The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volumes 18-19W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 221
... seats ; and be it noted , our seat was the third from the door , and therefore ought to have been spared , or at least some mitigation of the rise allowed . But many poor people had seats near us , and not a few old widows , who had a ...
... seats ; and be it noted , our seat was the third from the door , and therefore ought to have been spared , or at least some mitigation of the rise allowed . But many poor people had seats near us , and not a few old widows , who had a ...
Page 223
... seat - rents , we wished to take the whole pew , as we occupied five seats , and the pew held six , a man having left the remaining seat whose wife sat in another place of the church ; but , on applying , were told we must petition for ...
... seat - rents , we wished to take the whole pew , as we occupied five seats , and the pew held six , a man having left the remaining seat whose wife sat in another place of the church ; but , on applying , were told we must petition for ...
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... seats is suspended on a condition which never has been , which never will be fulfilled - on the bad seats being all previously occupied and paid for ? In other words , we shall give you Mr Stewart Bell , and you the old and venerable ...
... seats is suspended on a condition which never has been , which never will be fulfilled - on the bad seats being all previously occupied and paid for ? In other words , we shall give you Mr Stewart Bell , and you the old and venerable ...
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Churches and Chapels or the Necessity and Proper Object | 81 |
The Cause of Church Extension and the Question shortly | 105 |
On the Evils which the Established Church in Edinburgh | 157 |
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