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4841 The Present Truth, vol. 10 April 12, 1894, page 228 paragraph 7
… the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.” Ephesians 1:22, 23. In the church, therefore, Christ is supreme, not simply as to the faith …
4842 The Present Truth, vol. 10 April 12, 1894, page 228 paragraph 8
… the church is composed of individuals, and the authority of Christ over the church as a whole is simply the measure of His acknowledged authority over the …
4843 The Present Truth, vol. 10 April 12, 1894, page 228 paragraph 11
… church, which is His body.” Wherever we find the life and words of Christ deviated from to any extent, there we find, to that extent, the apostate churches. There …
4844 The Present Truth, vol. 10 April 12, 1894, page 229 paragraph 1
… great body of the early church became the anti-Christian Church of Rome. At every stage in the growth of that bloated system of self-will and corruption, transgressors …
4845 The Present Truth, vol. 10 April 12, 1894, page 230 paragraph 1
… true church; for the true church is the body of Christ, and Christ is superior to the State. As a general thing the church members of all denominations would …
4846 The Present Truth, vol. 10 April 19, 1894, page 247 paragraph 4
… that Church and State are united there as well as in the Old World.
4847 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 3, 1894, page 277 paragraph 7
The church of Christ should ever be inseparably connected with the word of God. The church is the body of believers who have been “called out,” as indicated by …
4848 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 3, 1894, page 277 paragraph 9
… the church; not a reformation of the church, for no church was ever reformed. Reformation and conversion apply to individuals, and not to organisations. There …
4849 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 3, 1894, page 278 paragraph 1
The church is the body of Christ; but it is Christ, the Head, who speaks. “The church in the wilderness,” of which Stephen spoke, “received the lively oracles to give …
4850 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 24, 1894, page 326 paragraph 2
… ancient churches being renovated and decorated in the Roman spirit, and so prepared for us, but congregations to fill them are being gathered together. The …
4851 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 24, 1894, page 327 paragraph 1
The church of Christ is the body of Christ, the temple of the Holy Ghost, made up of men and women who have been born anew, begotten by the word of God. Membership …
4852 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 31, 1894, page 339 paragraph 15
… the church solely by the Bible. There is not the slightest doubt but that the whole world would be “converted” almost in a body, if practical belief in the Bible …
4853 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 31, 1894, page 340 paragraph 12
… the church, that is, the Christian church, is the body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:27. Is the body of Christ dependent upon a political party for its defence? And …
4854 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 31, 1894, page 340 paragraph 13
… church allies herself with a political party, or with any worldly power, she disconnects herself from God, and ceases to be the Christian church. A church cannot …
4855 The Present Truth, vol. 10 May 31, 1894, page 343 paragraph 4
… churches was not borrowed from the services of the Levitical priesthood, but was taken over from the pagan ritual when the main body of the early church became …
4856 The Present Truth, vol. 10 June 21, 1894, page 388 paragraph 8
… the church in Rome. We cannot suppose that the congregation in Rome differed from the great body of Christians in general, and of them we read that “not many …
4857 The Present Truth, vol. 10 June 28, 1894, page 404 paragraph 2
… the church, and the great divisions that exist. Spiritual gifts establish the church; therefore the church that does not have those gifts cannot be established …
4858 The Present Truth, vol. 10 July 12, 1894, page 435 paragraph 5
… Papal Church. The Pontiff has deliberately invited the Protestant bodies throughout the world to acknowledge the authority of the Church of Rome in spiritual …
4859 The Present Truth, vol. 10 August 9, 1894, page 502 paragraph 1
… Church of England or any other body. The true business of the Christian is to live and preach the Gospel of Christ, and not to “attack” any man, nor any body of …
4860 The Present Truth, vol. 10 September 6, 1894, page 576 paragraph 13
… any body of religionists have control of the civil power. In the Review of the Churches we are told of intolerance in Germany, under the Lutherans, who doubtless …