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...these hours will please deliver what they have to give to the porter or janitor of their building. The clothes will be distributed among the poor of Boston and vicinity. Men living in private houses can get the committee's collection wagon to call tomorrow morning by sending word to R. H. Dana, Jr., Holworthy...
...away at these hours will please deliver what they have to give to the porter or janitor of their building. The clothes are distributed among the poor of Boston and vicinity. Men living in private houses can get the committee's collection wagon to call Thursday morning by sending word to R. H. Dana, Jr., Holworthy...
...life is ruled not merely by his own independent will, but by various influences of which it is only partially conscious; and these influences are summed up in a battle cry, a flag, a party name, a sign, which often has more meaning than many words. The sacramental principle, the representation of inward emotion by outward signs, runs through the world and is a necessity of human life; much more is it a necessity when we are trying to represent heavenly things. The Christian Sacraments are federal or social arts, not arts of worship. The word itself implies the oath...
Baptism was not instituted by Christ, but recognized by Him as the common means of entering into a new sect. He used the word "Baptism" always in its spiritual significance,--"I have a baptism to be baptized with." "Can ye be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" But He sanctioned its use before His ascension, emphasizing the point that it was to be in the three-fold name, and to be accompanied with Christian instruction. It is the sacrament of incorporation, of cleansing and of a new birth, which must issue in new and cleanly surroundings, outward...
...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. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members...