But always I return here; for the great church seems to carry my prayers away, and they are half lost in such bigness, and it is not so bright and so joyous as this.
For centuries, however, a lively intercourse was maintained between the Latin Church in Jerusalem, which the clemency of the Arab conquerors tolerated, and the Christians of the West.
In 1712 he wrote a brief introduction on the history of English church music to a collection of the words of anthems which he had edited under the title of Divine Harmony.
Part of it served as the parish church of St Faith.
By some means it was entirely lost sight of until the year 1492, when it is said that it was accidentally found in a vault in the church of S.
The thatched house with crow-stepped gables in Church Street, in which Hugh Miller the geologist was born, still stands, and a statue has been erected to his memory.
Cromwell's religious policy included the maintenance of a national church, a policy acceptable to the army but much disliked by the Scots, who wanted the church to control the state, not the state the church.
The parish church of St John the Baptist appears to have been built in the 14th and 15th centuries, but to have contained remains of an older building.
Yet the church might ask, with some justice, whether the means he had used were excused by the end which he had attained.
The crypt at Assisi is really a second church at a lower level, and being built on the steep side of a hill is well lighted.
Now, there were two cardinal principles in the Protestantism of the 16th century--the supremacy of the temporal sovereign over the church in matters of government, and the supremacy of the Scriptures over the Church in matters of faith.
Was it some other of the popes who reigned after the Council of Trent with faith absolute, belief re-established in its full integrity, the Church saved by pride and the stubborn upholding of every dogma?
I caught it on the bank of the Tiber one evening, when I went to weep there in my grief at having been driven from the little church where I officiated.
Cannot you see the sophistry of your argument that the Church becomes the loftier the more it frees itself from the cares of terrestrial sovereignty?
On the left-hand the rounded apsis of the Gesu church looked quite golden in the morning brightness.
Never before had Pierre so cruelly realised that the Church was now so reduced that she could only live by dint of concessions and diplomacy.
The broad sheets of sunlight streaming through the lofty square windows of plain white glass illumined the church with blending radiance.
Then in all frankness he replied: "Yes, his Eminence has very decided ideas about our old Church of France.
The fear of death was bringing her back to religion, although she had not set foot in church since her first communion.
Never has the Church of Rome, in its inquisitorial madness, been so blinded with fury and passion as then.
This proclaimed her mission as she passed along, and the bells of many a little church pealed God-speed to her and her passengers.
The floor of the church is of stone, the pews of polished oak.
The Governor directed the opening of the Old South Church in Boston for worship according to the English ritual.
The central court, however, was broad and spacious, the church occupying a rise of ground on the eastern side.
Following an avenue of trees, up a gentle eminence, the tall white towers and green domes of a stately church gradually detached themselves from the mist, and we found ourselves at the portal of the monastery.
By eleven they had all assembled, and the church was well filled.
We desired, however, to see the church before the combined fog and twilight should make it too dark; so a benevolent old monk led the way, hand in hand with P.
The story of that impotent rage which sought to purchase life and safety for the Romish Church by the murder of Huss and of Jerome of Prague is instructive, if it is not pleasing.
A little farther the town ceased, and we found ourselves upon a rough, sloping common, at the top of which stood the church with its neighboring belfry.
Skit, a small churchand branch of the monastery, more than a mile distant; while I tried, but all in vain, to reproduce the Holy Island in verses.
Now if you would only wait until the Free Church Minister comes home, he might go with us, and then it would be all right.
Not that the Free Church Minister is certain of a welcome--if the young man is what he is said to be; but at all events he would be a chaperon for us.
Donald Ross had passed through the village, and was now going up to the Free Church minister's cottage.
He might help us: you say yourself the Free Church Ministers have an enormous influence in the Highlands.
Especially has the Romish church erred here beyond all bounds of reason or moderation.
They are roaming round to find some fulcrum to overturn the church and the Bible; they are imagining they are receiving utterances from heaven, when nothing is uttered but the vain fantasies of their own minds and hearts.
Another method to detect a witch, was to weigh her against the church Bible.
The Mormon preachers claim for themselves and the members of their church the power of working miracles, and of speaking with new tongues.
The churchimmediately sent a member to consult the far-famed fortune-telling Molly Pitcher.
The church can enjoy a constant season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, only let its members be ever active, ever diligent, ever devoted and persevering.
From these facts, as they call them, they draw the conclusion that they are the members of the true church of Christ.
The Church has had to learn that religion does not consist in being unnatural.
With the average boy the struggle with the School and the Church is less vigorous than the struggle at home.
The home and the church and the school and the printed book roll over him.
He lies passive and insensible at last,--as convenient as though he were dead, and the Church and the School operate upon him.
He had gone from the church to his club, wishing not to present himself in Chelsea at luncheon-time and also remembering that he must attempt independently to make a meal.
To what church was he going, to what church, in such a state of his nerves, could he go?
It was all there for him, playing on his pride of possession as a hidden master in a great dim church might play on the grandest organ.
