Word: lord
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recognize the right of her subjects to become American citizens and the consequent claim of the right to impress American seamen of British origin into the English navy. The negotiations following this war led to no definite settlement of the question, nor did the discussion between Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton...
Criterion--John Hare in "The Gay Lord Quex...
...From Egypt's Bondage Come," Page; "The Lord is My Light," Allitson; and "Be Merciful Unto Me," Sydenham, solo by P. L. Fish...
...beginning, as at Pentecost, no form of adherence was required: Afterwards some simple form like, "I believe that Jesus is the Son of God," was the condition of baptism. Then the words of our Lord about baptizing in the Name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost became a baptismal confession; and these were drawn out into the creeds which lasted through the Middle Ages. At the Reformation and since, many confessions have been framed, though we all feel, with Harnack, that the time for fresh ones is passed. We have to consider; the value of creeds and confessions, their danger...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...