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...e friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of our religion, be true and just ideas, faithf...

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... greatly afflicted because of the present unawakened and even dead condition of all the churches, with respect to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ... ...y worldly principles and confederacies, and hasten the ruin and downfall of the present churches. And now, forasmuch as it is to those who look for h... ...ther in the common faith, and servant in the Ministry of the Gospel, a Presbyter of the Church of Scotland. EDWARD IRVING. -2- PRELIMINA... ...of God, and so it came to pass that upon the day set apart for the commemoration of the first advent, I was f ound maintaining the doctrine of the se... ... maintained, was, that “the coming of the Lord in judgment, from the time of Enoch, the first of inspired preachers, until the time of John, the last... ...e the keys of the whole debatable land; of which positions these three were the chief. First; That the present visible church of the Gentiles, which... ...or to Isaiah what suited the times of Daniel, or to Daniel what suited the times of the Baptist; so, would it have been equally bad husbandry to hav... ...blessed V irgin, and by the revelations of prophecy to Zacharias, to Simeon, and to the Baptist; as such, saluted and worshipped by the shepherds an...

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...m?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. IX. The river pageant. X. The Prince in the toils. XI. At Guildhall. XII. The Prince and his deliverer. XIII. The disappearance of the Prince....

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... Prince. IV. The Prince’s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom’s first royal dinner. VIII. The quest... ...and the Pauper XIV. ‘Le Roi est mort—vive le Roi.’ XV. Tom as King. XVI. The state dinner. XVII. Foo-foo the First. XVIII. The Prince with the tr... ...y lived, which was not far from London Bridge. The houses were of wood, with the second story projecting over the first, and the third sticking its el... ...hen passed on, and pres- ently came upon a great space with only a few scat- tered houses in it, and a prodigious church. He 18 Mark Twain recognised... ... heart at once—he felt that his troubles were at an end, now. He said to himself, “It is the ancient Grey Friars’ Church, which the king my father hat... ...th taken from the monks and given for a home for ever for poor and forsaken chil- dren, and new-named it Christ’s Church. Right gladly will they serve... ...eet and soothing influence of their presence. He asked them why they were in prison, and when they said they were Baptists, he smiled, and inquired— ... ...o took that old lawyer out of prison and remit- ted his fine. He provided good homes for the daughters of the two Baptist women whom he saw burned at ...

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...en cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the cattle-rustlers on... ...ore break- fast if they spring out of bed and close the window at the very first line of the song about puellas which father sings while shaving. Judg... ...She slowly confessed that she was not visibly affecting lives. She did, at first, put into her contact with the patrons a willingness which should hav... ...he only habitable structures to be seen were the florid red-brick Catholic church and rectory at the end of Main Street. 26 Main Street Carol picked ... ...or any hope of greatness. Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass. It was a frontier camp. It was not a pl... ...-cheeked cottagers. What she saw was the side of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church—a plain clap- board wall of a sour liver color; the ash-pile back of... ...the alley from the rear of Carol’s house. She was a widow, and a Prominent Baptist, and a Good Influence. She had so painfully reared three sons to be... ...ord it, though I do sometimes think— Of course as our pastor said once, at Baptist Church— By the way, we haven’t seen you there yet, and of course yo... ... we haven’t seen you there yet, and of course your husband was raised up a Baptist, and I do hope he won’t drift away from the fold, of course we all ...

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... hardly tell how many, probably from the time when Hiram’s wishes had been first fully carried out—the proceeds of the estate had been paid by the ste... ...ome one of the most coveted of the snug clerical sinecures attached to our church. It was now wholly in the bishop’s gift, and though the dean and cha... ... additions of vellum, typography, and gilding, a collection of our ancient church music, with some correct dissertations on Purcell, Crotch, and Nares... ...never quite at ease in money matters. The vellum and gilding of ‘Harding’s Church Music’ cost more than any one knows, except the author, the publishe... ...ding, while employed about the cathedral; and Mr Harding had given him the first vacancy in the hospital after the occurrence, although Dr Grantly had... ...e- ment of the affairs of the hospital.’ ‘Suppose I were to see Mr Harding first, ’ suggested Bold. ‘Yes, yes, by all means,’ said the acquiescing Fin... ... and probably all parish churches; distribute all tithes among Methodists, Baptists, and other savage tribes; utterly annihilate the sacred bench, and...