The day broke to find me still wandering along these dreary sand-hills; but to my great delight two church towers about a league off showed me that a village was near; and thither I now proceeded to bend my steps.
I was already beginning to weary of expectancy, when I perceived, from the movement on the house-tops and the church tower, that something was going forward within the view of those stationed there.
Reba instinctively hurried to the oldchurch to cry by herself; and having arrived there, she did cry until every tear was spent.
Nearly always her companion would follow after; in the open air it would all be made up, and with arms entwined they would go peacefully back into the church again.
That will make it all right, for I'm sure, Percy, a church is the very place to be good in.
Why, you might as well try to work Trinity Church to windward with a leg-of-mutton sail rigged on to the steeple.
For three doleful days Reba did not go near the old church nor Percy's house.
In spite of all that, it was still a church to Percy.
Everything about the oldchurch is half yours, and more than half, and we'll remember better than ever after this, won't we?
I told you all I know 'bout slavery less you ask me 'bout somethin' I might answer: We ask if we could go to white church and they tell us they wanted certain ones to go today so they could fix up.
I belong to the Holiness Church down on Izard Street, and Brother Jeeter is my pastor.
It's a Catholic book--'History ofChurch and State.
Sometimes my mother went to the white churchand sometimes she went to the colored folks church.
They take the body to the church for the night and they gather there and watch.
My grandma told me about when she went to church she used to carry her good clothes in a bundle.
The church had lately been decorated, on the occasion of a great ceremony in honor of St. Peter, and men were engaged, now, in removing the flowers and gilt paper from the walls and pillars.
The true religion, properly administered, as the good Mother Church used to administer it, is very, very soothing.
Of course we have been to the monster Church of St. Peter, frequently.
To be buried in such ground was regarded by the ancient Pisans as being more potent for salvation than many masses purchased of the church and the vowing of many candles to the Virgin.
I knew that the cross on the top of the dome of the church was four hundred and thirty-eight feet above the ground, and therefore about a hundred or may be a hundred and twenty-five feet higher than the dome of the capitol.
Visitors always go up there to look down into the church because one gets the best idea of some of the heights and distances from that point.
So we only groped through the dismal labyrinth of St. Callixtus, under the Church of St. Sebastian.
It was like a long-drawn chord of a church organ, infinitely softened by distance.
The great attractions of the church are a row of malachite pillars on either side of the high altar.
The church being crowded with people, a priest came through one of the side doors of the screen, and in a stentorian voice, with hand uplifted, announced that service was beginning.
To a stranger, one of the most curious ceremonies in the Greek Church is that of baptism.
We find nothing said in the Bible of a Patriarch, or any other head of the Churchon earth.
The church is warmed by means of several large stoves, whence pipes are carried inside the walls all round the building, with vents at intervals, out of which the hot air can be allowed to escape.
It contains a church called Peter Paul, built by Peter the Great, and which has a spire exactly like that of the Admiralty.
Standing amid them, yet not pressed on too closely, rises the proud structure of the new Church of Saint Isaac, with its four granite-columned porticoes.
One of the most curious ceremonies of which we heard in the Greek Church is that of cursing the heretics.
We saw the gross, the terrible, the wicked errors of the Church of our country.
There is not a particle of the church which is not thus ornamented.
The outside of this church is ornamented with subjects totally at variance with anything like a pure taste.
We removed to Illinois in June, 1843, and, after a short stay in Bristol, my father made a new home for his family in Freeport, where he began his missionary work by founding the First Baptist Church of that place.
True; and to the Church men look for help to save their souls from starving for lack of this good school, this kindly rain, this sacred music.
From this I gather that there are few stories more romantic than the founding of the Uganda Christian Church in British East Africa.
By the beneficent donations of pious ancestors the riches of the church had been accumulating through a thousand years, and these benefactors were as much the progenitors of the departing brother as of him who remained.
By the Emperor's orders, the church at Klostergrab was pulled down; that at Braunau forcibly shut up, and the most turbulent of the citizens thrown into prison.
By a strange concatenation of events, the divisions of the Church were associated with two circumstances, without which, in all probability, they would have had a very different conclusion.
All that the Lutheran Church gained by it was toleration; all that the Romish Church conceded, was a sacrifice to necessity, not an offering to justice.
The aggrandizement of their master's power opened to the ambition and avarice of his Palatine servants an unlimited field for their gratification; this anticipated triumph of their church kindled the ardour of the Calvinistic fanatic.
Philip the Second, remained a law for their successors; and the more the breach in the church widened, the firmer became the attachment of the Spaniards to Roman Catholicism.
But under this title lurked also the far stricter sects of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren, who differed from the predominant church in more important particulars, and bore, in fact, a great resemblance to the German Protestants.
The possession of the imperial throne--a dignity it was impossible for a Protestant to hold, (for with what consistency could an apostate from the Romish Church wear the crown of a Roman emperor?
