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4721 From Eden to Eden, p. 192.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the churches, as proving that vital piety does not exist. Church buildings are fitted up with kitchens, where suppers are served, where plays are enacted, and …

4722 From Eden to Eden, p. 202.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… a church or to churches that have become fallen in the present age, churches which have lost their first love, and have declined from the purity of Bible godliness …

4723 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 11.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the churches of this land professed the most enlarged benevolence and the purest Christianity, as bodies they were accessories to the sin of slaveholding …

4724 The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, p. 173.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

church has become cramped, ice-bound, or entirely destroyed. We have become an assembly, not of living actors, but of silent, passive hearers. The church have …

4725 The Origin and Growth of Sunday Observance in the Christian Church, p. 68.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

Church adheres to the institutions of this apostle, it is not to be supposed that his holy disciple Mark, who was the first to lead the Alexandrian church, shaped …

4726 The Perpetuity of the Seventh-day Sabbath, p. 85.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church. Ephesians 1:22-24. From this you see that it is God’s plan to have but one head upon one body. Jesus Christ is to be the head of the church in all things …

4727 The Perpetuity of the Seventh-day Sabbath, p. 105.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… a church composed of Jew and Gentile. In the absence of one precept to observe any Sabbath, or one reproof for Sabbath breaking, what would the Gentiles, who …

4728 The Perpetuity of the Seventh-day Sabbath, p. 108.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

body of Christ. But Jesus Christ occupies a pre-eminent position in the church. He is the head of the church, and to him, and him alone, should the church look …

4729 The Perpetuity of the Seventh-day Sabbath, p. 113.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church: make the church His body: make the church His bride, and is there anything to hinder His being a great law-giver also? I showed that the ten commandments …

4730 The Perpetuity of the Seventh-day Sabbath, p. 124.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church in the Jewish and Christian dispensation. And (3) that Christ is the living head and law-giver of his church (i.e. his bride,) which is his body. Romans …

4731 Refutation of the Doctrine Called The Age to Come, p. 14.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church. Colossians 1:24. It is the fellowship of his sufferings in which we are made conformable to his death. Philippians 3:10. And it is the partaking of …

4732 The Spirit of God, p. 13.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… any church; because, while the church of Christ is a unit (for “there is one body”), there are many and diverse churches in the world, and therefore the chances are …

4733 The Spirit of God, p. 37.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church had ceased to “desire” them, that fact would by no means prove that God had withdrawn the gifts. But it would prove that the church had forgotten the …

4734 The Spirit of God, p. 40.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church has not attained. It will not do to say that the church did arrive at such a state in the days of the apostles, and that it has fallen from it, for the admonitions …

4735 The Spirit of God, p. 42.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

And that last excuse for discord and disunion among Christians, namely, that the various churches with their diversity of faiths, are recognized as so many “branches” of the body of Christ, is removed by our Saviour’s words to his disciples:-

4736 The Spirit of God, p. 43.7 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church as to bring them to the unity of the faith and spirit. Human strength and human wisdom cannot accomplish it.

4737 The Spirit of God, p. 44.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… the church we have a right to ask, By what authority and by what power have they been removed from the church? Did God ever make known his intention to deprive …

4739 The Spirit of God, p. 46.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… professed “body of Christ” is doing in this age. Some of the most important gifts which God set in the church are ignored, despised, and boasted against, as if they …

4740 The Spirit of God, p. 47.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)

… entire church, as God was pleased that they should exist, that no part be lacking, or weak, or defective, but that the whole body may be perfect according to the …