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.................................................................. 47 John M. Church ....................................................................... ................................................................. 116 Alfonso Churchill .................................................................... ...nd keep his commandments. 23 Edgar Lee Masters Knowlt Hoheimer I WA S the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet ente... ...e door of the crawfish’s burrow, Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead, First his waving antennae, like straws of hay, And soon his body, colored l... ...ons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove. And they wanted ... ...gs when Deacon Rhodes, Who broke and all but ruined me, Worshipped for the first time after his acquittal? 32 Spoon River Anthology Harold Arnett I L... ... its sound was mingled With the sound of the Methodist, the Christian, The Baptist and the Congregational, I could no longer distinguish it, Nor any o...

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...eglected, yet vitally momentous province; the hidden treasures of which he first discovered, and kept proclaiming till the general eye and effort were... ... but recognition even that we have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have cho... ...laces; but must and will exalt the almost new name of Teufelsdrockh to the first ranks of Philosophy, in our Ger- man Temple of Honor.” Mindful of old... ...ow of the soul pierce through? In our wild Seer, shaggy, un- kempt, like a Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there is an untutored energy, a s... ...itude, her own simple version of the Christian Faith. Andreas too attended Church; yet more like a parade-duty, for which he in the 72 Sartor Resartu... ... and spreads; and the smoke and ashes thereof (in these Judgment-Halls and Churchyards), and its bellows-engines (in these Churches), thou still seest... ...rom century to cen- tury; he cannot help it though he would. The authentic Church-Catechism of our present century has not yet fallen into my hands: m...

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...ia State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. 3 A Tramp Abroad A TRAMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Cl... ...e named Frankfort—the ford of the Franks. None of the other cities where this event happened were named for it. This is good evidence that Frankfort w... ...at. Frankfort has another distinction—it is the birthplace of the German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet—BUCHSTABEN. They say th... ... me; then he threw out two or three more insults, which I could not understand, further than that I knew a portion of them consisted of language not u... ...d as a human; they shut right down and leave. “You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure— but he’s got feathers on him, and don’t belong... ...cture, very strong, and very orna- mental. There was no opening near the ground. They had to use a ladder to get into it, no doubt. We visited the pri... ... is not possible that you forgot to inquire into her politics?” “No, I thought of that. She is a democrat, her husband is a republican, and both of th...

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...oldier was shot for deser- tion. The grave of this unfortunate man was the first place of human interment that the author ever beheld, as the smoke- h... ...f human interment that the author ever beheld, as the smoke- house was the first ruin! The swivel alluded to in this work was buried and abandoned by ... ... as it may, the author was brought an infant into this valley, and all his first impressions were here obtained. He has inhabited it ever since, at in... ...ries and friends of Penn. His father had mar- ried without the pale of the church to which he belonged, and had, in this manner, forfeited some of the... ...ithout bragging, that it is the handsomest and the most scientific country church in America. I know that the Con- necticut settlers talk about their ... ...he hall—” thou wilt order a repast for this youth before we proceed to the church; and Aggy will have a 80 The Pioneers sleigh prepared to convey him... ...n itinerant priest of the persuasion of the Method- 90 The Pioneers ists, Baptists, Universalists, or of the more numerous sect of the Presbyterians,... ...ple, with some surprise. “Why , the Presbyter’ans and Congregationals, and Baptists, too, for-til’ now; and all sitch as don’t go on their knees to pr...

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...he maid, not a little irk- some on the way. Lucien, traveling post for the first time in his life, was horrified to see pretty nearly the whole sum on... ...ndulged in the playfulness of the young rat emerging from his hole for the first time. The travelers were set down before daybreak at the sign of the ... ... so tired out with the journey that Louise went straight to bed and slept, first bidding Lucien to engage the room immediately over- head. Lucien slep... ...ue de Cluny, one of the poorest and darkest slums, shut in be- tween three churches and the old buildings of the Sorbonne. I have a furnished room on ... ...clothes; and when he yielded to temptation, and saw Fleury, Talma, the two Baptistes, or Michot, he went no further than the murky passage where theat... ...Royalist and Ministerial journals; still, though Canalis is 85 Balzac for Church and King, and patronized by the Court and the clergy, he reaches oth... ...ralie. She would have Lucien bring a priest; she must be reconciled to the Church and die in peace. Coralie died as a Christian; her repentance was si...

