The Friend, Volume 1Robert Smith The Friend., 1829 |
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... Friends entertain respecting many allowed animalcule of the microscope , has been ex - abuses , such as lotteries , gambling , and in- amined and described . The boundaries of temperance . Price Two Dollars per annum , payable in ...
... Friends entertain respecting many allowed animalcule of the microscope , has been ex - abuses , such as lotteries , gambling , and in- amined and described . The boundaries of temperance . Price Two Dollars per annum , payable in ...
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... Friends , that is productive of than the deeds which record the convey- in establishing the FRIEND , is to circulate more pernicious consequences , than the ance . A committee of two Friends is information relating to their own peculiar ...
... Friends , that is productive of than the deeds which record the convey- in establishing the FRIEND , is to circulate more pernicious consequences , than the ance . A committee of two Friends is information relating to their own peculiar ...
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... Friends had now become members . A desire was generally felt that this business might be arranged in the most friendly manner possible , and every facility afford- ed for procuring the requisite orders for interment . In accordance with ...
... Friends had now become members . A desire was generally felt that this business might be arranged in the most friendly manner possible , and every facility afford- ed for procuring the requisite orders for interment . In accordance with ...
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Robert Smith. THE FRIEND . TENTH MONTH , 27 , 1827 . YEARLY MEETING AT GREEN STREET . " The Friends . - Yesterday morning the first yearly meeting of that part of the society of Friends adopting the opinions of Elias Hicks , was held in ...
Robert Smith. THE FRIEND . TENTH MONTH , 27 , 1827 . YEARLY MEETING AT GREEN STREET . " The Friends . - Yesterday morning the first yearly meeting of that part of the society of Friends adopting the opinions of Elias Hicks , was held in ...
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... friends who were assembled , col- images in a dream . Tribes and grasses are towards all our brethren may , on every occa - lected under the shade of some neighbour- likened to angels , and the truffle is rehears- sion , be marked with ...
... friends who were assembled , col- images in a dream . Tribes and grasses are towards all our brethren may , on every occa - lected under the shade of some neighbour- likened to angels , and the truffle is rehears- sion , be marked with ...
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Page 83 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 174 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Page 248 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 247 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 244 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light ; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer thro...
Page 94 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 53 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what «he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 4 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God. 4 There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays, Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 244 - On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.
Page 141 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...