item: #1 of 85 id: 10004 author: Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown title: The Warriors date: None words: 49164 flesch: 76 summary: This sympathetic atmosphere makes great preachers and great men. The world needs great business men--men who will know how to use the resources of a country, how to plan for its industry, manufactures, and commerce: men who understand the principles of production and exchange; ways of transportation; systems of credit and banking: men who know the constitution of the country, and the history of its development; its strength and weakness, its possibilities and needs: men who will deal honorably in business contracts, both with buyers and employees, and also with law-making bodies: men who will steadily try to advance international prosperity, as well as personal wealth. keywords: business; child; christ; church; come; control; day; earth; education; energy; god; growth; hand; heart; history; home; human; ideals; intellectual; jesus; life; like; lives; love; man; men; minister; new; personal; place; power; progress; race; right; rule; sea; set; social; soul; spiritual; things; thought; time; trade; truth; universe; way; women; work; working; world; years cache: 10004.txt plain text: 10004.txt item: #2 of 85 id: 11771 author: Church, R. W. (Richard William) title: Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890, Vol. 2 date: None words: 128284 flesch: 55 summary: If he judged himself correctly, and if the Baptist described him well when he compared him to a lamb, and, we may add, if his biographers have delineated his character faithfully, Christ was one naturally contented with obscurity, wanting the restless desire for distinction and eminence which is common in great men, hating to put forward personal claims, disliking competition and disputes who should be greatest, finding something bombastic in the titles of royalty, fond of what is simple and homely, of children, of poor people, occupying himself so much with the concerns of others, with the relief of sickness and want, that the temptation to exaggerate the importance of his own thoughts and plans was not likely to master him; lastly, entertaining for the human race a feeling so singularly fraternal that he was likely to reject as a sort of treason the impulse to set himself in any manner above them. It did not pretend to rise so high, to answer such great questions, to lay down such precise definitions. keywords: account; authority; belief; believe; book; case; catholic; change; character; christ; christianity; church; course; doctrine; doubt; england; english; experience; fact; faith; feeling; force; form; god; good; history; human; idea; interest; judgment; language; law; life; little; man; matter; men; mere; mind; miracles; moral; nature; new; newman; order; people; place; point; power; present; public; question; real; reason; religion; renan; right; roman; rome; self; sense; set; spirit; state; subject; system; things; thought; time; truth; use; view; way; words; work; world; writer cache: 11771.txt plain text: 11771.txt item: #3 of 85 id: 12605 author: Macleod, Norman title: Parish Papers date: None words: 89907 flesch: 66 summary: How must the dread thought silence the tongue, wither the heart, and paralyse the hand, that however ardent the wish influencing us to be good ourselves, or to do good to others, God is indifferent to both, and has no real interest in either--as if we had more love, more holiness, and more desire that the kingdom of righteousness should advance, than the loving and holy God! The text of all their teaching is, God forbid that we should know anything among you save Jesus Christ. keywords: believe; character; christ; christian; church; darkness; day; death; earth; evil; faith; father; glory; god; good; hath; heart; heaven; history; holy; human; jesus; jesus christ; joy; life; light; living; lord; love; man; men; moment; new; peace; power; sin; son; soul; spirit; things; think; thou; thy; time; truth; work; world cache: 12605.txt plain text: 12605.txt item: #4 of 85 id: 12744 author: Bryan, William Jennings title: In His Image date: None words: 73359 flesch: 68 summary: Long before the coming of Christ man had taken possession of the body and had gathered from it all the joys that the flesh can yield. We need more Elijahs in the pulpit to-day--more men who will dare to upbraid an Ahab and defy a Jezebel. keywords: belief; bible; body; children; christ; christian; church; darwin; day; doctrine; earth; fact; faith; father; god; good; government; heart; human; land; law; let; life; love; man; mind; money; nation; need; new; peace; people; power; public; question; reason; religion; right; service; society; soul; spiritual; things; thought; time; truth; use; war; way; words; work; world; years cache: 12744.txt plain text: 12744.txt item: #5 of 85 id: 12799 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks with World Winners date: None words: 62724 flesch: 84 summary: Some man has listened to God, and let Him have the free use of himself in reaching out to other men. The keener and clearer and stronger we can make our thinking, by dint of self-discipline, the greater power have we with other men. keywords: bit; christian; church; day; door; earth; father; god; good; heart; heathen; home; human; jesus; lands; life; love; man; master; men; mission; money; need; new; passion; people; plan; power; prayer; purpose; service; sin; spirit; story; thing; thought; time; touch; use; way; winning; work; world cache: 12799.txt plain text: 12799.txt item: #6 of 85 id: 130 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Orthodoxy date: None words: 64304 flesch: 73 summary: It is much more likely that modern men will eat human flesh out of affectation than that primitive man ever ate it out of ignorance. How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! keywords: answer; argument; believe; book; case; christianity; church; course; doctrine; earth; fact; fairy; faith; god; good; human; idea; instance; life; love; man; matter; men; mind; miracles; nature; people; philosophy; point; question; real; reason; religion; right; saying; sense; things; thought; time; truth; universe; want; way; world; wrong cache: 130.txt plain text: 130.txt item: #7 of 85 id: 13539 author: Scudder, John title: Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. date: None words: 38293 flesch: 82 summary: Besides all this, little children who speak bad words can never go to heaven. Sometimes mothers, or other individuals, will put their noses to the cheeks of little children, and draw the air through them, just as we do when we smell any thing which is agreeable. keywords: body; brahmins; chapter; children; christ; day; death; feet; girl; god; gods; gospel; heathen; hindoos; hope; idols; man; missionary; money; mother; people; person; place; poor; saviour; time; water; worship; years cache: 13539.txt plain text: 13539.txt item: #8 of 85 id: 13677 author: Drummond, Henry title: "Beautiful Thoughts" date: None words: 25151 flesch: 79 summary: What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 204. keywords: character; christ; christian; correspondence; death; environment; god; growth; january; kingdom; law; life; living; love; man; nature; religion; science; soul; spiritual; thing; world cache: 13677.txt plain text: 13677.txt item: #9 of 85 id: 13750 author: Bunyan, John title: The Heavenly Footman; Or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven With Directions How to Run So as to Obtain date: None words: 14780 flesch: 86 summary: Art thou resolved to sleep the sleep of death? Art thou enquiring the way to heaven? keywords: christ; god; heaven; man; run; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; way cache: 13750.txt plain text: 13750.txt item: #10 of 85 id: 14453 author: MacDonald, George title: The Hope of the Gospel date: None words: 52823 flesch: 76 summary: Who has not seen or known men who _appeared_ not to have passed, or indeed in some things to have approached the development of the more human of the lower animals! All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them. keywords: children; creation; earth; evil; father; god; good; heart; heaven; hope; house; jesus; life; light; lord; love; man; men; reward; righteousness; sins; son; soul; things; thou; thought; thy; way; words; world cache: 14453.txt plain text: 14453.txt item: #11 of 85 id: 14867 author: Ellinwood, Frank F. (Frank Field) title: Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 date: None words: 105298 flesch: 62 summary: The chief emphasis and force of his teachings lay in the assumption that he did simply what other men might do; for his mission was that of a teacher and exempler merely. There has existed a feeling that they had no rights which Christian men were bound to respect. keywords: age; ages; buddha; buddhism; centuries; character; christian; christianity; church; come; day; death; doctrine; earth; evil; fact; faith; footnote; god; gods; good; gospel; great; hand; heart; heathen; heaven; hindu; hinduism; history; human; india; influence; islam; knowledge; krishna; later; life; light; love; man; men; mind; missionary; mohammed; moral; nations; nature; new; paul; people; philosophy; place; power; present; professor; races; religion; sacrifice; self; sense; sin; soul; spirit; study; supreme; systems; teachings; testament; theory; things; thought; time; tribes; truth; work; world; worship; years cache: 14867.txt plain text: 14867.txt item: #12 of 85 id: 14996 author: Begbie, Harold title: Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality date: None words: 55521 flesch: 66 summary: In its genesis, the Oxford Movement threw up great men, very great men, men of considerable intellectual power and a most profound spirituality; it is not to be expected, perhaps, that such giants should appear again, and in their absence lesser men may possibly mistake the symbol for the thing symbolised, and so fall into the error of formalism. The clergy were the professional and expert exponents of an infallible revelation which they had studied deeply and knew better than other men, and on which they spoke with the authority of experience. keywords: bishop; body; christ; christianity; church; college; day; england; experience; eyes; face; faith; father; force; god; good; gore; heart; humanity; jesus; life; light; love; man; men; mind; movement; nature; new; order; oxford; people; power; present; reason; religion; science; sense; set; soul; spirit; spiritual; teaching; things; think; thought; time; truth; voice; way; work; world cache: 14996.txt plain text: 14996.txt item: #13 of 85 id: 15262 author: Haines, Charles Reginald title: Christianity and Islam in Spain, A.D. 756-1031 date: None words: 60920 flesch: 70 summary: _ iii. c. vii. secs. _, iii. c. vii. sec. keywords: abdurrahman; alcuin; alvar; apud; arabs; bishop; body; cause; century; chapter; character; christianity; christians; church; clergy; conde; conquest; cordova; council; country; death; doubt; dozy; elipandus; error; eulogius; fact; father; felix; florez; following; gayangos; god; gothic; great; heresy; history; i. p.; i. sec; ibid; ibn; iii; islam; jews; john; king; koran; letter; life; lum; makkari; martyrdom; martyrs; mem; men; migne; mohammed; mohammedanism; monk; moslems; north; party; people; persecution; pope; power; priest; religion; samson; sanct; sec; sidenote; son; spain; spanish; time; toledo; vol; way; work; years cache: 15262.txt plain text: 15262.txt item: #14 of 85 id: 15780 author: Moore, Edward Caldwell title: An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant date: None words: 90438 flesch: 67 summary: Great men have always done so, confiding themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying a perception which was stirring in their hearts, working through their hands, dominating their whole being.' It was the licence of its speculative endeavour, and the identification of these endeavours with Christianity, which finally discredited Hegelianism with religious men. keywords: age; book; century; christian; christianity; church; consciousness; divine; doctrine; end; england; experience; fact; faith; god; good; great; history; human; influence; jesus; kant; knowledge; law; life; man; men; mind; movement; nature; new; newman; nineteenth; philosophy; place; point; question; reason; religion; revelation; schleiermacher; science; sense; set; social; spirit; spiritual; theology; thought; time; truth; universe; view; way; work; world; years cache: 15780.txt plain text: 15780.txt item: #15 of 85 id: 16276 author: Graham, Isabella title: The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. date: None words: 125521 flesch: 73 summary: She always attended to the worship of God morning and evening in her room, and was usually accompanied by some of the ladies who boarded in the house. Perilous voyage--Trust in God--Return to Cartside--Care of her father--Residence at Paisley--Depressed circumstances-- Peace in God--Singular investment and result--School in Edinburgh--Friends--Benevolence to poor tradesmen-- Dancing--Letter of Lady Glenorchy--Origin of the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Sick--Death and character of Lady Glenorchy--Letter to a daughter--Visit to Cartside and Paisley--Reposes all upon Christ--Removal to New York--Devotional exercises--1776-1789, ................... keywords: blood; children; christ; comfort; covenant; covenant god; day; dear; death; faith; family; father; friend; glory; god; good; grace; graham; hand; hath; heart; heaven; holy; hope; house; jesus; life; lord god; lord thy; love; man; means; mercy; mind; mrs; new; o lord; people; power; prayer; rest; salvation; saviour; sin; society; son; soul; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; thy god; time; way; work; world cache: 16276.txt plain text: 16276.txt item: #16 of 85 id: 16322 author: Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) title: Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation date: None words: 91664 flesch: 68 summary: This same advice Luther hands on to another who was becoming a hypochondriac as he had been. Poor Luther is always wrong: the Sacramentarians and Anabaptists hate him worse than they hate the Pope, and the Pope hates him worse than he hates other heretics, because they all fight against the Gospel which Luther preaches. keywords: age; authority; bible; body; catholic; christ; christian; church; day; days; death; devil; divine; doctrine; faith; father; german; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; holy; human; jesus; know; law; laws; letter; life; lord; luther; man; marriage; martin luther; matter; means; men; mind; new; order; paul; people; person; peter; place; pope; power; reason; right; roman; rome; sin; sins; spiritual; state; teaching; text; things; thought; time; truth; view; way; works; world; writers; writings; years cache: 16322.txt plain text: 16322.txt item: #17 of 85 id: 16424 author: Coffin, Henry Sloane title: Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking date: None words: 43374 flesch: 61 summary: Love is stronger than death, and for Jesus God is love. The unending fellowship with Jesus' God of all His true children is an inevitable inference from what we know His and our God to be. keywords: bible; books; century; children; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; experience; faith; father; fellowship; god; human; jesus; jesus christ; life; light; living; lord; love; man; men; nature; new; order; paul; religion; self; son; spirit; testament; things; thought; way; world cache: 16424.txt plain text: 16424.txt item: #18 of 85 id: 16479 author: None title: The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints date: None words: 55692 flesch: 75 summary: They are, however, so far accurate for the year 556, that 9th September in that year was Saturday, and was the _nineteenth_ day of the moon. It is therefore to be identified with the mysterious place corruptly spelt Templevickinloyhe (church of the son of the ----?) in the extract from the _Annals of Clonmacnois_ printed above.