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*The Presbyterian Confession of Faith reads: "And, therefore, such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, Papists and other idolaters.''
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. By union, division, reunion, more division, and more reunions, since before the American Revolution this sect has the greatest concentration east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers. Its churches spot the whole U. S., its missions the whole world. So...
AMIEL'S PHILINE-Translated by Van Wyck Brooks-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Henri Frederic Amiel's (1821-81) chief claim to fame is that he wrote a diary. Enough of its 16,000 pages have been published to prove its author one of the most fully confessed men in...
Josephus Daniels, most famed accuser of the Bishop, issued a last castigation: "The quality of mercy is not strained. It cdroppeth like the gentle rain from Heaven alike upon erring Bishop and erring Congoan.* ... It is the preaching of Methodists that confession of sin, followed by repentance and promise to...
"Under the cross we discover a centurion halting on horseback. He, too, was probably a German. He is the first who, overwhelmed by the greatness of the suffering Savior, delivers the powerful confession: 'Verily, this was a righteous man, the Son of God.' "