Sketches of the Religious Denominations of the Present Day: With the Number of Sects in England and Wales ... and the Census, Comprising the Number of Each DenominationGeorge Routledge and Company, 1854 - 142 pages |
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1851 including Sun 58 per cent accommodation afternoon Attendants at Public Baptists not otherwise Bible Christians bishops Brethren Calvinistic Methodists Census Census-Sunday CHRISTIAN CHS Church of England classes clergy dation day Scholars defective Returns doctrines England and Wales Established Church existing faith increase Isolated Congregations labours Latter Day Saints March 30 maximum number ministers Missionary Moravians Mormons morning Municipal Borough number of attendants number of persons Number of Places number of sittings ordinances Original Connexion otherwise defined parishes Parliamentary Borough Particular Baptists period place belonging place of worship population portion preachers preaching Presby Presbyterian Presbyterian Church present Primitive Methodists Proportion per cent PROTESTANT CHURCHES Public Worship religion Religious Bodies RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION religious services religious worship returns omit Roman Catholics Sandemanians Scripture sects Society of Friends spiritual tion total number Unitarians various Welsh Calvinistic Wesleyan Association Wesleyan Methodists Wesleyan Reformers Worship and Sittings worship belonging Worship on Sunday
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Page 55 - ... there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world. Neither can every...
Page 51 - We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the kingdom of God. 10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion will be built upon this continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
Page 51 - We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
Page 103 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 51 - We believe in God the eternal Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, and in the " Holy Ghost. " We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for
Page 9 - II., all persons were obliged to take the sacrament according to the rites of the Established Church, before sitting in parliament, or assuming any of the higher public offices, whether civil or military.
Page 93 - Even in the least unfavourable aspect of the figures just presented, and assuming (as no doubt is right) that the 5,288,294 absent every Sunday are not always the same individuals, it must be apparent that a sadly formidable portion of the English people are habitual neglectcrs of the public ordinances of religion.
Page 96 - ... distinct and separate houses -thus acquiring almost of necessity, from frequent opportunities of solitude, those habits of reflection which cannot be exercised to the entire exclusion of religious sentiments; but, certainly, however this may be, no doubt can be admitted that a great obstruction to the progress of religion with the working class would be removed if that condition which forbids all solitude and all reflection were alleviated.
Page 51 - We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
Page 51 - Christ all men may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel. We believe that these ordinances are: 1st, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ ; 2d, Repentance ; 3d, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins ; 4th, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.