[11] _ keywords: abbot; angels; book; boy; brethren; brussels; calf; christ; church; ciaran; cille; cloak; clonmacnois; cluain; co.; coemgen; colum; coming; cow; cum; day; death; diarmait; earth; end; est; father; findian; fire; folk; food; footnote; god; gospel; great; heaven; holy; honour; house; incident; inis; ireland; irish; island; keranus; king; kyaranus; lake; latin; life; line; lives; loch; lord; man; men; monastery; mother; mss; oengus; page; parents; patrick; people; place; prophecy; read; robbers; saint ciaran; saint kiaranus; saints; senan; sic; son; story; tale; text; thee; things; thou; time; vsh; water; way; wine; word; wright cache: 16479.txt plain text: 16479.txt item: #19 of 85 id: 16700 author: Killen, W. D. (William Dool) title: The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution date: None words: 228269 flesch: 66 summary: The orthodox might, therefore, not inappropriately be styled members of the _Catholic_ or _general_ Church, inasmuch as they formed the bulk of the Christian population, and were to be found wherever the new religion had made converts. The absurdity of the interpretation according to which _holy_ is here made to signify _legitimate_, is well exposed by Dr Wilson in his treatise on Infant Baptism, p. 513. keywords: a.d; account; acts; age; antioch; apostles; apostolic; authority; baptism; beginning; bishop; body; book; brethren; capital; catholic; century; chapter; character; chief; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; city; close; cor; cyprian; date; day; days; death; disciples; divine; doctrine; doubt; elders; empire; epistle; euseb; evidence; fact; faith; father; god; good; gospel; great; greek; head; history; holy; ignatius; iii; individual; influence; irenaeus; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; language; law; letters; life; light; lord; luke; martyrdom; matt; members; ministers; ministry; new; number; office; pastor; paul; people; period; persecution; peter; place; polycarp; position; power; presbyters; present; public; reason; roman; rome; second; son; spirit; spiritual; system; tertullian; testament; testimony; things; time; truth; unity; way; word; works; worship; writer; years cache: 16700.txt plain text: 16700.txt item: #20 of 85 id: 16797 author: Seiss, Joseph Augustus title: Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties date: None words: 41923 flesch: 66 summary: His memory was a museum of historical information, anecdotes of great men, and old German literature, songs, and proverbs, to the latter of which he made many rich additions from his own genius. Their characters are so massive, and their position in history is so towering, that other men can hardly get high enough to take their measure. keywords: cause; christ; christian; church; commonwealth; conscience; day; diet; emperor; faith; footnotes; general; germany; god; good; government; gustavus; heart; history; holy; human; king; liberty; life; luther; man; men; new; penn; people; pope; power; reformation; religion; right; rome; soul; spirit; state; swedes; things; time; truth; way; work; world; years cache: 16797.txt plain text: 16797.txt item: #21 of 85 id: 18486 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on Following the Christ date: None words: 58779 flesch: 86 summary: It means that there is within us a life higher than the natural life, and this higher life is to _be_ higher, it is to be the _controlling_ life. Abraham is asked to become a separated man in a peculiar sense, separate outwardly, separate in his worship of the true God, and separate in living a _faith_ life. keywords: bit; day; experience; face; father; following; god; hand; heart; help; human; jesus; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; master; meaning; means; men; need; new; obedience; plan; power; presence; road; sacrifice; service; sin; spirit; thing; time; touch; vision; way; word cache: 18486.txt plain text: 18486.txt item: #22 of 85 id: 1911 author: Luther, Martin title: Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X. date: None words: 18606 flesch: 66 summary: True, then, are these two sayings: Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; Bad works do not make a bad man, but a bad man does bad works. Before the eyes of these men it is expedient to eat flesh, to break fasts, and to do in behalf of the liberty of faith things which they hold to be the greatest sins. keywords: christ; christian; faith; god; good; justification; law; liberty; life; man; men; things; word; works cache: 1911.txt plain text: 1911.txt item: #23 of 85 id: 19567 author: Smith, Goldwin title: No Refuge but in Truth date: None words: 6207 flesch: 66 summary: Through all this, and in spite of it all, Christian character has preserved itself, and it is still the basis of the world's best civilization. Plague and famine, with a great part of the common misfortunes of human life, seem merely evil. keywords: character; christian; evil; evolution; god; good; history; life; man; world cache: 19567.txt plain text: 19567.txt item: #24 of 85 id: 19568 author: Smith, Goldwin title: The Religious Situation date: None words: 3633 flesch: 63 summary: The authenticity of a large portion of the Epistles of St. Paul seems admitted by critics; of other books of the New Testament the authorship is regarded as doubtful. Is it possible to believe, in face of doubtful authenticity, contradictions as to fact, and traces of local superstition, that the New Testament any more than the Old was dictated by Deity? keywords: belief; deity; jesus; life; revelation; testament; world cache: 19568.txt plain text: 19568.txt item: #25 of 85 id: 20160 author: Bacon, Leonard Woolsey title: A History of American Christianity date: None words: 135167 flesch: 55 summary: This debasing of the motive of church work is naturally attended by a debasement of the means employed. The Propagation Society's missionaries boasted, with reason, of large accessions of proselytes alienated from other churches by their distaste for the methods of the revival. keywords: american; awakening; beginning; bishop; body; catholic; catholic church; century; character; christian; christianity; church; church history; church life; church organization; churches; clergy; college; colonies; colony; common; company; country; course; day; dutch; end; english; episcopal; episcopal church; fellowship; free; french; general; german; god; good; gospel; government; governor; great; indians; influence; john; law; life; little; lord; man; men; ministers; missionaries; missionary; missions; national; new; new england; new york; north; number; organization; party; pastor; pennsylvania; people; period; point; population; power; presbyterian; principles; protestant; public; puritan; reformed; revival; roman; school; sects; set; slavery; society; south; spanish; spirit; states; subject; system; theology; time; union; united; virginia; war; way; work; world; worship; years cache: 20160.txt plain text: 20160.txt item: #26 of 85 id: 20206 author: Velimirović, Nikolaj title: The Agony of the Church (1917) date: None words: 18771 flesch: 69 summary: For she will lead the whole Church and through the Church Europe and through Europe the whole world to holiness and victory, to God and His Kingdom. A new revival, yea, regeneration of Christianity, could be possible only in a united Christian Church; and the union of the Church is possible only upon the ground of the primitive Church, which was inclusive in teaching, worship and organisation, but exclusive in spirit. keywords: christian; christianity; church; churches; europe; god; history; holy; human; imperialism; jesus; life; patriotism; people; religion; spirit; war; wisdom; world; worship cache: 20206.txt plain text: 20206.txt item: #27 of 85 id: 20731 author: Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey) title: Quiet Talks on Power date: None words: 49824 flesch: 83 summary: It seems to be a law of _spirit_ life that a spirit needs to be embodied in dealing with embodied beings. Have you turned your personality over to Him as completely as that? Remember the law of God's communication with men; namely, He speaks _to_ men _through_ men. keywords: book; chapter; christian; day; experience; face; friend; god; good; heart; holy; holy spirit; jesus; law; life; lord; love; man; master; men; new; night; people; personal; plan; power; presence; self; spirit; talk; tell; things; thought; time; truth; voice; water; word; work cache: 20731.txt plain text: 20731.txt item: #28 of 85 id: 21024 author: Guthrie, Thomas title: The Angels' Song date: None words: 20436 flesch: 69 summary: The person is God--He who spake by holy men of old, speaking here by the lips of angels. And now--ere they left Him to tread the wine-press alone, and returned on upward wings to their native heavens, and their service before the throne of God--these celestials bent their loving eyes on the stable; and in anticipation of Jesus' triumphs, of men saved, death conquered, graves spoiled, and Satan crushed, they sang Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. keywords: angels; blood; christ; death; earth; father; glory; god; good; head; heaven; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; son; sun; thou; thy; way; words; world cache: 21024.txt plain text: 21024.txt item: #29 of 85 id: 21992 author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson title: Christianity and Progress date: None words: 49288 flesch: 63 summary: The new astronomy is not a more complete break from the old geocentric system with its stationary earth than is our modern progressive way of thinking from our fathers' static conception of human life and history. Aeschylus saw men lifted from their hazardous lives in sunless caves by the intervention of Prometheus and his sacrificial teaching of the arts of peace; Euripides contrasted the primitive barbarism in which man began with the civilized estate which in Greece he had achieved--but this perceived advance never was erected into a progressive idea of human life as a whole. keywords: age; century; change; christian; christianity; church; control; day; earth; experience; facts; faith; god; good; gospel; history; hope; human; idea; jesus; knowledge; life; man; mankind; men; movement; nature; need; new; people; power; progress; progressive; religion; science; spirit; things; thinking; thought; time; truth; universe; war; way; world; years cache: 21992.txt plain text: 21992.txt item: #30 of 85 id: 22017 author: Blunt, John Henry title: A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) date: None words: 43984 flesch: 62 summary: Endowment of Church, 67 England, Church of, its early history, 73 ------, in Middle Ages, 142 ------, its Liturgy, 143 English Bishops at early Councils, 74 Ephesus, St. John at, 49 ------, Heresies at, 50 ------, Council of, 85 ------, Liturgy of, 124 ------, Third Council of, 71 Episcopacy, its permanent organization, 46 Ethiopia, Church of, 82 Eucharist, Daily, 7, 13 ------, the chief act of worship, 14, 56 Eucharistic Sacrifice, 2, 3, 13, 14, 56 Eutyches, his heresy, 71 Expectation, Days of, 7 Fathers, value of their writings, 72 Ferrara, Council of, 110 Florence, Council of, 110 Forty Days, The teaching of the, 6 Foundation of Church, its Divine Origin, 4, 7 France, Church of, its early history, 77 ------, its mediaeval history, 124 ------, its Liturgy, 78 French Bishops from Asia, 77 French interference in Papal affairs, 107 Friars, Franciscan and Dominican, in England, 112, 148 Gallican Liturgy, 124 General Councils, 69-71 Gentiles called into the Church, 26 Germany, Church of, 127 Gnosticism, Simon Magus the author of, 22, 51 ------ at Corinth, 40 ------ at Ephesus, 51 Gospels, Holy, great reverence shown to them, 54 Grecians, Who meant by, 16 Greek Church, What meant by, 80 _n._ ------, its early history, 79 ------, its mediaeval history, 135 ------ under Turkish rule, 139 ------ Empire, End of, 139 Greeks, their liability to heresy, 79 Greenland, Conversion of, 135 Gregory, St., 103 ------, and Church of England, 142 ------ VII., 106 Hebrews, Definition of, 17 ------ and Grecians, Dispute between, 17 Hegira, the Mahometan Era, 89 _n._ Hellenists or Grecians, Definition of, 16 Heresy, how opposed, 69 Hilary, St., 102 Hildebrand, 105 Hincmar, 104 Hungary, Church of, 131 Iceland, Church of, 133 Iconoclast controversy, 95, 121 Ignatius, St., 84 Ignorance, Causes of, in Middle Ages, 115 Incense, its burning made a test, 59 ------, its use in heaven, 55 India, Church of, 87 Indulgences, 109, 118 Innocent III., 107 Inquisition, Origin of, 107 Interdict, England placed under, 147 Investiture, Disputes about, 106, 147 Iona, Monastery of, 76 Ireland, Church of, its early history, 74 ------, its Liturgy and customs, 78, 151 ------, its mediaeval history, 151 ------, English influence in, 152 Irenaeus, St., 78 Irish missionary labours, 151 Italy, Church of, its early history, 76 ------, its mediaeval history, 121 ------, its Liturgy, 123 James, St., the Great, his martyrdom, 27 ------ the Less, first Bishop of Jerusalem, 27, 35, 83 ------ presides at the First Council, 35 Jerusalem, The Apostolic Church in, 27, 83 ------, First Council at, 35 ------, Second Council at, 46 ------ taken by Saracens, 113 Jewish Worship, and scheme of Redemption, 4, 56 John, St., his special work in the Church, 45, 47, 49 ------, his sacramental teaching, 47, 52 ------, his universal patriarchate, 51 ------, his writings, 51 ------, his Epistles, 52 ------, his Revelation, 52 ------, his martyrdom in will, 57 _n._ ------, King, Unconstitutional conduct of, 147 Judicial powers first exerted in the Church, 16 Julian the Apostate, 83 Koran, The, 90 Labours, Apostolic, Extent of, 43 Lanfranc, 146 Langton, Stephen, 147 Lapland, Conversion of, 135 Latin, Use of, in Middle Ages, 116 Law, Christ's obedience to the, 15 Lay investiture, Disputes about, 106 Letters of Peace, 64 Lollards, The, 149 Love of the First Christians, 13 Luke, St., joins St. Paul, 37 Macedonius, his heresy, 70 Mahometanism, 88 ------ in Spain, 127 Martyrdom, seeking it forbidden, 63 Martyrs, Immense number of the, 61 Matthias, St., chosen to be Apostle, 8 Mediaeval Church, its true state, 119 Meletian schism, 81 Middle Ages, Learning in, 117 ------, Religion in, 116 Ministry, Christian, Three-fold nature of, 2, 5 _n._ ------, Jewish, replaced by Christian, 4 Miracles, Gift of, 11 Monastic Orders, The, 111 Monasticism, its good results, 112 Moors in Spain, 126 Moravia, Church of, 128 Mozarabic Liturgy, 127 Music, its use in heaven, 55 Nero's persecution, 49 _n._, 59 Nestorius, his heresy, 71, 82 Nicaea, Council and Creed of, 70 Nicolas of Antioch, 18 Ninian, St., his mission in Scotland, 76 Norman influence on English Church, 146 Northmen, Conversion of, 124 Norway, Church of, 134 Ordinances or traditions, 13 _n._ Paganism not revived by persecution, 62 Papal supremacy, its dangers, 101 ------ Supremacy in France, 125 ------ aggression, The first, 102 Parochial system, its late development in Ireland, 75 Parthia, Church of, 85 Passover replaced by Eucharist, 3 Patrick, St., his mission to Ireland, 75 Paul, St., Conversion of, 23. Priest, Meaning of the word, 32 _n._ Priests, First ordination of, 32 ------, their functions, 33 Prussia, Church of, 129 Purgatory, 118 Reformation, what it was, 102 ------, Longings for, 123, 131, 150 Reunion between East and West attempted, 137 Ritual, Early Christian, 53 ------ checked by persecution, 63 ------, Heavenly, as shown in the Apocalypse, 53 ------ developed in prosperity, 67 Roman Empire, its decay, 77 Roman influence in Middle Ages, 118 ------ influence in Germany, 131 Rome, St. Paul at, 42 ------, its influence in extending the Faith, 67 Russia, Church of, its foundation, 80, 139 ------, Church of, its independence, 140 Sacrifice, The Christian, 2, 3, 13, 14, 56 Sacrifices under the patriarchal dispensation, 3 ------ under the Mosaic dispensation, 3 Sadducees, their opposition to the Gospel, 12, 19 Samaria, Conversion of, 21 Sarum Use, 143 Satan, his enmity against the Church, 58, 62 Saul of Tarsus, 19 Saxon and English Church, 74, 142 Scandinavian Churches, 133 Schism, The first, in the Church, 16 ------ between East and West, 98 ------, The forty years', 109 Scotland, Church of, its early history, 