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4801 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 5
… the church, different members have different offices, each one having a work, yet while no one controls another, all agree. Indeed, it is only when some begin …
4802 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 6
… the Church, and all the life of the church must be that which is received from Him. The church is useful only as each member “holding the Head, from which all the …
4803 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 340 paragraph 7
… the church of Christ no one member, no matter what his office, can despise the humblest member. “Much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble …
4804 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 342 paragraph 6
… true church is not a law-making body, but a law-abiding body. Jesus Christ is the head of the body, because He is the head of every individual man in the body. The …
4805 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 342 paragraph 7
… any body of men calling themselves the church of Christ, shall decide that certain ones are worthy of heaven, and that certain others are not, God will accept …
4806 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 344 paragraph 10
… the church for trial, as before a court, because a trial always implies a judge and a possible condemnation. But the church is for the purpose of representing …
4807 The Present Truth, vol. 9 August 31, 1893, page 344 paragraph 11
… the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.” All has been done that can be done, and now “let him be.” The church has cleared itself from all complicity …
4808 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 7, 1893, page 368 paragraph 14
… the Church of England and the nonconformist bodies, on the subject of a reunion. Of course no one expects that the union could be effected without some concessions …
4809 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 14, 1893, page 384 paragraph 9
… influential body of men who hold that the Church of England does teach those things, it is more than probable that the Archdeacon and others may have an opportunity …
4810 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 28, 1893, page 402 paragraph 7
… body to whom God has entrusted His work. But it is not a body wealthy or great in numbers. Not that God has any objection to wealth or numbers in His church, but …
4811 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 28, 1893, page 403 paragraph 14
… His church to pass through persecution, and to feel the wrath and power of man against it; but this did not harm the church. It only built up the church; for the …
4812 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 28, 1893, page 416 paragraph 10
… Galatian church had been done for all the churches. In Paul’s day and under his preaching, the churches saw Jesus Christ set forth, crucified among them, and …
4813 The Present Truth, vol. 9 September 28, 1893, page 416 paragraph 11
… the body in a crucifix is not consistent with Christ dwelling in the heart. Christ suspended as an image in the church is not consistent with His actual presence …
4814 The Present Truth, vol. 9 October 12, 1893, page 435 paragraph 10
… the church busied itself in collecting the revenues paid for the repose of departed souls and their release from purgatory; and for centuries not a step …
4815 The Present Truth, vol. 9 October 12, 1893, page 436 paragraph 4
… the church of the Thessalonians (and doubtless for all believers) was, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul …
4816 The Present Truth, vol. 9 October 12, 1893, page 448 paragraph 6
… the Church will speedily become an important, if not the most important, political factor in the Republic. She will become a factor that will not permit itself …
4817 The Present Truth, vol. 9 November 23, 1893, page 536 paragraph 5
… of church relationship, rather than of connection with the living Vine; to look at God through an opaque theological body which eclipses the light of heaven …
4818 The Present Truth, vol. 9 November 23, 1893, page 536 paragraph 6
… the church; this is not the purpose for which God has established it on the earth. The church exists for the purpose of spreading abroad the knowledge of the …
4819 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 7, 1893, page 563 paragraph 3
… “the church” or is it Christ? If “the church” is decided to be the source of authority, then the question is, What is the church? If “the church” is the lawgiver, who are …
4820 The Present Truth, vol. 9 December 7, 1893, page 563 paragraph 6
… the church; and He is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be subject to their own husbands in everything.”