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1481 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 40.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a vote of thanks to the Lord for preserving the American Sabbath. They knew that when the constitutional argument was shut out, they had all they wanted.
1482 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 49.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… money voted by Congress without accepting the condition attached. Now these gentlemen must know there has been no talk of that. But there is nothing dishonorable …
1483 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 52.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a vote could have been taken upon the question of Sunday opening at once, a comfortable majority would have been found in both houses of Congress for opening …
1484 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 52.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their votes to be affected by failure to get what they want. While on the other hand the church people who are for Sunday closing will, if their wishes are thwarted …
1485 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 53.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their votes to be affected by failure to get what they want in this thing, while on the other hand, if the church people do not get what they want, and have their …
1486 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 54.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… in voting the appropriation. But even if the majority is on the other side, the resolution will not be permitted to pass the Senate without the adoption of …
1487 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 57.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a vote of a majority in both the House and Senate, which does not seem to me at all probable, and the act should receive the sanction of the President, which seems …
1488 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 61.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of votes, the only force at their command-required Congress to legislate upon a religious subject, to decide a religious question, and to take their side in …
1489 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 65.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to vote for, or support for any office or position of trust, any member of Congress, either senator or representative, who shall vote for any further aid of any …
1490 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 65.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of votes and jeopardize their “coming back again.” It is likewise known that those who thus secured this legislation have repeatedly announced since, that …
1491 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 66.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of votes .” And in an editorial notice of a Sunday-law meeting in New York city, the Examiner (Baptist) said:—President Frances E. Willard’s annual address, of 1887 …
1492 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 67.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… and votes will do the same thing? In fact, what else are these declarations of theirs but an open bid for such procedure on the part of just such classes as those …
1493 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 81.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
“ Resolved, That we give our votes and support to those candidates or political officers who will pledge themselves to vote for the enactment and enforcing statutes in favor of the civil Sabbath.” Sunday-law Convention, Elgin, Ill., Nov. 8, 1887.
1494 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 90.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to vote for, or support for any office or position of trust, any member of Congress, either senator or representative, who shall vote for any further aid of any …
1495 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 91.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… who voted for it would ever come back here again? None, I hope...You endanger yourselves by opposing it.”— Senator Hawley, Id., p. 6759 .
1496 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 91.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
“The reason we shall vote for it is, I will confess to you, a fear that, unless we do so, the church folks will get together and knife us at the polls; and-well you know we all want to come back, and we can’t afford to take any risks.”
1497 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 103.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… final vote was taken by which Congress committed the government to their side of the controversy, and could have stood where he did in the committee-room …
1498 Christ and the Pharisees, p. 26.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… not vote for that Sunday law, setting up Sunday here for the Sabbath of this nation, we will never vote for one of you again as long as we live, for any office under …
1499 The Churches and the Public Treasury, p. 7.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… it voting an appropriation to yet another school, making four in all that the Catholics had secured. As soon as the other denominations heard of this, they …
1500 The Churches and the Public Treasury, p. 13.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… are votes that depend upon the course they take; and therefore it is easy to understand how they can count any question unprofitable that will put them into …