75 ------, its mediaeval history, 152, 153 ------, Saxon influence in, 152 ------, Roman influence in, 153 Seven Churches, The, 84 Simon Magus, his unbelief and end, 21, 22 Sin, First deadly, in the Church, 16 Spain, Church of, its early history, 78 ------, Church of, its mediaeval history, 126 ------, Church of, its Liturgy, 127 Stephen, St., ordained Deacon, 18 ------, his preaching and inspiration, 19 ------, results of his Martyrdom, 21 Supremacy, Papal claims to, 100 Sweden, Church of, 133 Table of Fields of Apostolic Labour, 44 ------ Persecutions, 60 ------ keywords: a.d; acts; apostles; bishops; century; christian; christianity; church; churches; city; constantinople; conversion; council; country; emperor; england; english; faith; god; gospel; great; heathen; history; holy; influence; jerusalem; john; lord; paul; persecution; peter; popes; power; roman; rome; section; sidenote; time; worship cache: 22017.txt plain text: 22017.txt item: #31 of 85 id: 22366 author: Hutton, William Holden title: The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 date: None words: 64312 flesch: 64 summary: _See_ Church, Constantinople, Schism Ebbo, archbishop of Rheims, 129, 141 Ebroin, mayor of the palace in Neustria, 146 _Ecthesis_, issued by Heraclius, 87, 89 Edessa, 93, 96, 110 Education, 166-7, 175. Arianism had in the East practically died away; Nestorianism was powerful only in far-away lands, but Monophysitism was for a great part of the sixth century strong in the present, and close to the centre of Church life. keywords: age; bishop; catholic; century; charles; christian; christianity; church; churches; constantinople; controversy; conversion; council; east; eastern; emperor; empire; english; faith; fifth; frankish; franks; gaul; general; god; great; gregory; history; holy; iii; imperial; influence; italy; john; justinian; king; life; lord; men; monastery; monks; new; orthodox; papacy; patriarch; people; pope; power; roman; rome; rule; sidenote; sixth; spain; state; time; west; work; years cache: 22366.txt plain text: 22366.txt item: #32 of 85 id: 22371 author: Merriam, George Spring title: The Chief End of Man date: None words: 75691 flesch: 67 summary: His answer is substantially a reaffirmation of the principles which good men have acknowledged for many ages. For their country on the battlefield, for other men in sudden accidents and perils, men give their lives instinctively or deliberately. keywords: beauty; belief; book; christ; christianity; church; comes; day; death; experience; faith; form; god; good; goodness; heart; hope; human; humanity; ideal; imagination; jesus; joy; knowledge; law; life; little; long; love; man; mankind; men; mind; moral; nature; new; order; paul; peace; people; philosophy; power; present; reality; religion; right; self; sense; set; society; soul; spiritual; story; thought; time; truth; universe; way; work; world cache: 22371.txt plain text: 22371.txt item: #33 of 85 id: 22400 author: Foxe, John title: Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs date: None words: 265538 flesch: 63 summary: He kept a public school, taught many who afterward became great men, and wrote a treatise to confute heresies of all kinds. At other times he was tied up by the arms, till almost all his joints were dislocated. keywords: account; afterward; answer; archbishop; arms; army; asaad; bishop; blood; body; bonner; brother; catholic; cause; children; christ; christian; church; city; conduct; council; country; court; cruelty; day; days; death; doctrines; duke; emperor; enemies; england; english; execution; faith; family; father; fire; following; force; france; friends; general; god; good; gospel; government; governor; hands; head; heart; heretics; holy; house; inquisition; jesus; john; king; law; leave; left; length; letter; liberty; life; little; london; lord; man; manner; martyrdom; martyrs; mary; mass; means; men; mind; money; morning; mother; new; night; number; officers; opinions; order; page; papists; parts; patriarch; people; persecution; persons; pieces; place; poor; pope; power; present; priest; prison; prisoners; protestants; public; queen; read; reign; religion; rest; return; roman; rome; sentence; service; set; sir; soldiers; spirit; state; subject; sufferings; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; troops; truth; way; wife; women; word; work; years; young cache: 22400.txt plain text: 22400.txt item: #34 of 85 id: 272 author: Luther, Martin title: An Open Letter on Translating date: None words: 6792 flesch: 81 summary: Gracious, St. Paul and I want to offend like this for we preach so strongly against works, insisting on faith alone for no other reason than to offend people that they might stumble and fall and learn that they are not saved by good works but only by Christ's death and resurrection. Therefore, it does not follow that because good works do not help, bad works will; just as it does not follow that because the sun cannot help a blind person see, the night and darkness must help him see. keywords: christ; faith; german; god; good; saints; word; works cache: 272.txt plain text: 272.txt item: #35 of 85 id: 274 author: Luther, Martin title: Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences date: None words: 5053 flesch: 70 summary: E-mail: CFWLibrary@CRF.CUIS.EDU Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA Phone: (219) 481-2123 Fax: (219) 481-2126 ====================================================================== Amore et studio elucidande veritatis hec subscripta disputabuntur Wittenberge, Presidente R. P. Martino Lutther, Artium et S. Theologie Magistro eiusdemque ibidem lectore Ordinario. E-mail: CFWLibrary@CRF.CUIS.EDU Surface Mail: 6600 N. Clinton St., Ft. Wayne, IN 46825 USA Phone: (219) 481-2123 Fax: (219) 481-2126 ====================================================================== Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum. by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546 D. MARTIN LUTHERS WERKE: KRITISCHE GESAMMTAUSGABE. keywords: 001la =; = =; christians; church; dei; est; god; indulgences; love; man; money; non; papa; pape; pardons; penalties; pope; purgatory; quam; qui; quod; remission; sed; sunt; veniarum cache: 274.txt plain text: 274.txt item: #36 of 85 id: 27514 author: Boreham, Frank title: A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds date: None words: 59821 flesch: 84 summary: Job thought of it as a _contaminating_ thing. John, on the other hand, thought of sin as a _condemning_ thing. keywords: book; boy; christ; church; cross; day; death; dying; eyes; face; faith; father; francis; god; good; grace; hand; heart; jesus; john; know; life; lord; love; man; men; michael; mind; new; night; people; place; saviour; says; sin; son; soul; story; text; thee; things; thought; thy; time; way; words; work; world; years; young cache: 27514.txt plain text: 27514.txt item: #37 of 85 id: 27707 author: Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice) title: Saint Athanasius, the Father of Orthodoxy date: None words: 20611 flesch: 74 summary: Seizing Athanasius in their arms, they bore him out of the church, passing right through the midst of the soldiers, who were searching everywhere for the Patriarch. Receive, therefore, beloved, with all joy and glory to God, your Bishop Athanasius. keywords: alexandria; arians; arius; athanasius; bishop; christ; church; constantine; council; emperor; eusebius; faith; god; man; men; patriarch; people; time; years cache: 27707.txt plain text: 27707.txt item: #38 of 85 id: 28464 author: Luther, Martin title: Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost date: None words: 119489 flesch: 74 summary: They are children who cleave to the message that through Christ God forgives their sins and receives them into his favor; who adhere to this promise in all temptations, afflictions and troubles. Unquestionably, then, Paul proclaims Christ true God. keywords: apostle; blood; body; children; christ; christian; church; death; doctrine; earth; eternal; evil; fact; faith; flesh; gifts; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; heaven; holy; honor; kingdom; law; life; lord; love; man; men; neighbor; office; paul; people; peter; power; sacrifice; sin; sins; spirit; spiritual; text; things; time; word; works cache: 28464.txt plain text: 28464.txt item: #39 of 85 id: 29268 author: Allies, T. W. (Thomas William) title: The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I date: None words: 110738 flesch: 65 summary: Three months after Majorian, died Pope St. Leo. answer, 'That the Council of Chalcedon, and the letters of Pope St. Leo, written against the heretics Nestorius, and Eutyches, and Dioscorus, may be entirely kept'. keywords: acacius; alexandria; anastasius; antioch; apostle; arian; authority; belisarius; bishops; capital; catholic; chalcedon; christian; church; churches; city; cloth; communion; constantinople; council; day; death; doctrine; east; emperor; empire; end; faith; father; general; god; gothic; government; gregory; head; heresy; holy; italy; john; judgment; justinian; king; kingdom; laws; leo; letter; life; lord; new; order; patriarch; people; peter; place; pope; pope felix; pope leo; pope st; power; primacy; rev; roman; rome; rule; second; set; son; state; subject; theodorick; things; time; vigilius; west; western; words; world; years; zeno cache: 29268.txt plain text: 29268.txt item: #40 of 85 id: 30160 author: Haldeman, Isaac Massey title: Christ, Christianity and the Bible date: None words: 37748 flesch: 72 summary: This Gospel of Christianity brings the good news that you may receive from the throne of God life from God, as directly as did Adam when God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. Fallen man, man full of iniquity, shall he be more pure than he who made him; he who breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and made him a living soul; he whose name is holiness and righteousness and very truth? keywords: bible; body; book; christ; christianity; church; day; dead; death; earth; father; god; good; heart; holy; human; jesus christ; life; light; lord; lord jesus; man; men; nature; new; people; power; sin; son; soul; spirit; truth; words; world cache: 30160.txt plain text: 30160.txt item: #41 of 85 id: 30194 author: Lake, Kirsopp title: Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity date: None words: 38810 flesch: 60 summary: In 1 Clement xlii., The Apostles received the Gospel for us from the Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus the Christ was sent from God, there is a clear statement of the supernatural claims of the apostles, but made in such a way as to imply a lower view of Christ than Nicene orthodoxy: he is the middle term between God and the apostles, and is separated from the one as clearly as from the other. The appeal was really far more effective than the rest of Paul's argument, which was not calculated to convince the doubtful, and it has the especial importance for the historian that it proves that Paul did not think the risen Jesus had a body of flesh and blood, and believed that in this he was in agreement with all the early witnesses. keywords: acts; age; christianity; christians; church; death; end; fourth; god; gospel; greek; hermas; history; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jews; life; little; lord; man; men; paul; rome; salvation; son; spirit; teaching; thought; time; way; world cache: 30194.txt plain text: 30194.txt item: #42 of 85 id: 30619 author: Luther, Martin title: Epistle Sermons, Vol. 3: Trinity Sunday to Advent date: None words: 137373 flesch: 74 summary: Especially the Gospel of St. John has been subjected to attack, which was written for the special purpose of fortifying this dogma against the attacks of Cerinthus the heretic, who in the apostolic age already attempted to prove from Moses the existence of but one God, which he assigned as reason that our Lord Jesus cannot be true God on account of the impossibility of God and man being united in one being. Now, in view of the fact already established that the persons are distinct, and of the further statement that God has purchased the Church through his own blood, we inevitably conclude that Christ our Saviour is true God, born of the Father in eternity, and that he also became man and was born of the Virgin Mary in time. keywords: apostle; body; children; christ; christians; church; death; devil; doctrine; earth; fact; faith; father; flesh; gifts; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; holy; holy spirit; honor; human; knowledge; law; life; lord; lord god; love; man; men; paul; people; power; reason; righteousness; shall; sin; spirit; things; time; unto; wisdom; word; works; wrath cache: 30619.txt plain text: 30619.txt item: #43 of 85 id: 31165 author: Anonymous title: The Church Handy Dictionary date: None words: 51128 flesch: 71 summary: ANGLO-CATHOLIC CHURCH, _see_ Church of England. ANTHEM, _see_ Church. keywords: altar; baptism; bible; bishop; body; book; cathedral; catholic; century; christ; christian; church; churches; clergy; communion; custom; day; doctrine; england; form; god; greek; holy; john; lord; meaning; means; minister; new; office; orders; people; place; prayer; prayer book; present; priest; roman; rubric; service; sin; sunday; table; testament; time; use; word; worship; year cache: 31165.txt plain text: 31165.txt item: #44 of 85 id: 32483 author: Robertson, James Craigie title: Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation date: None words: 102931 flesch: 72 summary: But Syrianus contrived to throw them off their guard; and one night, while Athanasius was keeping watch, with many of his clergy and people, in one of the churches (as the Christians of those days used to do before their great festivals and at other times), Syrianus suddenly beset the church with a great number of soldiers, and a multitude made up of Arians, Jews, and the heathen rabble of the city. But Cyprian held out against him, and made him understand that the bishop of Rome had no right to give laws to other bishops, or to meddle with the churches of other countries. keywords: a.d; augustine; bishop; chapter; chief; christians; church; churches; city; clergy; constantinople; council; country; day; days; death; emperor; empire; end; faith; god; good; gospel; great; gregory; heathen; holy; john; king; life; lord; man; men; monks; new; number; order; page; people; place; pope; power; religion; rome; set; things; thought; time; way; years cache: 32483.txt plain text: 32483.txt item: #45 of 85 id: 32578 author: Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) title: Religious Perplexities date: None words: 16349 flesch: 67 summary: Such a religion as I have been trying to describe will be found in Christianity--yes, and in other religions also. Christianity, in the official, or authorized presentation of it, is a _smothered_ religion; smothered almost to the point of total asphyxiation and collapse, but not quite; smothered by the vested interests of great institutions, and by the ambitions, fears and self-seekings that such interests breed; smothered by the elaborate theological defences that Christians have built, not against Antichrist, but against each other; smothered by anxieties, not unnatural in these embroilments, for its own future. keywords: christianity; faith; form; god; hero; life; logic; man; nature; perplexities; point; reason; religion; soul; spirit; things; world cache: 32578.txt plain text: 32578.txt item: #46 of 85 id: 32756 author: None title: Some Essentials of Religion date: None words: 26409 flesch: 75 summary: In the vision of the Holiness of God men have found their chief impulse to worship Him, and have felt the claim on their own lives exercised by the moral splendour of God's own character. XVI. 16) there are certain inevitable inferences establishing the belief that in Christ God became Man which are drawn from His life and teaching while on earth. keywords: bible; christ; christian; church; death; fact; faith; father; god; holy; immortality; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; man; men; power; prayer; present; things; time; world cache: 32756.txt plain text: 32756.txt