Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and Their Communion with Mortals. Doctrine of the Spirit World Respecting Heaven, Hell, Morality, and God. Also, the Influence of Scripture on the Morals of ChristiansPartridge & Brittan, 1855 - 456 pages |
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... passing through perforations suitably made for its reception . The axle consists of a rod of about of an inch in thickness . The axle serves for two wheels of about six inches diameter , of which one is grooved . A disk , already de ...
... passing through perforations suitably made for its reception . The axle consists of a rod of about of an inch in thickness . The axle serves for two wheels of about six inches diameter , of which one is grooved . A disk , already de ...
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... passing away of winter , the interest in the fireside declines : ' tis changeable as the temperature of air . It loses all its force in the tropics ; but , throughout Christendom , the table still draws about it the inmates of every ...
... passing away of winter , the interest in the fireside declines : ' tis changeable as the temperature of air . It loses all its force in the tropics ; but , throughout Christendom , the table still draws about it the inmates of every ...
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... passed the portal of death , they con- sider them the work of Old Nick . 89. If this personage ever did influence the acts of any sect , manifestly it must have been in those instances in which alleged religious error has been made the ...
... passed the portal of death , they con- sider them the work of Old Nick . 89. If this personage ever did influence the acts of any sect , manifestly it must have been in those instances in which alleged religious error has been made the ...
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... passed to that adjoining the one in which I had been sitting . Nothing could be seen which could account for the sounds . 141. The medium to whose presence these manifestations were due , then held a flute against the panel of the door ...
... passed to that adjoining the one in which I had been sitting . Nothing could be seen which could account for the sounds . 141. The medium to whose presence these manifestations were due , then held a flute against the panel of the door ...
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... Passing the fingers over the letters upon an alphabetic pasteboard , like those to assist children in learning their letters , when it comes over the required letter , its selection is indicated either by a tapping or tilting . By this ...
... Passing the fingers over the letters upon an alphabetic pasteboard , like those to assist children in learning their letters , when it comes over the required letter , its selection is indicated either by a tapping or tilting . By this ...
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Page 361 - But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone, and put it under- him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 336 - And these things being considered, it seems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 203 - And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Page 171 - And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle.
Page 157 - For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Bapust: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
Page 152 - The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory ; and their bodies being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.
Page 362 - When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
Page 157 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.
Page 360 - And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
Page 360 - ... all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.