : " And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on His left. " Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: " For I was an hungered, and ye
Page 3 - took Thee in? naked, and clothed Thee? " Or, when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee ? " And the King shall answer and say
Page 108 - It is even more fatal to exertion to have no hope of succeeding by it than to be assured of succeeding without it. When the condition of any one is so disastrous that his energies are paralyzed by discouragement, assistance is a tonic, not a sedative: it braces instead of deadening the active faculties.
Page 6 - if a man shall say to his father or mother, It is corban, that is to say, a gift (devoted to God), by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me
Page 88 - Ye are the salt of the earth." ..." Ye are the light of the world." . . . "Let your light so shine before men,
Page 25 - all classes. Briefly stated, its purpose is to study seriously the second of the two great commandments on which hang all the law and the prophets, in all its ramifications, and thus to bring science to the aid of Christianity.