Book/Printed Material The mission of the church;
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Image 1 of The mission of the church; THE MISSION THE CHURCH SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE. BY REV. EDWARD A. LAW REN E- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
- Date: 1850
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Image 2 of The mission of the church; CHRISTIAN LIBSAEY ASSOCIATION, or Tim CTI1TIHSITY ©F MICHIGAN, By A JUbL. It****—. REGULATIONS. I. The Library is free to all the members of the University. II. Books may bo drawn at any...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 4 of The mission of the church;- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 5 of The mission of the church;- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 7 of The mission of the church; the MISSION 0¥ THE CHURCH SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE. BY REV. EDWARD A. LAWRENCE, MAHBLEHEAD, MASS. Israel shall blossom, and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit, Isaiaii 27 6. PUBLISHED...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 8 of The mission of the church; .L3- In £Ucaa,- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 9 of The mission of the church; CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE SPIRIT OR ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF BENEFICENCE. The elements of Christian beneficence are, 1. An intelligent spirit, 7 2. A difFusi ve spirit, 10 3. An equitable spirit, 14...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 10 of The mission of the church; 4 CONTEXTS. 1. To the sum total of his property, 76 2. To his annual income, 83 3. To what he can earn by industry, 90 4. To what he can save...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 11 of The mission of the church; THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH, CHAPTER I. THE SPIRIT, OR ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF BENEFICENCE. The mind that was in Christ, the spirit that moved him through the whole period of his earthly...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 12 of The mission of the church; 6 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. this spirit in the church, through the perfecting of the Christian life of its members, it finds its true mission in seeking the salvation of the...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 13 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 7 tian beneficence neither disowns the constitutional principles or emotions, nor takes its character from them. Incorporating into itself all the elements of joy and sorrow, pity and sympathy,...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 14 of The mission of the church; 8 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. whom they -wish to benefit, or through ignorance of the proper remedial agencies or modes of applying them, they may diffuse the bane instead of the...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 15 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 9 By this pioneer service, in which such men as How- ard and Buchanan and Marty n and Marshman have been most successful explorers, benevolent men are better enabled...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 16 of The mission of the church; 10 the mission or THE church. to a degree that illumines the whole Christian world. The spirit of Christian beneficence, in her reforma- tory power, is entering the convict s cell, and...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 17 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. and misery affect the heart of the benevolent, if not as sensibly, yet with as really a moving power, as do those more near. Moral wretchedness ma its appeal...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 18 of The mission of the church; 12 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. to do no more than supply their own wants and replenish their own wastes. He, therefore, who in Christian beneficence ends with the beginning, cannot be...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 19 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 13 The spirit of Christian beneficence neither halts nor hesitates at geographical boundaries. Contiguity of guilt and misery has the advantage only as afford- ing opportunity for speedier relief....- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 20 of The mission of the church; 14 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. is unfurling the banner of the cross in every quarter of the globe. She is climbing the snow-clad sides of the Himmaleh and the Andes, crossing...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 21 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 15 possesses is committed to him in trust, with the In- junction, Occupy till I come. At a future day it will be said, Give an account of thy...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 22 of The mission of the church; 16 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. times pour out our blood like water for the common weal but this is not benevolence call it patriotism, or what we will, it has no...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 23 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 17 heathen world, laden with the printed word, and the living preacher. How sublime the spectacle the whole Christian church moved by such a spirit of beneficence. 5. The...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 24 of The mission of the church; THE MISSIOH OF THE CHURCH. progress. A despicable indulgence, says Henry Martyn, gave me such a view of my character, that on my knees, I resolved to live a life of greater...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 25 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 19 grateful love, The most concise definition of the Christian religion is love. God is love, and love is the fulfilling of the law. Though I bestow all my...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 26 of The mission of the church; 20 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. be filled with his own spirit, that it may become more self-denying, that it may cease its strifes at home, and go on its mission abroad...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 27 of The mission of the church; SriRIT OF BENEFICENCE. 21 As Christ s mission was to the poor, these, wnorn we have always with us, should be regarded as his representatives. To each of his disciples, he says,...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 28 of The mission of the church; 22 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. 7. TLe spirit of Christian beneficence is a spirit of prayer. It is this which distinguishes the enter- prises of the church from all other schemes...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 29 of The mission of the church; SPIRIT OF BENEFICENCE. g3 God, with a prevalence that gives birth, in the mis- sion of the Spirit, to all human prayer, and efficacy to all human instrumentality for the good of...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 30 of The mission of the church; 24 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. which earth s impotent are gathered, and anothei angel having the everlasting gospel, is seen flying through the earth, to every nation, and kindred, and tongue,...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 31 of The mission of the church; PROPORTION IN BENEFICENCE 25 CHAPTER II. PROPORTION IN BENEFICENCE. Every man s charitable contributions should evi- dently be proportionate to the vastness and im/p r- tance of the objects sought to the...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 32 of The mission of the church; 26 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. right join in unhallowed compact, and generate a race of giants in wickedness How are such lands covered over with houses of correction, and jails, and...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 33 of The mission of the church; PROPORTION IN BENEFICENCE. 27 under tribute fbr the benefit of the dead, whom, not content with assessing while in the flesh, it consigns to purgatorial torments, release from which can be procured...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 34 of The mission of the church; 28 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. Reform in the spirit and principles of the church ol Home, would be its ruin. Let it but give an open Bible to the people, with...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 35 of The mission of the church; PROPORTION IN BENEFICENCE. 29 for centuries the fairest portions of the earth, it has converted them into a -wilderness, and covered them with moral desolation. Thanks to an overruling Providence, Islamism is...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 36 of The mission of the church; 30 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. Caste, with its impassable walls, fixing unalterably the station of each individual, annihilates all motive to improvement in the lower classes, and gives to the higher...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 37 of The mission of the church; PROPORTION IN BENEFICENCE. 31 and plundered by lawless and inhuman marauders, yielding up her tawny, barbarous sons to still more barbarous strangers from Christian lands. See Asia, wholly given to idolatry, her...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 38 of The mission of the church; 32 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. not to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, or muse on the remains of ancient grandeur, laudable as all this may be but it is her work to found...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 39 of The mission of the church; PROPORTION IN BENEFICENCE. 33 vast and indescribable eternity beyond. In the ac- complishment of her design, she seeks to open a moral Bcthesda in every land, and to make the Bible, God...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
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Image 40 of The mission of the church; 34 THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. as the way, and bathes them in the pure waters of the river of life. Like a visitant from the bosom of love, she sits by...- Contributor: Lawrence, Edward Alexander
- Date: 1850