| John Ogden - 1859 - 480 páginas
...righteousness, and its life is the life of the soul. " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." It is not all faith, nor yet is it all works, but a happy and consistent... | |
| 1885 - 676 páginas
...the subject. To work, no doubt, is, in itself, a devotional act Work for God is devotional. " True religion and undefiled before God is this — to visit...fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." And so the old saying, laborartcst orare, to work is to pray, has... | |
| Mary Sewell - 1863 - 344 páginas
...Spirit teaches him on this subject, thus : " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." I do not know if any other rendering has been found, for any part... | |
| 1864 - 974 páginas
...To possess personal Christianity is to be Christlike. " True religion before God and the Father, is to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world." We are told that Christianity is the- historic religion ; that that history must be accepted in its... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1864 - 476 páginas
...succinct theory of the Christian religion. " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world," are the two lines of its practice, — charity and purity. Eighteen... | |
| Henry Forrester (fict.name.) - 1864 - 284 páginas
...loving attentions of Dr. Montgomery, or the cordial affectionate sympathy of Colonel Forrester, who came to " visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction," and to pay the last sad tribute of respect to his departed brother. It is enough to say that, when that excellent... | |
| Thomas Binney - 1865 - 342 páginas
...misunderstood and perverted. " Pure religion before God even the Father is this,—to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction; and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world."* This is sometimes supposed to mean that religion itself—the essence and substance of it— consists... | |
| 1866 - 686 páginas
...follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man should see the Lord. It was her wont to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep herself unspotted from the world. Before he passed from that part of the subject, he would remind every... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1869 - 230 páginas
...treasure of the heart bringeth forth ;good things. Pure religion and undenled before God the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. w TI. -HYMN 38 :" We come in childhood's innocence." HI. SCRIPTURE... | |
| 1869 - 606 páginas
...the flesh, and the devil. It is said in James " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this : to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Ah, friends, which of us can take this to ourselves ? Never was... | |
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