 I have never united myself to any church because I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their Articles of Belief and Confessions of Faith. When...  The Bookman - Page 7051920Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 666 pages
...anil Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark : " I have never united myself to any church, because 1 have found difficulty in giving my assent, without...Confessions of Faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership," he continued, the Saviour's condensed statement of... | |
 | Henry Champion Deming - Bible - 1865 - 70 pages
...forget. He said, he had never united himself to any church, because he found difficulty in giving his assent, without mental reservation, to the long complicated...belief and Confessions of Faith. " When any church," he continued, "will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership the Saviour's... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...martyred President. He never joined a church, because, as he said, he found difficulty in giving his assent, without mental reservation, to the long complicated...Belief, and Confessions of Faith. " When any church," he continued, " will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1866 - 388 pages
..." the conversation turned upon religious subjects, and Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark : ' I have never united myself to any church, because...Confessions of Faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership,' he continued, ' the Saviour's condensed statement... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1866 - 222 pages
...martyred President. He never joined a church, because, as he said, he found difficulty in giving his assent, without mental reservation, to the long complicated...Belief, and Confessions of Faith. " When any church/' he continued, " will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...daily life : On one occasion, Mr. Lincoln said, " I have never united myself to any church, because I found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long and complicated statements of Christian doctrine, which characterize their articles of belief and confessions... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...daily life : On one occasion, Mr. Lincoln said, " I have never united myself to any church, because I found difficulty in giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long and complicated statements of Christian doctrine, which characterize their articles of belief and confessions... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...fixed upon this subject. In a conversation with Hon. HC Deming, of Connecticut, he said : " I have not united myself to any church, because I have found...giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long-complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their articles of belief and confessions... | |
 | James Martin Peebles - Christianity - 1870 - 122 pages
...old, ring in the new; King in the Christ that is to be." CHAPTER V. JESUS AND THE POSITIVE ItELIGION. "I have found difficulty in giving my assent, without...complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterise their articles of belief a»id confessions of faith. When any church will inscribe orer... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1872 - 370 pages
..." the conversation turned upon religious subjects, and Mr. Lincoln made this impressive remark : ' I have never united myself to any church, because...Confessions of Faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership,' he continued, ' the Saviour's condensed statement... | |
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