item: #47 of 85 id: 3296 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo title: The Confessions of St. Augustine date: None words: 112287 flesch: 71 summary: Send Thou Thy word into it by Thy messengers: for we speak of their working, yet it is Thou that workest in them that they may work out a living soul in it. But such was I. Nor do I blush, O my God, to confess to Thee Thy mercies towards me, and to call upon Thee, who blushed not then to profess to men my blasphemies, and to bark against Thee. keywords: body; day; didst; earth; eyes; flesh; form; god; good; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; joy; know; life; light; long; lord; love; man; memory; men; mind; o lord; past; place; present; soul; speak; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; true; truth; way; words; world cache: 3296.txt plain text: 3296.txt item: #48 of 85 id: 34706 author: Brent, Charles Henry title: With God in the World: A Series of Papers date: None words: 31253 flesch: 69 summary: So splendid has this human nature of ours become through the Incarnation that it can bear any strain and meet any demand that God sees fit to put upon it. Is it not so that the real thing that makes men dumb towards God is, in the first instance, at any rate, not intellectual doubt about the efficacy of prayer but the difficulty of it all--the rebellion of the flesh, the strain upon the attention, the claim upon the time? keywords: character; christian; church; common; day; fellowship; friendship; god; great; human; life; lord; love; man; means; men; new; power; prayer; responsibility; service; soul; spiritual; temptation; things; time; true; world; worship cache: 34706.txt plain text: 34706.txt item: #49 of 85 id: 36572 author: Swain, Richard La Rue title: What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul date: None words: 69037 flesch: 75 summary: Then I understood that God had not revealed Himself to the world according to my demand, because no such God existed in heaven or earth. Was Jesus God or a good man only? keywords: believe; bible; body; children; christian; church; day; earth; experience; father; future; god; good; great; heaven; human; idea; jesus; know; knowledge; life; light; little; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; people; present; religion; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; universe; way; world; years cache: 36572.txt plain text: 36572.txt item: #50 of 85 id: 36890 author: Hunt, William title: The English Church in the Middle Ages date: None words: 64571 flesch: 63 summary: The evangelization of the people caused some modification of their ancient laws and customs, and Æthelberht of Kent and other kings published written codes after the Roman model, in accordance with the teaching of their bishops. His example was followed by other kings, and among them by his successor, Ini. keywords: anselm; archbishop; authority; bishops; canterbury; chapter; character; church; clergy; council; country; court; crown; death; edward; england; english; good; henry; john; king; kingdom; law; life; matters; monks; national; papacy; papal; parliament; people; pope; power; reign; rights; roman; rome; sidenote; state; thomas; time; william; work; years; york cache: 36890.txt plain text: 36890.txt item: #51 of 85 id: 37032 author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph) title: Religion And Health date: None words: 102697 flesch: 53 summary: Hard play has killed many more men than hard work. What seemed the almost unescapable destiny of many men has been changed by the influence of religion over habits, so that a natural disposition which by habit {180} had become a personality fraught with evil for self and others has been changed into an individual that proves an asset instead of a liability to the community. keywords: age; body; character; charity; children; conditions; control; course; day; days; death; disease; effect; exercise; existence; fact; faith; feeling; generation; god; good; health; heart; human; influence; knowledge; life; lives; living; man; mankind; matter; men; mind; nature; need; new; number; pain; people; physical; physicians; power; practice; prayer; professor; recreation; regard; religion; rest; rule; science; self; sense; sex; spirit; subject; suffering; suicide; things; think; thought; time; war; way; women; work; world; years cache: 37032.txt plain text: 37032.txt item: #52 of 85 id: 37274 author: Mackintosh, Charles Henry title: The Assembly of God. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. III date: None words: 127531 flesch: 78 summary: Now, in all these places, the assembly of God was a plain, palpable, real thing, established and maintained by God Himself. God Himself has laid the foundation, and that foundation is Christ; and all who simply believe in Christ--all who give Him the confidence of their hearts--all who rest satisfied with Him, are made partakers of His resurrection-life, and thus made living stones. keywords: assembly; blood; body; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; fact; faith; find; ghost; god; gospel; grace; ground; heart; holy; jesus; jesus christ; law; life; living; lord; lord christ; lord god; love; man; men; people; place; power; prayer; question; reader; right; salvation; scripture; sin; soul; spirit; things; thou; truth; way; word; work cache: 37274.txt plain text: 37274.txt item: #53 of 85 id: 37531 author: King, Henry Churchill title: Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) date: None words: 53539 flesch: 61 summary: Everyone that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.[45] If one believes at all in the presence of God in history--and the Christian can have no doubt here--he must be profoundly interested in such a phenomenon as the steady growth of the social consciousness. keywords: character; christ; christian; consciousness; ethical; faith; god; influence; life; love; man; men; personal; real; relation; religion; self; sense; sin; social; spiritual; theology; thought; value; view; world cache: 37531.txt plain text: 37531.txt item: #54 of 85 id: 38182 author: None title: Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects date: None words: 58865 flesch: 67 summary: Our forefathers believed that the ringing of church bells had the effect of allaying storms; this is illustrated by an entry in the Spalding churchwardens' accounts:--1519 It'm pd. Coeval with the introduction of church bells has been the appropriation of one of them to the service of the dying; originally this bell was tolled when one was yielding up life in order that all who heard it might offer up prayer for the departing spirit, and after death another bell was rung, called the soul bell. keywords: altar; andrews; archbishop; armour; arms; army; baptism; battle; bell; bishop; body; book; boys; bread; bride; burial; bygone; case; century; child; children; church; churches; churchwardens; churchyard; come; country; cross; curious; custom; day; days; dead; death; doubt; england; english; following; form; funeral; god; good; hand; henry; holy; house; john; king; life; lord; man; marriage; men; new; north; parish; parts; pay; people; person; place; practice; present; priest; ring; ringers; ringing; rood; rung; sermon; service; set; staff; sunday; time; use; volume; way; white; william; work; year cache: 38182.txt plain text: 38182.txt item: #55 of 85 id: 38274 author: None title: Ecclesiastical Curiosities date: None words: 47004 flesch: 67 summary: Longfellow has several tender references to church bells. The inscriptions on church bells would make an interesting chapter. keywords: abbey; andrews; bells; bishop; book; building; bygone; case; cathedral; century; chapel; chest; choir; church; church door; churches; churchyard; clerk; date; day; days; door; east; end; england; english; examples; feet; figures; form; foundation; good; holy; house; illustration; instances; john; king; lady; left; life; long; lord; man; maze; near; north; parish; people; period; place; porch; present; rev; set; south; spire; stone; time; tower; wall; way; west; william; work; years cache: 38274.txt plain text: 38274.txt item: #56 of 85 id: 38544 author: Just, Gustav A. title: Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history date: None words: 29750 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration: Frau Cotta Taking Luther into Her Home.] Luther delighted in attending the Latin school at Eisenach. Thrice holy because of the martyrs' blood that was shed in thee!--In Rome Luther devoutly sought to satisfy the cravings of his heart. keywords: christ; christians; church; city; day; dear; death; doctrine; emperor; faith; father; germany; god; gospel; holy; john; life; little; lord; luther; lutheran; man; people; pope; rome; scriptures; time; wittenberg; word; years cache: 38544.txt plain text: 38544.txt item: #57 of 85 id: 38713 author: Andrews, William title: Old Church Lore date: None words: 50127 flesch: 72 summary: Before 1579, Sunday appears to have been the only day upon which plays were performed, but after that year they were acted on other days as well as on Sunday. Old times are changed, and old manners gone; a stranger fills the Stuart throne. keywords: accounts; archbishop; battle; bell; book; bridge; chapel; church; coffin; country; cross; curfew; custom; days; dead; death; edward; end; england; fire; following; god; good; great; history; horn; house; hull; illustration; interest; james; john; king; life; london; lord; man; marriage; mary; mayor; men; night; ordeal; parish; paul; people; period; persons; place; plague; present; public; queen; sanctuary; service; sir; stone; subject; sunday; time; town; william; work; year; york; yorkshire cache: 38713.txt plain text: 38713.txt item: #58 of 85 id: 38963 author: Woodson, Carter Godwin title: The History of the Negro Church date: None words: 81142 flesch: 53 summary: The National Convention was organized in 1880, out of a protest against the attitude of certain whites toward the Negroes and they have since continued as a separate body having a publishing house of their own rather than patronize the American Baptist Publication Society.] INDEX Abbott, Lyman, interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Abrams, Joseph, a Negro preacher in Richmond, 163 Adams, Henry, pioneer Negro preacher in Louisville, 119 Adams, J. B., pastor of the Concord Baptist Church, 282 Afflictions, the effect of, 301-302 Africa, missionary work in, impeded, 309-311 African Civilization Society, the, achievements of, 211-212 A. M. E. Church, the establishment of, 72-78; troubles of, with the Zionites, 81-85; schools of, 205; educational program, 212 A. M. E. Zion Church, the beginnings of, 78-85; indecision of, 81-85; struggles of, 82-84; schism in, 106-107; schools of, 206 African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church of America, established, 192 African Union Church organized, 107 Alabama, Negro churches in, 118; reactionary laws of, 132; Presbyterians in, 155, 156-157 Alexander, Dr. A., a friend of John Gloucester, 66 Allen, Richard, the work of, 73-78; recognition of, 73; early efforts, 74-75; elected bishop, 76; death of, 101 Allen University, the establishment of, 205 Allensworth, Allen, religious work of, 229; in politics, 229-230 Ambrose, F., a pioneer C. M. E. worker, 196 American Baptist Home Mission Association, efforts of, 209 American Baptist Home Mission Society, the, achievements of, 203, 209-210; the attack on, 261-264 American Freedmen's Aid Commission, the work of, 212 American Freedmen's Union Commission, the establishment of, 213 American Missionary Association, schools of, 203-204 American Union Commission, the, achievements of, 212-213 Americans, unfavorable attitude of, 41 Anderson, I. H., a pioneer C. M. E. preacher, 196 Anderson, Thomas, a preacher in Savannah, 116 Anderson, William, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Andrew, Governor John A., a friend of the freedmen, 213 Andrew, a pioneer Negro teacher in Charleston, 8-9 Anglican clergy, the attitude of, 20-24; corruption, 20, 21, 22 Anthony Street Church, establishment of, in Mobile, 135 Arnett, Bishop B. W., religious work of, 236; in politics, 235-236; effort of, to repeal Black Laws, 236 Asbury, Bishop, the position of, 26, 28; work of, 28-30; recognition of Richard Allen by, 73 Ashmun Institute, the establishment of, 152 Atkinson, Edward, a friend of the freedmen, 213 Auchmutty, the work of, among Negroes in New York, 14 Austin, J. C., a popular preacher in Pittsburg, 282 Babbit, Bessie, white wife of Lemuel Haynes, 63 Bacon, Thomas, sermons of, on the instruction of Negroes, 23, 151-152 Bacote, S. W., a preacher in Missouri, 277-278 Bagnall, R. W., a social welfare minister, 277; advanced position of, 304 Ballou, Hosea, contest of, with Lemuel Haynes, 64 Baltimore, Baptist churches in, 111; Association for the moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People of, the efforts of, 208, 211 Baptists, early progress of, 85-91, 107-122, 298; reason for growth of, 108-109, 110; in the North, 120-122; statistics of schools of, 206; statistics of, 286, 296; division and increase of Negro Baptists, 256-257 Baptist Association of Western States and Territories, 200 Baptist conventions, the rise of, 199-201 Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, 201 Baptist Home Missionary Society, the American, the work of, 203, 209-210 Baptists (white) the Emancipating, 32-36 Baptists (white) the work of, among Negroes, 31-36; position in 1789, 32; anti-slavery work of, 32-36; the schism of, 130; interest of, in the Negro, 160 Baptized Licking-Locust Association, 36 Barclay, T., the work of, in New York, 15 Barnett, Nelson, a pioneer Baptist preacher of West Virginia, 240 Barrow, David, the position of, 33-34 Bartow, the work of, among Negroes, 11 Baxter, Richard, ideas of, carried out, 16 Beach, J., the work of, among Negroes, 16-17 Beckett, the work of, in Pennsylvania, 11 Beebe, J. A., a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 196 Beecher, H. W., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Benezet, Anthony, a worker among Negroes in Philadelphia, 18 Bentley, George, a pioneer Negro preacher in Tennessee, 137 Bethel Church, organization of, 75 Bible, influence of, among Negroes, 266-272 Biddle University, the establishment of, 203 Binga, Anthony, a useful minister in Richmond, 240 Bishop, Bishop, election of, 106; schismatic connection of, 106-107 Bishop, Josiah, a Negro Baptist preacher among whites, 54-55 Bishops of England, interested in proselyting the Negroes, 6-7 Black Code, 5 Black Harry, a pioneer Methodist Negro preacher, 56-58 Black Laws of Ohio, efforts to have them repealed, 236 Blackburn, Gideon, master of John Gloucester, 66-67 Book Concern of the A. M. E. Church, established, 102 Booker, J. A., an educator, 206; opinion of, 302 Boone, L. W., a preacher of power in North Carolina, 240 Boston, the Negro Baptists in, 121 Boucher, Jonathan, the words of, 23-24 Boulden, J. F., in politics, 227-228; religious efforts of, 227 Bowen, J. W. E., a prominent candidate for bishop, 299 Bowling, R. H., a preacher of renown in Norfolk, 282 Boyd, R. H., head of the National Baptist Publishing House, 261, 297 Bradby, a social welfare minister, 277 Braxton, P. H. A., religious effort of, 228-229; in politics, 229 Bray, Dr. Thomas, the mission of, 10 British, favorable attitude of, 41 Brooks, Bishop Sampson, a popular social preacher, 278 Brooks, Philip, interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Brooks, Walter H., quotation from, 41-42; the education of, 217; attack of, on white Baptists, 261 Brooks, W. H., a Methodist minister in New York, 277 Brown, Marcus, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Brown, Morris, a pioneer African Methodist preacher in South Carolina, 76; elected bishop of A. M. E. Church, 101 Brown, William, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78 Brown, W. W., popular pastor in New York, 278 Browne, W. W., a minister in business, 267 Bryan, Andrew, efforts of, in Savannah, 43, 47-53; persecution of, 49-52 Bryan, Jonathan, master of Andrew Bryan, 49; his friend, 50 Bryan, Sampson, brother and co-worker of