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...o I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by ... ...almost forty, was another old Virginian grandee with proved descent from the First Families. He was a fine, majestic creature, a gentle man according... ... man, with a good head for speculations, and his fortune was growing. On the first of February, 1830, two boy babes were born in his house; one to him... ...she had been saved in the nick of time by a revival in the colored Methodist Church, a fortnight before, at which time and place she “got religion.” T... ... far were they from considering such reprisals sinful, that they would go to church and shout and pray the loudest and sincerest with their plunder in... ...dat tole it, de time he come over here fum Illinois en preached in de nigger church. He said dey ain’t nobody kin save his own self—can’t do it by fai... ...’ hall, and the Methodist church, and the Presbyterian church, and where the Baptist church was going to be when they got some money to build it with,...

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... in the improbable case of his not making a large fortune in the “Indies.” First, he spoke freely of his intention to start shortly for Liverpool and ... ...xt, it appeared to him that Sun- day afternoon, when everybody was gone to church except Jacob and the cowboy, was so singularly favourable an op- por... ... easier, then, than for David on this Sunday afternoon to decline going to church, on the ground that he was going to tea at Mr. Lunn’s, whose pretty ... ... whose pretty daughter Sally had been an early flame of his, and, when the church-goers were at a safe distance, to abstract the guineas from their wo... ...rupted, why, an idiot was preferable to any other sort of witness. For the first time in his life, David thought he saw the advantage of idiots. As fo... ...pitable mouth. 10 Brother Jacob Jacob turned his head on one side, looked first at his brother and then at the hole, like a reflective monkey, and, f... ... der for the veal sweet-breads and the mutton kidneys, while Mr. Rodd, the Baptist minister, had requested that, so far as was compatible with the fai...

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... rapidity. But the place was not very gay for Hetta or Susan Bell. In the first place the widow was a timid woman, and among other fears feared great... ...h she would listen to the lengthened eloquence of Mr. Phineas Beckard, the Baptist minister. Now Mr. Phineas Beckard was a bachelor. Susan was not so ... ...ld Irishwoman, who had joined her lot to that of Mrs. Bell when the latter first began housekeeping, and knowing when she was well off; had remained i... ...hat he had gone to the empty big hotel, for the widow’s welcome was not at first quite warm. The widow listened to him as he gave his message, and the... ... And she began to surmise within herself whether Aaron Dunn would join the Baptist congregation, and whether Phineas Beckard would approve of this new... ...this day there was cause of separation, for Aaron went to the Episcopalian church, rather to the disgust of Hetta. In the afternoon, however, they we...

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...anslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination eno... ...e had the same extreme susceptibility to the moods of nature. He loved her first for herself, and then with a sense of those inherited primitive assoc... ...Prose, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by S. J. Macmillan, 1890; First Love, and Punin and Baburin from the Russian, with a Biographcal Intr... ...as to be expected; about the possibilities of changing the cook, about the church, of which the plaster had come off; about Mariana, Kollomietzev… Bet... ...llowing day, the 9th of May, was Kolia’s patron- saint’s day. Although the church was not a quarter of a mile off, the whole household drove to mass i... ... casting a spell? “ The sweet scent of the flowers, which filled the whole church, mingled with the smell of the peasant’s coats, tarred boots and sho... ...in whispered to Nejdanov, indicating Markelov. “The very image of John the Baptist eating locusts ... only locusts, without the honey! But the other i...

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...errupting his sister, “I’ll name you ten who cannot and ought not to come. First,” he said, beginning to count on his fingers, “ Antonin Goulard, sub-... ...chment to Napoleon forbade his taking service under the Bourbons after the first abdication. In fact, his devotion in 1815 was such that he would have... ...r liberals. “If our dear boy is not nominated,” said Madame Marion, having first looked into the antechamber and garden to make sure that no one overh... ... except on public buildings. At Arcis the chateau, the law courts, and the church are the only stone buildings. Nevertheless, Champagne, or, if you pr... ...several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its columns, all to whom chance has gi... ...the sacrifices and annoyances I have borne to be rid of him. I never go to church now except on Sundays; I often keep my dear children at home to the ... ... as she said in joke the other day, if she took a fancy to make a John the Baptist of the sub-prefect, Laurent Goussard would bring her his head on a ...

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...wice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The first time was three or four years since, when I favoured the reader—inexcu... ...ow. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The fig ure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur,... ...e hardly known. He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. He was likewis... ...ingle unworthy mem ber; but seldom or never, on the other hand, after the first two generations, performing any memorable deed, or so much as putting... ...nt of the digging up of his remains in the little graveyard of St. Peter’s Church, dur ing the renewal of that edifice. Nothing, if I rightly call to... ...bsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King’s Chapel. Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty yea... ... James’s reign, caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger. The impression made by his aspect, so rigid and sever...

