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5841 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 June 11, 1861, page 21 paragraph 3

… entertained. Church organization and church order were alike unknown, and sometimes spoken against; and when the number of believers increased it was with …

5842 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 June 11, 1861, page 21 paragraph 6

… our churches and people will settle down into a cold, dull formality.

5843 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 June 11, 1861, page 21 paragraph 8

… the body of the churches and believers. And it is very certain that a small minority of the churches have been represented in them, and they by no just and equal …

5844 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 June 11, 1861, page 21 paragraph 11

… and churches sometimes nearly ruined by those who professed to fill this office, who were both unqualified and unworthy; but the churches had no authority …

5845 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 June 11, 1861, page 22 paragraph 17

… the body, and thought a more strict system of order in regard to the ministry, that the church might know who were in union with the body, would be the dawning …

5846 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 June 18, 1861, page 29 paragraph 14

… the church was the propriety of more strict organization in the church, and the necessity of all striving to move in union with the body of God’s people. Most …

5847 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 2, 1861, page 45 paragraph 15

… the church as a body, Christ being the head. Romans 12:4, 5; Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 5:23; 4:15, etc. Now we all know that the human body is most perfect and beautiful …

5848 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 2, 1861, page 45 paragraph 16

… the church. It must be thoroughly organized, not be dead like too many of the professed churches of Christ, but have the Spirit of the Lord breathed into it. Then …

5849 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 16, 1861, page 49 paragraph 9

… Galatian church by Judaizing teachers. Can we for a moment imagine that the Apostle (if he were now living) would be afraid of the christian church of this country …

5850 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 16, 1861, page 52 paragraph 2

… , or church-book, under any sectarian name. I might give my reasons, but that would be useless. I mean to keep my conscience void of offense toward God and toward …

5851 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 16, 1861, page 52 paragraph 19

… a church-book, we conclude you would object to a church clerk, therefore you would have no record kept of the doings of the church. Would you, as some do, have the …

5852 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 16, 1861, page 53 paragraph 5

… the church of Christ may be amenable to the body.

5853 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 16, 1861, page 55 paragraph 1

body of Christ to such individuals? To such persons, of what use is Paul’s lecture on the unity of the faith, and the gifts which God has set in the church? Can …

5854 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 July 30, 1861, page 72 paragraph 9

… . The church in Orion have been in trial on the subject of organization, and, consequently, have measurably lost their spirituality. May the Lord help them to …

5855 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 August 6, 1861, page 76 paragraph 15

… independent church and could do their own business. Not only so, but some asserted that they were organized under the name of “Church of God,” and therefore stood …

5856 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 August 6, 1861, page 77 paragraph 20

… a church as such, for the purpose of asking the protection of the strong arm of law relating to religious matters, would be stultifying our own teachings; but …

5857 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 October 1, 1861, page 141 paragraph 2

… the churches, instead of the gifts of the Spirit, given to secure the purity and unity of the church. “And he gave some apostles; and some prophets; and some evangelists …

5858 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 October 1, 1861, page 141 paragraph 4

… religious bodies together, with their multiplicity of doctrines and creeds to constitute Babylon? If so, can we as a people organize, have our name, doctrine …

5859 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 October 1, 1861, page 141 paragraph 5

… - doctrine - church usages? Imagine a church with neither name, doctrine, or church usages! Bro. P. must be laboring under confusion of thought as if he himself had …

5860 Advent Review, and Sabbath Herald, vol. 18 October 1, 1861, page 143 paragraph 8

church. Perhaps we should have spoken out on this subject before; but we are young in the faith. But now we feel to move out, and in concert with the body. And …