Andrew Bryan, 49-50 Bryant, Ira T., a publisher, 297 Bryant, William C., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Bryce, John, a preacher to Negroes, 160, 164 Bull, Henry, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Bumstead, Horace, an educator, 215 Burling, William, interest of, in Negroes, 18 Burns, Francis, a Negro made bishop to Africa by the Methodists, 189 Burroughs, N. H., the achievements of, 206 Burrows, pastor of the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 87 Burt, Thomas, a supporter of the work in Savannah, 48 Buxton, Fowell, a comment of, 27 Caesar, a pioneer Negro Baptist preacher, 137 Cain, Bishop R. H., religious work of, 234-235; in politics, 234-235; a member of Congress, 234 Call of politics, 220-246 Cameron, Paul C., quotation from, on John Chavis, 68-69 Camp meetings among Negro Methodists, 144-145 Campbell, Alexander, sermon of, in Andrew Marshall's church, 114; trouble resulting from, 114, 115 Campbell, General, a friend of George Liele, 45 Campbell, William J., successor to Andrew Marshall, 117 Camphor, A. P., a Methodist missionary bishop, 299 Capucin monks, protest of, 3 Carroll, Richard, a preacher of social welfare tendency, 278 Carter, R. A., a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 240 Cary, Lott, sketch of, 137-140; ordained to preach, 139; work of, in Liberia, 139-140; death of, 140; interest of, in religious instruction, 160 Casas, las, a missionary, 2; attitude of, on slavery, 2 Caste in the white church, 306-309 Catholics working among Negroes, 1-6; appeal to Negroes a failure, 98; attraction of Negroes by, 256 Challenge to the Negro in freedom, 168 Change in worship advocated, 254-255 Chapman, James, a co-worker of Richard Allen, 75 Charleston, a Negro school in, 8-9; Morris Brown's work in, 77; fracas in church, in, 133-134; Negro churches of, demolished, 134; Presbyterians of, interested in the instruction of Negroes, 155 Charlton, the work of, among Negroes in New York, 14 Chase, Salmon P., interest of, in freedmen, 213 Chavis, John, an educated Negro teacher and preacher, 67-69 Christian, W., pastor of a Negro Baptist Church in Toronto, 122 Christian character emphasized, 252 Christianity of the whites, a farce in modern times, 306-309 Church management, questioned, 254 Churchill, W. P., one of the pioneer C. M. E. workers, 196 Civil War, the, and the church, 185-201; an upheaval, 188 Clair, M. W., a bishop of the M. E. Church, 299 Clarke, James Freeman, a friend of the freedmen, 213 Clayton, Moses C., a pioneer Baptist preacher in Baltimore, 111, 136 Cleaves, N. C., a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 240 Coke, Bishop, the position of, 26 Coker, Daniel, a pioneer preacher in the A. M. E. Church, 75-76; elected bishop, 76; resigned, 76; work of, in Baltimore, 76 Cole, Abraham, a preacher of power, 104 Coleman, Elihu, interest of, in Negroes, 18 Colgan, the work of, in New York, 14 Collins, Leonard, a pioneer preacher in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 104 Colonization Society, the American, opposed, 170 Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church organized, 192 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church organized, 193-197; unfair criticism of, 193-194 Columbus, missionary spirit of, 1 Conflict of sects, 19-20 Congregationalists, interest of, in Negroes, 99; small following, 99; promotion of education by, 203-204; attract Negroes later, 256 Conservative and progressive in the Negro church, 247-265 Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention, 200 Control of Negro church, desired by whites, 278-280 Cook, Steven A., a friend of George Liele, 46 Cooke, John F., founder of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, 136 Coöperation taught through the church, 284, 285 Coppin, Bishop L. J., foreign mission work of, 296-297 Corpew, E. G., a preacher in Portsmouth, 135 Cottrell, Elias, a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 240 Coxe, General, attitude of, toward the teaching of slaves, 164 Crockett, J. W., denominational work of, 297 Cruikshanks, Amos, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Crummell, Alexander, the struggles of, 176-177; interest of, in civil rights, 238 Cuff, Peter, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Cunningham, Henry, a co-worker with Andrew Marshall, 113 Curry, J. L. M., work of, 214 Cutler, Dr., a missionary in Boston, 17 D'Alone, M., supporter of Negro and Indian Missions, 10 Davis, Edward, a friend of Andrew Bryan, 48 Davis, Noah, a pioneer Baptist preacher in Baltimore, 111, 136 Dawn, the, of a new day, 23-39 DeBaptiste, Richard, a pioneer Baptist preacher in the Northwest Territory, 122; religious work of, 241-242 DeBerry, W. N., church of, socialized, 277 Derrick, Bishop W. B., religious work of, 231; in politics, 231-232 Development, the early, of the Negro church, 100-122 Devous, John, a preacher in Savannah, 116 Differing ideas in the Negro church, 247-265 Difficulties, the, of missions, 19-22 District of Columbia, Negro churches in, 110-111, 136 Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church, establishment of, 99 Dover Baptist Association, received Negro church, 135 Dow, Lorenzo, sermon of, in Andrew Bryan's church, 49 Drayton, Henry, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Drummond, Hugh, the escape of a slave preacher from, 72 Durham, Clayton, a co-worker of Richard Allen, 75 Early development of the Negro Church, 100-122 Eden, James, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Education, a concern of the Negro preacher, 168 Edwards, Mrs., interest of, in proselyting Negroes, 7 Eliot, John, interest of, in slaves, 15 Ellis, Harrison, a Negro preacher in Alabama, 140-142 Episcopalians, interest of, in Negroes, 94-97; attitude of, toward Negroes, 150-152; assistance of, given freedmen, 210-211; attract Negroes, 256 Evangelical sects, work of, 23-29; appeal of, successful, 143-144 Evans, Henry, a pioneer Negro preacher in North Carolina, 56 Farrand, Daniel, teacher of Lemuel Haynes, 63 Finley, J. B., the successor of John Stewart, 60-61 First Colored Methodist Protestant Church organized, 107 Fisk University, the establishment of, 203 Fleetwood, Bishop, sermon of, on the conversion of Negroes, 9 Foreign mission and the Negro church, 296, 297 Foreign relief to freedmen, 208 Ford, J. E., church institutional work of, 276 Fox, George, attitude of, toward freedom and enlightenment, 18 France, decrees of, as to indoctrinating slaves, 3 Francis, Henry, a Negro preacher in Savannah, 52 Fray, S. T., a pioneer preacher in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 104 Frazer, Garrison, a pastor in Savannah, 117 Free African Society, organization of, 75; comment of, 92 Free-Will Baptists, the achievements of, 203, 209 Freedmen Aid Societies, the work of, 208-209 Freedmen Aid Society, the, of the Methodist Church, the establishment of, 209 Freedmen's Bureau, facts from, 208 French, missionary spirit of, 1 Friends, the relief work of, 207-208; the Society of, in England, the efforts of, 208 Friends' Association of Philadelphia, for the relief of colored Freedmen, the work of, 207 Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, 208 Frink, S., a missionary in Georgia, 11 Fugitive Slave Law, effect of, on the migration of Negroes, 122 Galbreth, George, election of, as bishop, 105-106; dispute concerning, 106 Gales, G. W., in politics, 226; religious efforts of, 226 Galphin, George, patron of the Silver Bluff Church, 42 Garnett, Henry Highland, the career of, 175-176 Garretson, Freeborn, attitude of, on Negro conversion, 28 Garrison, William L., interest of, in relief of freedmen, 212 George, David, pastor of the Silver Bluff Church, 42; work of, in Nova Scotia, 42; in Sierre Leone, 42 Georgia, the instruction of Negroes in, 10-11; Negro Baptists in, 112-118; reactionary laws of, 132; Presbyterians of, interested in the Negro, 155, 157 Gibbs, Thomas, the escape of a slave preacher from, 72 Gibson, Bishop, interested in proselyting Negroes, 7; letters of, 7 Gillfield Baptist Church, Petersburg, establishment of, 136 Gilliard, Nicholson, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Gloucester, John, a pioneer Presbyterian preacher, 65-67 Goff, Lyman B., interested in the preaching of Charles T. Walker, 245 Goose Creek Parish, Negroes of, instructed, 7 Graham, Solon, an early C. M. E. minister, 196 Graham, W. F., a minister in business, 267 Grant, Bishop, a useful churchman, 238 Great, Evans, a preacher in Savannah, 112, 113 Green, A. R., an editor and Book Steward, 102 Green, Beriah, a friendly teacher of Negroes, 175, 176 Gregg, David, interested in the preaching of Charles T. Walker, 245 Gregg, Jacob, an Emancipating Baptist, 35 Grimes, Leonard, sketch of, 180-182 Grimké, F. J., position of, 303 Grouch, Job, a C. M. E. worker, 196 Growth of the Negro church, 286-299 Guy, Rev. Mr., a preacher to Negroes, 8 Gunner, Byron, the advanced position of, 304 Haig, Mrs., interest of, in proselyting Negroes, 7 Hale, Edward Everett, a friend of the freedmen, 213 Hall, C., preaching of, to Negroes, in North Carolina, 10 Hall, Stephen, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Hamilton, Leroy, the master of Henry Francis, 52 Hamilton, William, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78-79 Hampton Institute, the establishment of, 204 Hanover Presbytery, John Chavis a missionary for, 68 Harden, Henry, troubles of, with the A. M. E. Zion Church, 82-83 Harding, Henry, a supporter of Richard Allen, 75-76 Harper, Alexander, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Harry, a Negro teacher in Charleston, 8-9 Haversham, Justice James, favorable to Andrew Bryan, 49-50 Hawkins, Gen. Rush C., interested in the preaching of Charles T. Walker, 245 Hawkins, John R., a business man in the church, 267 Hawthorne Keidor, a preacher to Negroes in Mobile, 135 Hayes, Gregory W., the work of, 206; conflict of, with the American Baptist Home Mission Society, 262 Haygood, A. G., a friend of the freedmen, 213 Haynes, Lemuel, a scholarly Negro preacher to whites, 62-65 Henderson, Archibald, a student under John Chavis, 70 Henderson, John, a student under John Chavis, 70 Henderson, J., a preacher in Philadelphia, 121 Hepburn, John, a worker among Negroes, 18 Hogarth, George, election of as A. M. E. Book Steward, 102 Hogg, Kate, a member of the Savannah African Church, 45 Holly, J. T., the record of, 179-180 Holmes, Donald, an emancipating Baptist, 35 Holsey, L. H., an early C. M. E. preacher, 196; elected bishop, 196; work of, 239-240 Home missions of the Negro church, 295-296 Honyman, J., the efforts of, among Negroes, 17 Hood, Bishop James W., the religious work of, 236; in politics, 236-238 Hopkins, Samuel, the interest of, in Negroes, 36 Houston, U. L., a pastor in Savannah, 117 Howard, O. O., an educator, of freedmen, 215 Howard University, the establishment of, 204 Huddlestone, work of, in New York, 14 Hunt, Rev. Mr., a teacher of Negroes, 8 Hurst, Bishop John, the faith of, 301 Illinois, Negro Baptists in, 122 Independent church movement, 71-99 Intelligent people lost to the church, 255-256; welcomed by others, 256 Jack, Uncle, a pioneer Negro preacher in Virginia, 55-56 Jackson, Anderson, an early C. M. E. minister, 196 Jackson, Edward, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Jackson, William, a preacher in Philadelphia, 121 Jackson, Tennessee, C. M. E. Church organized at, 195-196 Jacksonville, Florida, Negro Baptist church in, 118-119 Jacob, a slave preacher, the escape of, 72 Jacobs, Francis, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78-79 Jamaica, the work of George Liele in, 43-46 James, Thomas, an anti-slavery preacher, 173 Jasper, John, a popular Baptist preacher, 238-239 Jaudan, Rev. J., a preacher to Negroes in Florida, 118 Jenny, Rev. Mr., the work of, among Negroes, 11 Jernagin, W. H., a social welfare minister in Washington, 278 John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, troubles of, 78, 83-84 Johnson, Adam, pastor of a schismatic church in Savannah, 114 Johnson, Dr., a worker at Stratford, 17 Johnson, D. L., a teacher of contrabands, 215 Johnson, Harvey, attack of, on white Baptists, 261 Johnson, Henry, a pioneer preacher in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 104 Johnson, Bishop J. Albert, foreign mission work of, 296-297 Johnson, M. W., a rising preacher in the Baptist Church, 282 Johnson, Robert, a pastor of Baptists in Washington, D. C., 282 Johnson, W. B., a Baptist preacher in the District of Columbia, 240 Johnson, Bishop W. D., an A. M. E. minister of educational tendencies, 278 Jones, Absalom, a co-worker of Richard Allen, 74; differing ideas of, 75; rector of St. Thomas, 75, 94 Jones, C. C., interest of, in the enlightenment of Negroes, 153-155 Jones, Joshua H., a substantial supporter of Wilberforce, 264 Jones, R. E., a bishop of the M. E. Church, 299 Jones, Thomas, escape of a slave preacher from, 72 Jones, William, a pioneer C. M. E. worker, 196 Jordan, L. G., interest of, in business, 282; foreign mission work of, 296 Keith, George, promoter of religious training, 18 Kennedy, Dempsey, an anti-slavery preacher, 173 Kentucky, the Emancipating Baptists in, 34-36; Negro Baptists in, 119-120 Kirkland, Colonel, a friend of George Liele, 44, 45 Lambert, William, a pioneer Methodist preacher, 81; troubles with the A. M. E. Zion Church, 81; relations with Richard Allen, 80-82 Lane, Isaac, a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 240 Lane, John W., a C. M. E. worker, 196 Lane College, the establishment of, 203 Latin element, missionary spirit of, 2 Law, Josiah, a preacher to Negroes, 155 Lawton, Bristol, a minister in Savannah, 117 Leadership in the Negro church, 280-281 Lee, George W., achievements of, 244 Lee, Bishop, President of Wilberforce, 238 Legislation, reactionary, 131-132 Lemon, William, a Negro Baptist preacher in Virginia, 53 Lexington, Kentucky, the Baptist Church in, 86; Negro Baptist Church in, 119 Liberty County, Georgia, instruction of Negroes in, 165 Liele, George, preacher at the Silver Bluff Church, 42; efforts of, in Savannah, 43-45; in Jamaica, 44-45 Lincoln University, development of, 203 Lindsay, the work of, in New Jersey, 12 Literature for religious instruction, 166 Livingston College, the establishment of, 205-206 Locke, a white minister interested in Thomas Paul, 88 Locke, John, the philosophy of, influential, 25 Locke, Richard, the work of, among Negroes, 11 London Freedmen's Aid Society, the work of, 208 Lott Cary Convention, organization, 262-263 Love, E. K., a popular preacher in Georgia, 240 Louisville, Negro Baptists in, 119 MacIntosh County, Georgia, instruction of Negroes in, 165 Macsparran, Dr., a worker among Negroes at Narragansett, 17 McClaskey, John, an adviser of the A. M. E. Zion Church, 79 McDonald, James, a co-worker with Negroes in Florida, 118 McKall, Basil, a preacher of power, 104 McLemore, James, an evangelist among Negroes, 137 McQueen, Steven, a preacher in Savannah, 116 McTyeire, interest of, in the Colored Methodist, 195 Management of the Church, the, questioned, 254 Manchester, Virginia, large Negro Baptist church in, 111-112 Manly, Governor Charles, a student under John Chavis, 70 Mangum, P. H., a student under John Chavis, 69 Mangum, W. P., a student under John Chavis, 69 Manning, J. M., a friend of the freedmen, 213 Mars, John N., an anti-slavery Methodist preacher, 173 Marsh, Jacob, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Marshall, Abraham, organizer of the Savannah Baptist Church, 48 Marshall, Andrew, a noted Baptist preacher in Savannah, 112; troubles of, 113-115; work of, 112-118 Martin, J. C., denominational work of, 297 Martin J. Sella, an eloquent preacher, 238 Maryland, Catholic workers among Negroes in, 4-5 Massachusetts Episcopal Association, the efforts of, 211 Mather, Cotton, interest of, in slaves, 15-16 Matthews, John, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Mayo, A. D., the efforts of, 214 Meacham, J. B., a pioneer Negro preacher in St. Louis, 120 Meade, Bishop, interest of, in the instruction of Negroes, 151-152 Methodist and Baptist attract Negroes, 196-197, 217 Methodists, African, in the North, 120-122; school