A Study of the Quaker Ideal

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Headley Brothers, 1902 - Society of Friends - 32 pages
 

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Page 21 - His own words :—" He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in Me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth Me, he also shall live because of Me.
Page 12 - crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved
Page 22 - have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And THOU, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 21 - Father hath sent Me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth Me, he also shall live because of Me.
Page 24 - The world sits at the feet of Christ, Unknowing, blind, and unconsoled ; It yet shall touch His garment's fold, And feel the heavenly Alchemist Transform its very dust to gold.
Page 16 - God is a Spirit ; and they that worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
Page 21 - profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.
Page 7 - Heaven, according to Jesus, was to be with God in our Father's house ; hell was to be away from God, in the far country. Each man carried his heaven in his heart, 'the Kingdom is within you'; or his hell in a gnawing remorse, and heat of lust, ' where their worm dieth not and the
Page 22 - good works, who have altogether discarded the use of outward sacraments. To deny them the Christian name and a place in the Christian Church would be to deny the Spirit of God. The ' Friends' stand as a witness that the body of believers has complete power over the outward form.

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