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A Voice from the Fire

Robert Wallace

Let us, then, address a few observations on this solemn subject to all classes in the land.  And, first, to Roman Catholics themselves, at least, to such as have any moderation and candour. ..

Bible-Burning

John C. Miller

Making every allowance for the members of a Church who regard the Protestant version as erroneous, I am prepared to show you that this is not a solitary instance of such proceedings in the Romish Chur..

Christian Marriage Indissoluble - A Plain Sermon

James Galloway Cowan

Marriage, you know, was instituted in the time of man’s innocency.  God judged that it was not good for man to be alone; He therefore gave him a help meet for him.  That help was a creature ..

The Cause and Cure of the Cattle Plague - A Plain Sermon

James Galloway Cowan

Do you ask me what I suppose to be the purpose of this visitation—and what, therefore, we have to do as a nation and as individuals by way of repentance and amendment?  I venture not to answer pa..

The Ritual Movement

James Galloway Cowan

Without further preface, I would, in all solemnity, read this precept as addressed to us, brethren, to the clergy and laity of the Anglican Church of this present day, and as one which for the glory o..

An analysis of religious belief

John Russell Amberley

If some of the advanced thinkers of the day find that Viscount Amberly—as evinced in some of the later chapters of this volume—had not in all respects evolved in the line of Free-thought so far as the..

The Kashf al-mahjúb - The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism

Hujviri

The Kashf al-Maḥjúb, which belongs to the later years of the author’s life, and, partly at any rate, to the period of his residence in Lahore, was written in reply to certain questions addressed to hi..

The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland

Alexander Peterkin

The subsequent history of these volumes—the best, perhaps, that can now be given—is to be found in a “Statement” concerning[iii] them, drawn up by Dr John Lee, the present Clerk of the General Assembl..