statistics of, 203 Methodist Episcopal Church, position on slavery in 1784, 29; pioneer work among Negroes, 26-31; division of, on slavery, 123-124; interest of, in Negro uplift, 158-159; in the Civil War, 186-187, 189-192; attitude of, toward the Negroes, 188-192, 258-259; qualified recognition of Negroes, by, 191-192, 193-197 Mifflin, Warner, the memorial of, 38 Migration of Negro Methodists and Baptists, 122 Miles, W. H., one of the first bishops of the C. M. E. Church, 196 Miller, George Frazier, an Episcopal rector of Brooklyn, 277, 304 Miller, Kelly, opinion of, referred to, 280-281 Miller, Thomas, pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78 Miller, William, a pioneer preacher among the Methodists, 78; elected bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church, 105; death of, 105 Missionaries, the attitude of the early, among Negroes, 1-2; in the West Indies, 26-27 Missionary work, the lack of, in America, 21; impeded in Africa, 309-311 Mississippi, the Presbyterians of, interested in the Negro, 155 Mixed churches, procedure in, 132-133 Mobile, a Negro church in, 118; establishment of the Anthony Street Church in, 135 Monks, Capucin, protest of, 3 Montague, Justice James, favorable to Andrew Bryan, 49-50 Montgomery, Alabama, Negro Baptists in, 118 Moore, Matthew, the pastor of whites and Negroes, 44 Moore, Bishop, election of, 105; retirement of, 105 Morehouse College, the establishment of, 203 Morris Brown University, the establishment of, 205 Morris, E. C., head of the National Baptist Convention, 261 Morris, Rev. Mr., a preacher in Virginia, 135 Moses, Rev. Mr., a worker among Negroes in Virginia, 53 Mound Bayou, mixed Baptist Church in, 86 Muir, a worker in Kentucky, 38 National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, the efforts of, 307 National Baptist Convention, 201; the fight of, against white Baptists, 257-264 National Freedmen's Relief Association, the work of, 207 Neal, Rev. Mr., the labors of, in Dover, 12 Neau, Elias, the work of, among Negroes in New York, 12-14 Negro Baptists, connection of, with white Baptists, 201 Negro Church, the, socialized, 266-285; a place for recreation, 267-268; educational institution, 268-273; a welfare agency, 273-277; leadership in, 280-281; the criticism of, 302-303; its present situation, 300-313 Negro ministers, restrictions upon, 131; the authority of, 278-279; unique position of, 281-282; still numerous, 304-305; in conflict with southern white ministers, 305-306; a redeeming force, 301 Negro schools established after the Civil War, 203-219 Negroes, the religious point of view of, 146-147 New England Missionary Convention, the, 200 New England, missionary work of, among Negroes, 15-17; Negro churches in, 121 New Haven, Connecticut, Negro Congregational Church in, 99 New Jersey, the conversion of Negroes in, 12 New York, the instruction of Negroes in, 12-15 New York City, the Abyssinian Baptist Church in, organized, 88-89 Newman, Rev. Mr., preaching of, to Negroes in North Carolina, 9-10 Norman, M. W. D., a preacher of power, 282 North, Negro Baptists in, 120, 122 North Carolina, the instruction of Negroes in, 9-10; the work of the Quakers in, 18; Negro Baptists of, organized the first State Convention, 199-200 Northern philanthropy, change in, 263-264 Northwestern Baptist Convention, 200 Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission, the work of, 207 Ohio, Negro Baptists in, 122 Olivet Baptist Church, the success of, 278-279 Olmsted, F. L., comment of, on religious instruction, 149-151; interest of, in the freedmen, 212 O'Neal, J. B., ideas of, as to Negro uplift, 164 Opinions, differences of, a difficulty, 19-20 Osborne, Justice Henry, favorable to Andrew Bryan, 49 Paine, Bishop Robert, interest of, in Colored Methodists, 195-196 Paine College, the establishment of, 205 Palmer, founder of the Church at Silver Bluff, 41-42 Pamphlet, Gowan, a preacher of the Negro race in Virginia, 53 Panama, de Luna Victoria, a bishop in, 4 Parsippany, Presbyterian School at, 152 Patterson, Robert, an elder in Kentucky, 38 Paul, Thomas, a pioneer Negro Baptist preacher in New England, 88-91; work of, in Boston, 88; efforts of, in New York, 89-90; missionary efforts of, 90-91 Payne, Bishop Daniel A., early work of, 171-172 Payne, C. H., religious work of, 230; in politics, 230-231 Penn, William, interest of, in Negroes, 18 Pennington, J. W. C., the achievements of, 178-179 Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association, the efforts of, 207 Pennsylvania, the missionary movement in, 11-12 Perkins, R. J., a pioneer preacher of West Virginia, 240 Perry, Rufus L., religious and educational work of, 242-244 Peru, a Negro bishop in, 4 Peter, Jesse, the work of, in reviving the Silver Bluff Church, 42 Petersburgh, Virginia, Baptist Church in, 53, 85 Philadelphia, the Negro Baptist Church of, established, 86; proslavery element in, 86-87 Philanthropy, northern, change in, 263-264 Phillips, C. H., a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 240 Phillips, Doc., a pioneer Negro preacher, 137 Pierce, Edward L., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Pioneer Negro preachers, 40-70 Poindexter, James, a pioneer Negro Baptist preacher in Ohio, 122; religious efforts of, 223; in politics, 223-224 Politics, the call of, 220-246 Polk, Bishop, attitude of, toward the instruction of his slaves, 149-151 Pontier, Samuel, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78 Porteus, Bishop, interest of, in the salvation of Negroes, 7 Portsmouth, Virginia, Negro Baptist church in, 54-55, 111 Powell, A. C, a preacher with a following, 282 Preachers, Negro, pioneer work of, 40-70; educational work of, 168-169; as spokesmen of the Negroes, 169; interested in colonization, 170; in the underground railroad, 170, 171; in the press, 171 Preachers, Negro Pioneer, 40-70 Preachers of versatile genius, 167-184 Presbyterians, interest of, in Negroes, 97-98; failure to win Negroes, 98; position on slavery and the Negro, 36-39; position of in 1782, 36-37; pacifist letter of, 38-39; the attitude of, on slavery, 124-127, 128, 130; interest of, in the instruction of Negroes, 152-158; schools of, 203, 204, 205; educational work of, 210; attract Negroes, 256 Price, J. C., the record of, 206; the education of, 217 Primitive Baptist Church, Negroes separate therefrom, 192 Princeton, John Chavis at, 68 Proctor, H. H., church institutional work of, 276 Progressive Baptists, the separation of, from whites, 259-264 Progressive ideas in the Negro church, 247-265 Protestant Episcopal Freedmen's Commission, aid of, to Negroes, 211 Protracted meetings among Baptists, 143-144 Providence Baptist Association, organization of, 122 Pugh, the work of, among Negroes, 12 Quakers, the efforts of, among Negroes, 17-19 Quinn, W. P., a successful missionary, 101; elected bishop, 101 Race prejudice in the church, 305-309 Ranford, of Chowan, a preacher to Negroes, 9 Ransom, R. C., head of the Institutional Church, Chicago, 276; an editor, 297 Ray, Charles B., the work of, 173-174 Recent growth of the Negro church, 286-299 Recent statistics of the Negro church, 286-299 Reddick, M. W., a preacher of influence, 282 Relation of the individual to the church, differing ideas as to, 251-252 Relations of whites and blacks in churches, 132-134 Religion, differing ideas of, 250-251 Religious education as a preparation, 202-219 Religious instruction revived, 148-166 Revells, Hiram R., sketch of, 183-184 Rice, an elder in Kentucky, interested in the Negro, 38 Richard, a slave preacher, the escape of, 72 Riddle, J. M., a minister in California, 278 Riot of Negroes in New York in 1812, 14 Rippon, Dr., testimony of, as to Andrew Bryan, 51 Roberts, Isaac, a preacher in Savannah, 117 Roberts, John W., a Negro made bishop to Africa by the Methodists, 189 Roberts, R., the missionary work of, 100 Rockefeller, John D., interested in the preaching of Charles T. Walker, 245 Roger Williams University, the establishment of, 203 Rogers, E. P., a preacher before the Civil War, 179; poem of, on the Missouri Compromise, 179 Rose, David, friend of Lemuel Haynes, 62 Ross, the work of, in Pennsylvania, 11 Rush, Christopher, a pioneer in A. M. E. Zion Church, 85; election of, as bishop, 102; the success of, 102-103 Ryland, Robert, pastor of Negro church in Richmond, 111-112; work of, among Negroes, in Richmond, 135; promoter of religious instruction among Negroes, 161-163; comment on, 162-163 Samuels, an early C. M. E. worker, 196 Sandiford, Ralph, interest of, in Negroes, 18 Sandoval, Alfonso, protest of, in behalf of Negroes, 3 Savannah, resolutions of the Baptist Association of, on Andrew Bryan, 53; the Baptist Church in, 85; the churches of, 115-117 Sayre, J., the work of, among Negroes in New York, 15 Schism among white Methodists, effect of, on Negro Methodists, 83-84-85; in the Methodist Church, 123-124, 127-128, 130; in all churches, 123-147; in the Negro Baptist Church, 297-298 Schismatic movement in Negro church, 247-265; results from, 257-258 Scott, Daniel, a preacher in Philadelphia, 121 Scott, June, a pioneer Methodist preacher, 78; schismatic efforts of, 79-80 Secker, Bishop, sermon on conversion of Negroes, 7 Sewell, Jonathan, interest of, in slaves, 16 Shaw, Francis F., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Shaw University, the establishment of, 203 Simmons, William J., religious efforts of, 223; in politics, 223 Simpson, Hagar, a member of the Baptist Church in Savannah, 45 Simpson, Smart, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Slaves indoctrinated, 3 Smith, Bishop C. S., educational efforts of, 297 Smith, George, an Emancipating Baptist, 35 Socializing the Negro church, 266-285 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, organized, 6; the work of, 6-22 South Carolina, Negroes in, instructed, 7; a Negro school in, 8; Negro Baptists in, 112; Methodists in, interested in Negro uplift, 158-159 Southern Baptist Convention, 200 Sovereigns of Europe, change of attitude of, toward Negro, 2 Spain, decrees of, as to indoctrinating slaves, 3 Spanish sovereigns, missionary spirit of, 1 Spencer, Peter, a pioneer Negro preacher, 76 Spywood, election of, as bishop, 104-105 St. George Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia, trouble in, 73 St. James, an Episcopal Church established in Baltimore, 96 St. Louis, Negro Baptists in, 120 St. Phillips Church, episcopal, established in New York, 94-95 St. Thomas, an episcopal church established in Philadelphia, 94 Statistics on Negro membership in mixed churches, 146; of Freedmen Aid Societies, 206-208; of the Negro church, 286-299 Stevens, David, a preacher of power, 104 Stewart, John, a pioneer Negro preacher in Ohio, 58-61 Stewart, Rev. Mr., a missionary in North Carolina, 10 Stiles, Ezra, interest in the Negro, 36 Storer, Bellamy, interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Stokes, W. H., a forceful preacher in Richmond, 241 Stoupe, the work of, in New York, 15 Straight College, the establishment of, 204 Stratton, Daniel, a pioneer preacher of West Virginia, 240 Struggle between the conservative and the progressive in the Negro church, 247-265 Sturgeon, W., the work of, among Negroes, 11-12 Taft, William H., interested in the preaching of Charles T. Walker, 245 Talented Negroes in conflict with the conservatives, 247-265 Talladega College, the establishment of, 203-204 Tanner, Bishop B. T., comment of, 92-93; a power in the A. M. E. Church, 239 Tanner, C. M., an African Methodist preacher in Washington, 240 Tapsico, Jacob, a co-worker of Richard Allen, 75 Tarrant, Carter, an Emancipating Baptist, 35 Taylor, Charles, the work of, in New York, 15 Taylor, Rev. E., interest of, in the enlightenment of Negroes, 7-8 Teague, Collin, a co-worker of Lott Cary, 139-140 Tennessee, Baptists in, 119; George Bentley's work in, 137 Terrell, L., pastor of Negro Baptist Church in Lexington, 119 Thiergood, R. T., an early C. M. E. worker, 196 Thomas, Samuel, a teacher of Negroes, 7 Thompson, Abraham, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78-79; schismatic efforts of, 79-80, 81 Tindley, C. A., a preacher of power, 244 Toronto, Negro Baptists in, 122; Methodists in, 122 Tougaloo University, the establishment of, 204 Transylvania, the Presbytery of, concerned with the Negroes, 38 Trujillo, a Negro bishop in, 4 Turner, Bishop H. M., religious work of, 232; in politics, 232-234 Turner, Nat, the effect of the insurrection of, 52, 69 Turpin, London, a co-worker of Morris Brown, 76 Uncle Jack, a Negro pioneer preacher, 55-56 Union American Methodist Episcopal Church organized, 107 Union Church of Africans, organized, 107 Union Seminary, the forerunner of Wilberforce, 205 Unwritten law as to holding Christians slaves, 4 Usher, J., the work of, among Negroes, 16 Vanderhorst, R. H., a pioneer preacher in the C. M. E. Church, 196; elected bishop, 196 Varick, James, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78; elected bishop, 85; death of, 102 Vaughn, Richard, a preacher in Philadelphia, 121 Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, 282 Vesey, a supporter of Negro missions, 13 Vesey, Denmark, the effect of the insurrection of, 78 Vices, so-called, 253 Victoria, Francisco Xavier de Luna, a churchman of Negro blood, 4 Virginia, Quakers in, 17-18; Emancipating Baptists in, 32-34; Negro Baptists in, 53-54: reactionary laws of, 131 Virginia Theological Seminary and College, the establishment of, 206 Waldron, J. M., church institutional work of, 276; in politics, 312 Walker, C. T., a preacher of power, 245-246 Walker, William, opposition of, to work of John Stewart, 60 Walters, Bishop A., church work of, 311-312; in politics, 312 Ward, Samuel R., record of, 182-183; Frederick Douglass' opinion of, 183 Watcoat, Richard, recognition of Richard Allen by, 73 Waters, Edward, ordained assistant bishop, 101 Webster, Thomas, a co-worker of Richard Allen, 75 Wells, Richard, a useful minister in Richmond, 240 West Indies, missionaries to Negroes in, 4 Western Colored Baptist Convention, organization of, 122 Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, the work of, 207 Western University, the establishment of, 205 Wesley, John, the position of, 26 White, J. T., in politics, 225; religious efforts of, 225 White, Sampson, a pioneer preacher in the Baptist Church, 110-111; preaching of, in New York, 121; pastor of the Gillfield Baptist Church, 136 White, W. J., a successful minister, 240 White, William, a co-worker of Richard Allen, 74-75 White man's standard, an influence, 252-253 Whitefield, George, the position of, on the Negro, 26 Whitmore, the work of, in New York, 14 Whittier, John G., interest of, in the freedmen, 212 Wilberforce University, the establishment of, 205 Williams, John A., a pioneer preacher in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 104; a noted revivalist, 104 Williams, L. K., popular pastor in Chicago, 278; social work of, 278-279 Williams, Peter, a pioneer in the A. M. E. Zion Church, 78; rector of St. Phillips in New York, 94-95; his lack of force, 95 Williams, Richard, a supporter of Richard Allen, 75 Williams, R. S., a bishop of the C. M. E. Church, 240 Williamsburg, Virginia, the Baptist Church in, 1785, 53 Williamson, Edward, a supporter of Richard Allen, 76 Willis, J. E., a preacher of power, 282 Willis, Joseph, a pioneer preacher in the South, 86 Wood River Baptist Association, organization of, 122 Woods, R. C., progress of the Virginia Theological Seminary under, 264 Woolman, John, efforts of, for enlightenment of Negroes, 18 Worlds, J. J., a pioneer preacher of North Carolina, 240 Worship, mode of, questioned, 254-255 Wortham, Dr. James F., a student under John Chavis, 70 Wright, R. R., editor and publisher, 297 Yates, a worker in Pennsylvania, 11 Young Negroes in conflict with the old in the church, 247-249 With the tendency of so many members to find fault, to disagree, to follow the advice of ill-designing persons seeking personal ends, it was a decidedly easy matter for Negro Baptist churches under these circumstances to split and thus multiply. keywords: african; allen; association; baptist church; baptists; bishop; carolina; christian; church; church work; churches; day; e. church; education; episcopal