American Baptist Home Missions: Annual Report, Volumes 57-62

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Page 40 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 7 - States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treaty.
Page 10 - Committee was referred to a special committee of three, with instructions to report, at the next meeting, a series of resolutions in accordance with its suggestions.
Page 5 - No State shall pass any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or use its property or credit, or any money raised by taxation, or authorize either to be used, for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding, by appropriation, payment for services, expenses or otherwise, any church, religious denomination or religious society, or any institution, society or undertaking, which is wholly, or in part, under sectarian or ecclesiastical...
Page 42 - There shall be a handful of corn in the earth on the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 10 - It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent where the public worship of God, and the support of religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the State in any assignable shape.
Page 10 - SECTION 2. — The said corporation shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the provisions contained in title three of chapter eighteen of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable and have not been repealed or modified.

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