The Encyclopedia of Sunday Schools and Religious Education: Giving a World-wide View of the History and Progress of the Sunday School and the Development of Religious Education...John Thomas McFarland, Benjamin Severance Winchester |
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Page 1160 - 0 Lord, from whom all good things do come, grant to us, thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that are good, and by thy merciful guidance may perform the same; through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 1064 - God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth ; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
Page 838 - hall not be required, as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious
Page 838 - be inserted in a time-table to be approved by the Education Department, and to be kept permanently and conspicuously affixed in every schoolroom; and any scholar may be withdrawn by his parent from such observance or instruction without forfeiting any of the other benefits of the school.
Page 1161 - Lord, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works ; through Jesus Christ our Lord
Page 898 - To inspire the educational forces of our country with the religious ideal; to inspire the religious forces of our country with the educational ideal ; and to keep before the public mind the ideal of religious education, and the sense of its need and value.
Page 838 - with the provisions (if any) of the Trust Deed relating thereto and shall be under the control of the managers. Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall affect any provision in a Trust Deed for reference to the bishop or superior ecclesiastical or other denominational authority so far as such provision gives
Page 943 - It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is made weak.
Page 1108 - The peculiar genius which breathes through the English Bible, the mingled tenderness and majesty, the Saxon simplicity, the grandeur, unequaled, unapproached in the attempted improvements of modern scholars—all are here, and bear the impress of the mind of one man, and that man William Tyndale.
Page 796 - The thing that most needs to be understood about play is that it is not a luxury but a necessity. It is not simply something that a child likes to have ; it is something that he must have if he is to grow up. It is more than an essential part of his education; it is