church; freedmen; general; god; influence; instruction; interest; john; large; man; members; men; methodist church; methodists; minister; ministry; missionary; national; negro; negroes; new; north; number; pastor; people; persons; pioneer; position; preacher; race; rev; richard; school; slavery; slaves; society; south; state; time; virginia; war; white; work; years; york; zion church cache: 38963.txt plain text: 38963.txt item: #59 of 85 id: 39092 author: Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) title: The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire date: None words: 149383 flesch: 76 summary: [57] _D._ ii, 24. He maintains, too, against Epicurus the naturalness of love for children; once born, we cannot help loving them, _D._ [88] _D._ iii, 24, [89] _D._ ii, 14. keywords: account; adv; age; apol; apuleius; body; book; case; celsus; century; change; chapter; character; children; christian; christianity; church; city; clement; course; day; days; death; divine; dæmons; earth; emperor; end; epictetus; evidence; evil; experience; fact; faith; father; flesh; friends; general; god; gods; good; gospel; greek; hand; heart; heaven; history; holy; human; idea; iii; jesus; jew; jewish; jews; justin; kaì; kind; knowledge; language; law; left; life; literature; living; logos; long; lord; love; lucian; man; mankind; matter; means; men; mind; names; nature; need; non; passage; paul; people; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; plutarch; point; power; question; read; real; reason; religion; right; roman; rome; saw; second; seneca; sense; set; sidenote; son; soul; speak; spirit; stoic; story; strom; superstition; teaching; tertullian; things; thought; time; truth; trypho; universe; use; value; view; vii; viii; way; women; words; work; world; worship; years; zeus cache: 39092.txt plain text: 39092.txt item: #60 of 85 id: 39566 author: Tefft, Lyman Beecher title: Curiosities of Heat date: None words: 66580 flesch: 73 summary: By the aid of heat man subdues the world. By heat man prepares his food; by heat he drives his machinery; by heat he outstrips the flight of the winds; by heat he turns winter into summer and in his own dwelling makes for himself a perpetual springtime. keywords: air; ansel; bodies; body; christ; cold; creator; day; degrees; earth; force; god; good; heat; hume; ice; life; man; men; nature; place; point; sea; sin; spirit; state; subject; summer; sun; surface; tell; temperature; things; think; time; vapor; water; wilton; winter; world cache: 39566.txt plain text: 39566.txt item: #61 of 85 id: 39734 author: Ledderhose, Karl Friedrich title: The Life of Philip Melanchthon date: None words: 108904 flesch: 68 summary: Such a spirit should also have been manifested in the so-called _Synergistic_ controversy, which caused Melanchthon great trouble. It is impossible to show in Melanchthon's case, as it can be done in that of Luther, and other great men of Christ's church, how he arrived at the knowledge of the Truth, and an experience of the Grace of God. keywords: account; articles; augsburg; body; chapter; christ; christian; church; confession; day; death; diet; doctrine; duke; elector; emperor; faith; friends; god; good; gospel; grace; holy; letter; life; lord; luther; man; manner; matter; melanchthon; men; opinion; order; peace; philip; pope; present; princes; protestants; reformation; regard; son; theologians; things; time; truth; university; wish; wittenberg; word; work; year cache: 39734.txt plain text: 39734.txt item: #62 of 85 id: 39814 author: Belknap, Helen Olive title: The Church on the Changing Frontier: A Study of the Homesteader and His Church date: None words: 35472 flesch: 72 summary: The churches in this new western country must keep pace with their rapidly changing environment, and with elastic yet inclusive programs really become community churches. to country churches. keywords: area; average; beaverhead; beaverhead county; cent; church church; church membership; churches churches; city churches; community; counties; country churches; county; enrollment; farm; hughes; hughes county; illustration; land; miles; new; number; organizations; people; population; range; resident; school; services; sheridan; sheridan county; social; sunday; time; total; town; town churches; union county; village churches; work; year cache: 39814.txt plain text: 39814.txt item: #63 of 85 id: 39966 author: Paterson, James title: Curiosities of Christian History Prior to the Reformation date: None words: 230087 flesch: 70 summary: Death of the Apostles, 23; Apostles who were Married, 23; St. Matthew and St. Mark, 24; St. Luke and St. Bartholomew, 25; St. Thomas and St. Simeon, 26; St. Timothy and St. Barnabas, 27; St. Titus, St. Philip, and St. Andrew, 28; James and John, 29; St. John the Apostle, 30; St. John and his Partridge, 31; St. John's Last Days, 32; St. John and Edward the Confessor, 33; St. James the Less, 33; St. James the Great, 34; St. Peter and St. Paul, 36; Deaths of St. Peter and St. Paul, 37; St. Peter when in Rome, 38; Churches of St. Peter and St. Paul at Rome, 39; If St. Paul in Great Britain, 40; Judas Iscariot, 41. CHAPTER III. They say that St. John was one of the authors of the order of bishops, and that he went about ordaining for various stations, and especially Polycarp, while St. Peter ordained Clement at Rome and St. Paul ordained Timothy at Ephesus. keywords: a.d; abbey; abbot; age; altar; angels; apostles; archbishop; art; artist; bernard; bishop; blood; body; brethren; brother; building; cathedral; century; chapel; children; christ; christian; church; churches; city; clergy; constantine; constantinople; convent; council; cross; crown; crusaders; day; days; dead; death; divine; early; earth; emperor; end; england; english; eyes; face; faith; father; feet; fire; france; francis; friars; god; gold; good; great; gregory; hand; head; heaven; hermit; history; holy; honour; house; images; james; jerome; jerusalem; jesus; jews; john; king; lay; left; life; lord; man; martyr; mary; mass; master; men; miracles; monasteries; monastery; money; monks; mother; music; night; order; painter; paris; paul; people; peter; picture; pilgrims; place; pope; power; prayers; present; priest; queen; relics; roman; rome; round; sacred; saint; saviour; saying; sea; second; service; set; silver; son; temple; things; thomas; thought; time; virgin; water; way; went; white; wild; words; work; world; worship; years cache: 39966.txt plain text: 39966.txt item: #64 of 85 id: 40798 author: Lindsay, Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) title: A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) date: None words: 227321 flesch: 65 summary: _Cope_, 403 _f._ _n._, 406 and _n._, 407. of Savoy, 62; Pierre de la Baume, 77, 82 _f._, 85, 89. keywords: act; anabaptists; april; archbishop; articles; authorities; authority; bern; bishop; body; book; calendar; calvin; cardinal; catherine; catholic; century; charles; children; christ; christian; church; churches; citizens; city; clergy; common; condition; conference; confession; congregation; correspondance; council; country; court; day; days; de france; death; des; die; discipline; doctrine; duke; edict; edward; elizabeth; emperor; end; england; english; europe; evangelical; faith; farel; footnote; france; francis; french; general; geneva; germany; god; good; government; hands; head; henry; heresy; herminjard; history; holy; house; ibid; ideas; ignatius; iii; influence; inquisition; italian; italy; jan; jesus; john; july; king; knox; law; leaders; league; learning; left; letters; life; london; lord; luther; lutheran; march; marriage; mary; mass; matters; mediæval; mediæval church; members; men; mother; movement; münster; navarre; netherlands; new; nobles; opinions; order; papal; papers; paris; parliament; paul; people; persecution; philip; place; policy; pope; power; prayer; preachers; preaching; presence; present; priests; prince; protestant; provinces; public; queen; question; reformation; reformed; reformers; regent; religion; right; roman; romanist; rome; rule; scotland; scripture; second; set; society; son; spain; spanish; state; supper; swiss; switzerland; theology; things; thomas; thought; time; town; trent; use; viii; way; william; women; word; work; worship; years; young; zurich; zwingli cache: 40798.txt plain text: 40798.txt item: #65 of 85 id: 418 author: Luther, Martin title: A Treatise on Good Works date: None words: 40771 flesch: 67 summary: Or who is he, before whose door and into whose house such good works do not daily come, so that he would have no need to travel far or to ask after good works? Now we see how the Almighty God has not only set our Lord Jesus Christ before us that we should believe in Him with such confidence, but also holds before us in Him an example of this same confidence and of such good works, to the end that we should believe in Him, follow Him and abide in Him forever; as He says, John xiv: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life,--the Way, in which we follow Him; the Truth, that we believe in Him; the Life, that we live in Him forever. keywords: children; christ; commandment; confidence; evil; faith; god; good; grace; heart; help; holy; honor; life; lord; love; luther; need; prayer; reason; sin; spiritual; things; way; works cache: 418.txt plain text: 418.txt item: #66 of 85 id: 42518 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: Talks to Farmers date: None words: 97806 flesch: 83 summary: Are they not brought forth of the earth on purpose that they may show us what sin has done, and the kind of produce that will come when we sow the seed of rebellion against God? I have met with persons who thought they perfectly understood the doctrines of grace, who could accurately set forth the election of the saints, the predestination of God, the firmness of the divine decree, the necessity of the Spirit's work, and all the glorious doctrines of grace which build up the fabric of our faith; but these gentlemen have inferred from these doctrines that they have to do nothing, and thus they have become sluggards. keywords: christ; come; corn; day; earth; faith; father; field; god; good; gospel; grace; grass; great; hand; harvest; heart; heaven; holy; hope; jesus; joy; life; like; look; lord; lord jesus; love; man; master; men; people; place; plough; power; seed; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; till; time; truth; way; wheat; word; work cache: 42518.txt plain text: 42518.txt item: #67 of 85 id: 42865 author: Renan, Ernest title: English Conferences of Ernest Renan: Rome and Christianity. Marcus Aurelius date: None words: 34467 flesch: 65 summary: _ Rome, the Centre of the Formation of Ecclesiastical Authority 73 _Fourth Conference._ Peter will be its veritable head; then, the political and hierarchical spirit of old Rome penetrating it, it will indeed become the new Jerusalem, the city of the Pontificate, of the hieratic and solemn religion, of the material sacraments which justify of themselves, the city of the ascetics of the manner of Jacques Ohliam with his callous knees and his plate of gold upon his brow. keywords: aurelius; century; christianity; christians; church; churches; city; day; death; empire; god; good; great; history; idea; jerusalem; jesus; life; marcus; men; order; paul; people; peter; power; religion; right; roman; rome; spirit; thing; time; truth; work; world; worship; years cache: 42865.txt plain text: 42865.txt item: #68 of 85 id: 43794 author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf title: My Religion date: None words: 74784 flesch: 67 summary: To the follower of Jesus life is free, and can be devoted to the end for which it is worthy,--its own welfare and the welfare of others. In the first commandment, Jesus counselled us to extinguish the germ of anger, and illustrated his meaning by the fate of the man who is delivered to the judges; in the second commandment, Jesus declares that debauchery arises from the disposition of men and women to regard one another as instruments of voluptuousness, and, this being so, we ought to guard against every idea that excites to sensual desire, and, once united to a woman, never to abandon her on any pretext, for women thus abandoned are sought by other men, and so debauchery is introduced into the world. keywords: christian; church; commandments; condition; contrary; death; disciples; doctrine; evil; existence; faith; god; good; greek; happiness; human; humanity; jesus; judge; law; life; light; live; love; man; meaning; men; people; reason; regard; religion; thou; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 43794.txt plain text: 43794.txt item: #69 of 85 id: 45122 author: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max) title: Thoughts on Life and Religion An Aftermath from the Writings of The Right Honourable Professor Max Müller date: None words: 47370 flesch: 76 summary: _Gifford Lectures, I._ The heart and mind and soul of man are the same under every sky, in all the varying circumstances of human life; and it would be awful to believe that _any_ human beings should have been deprived of that light 'which lighteth _every_ man that cometh into the world.' We cannot know, we cannot name the Divine, nor can we understand its ways as manifested in nature and human life. keywords: christ; death; divine; earth; faith; father; gifford; god; good; human; infinite; language; lectures; life; love; man; mind; nature; religion; self; soul; thought; time; truth; world cache: 45122.txt plain text: 45122.txt item: #70 of 85 id: 45701 author: Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple title: Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross date: None words: 39196 flesch: 59 summary: And men rejoice in the New Testament because other men two thousand years ago rejoiced, and their gladness and release still sound true. A new grasp of the meaning of faith, as the leading by God out into the wilderness, will draw out of their pessimism and social ineptitude men and women who loathe the publicity and mud-slinging of public life and have hitherto stood apart from it. keywords: children; christian; community; day; earth; faith; generation; god; good; government; individual; japan; jesus; life; man; men; nations; nature; new; peace; people; philosophy; power; principles; question; race; religion; right; self; society; spirit; teachings; things; thought; time; truth; war; way; welfare; world; years cache: 45701.txt plain text: 45701.txt item: #71 of 85 id: 45843 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo title: Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy date: None words: 219544 flesch: 77 summary: For if those had not really baptism who were thus received on coming from heretics, and their sins were still upon them, then, when such men were admitted to communion, either by Cyprian himself, or by those who came before him, we must acknowledge that one of two things occurred,--either that the Church perished then and there from the pollution of communion with such men, or that any one abiding in unity is not injured by even the notorious sins of other men. The answer is: Therefore Cyprian and all those bishops were partakers in the sins of other men, inasmuch as they remained in communion with such men, when they removed no one from the right of communion who entertained a different opinion. keywords: answer; apostle; augustine; baptism; baptize; body; case; catholic; chap; charity; christ; christian; church; communion; conscience; cor; council; custom; cyprian; dead; earth; error; evil; faith; forth; god; good; gospel; guilt; hands; heart; heretics; holy; iii; john; judgment; life; lord; lord christ; love; man; matt; men; nations; outside; party; paul; peace; petilianus; power; question; right; sacrament; said; salvation; saying; says; schism; seeing; sins; spirit; things; thou; time; truth; unity; water; way; words; world cache: 45843.txt plain text: 45843.txt item: #72 of 85 id: 4602 author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf title: "The Kingdom of God Is Within You" Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life date: None words: 125682 flesch: 57 summary: And in