Report on Statistics of Churches in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890, Page 1, Issue 394 |
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Page 397 - Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Page 485 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Page 317 - From that time I began to print and publish various arcana that have been seen by me or revealed to me ; as respecting heaven and hell, the state of man after death, the true worship of God, the spiritual sense of the Word ; with many other most important matters conducive to salvation and true wisdom.
Page 263 - Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son : the Greek Church believes that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father.
Page 413 - The latter count was made under the auspices of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites and the Union of Hebrew Congregations, and it required several years to complete the compilation. The results, which have been regarded as quite accurate, indicated the existence of 270 congregations, with 12,546 members, or about 50,000 communicants. The value of the real estate held by the congregations was returned at $4,706,700, with other property aggregating $1,497,878, or a total of $6,204,578, exclusive...
Page 331 - ALTHOUGH churches be distinct, and therefore may not be confounded one with another; and equal, and therefore have not dominion one over another ; yet all the churches ought to preserve church communion one with another, because they are all united unto Christ, not only as a mystical, but as a political head, whence is derived a communion suitable thereunto.
Page 384 - We own no principle of spiritual light, life, or holiness, inherent by nature in the mind or heart of man. We believe in no principle of spiritual light, life or holiness, but the influence of the Holy Spirit of God, bestowed on mankind, in various measures, and degrees, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 504 - As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again either with the one or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church. And we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free.
Page 559 - They built a church, which was dedicated in 1800, the full name of the denomination subsequently organized being given to it.
Page 422 - Christ, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel ; these ordinances are faith, repentance, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost...