Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social ScienceJohn W. Parker, 1862 The volume for 1886 is a report of the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886." |
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Page 214 - Place of each of them, and the Time not being less than Seven Days during which each has dwelt therein, and the Church or other Building in which the Marriage is to be solemnized...
Page 575 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 300 - They will require that the Schools be kept open for a certain number of hours, on four or five days of the week, at the discretion of the Commissioners, for moral and literary education only ; and that the remaining one or two days in the week to be set apart for giving, separately, such religious education to the children, as may be approved of by the clergy of their respective persuasions.
Page 61 - What a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians, that but in one year throughout England come to that untimely and ignominious death, if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Page 349 - ... his mission to the utmost of his power ; but it is our duty, the duty of those whom Providence has removed from this awful struggle and placed beyond this fearful danger, manfully, unceasingly, and untiringly to aid by advice, assistance, and example the great bulk of the people, who, without such aid, must almost inevitably succumb to the difficulty of their task. They will not cast from them the aiding hand, and the Almighty will bless the labours of those who work in His cause.
Page 307 - Government [should] abstain from introducing the element of religion at all into their part of the scheme, and this, not because they held the matter to be insignificant — the contrary might be strongly expressed in the preamble of their act, — but on the ground that, in the present divided state of the Christian world, they would take no...
Page 311 - But it seems to have been overlooked, that the principles of the Roman Catholic church (to which, in any system intended for general diffusion throughout Ireland, the bulk of the pupils must necessarily belong,) were totally at variance with this principle...
Page 303 - He taught them to love even their enemies, to bless those that cursed them, and to pray for those who persecuted them. He himself prayed for his murderers. Many men hold erroneous doctrines, but we ought not to hate or persecute them. We ought to seek for the truth, and to hold fast what we are convinced is the truth ; but not to treat harshly those who are in error. Jesus Christ did not intend his religion to be forced on men by violent means. He would not allow his disciples to fight for him. If...
Page 24 - National Association, which commands our allegiance, and justifies the hopes it inspires. Undaunted by resistance — undisturbed by faction — undismayed by real coldness or affected contempt, we persevere in our course of social labour ; but we lift our views higher, to scenes far above the darkness of ignorance that shrouds one region, the mists of doubt that obscure, the storms of passion that vex another, and behold the lofty summit shining in the faith and adoration of God, glowing with universal...
Page 214 - Jews, or according to any form authorized by this act, one of the parties shall give notice under his or her hand, in the form of schedule (A.) to this act annexed, or to the like effect, to the superintendent registrar of the district within which the parties shall have dwelt for not less than seven days then next preceding, or if the parties dwell in the districts of different superintendent registrars shall give the like notice to the superintendent registrar of each district...