this they are successful; for, indeed, how could the notion occur to any one that all that has been repeated from century to century with such earnestness and solemnity by all those archdeacons, bishops, archbishops, holy synods, and popes, is all of it a base lie and a calumny foisted upon Christ by them for the sake of keeping safe the money they must have to live luxuriously on the necks of other men? The man of antiquity could believe he had the right to enjoy the good things of this world at the expense of other men, and to keep them in misery for generations, since he believed that men came from different origins, were base or noble in blood, children of Ham or of Japhet. keywords: acts; army; authority; book; christian; christianity; church; classes; conception; conscience; day; doctrine; duty; evil; fact; force; form; god; good; government; humanity; kind; law; life; love; man; meaning; means; men; military; murder; nations; need; new; non; opinion; order; organization; people; place; position; power; present; principles; public; question; regard; religion; resistance; right; service; society; soldiers; state; teaching; time; truth; use; violence; war; way; work; world; years cache: 4602.txt plain text: 4602.txt item: #73 of 85 id: 47747 author: Percival, G. H. title: The Incarnate Purpose: Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life date: None words: 45561 flesch: 68 summary: _ Translation edited by Maurice A. Canney, M.A. _See_ Crown Theological Library, p. 13. =Constellations=, Primitive, _Brown_, 56. =Creed=, _Christian_, 16. =Crown Theological Library=, 10. =Cuneiform= Inscriptions, _Schrader_, 9. =Daniel= and his Prophecies, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. and its Critics, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. =Danish= Dictionary, _Rosing_, 43. keywords: 4to; 8vo; book; christ; christian; church; cloth; consciousness; crown 8vo; death; demy; demy 8vo; development; doctrine; edited; edition; evidence; evolution; god; history; human; illustrations; immortality; individual; knowledge; lectures; library; life; liverpool; love; m.a; man; men; nature; net; new; pages; prayer; professor; religion; rev; royal; series; spiritual; suffering; theological; thought; translation; truth; university; vol; vols; work; world cache: 47747.txt plain text: 47747.txt item: #74 of 85 id: 48250 author: Knox, John title: The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline date: None words: 168605 flesch: 72 summary: Turning his face towards the room where sat such men as had so affirmed, If I be not able to prove the Mass to be the most abominable idolatry that ever was used since the beginning of the world, I offer myself to suffer the punishment appointed by God to a false teacher; and it appears to me that the affirmers should be subject to the same law; for it is the truth of God that ye persecute and blaspheme; and it is the invention of the Devil that, obstinately against His Word, ye maintain. The chiefest remedy left to your honours and to us, in all this rarity of true ministers, is fervent prayer unto God, that it will please His mercy to thrust out faithful workmen into this His harvest; and next, that your honours, with the consent of the Kirk, are bound by your authority to compel such men as have gifts and graces able to edify the Kirk of God, that they bestow them where greatest necessity shall be known; for no man may be permitted to live idle, or as he himself lists, but he must be appointed to travail where your wisdoms and the Kirk shall think expedient. keywords: andrews; answer; authority; betwixt; bishops; book; brethren; cardinal; castle; cause; christ; church; commandment; congregation; council; day; days; death; doctrine; earl; edinburgh; end; england; faith; fear; france; french; george; god; godly; good; grace; hath; holy; idolatry; james; jesus; john; john knox; judgment; king; kirk; knox; law; lethington; life; lord; man; mass; master; men; ministers; order; papists; parliament; people; place; power; present; public; purpose; queen; read; realm; regent; religion; scotland; sidenote; things; thou; thy; time; town; truth; word; yea; year cache: 48250.txt plain text: 48250.txt item: #75 of 85 id: 52550 author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon) title: A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions date: None words: 127255 flesch: 51 summary: As a whole, the system had so much in common with that of the Pythagoreans on the one hand, and with the Mazdean religion and Buddhism on the other, that it must be held to prove a connection between these, and to point to a movement which once spread over Asia as far as Buddhist India, and over the Mediterranean world as far as early Grecian Italy, surviving for many centuries in scattered sects. And if we turn to the records of ecclesiastical legislation, we find constant evidence, for many centuries, of the laxity of priestly life in all grades. keywords: ages; ancient; anti; bishops; body; books; case; catholic; centuries; century; christian; christianity; church; churches; clergy; constantine; course; creed; cult; day; death; doctrine; east; emperor; empire; end; england; epistles; europe; fact; faith; force; form; france; general; gentile; god; good; gospel; great; greek; hand; heresy; history; influence; intellectual; italy; jesus; jewish; jews; later; law; life; literature; mass; men; modern; movement; myth; new; orthodox; pagan; paganism; papacy; papal; paul; people; period; persecution; pope; power; priests; process; protestant; reason; religion; roman; rome; rule; science; second; sect; self; set; special; spirit; state; system; teaching; thought; time; turn; war; way; women; work; world; worship; years cache: 52550.txt plain text: 52550.txt item: #76 of 85 id: 54793 author: Arnold, Matthew title: St. Paul and Protestantism, with an Essay on Puritanism and the Church of England date: None words: 49919 flesch: 59 summary: Once, for a moment, the term _faith_ brought us in contact with the doctrine of Puritanism, but only to see that the essential sense given to this word by Paul Puritanism had missed entirely. 'Let no man deceive you, he that _doeth_ righteousness is righteous. keywords: christ; christianity; church; death; development; doctrine; england; faith; footnote; god; good; ideas; jesus; jesus christ; justification; law; life; man; men; order; paul; power; puritanism; real; religion; righteousness; sense; sin; spirit; theology; thought; time; truth; way; word cache: 54793.txt plain text: 54793.txt item: #77 of 85 id: 5831 author: Bunyan, John title: The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works date: None words: 166100 flesch: 77 summary: Be content; let God give like himself; he is that eternal God, and giveth like himself. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, The Judge is the almighty and eternal God: the law broken is the holy and perfect rule of God, in itself a consuming fire: sin is so odious, and a thing so abominable, that it is enough to make all the angels blush to hear it but so much as once mentioned in so holy a place as that is, where the great God doth sit to judge. keywords: antichrist; blood; body; christ; christ christ; church; come; conscience; day; death; devil; doth; faith; father; fear; glory; god; god god; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; hope; jesus christ; judgment; know; law; life; light; little; look; lord; lord god; love; man; man christ; men; mercy; people; place; poor; power; righteousness; saith god; salvation; satan; sin; sinner; sins; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; think; thou; throne; thy; time; truth; way; work; world; yea cache: 5831.txt plain text: 5831.txt item: #78 of 85 id: 60488 author: Guizot, François title: Meditations on the Essence of Christianity, and on the Religious Questions of the Day. date: None words: 59257 flesch: 62 summary: Man therefore had a beginning: man has come upon the earth. {32} I shall subsequently state my opinion as to the full meaning of the expression, Man is a free being, and as to the nature of the consequences to which it leads; for the present, I assume, as a certain and incontestable fact, this principle of human liberty,--of the free determination of man considered as a moral agent. keywords: 8vo; abraham; christian; day; dogma; evil; fact; faith; father; footnote; god; history; human; israel; jesus; jesus christ; laws; liberty; life; light; lord; man; men; mind; miracles; moses; nations; nature; object; people; place; power; present; religion; science; son; soul; state; supernatural; thee; thou; thy; time; words; world cache: 60488.txt plain text: 60488.txt item: #79 of 85 id: 60705 author: Guizot, François title: Meditations and Moral Sketches date: None words: 23494 flesch: 64 summary: In the order of nature man exercises a share of action and power; in supernatural order he has but to submit. Man desires for his soul more activity and more security, a firmer ground, a higher flight. keywords: authority; catholicism; christian; church; faith; god; good; human; liberty; man; men; nature; order; power; protestantism; religion; society; spirit; state; world cache: 60705.txt plain text: 60705.txt item: #80 of 85 id: 7343 author: Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius) title: The Church and the Empire Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 date: None words: 80163 flesch: 59 summary: But in this he is only re-echoing the teaching of St. Augustine; and he is followed, among other representative writers, by John of Salisbury, the secretary and champion of Thomas Becket, and by Pope Innocent III. Some time before 1216 a sisterhood was added in the Order of St. Claire under a noble maiden of Assisi, who put herself under the guidance of Francis and received from Pope Innocent for herself and her sisters the privilege of poverty. keywords: alexander; authority; bernard; bishop; century; chapter; charles; church; claims; clergy; council; crusade; death; election; emperor; empire; england; europe; france; frederick; general; german; god; great; gregory; henry; henry iii; iii; innocent; investiture; italy; john; king; lands; law; lay; life; lothair; new; nobles; order; papacy; papal; party; peter; philip; pope; pope gregory; power; right; roman; rome; rule; sicily; sidenote; son; time; work; years cache: 7343.txt plain text: 7343.txt item: #81 of 85 id: 7436 author: Greene, M. Louise (Maria Louise) title: The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut date: None words: 123563 flesch: 57 summary: Obviously, the Separatist clergyman did not emphasize so strongly the rule of the eldership which New England church life in general had developed. Synods, from the purely Congregational standpoint, were to be called only upon the initiative of the churches, and were authoritative bodies, composed of both ministerial and lay delegates from such churches, and their duty was to confer and advise upon matters of general interest or upon special problems. keywords: act; american; assembly; authority; baptists; bishop; boston; cambridge; charter; church; church discipline; church government; churches; college; colonies; colony; congregationalism; connecticut; constitution; convention; court; covenant; day; discipline; dissenters; england churches; english; establishment; faith; federal; following; general; god; good; government; governor; great; hartford; hartford church; haven; history; house; john; king; later; law; laws; legislature; liberty; life; london; majority; man; massachusetts; meeting; members; ministers; new england; new london; new york; office; old; order; party; people; platform; power; presbyterian; public; religion; rev; right; saybrook; separatists; society; state; support; synod; system; time; toleration; town; united; vols; war; way; work; worship; yale; years cache: 7436.txt plain text: 7436.txt item: #82 of 85 id: 7970 author: Köstlin, Julius title: Life of Luther date: None words: 181520 flesch: 63 summary: Since his marriage, indeed, his parents had come to visit him at Wittenberg; and the town accounts for 1527 contain an item of expense for a gallon of wine, given as a _vin d'honneur_ to old Luther on that occasion. To Melancthon Luther wrote as follows: 'There is no news here, except that the town is full of talk about me, and everybody wants to see the man who, like a second Herostratus, has kindled such a flame. keywords: augsburg; authority; body; catholic; cause; christian; church; convent; council; day; days; death; diet; doctrine; duke; eck; elector; emperor; empire; enemies; faith; father; frederick; friend; general; german; god; good; gospel; hand; heart; holy; indulgences; john; law; letter; life; lord; love; luther; man; manner; martin luther; matter; means; melancthon; men; mind; order; papal; peace; people; pope; power; present; princes; question; regard; right; rome; sacrament; salvation; son; spalatin; spirit; subject; theology; thought; time; time luther; town; truth; university; war; way; wife; wished; wittenberg; word; work; writings; years cache: 7970.txt plain text: 7970.txt item: #83 of 85 id: 8908 author: Killen, W. D. (William Dool) title: The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot date: None words: 24176 flesch: 67 summary: Dr. Lightfoot makes a most unguarded statement as to the Ignatian Epistles--The letter of Polycarp better authenticated--The date assigned for the martyrdom of Ignatius--The date of Polycarp's Epistle--Written in the reign of Marcus Aurelius--Not written in the reign of Trajan--The Epistle of Polycarp has no reference to Ignatius of Antioch--It refers to another Ignatius of another age and country--It was written at a time of persecution--The postscript to the letter of Polycarp quite misunderstood--What is meant by letters being carried to Syria--Psyria and Syria, two islands in the Aegaean Sea--The errors of transcribers of the postscript--The true meaning of the postscript--What has led to the mistake as to the claims of the Ignatian Epistles--The continued popularity of these Epistles among High Churchmen. [47:2] He subsequently informs us that Hyginus dying _after the fourth year of his office,_ was succeeded by Pius; and he then adds that Pius dying at Rome, in the _fifteenth_ year of his episcopate, was succeeded by Anicetus. keywords: a.d; bishop; century; christian; church; epistles; evidence; god; ignatian; ignatius; letters; lightfoot; martyrdom; philippians; polycarp; rome; syria; time; vol; years cache: 8908.txt plain text: 8908.txt item: #84 of 85 id: 9069 author: Bertrand, Louis title: Saint Augustin date: None words: 103531 flesch: 75 summary: He used them as an excuse for making Augustin mark time, so to speak. Again was baptism postponed, and from the same reason: to lessen the gravity of the sins which young Augustin was bound to commit. keywords: african; alypius; ambrose; augustin; barbarians; basilica; bishop; bishop augustin; carthage; catholic; charity; child; children; christian; church; city; country; day; days; death; donatists; doubt; empire; end; eyes; fact; faith; faithful; father; friends; future; god; good; great; heart; hippo; house; human; kind; land; life; light; love; man; master; men; milan; mind; moment; monnica; mother; order; pagan; patricius; people; place; pleasure; priest; public; religion; rhetorician; roman; romanianus; rome; sea; set; son; soul; thagaste; things; thought; time; time augustin; town; truth; way; words; work; world; years cache: 9069.txt plain text: 9069.txt item: #85 of 85 id: 9944 author: King, Basil title: The Conquest of Fear date: None words: 50894 flesch: 76 summary: In dealing with your daily dreads you simply counted God out. You were to be willing to serve God for naught; after which unexpected favours might be accorded you, but you were to hope for nothing as a right. keywords: caucasian; course; day; death; fact; father; fear; god; good; having; knowledge; life; little; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; new; people; point; power; principle; sense; spiritual; things; thought; time; truth; universal; way; words; work; working; world; years cache: 9944.txt plain text: 9944.txt