The Newest Keepsake for 1840: Containing the Best Account of the March of Mind, Together with the Speeches, Circumstances, and Doings of the Trundle-bed Convention in Session at the Marlboro Chapel, January 8, 1840M.B. Young, 1840 - 207 pages |
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Page 202 - Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be tendered to Z. Richards, Esq., our retiring President, for the able and impartial manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of this body.
Page 80 - And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
Page 93 - God could have secured the existence of holiness instead of sin, must also admit that God is not good enough to accomplish all the good in his power ; not good enough to prevent the worst of evils. And who does most reverence to God, he who supposes that God would have prevented all sin in his moral universe, but could not, or he who affirms that he could have...
Page 116 - Eve, and his own heart went longingly forth to it. His proud, stern, unbending nature had been taught to tremble at the decree of Him who " ruleth over the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth.
Page 36 - It is here to be remarked that the prevention of sin by any influence that destroys the power to sin, destroys moral agency. Moral agents, then, must possess the power to sin. Who, then, can prove a priori, or from the nature of the subject, that a being who CAN sin will NOT sin...
Page 93 - And who does most reverence to God, he who supposes that God would have prevented all sin in his moral universe, but could not, or he who affirms that he could have prevented it, but would not...
Page 131 - IT becomes my painful duty to announce to you the death of our senior member in the United States Senate.
Page 204 - ... an almost unconquerable wetness of soil, and what is perhaps worse, a great want of good roads through the different farms ; it is not so much to be wondered at, that there is but a rude mode of cultivation, is that there is any cultivation at all.
Page 195 - Sir, it is not true that the voice of the people is the voice of God. It never was true— it never can be true.
Page 39 - Buonaparte is recorded to have said, " There was but one step between the sublime and the ridiculous.