 | 1852 - 598 páginas
...the most exalted powers of the soul have remained weak and unimproved ; and they have seen that. m consequence of a rigid adherence to the standard presented...crush and destroy rather than to ennoble and save." — Id. p. 43-44. Having by this summary process put an extinguisher on the Bible as a veritable and... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - 1855 - 250 páginas
...worst of books, full of error, and a source of profanity and corruption. "The influence and effects which have flowed from the authority of the Bible...deleterious character, tending to degrade rather than elevate, to confine rather than expand, and to crush and to destroy rather than to ennoble and save."... | |
 | 1857 - 772 páginas
...word of God, is stated in the following extract from one of their works: §"The influence and effects which have flowed from the authority of the Bible,...deleterious character, tending to degrade, rather than elevate, to confine, rather than expand, and to crush and to destroy, rather than to ennoble and save."... | |
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Thus the influence and effect which have flowed from the authority of the Bible have been of the most deleterious character, tending to degrade rather than to elevate, to confine rather than to expand, and to crush and destroy rather than to ennoble and... 