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... now launched upon our literary ocean; and may the Imperial name which the Church has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for me guard i... ...their houses as into a fortress. Examining the interior, which, during the first twenty years of this century, was encumbered with old iron and brass,... ...rchaeologists as to the original use to which the building was put. On the first floor (above the ground-floor) was one room and the kitchen; on the f... ...ate than those that lay pell-mell about the shop. This house, hired in the first instance, was subsequently bought by a man named Sauviat, a hawker or... ...t of the Sauviats, who never ate meat except on the great festivals of the Church. Before paying out the money absolutely needed for their daily subsi... ... gave their alms punctually at the sacrament and to all the collections in church. When the vicar of Saint-Etienne called to ask help for his poor, Sa... ...t to Paris, mother?” said Sauviat. “I shall have to go back there.” Jerome-Baptiste Sauviat, a man in whose eyes money seemed to constitute the whole ... ...n one of its walls the patron saint of the village, a large Saint John the Baptist with his sheep, carved in wood and horribly painted. But in spite o...

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... be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian A...

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...ons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the stair- case) in the centre of which reclines the... ... rudely up with ancient brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by t... ...the rarest artistic skill— in a word, a sculptor and a poet too—could have first dreamed of a Faun in this guise, and then have succeeded in impris- o... ...hy he is forever sad. The Lycian Apollo might strike his lyre; and, at the first vibration, that other Faun in red marble, who keeps up a motionless d... ... wandered by torchlight through a sort of dream, in which reminiscences of church aisles and grimy cellars—and chiefly the latter— seemed to be broken... ... tokens of a regular architectural design. Nev- ertheless, considered as a church, it was exceedingly minute, being scarcely twice a man’s stature in ... ...etches represented the daughter of Herodias receiving the head of John the Baptist in a charger. The gen- eral conception appeared to be taken from Be...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...w Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1... ... ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication o... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt, the Pennsylvania ... ...of the crows’ and sparrows’ nests built in the walls and arches of the old churches, destroyed by the Huguenots. Again, he was appre- hensive, seeing ... ... always to continue in the devotion which he had hitherto exhibited to the Church and the service of the Most Christian King. “After this, one sees,” ... ...ood on horseback or on foot, in visits, in observations of every kind. The churches, the stations, the processions even, the sermons; then the palaces... ... her mother said to be so conceived by reason of a picture of St. John the Baptist, that hung within the curtains of her bed. It is the same with beas...

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...ublished in: Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church . (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 453 529. Prefac... ...y name to [deceive and] mis lead the poor people. [Good God!] Alas! what first will hap pen when I am dead? Indeed, I ought to reply to everything ... ...re us that his king was sure and more than sure, that among us there is no church, no magistrate, no married life, but all live pro miscuously as cat... ...at many matters and persons might be helped. Not that we need It, for our churches are now, through God’s grace, so enlightened and equipped with the... ...ats or maces, and like jugglery would in the mean time be forgotten. If we first had performed God’s command and order in the spiritual and secular e... ...r, blessed for ever. Amen. “The Smalcald Articles” – Martin Luther 6 THE FIRST PART T reats of the Sublime Articles Concerning the Divine Maj esty,... ...irit without the Ten Commandments [or spoken Word]. Nei ther was John the Baptist conceived without the preceding word of Gabriel, nor did he leap i...

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...ng by my naugh- tiness made ray poor mamma so ill, and discovering for the first time that I was a miserable, naughty little fretful being, and with n... ...ear to open the play cupboard lest ‘something’ should jump out on him. The first time he was taken to the Zoological Gardens, the monkeys so terrified... ...sight might have been perplexed by the fact that Clarence was exemplary at church and prayers, family and private,— whenever Griff would let him, that... ...nd Secker, who thought it their duty to go 12 Chantry House diligently to church twice on Sunday, communicate four times a year (their only opportuni... ...ther had discovered that she frequented the preachings of Rowland Hill and Baptist Noel; and had confiscated some unorthodox tracts presented to the s... ...here and able to fight for him, and I attacked Griff on the subject on the first opportunity. ‘Oh!’ was his answer, ‘it is only what all fellows have ... ...he would hardly go out of doors; she could scarcely bring herself to go to church; 20 Chantry House she would have had my father give up his situatio... ...and might 70 Chantry House lead him to run after Irving, Rowland Hill, or Baptist Noel, about whose tenets she was rather confused. It would be an ad...