The church had now divided; the Diet had broken into two religious parties; was the whole system of the Empire still exclusively to follow the one?
It was not surprising if the decrees of this tribunal bore traces of their origin; if the interests of the Roman Church and of the Emperor were preferred to justice by Roman Catholic judges, and the creatures of the Emperor.
Even to the last, the Romish Church preferred to risk to loss of every thing by force, than voluntarily to yield the smallest matter to justice.
It is a popular expression for the church called collegiata, in Latin.
And Zbyszko added: "So help me God and holy cross, this vow I will repeat in church before a priest.
Rightly speaking, the boy was obliged to go, because he had sworn in the church to secure three peacocks' crests.
Zbyszko did the same; nobody in this assembly doubted that he really saw a saint, whose image would some time adorn the church altars.
Some of them were moaning; some, stretching their hands toward the churchand toward the queen's room, asked for a miracle and God's mercy.
The monks were waiting to celebrate mass, because immediately the bells were rung; the trumpeters blew near the church door in honor of the princess.
It seemed to him now, that he had seen her before; but he could not remember whether it was in a dream, or somewhere in Krakow on the pane of a church window.
Every church used to make a great impression on the princess who had not been born in a Christian country.
Shall I offer to the Church some of my wealth, grain, herds, wax, or something of the same nature acceptable to God?
Zych permitted the girl to dress in a sheepskin overcoat and high-legged boots when at home, but required that for church she should be dressed not like the daughter of a poor wlodyczka,[84] but like the panna of a mighty nobleman.
He saw the man just before him and spurting briskly for the churchcorner and the hill road.
Henfrey stopped to discover this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall.
Members of the club, who had attended church in the morning, were splendid in badges of pink and green, and some of the gayer-minded had also adorned their bowler hats with brilliant-coloured favours of ribbon.
With them goggling eyes and bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday.
Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.
The former he entitled The Liturgy of the Church of England reduced nearer to the Primitive Standard.
A List of the various Colleges connected with the Church of England, Roman Catholics, and various Dissenting bodies.
England, owing to the existing connexion between church and state, attaches to the spiritual office of a bishop.
All at once, with a tremendous roar, down comes the roof of the church crushing and killing all those who were under it praying.
From that terrible Saturday night, till the following Sunday when the first threatening signs appeared, the churchbells have been ringing madly and everybody has started to pray.
It was taken out yesterday from the church of the Oratorio, which is near B.
Luigi d'Ambrosio has requested the population to meet in the church of the Oratorio of San Giuseppe.
Here is a part of a ruined wall, it is the little church that Bernardo Tanucci has built in remembrance of another eruption.
Giovanni, to the onlychurch still standing, and all the bells must be ringing!
Twenty or thirty houses have tumbled down at Somma Vesuviana, one church is in great danger, the walls of another are cracked.
The greater part of the Scottish clergy, he complains, have lost the unction of their own church without acquiring the erudition and accomplishments of ours.
We thought of Southey, Wordsworth, Crowe, Crabbe, Wollaston; and Bowles thought he could answer for several single Articles from persons of the highest rank in the Church and our two Universities.
Election, Reprobation, Children of the Devil, and all such flowers of rhetoric, and flour of brimstone, form his discourses both in church and parlour.
Since the late alarm respecting Church Calvinism and Calvinistic Methodism (a cry of Fire!
The Church of England has in the Articles solemnly declared that all Churches are fallible--and in another, to assert its absolute immaculateness, sounds to me a mere contradiction.
The Army under a favourite son, the Church with a wife, etc.
We passed a church with closed doors, and he seemed surprised.
One could not help contrasting this obvious sincerity with the perfunctory church parade on our side, and this religion with that of two-thirds or three-fourths of our army of careless agnostics.
Boots tell confessions for the most Low Church Protestants, and the umbrellas above them generally corroborate the sins of the boots.
That "the disturbance of a local fengshui by a church spire is considered as much of a grievance as the erection of a hideous tannery beside Westminster Abbey would be.
Encyclical Address to the Catholic Church on the subject of the Holy Family.
The Duke was still determined to capture Geneva, whether by violence or by stealth, believing that the act would be equally advantageous to the Church and to himself.
In 1572 he was made pastor of the Church of St. Gervais.
They set their dogs at Calvin; they openly ridiculed him; they came drunk to church and brawled.
So that is what upsets your mind, And you are not upset to find Church benefices bought and sold By hungry thieves in quest of gold?
At that time there was a French church at New Rochelle, the pastor of which was an excellent scholar; and this gentleman fitted young Jay for college.
Church did the water very well, and Paul Weber the island.
Then, too, in the year 1610, he both founded and opened your Institute on the day dedicated by the Church to the memory and adoration of that incomprehensible mystery.
Like the fertile and smiling valleys, the village mothers play their homely part, while a Bishop, raised to such a lofty eminence in the Church of God, remains ice-bound as the mountains.
Moreover, to prove that His desire is neither barren nor unhelpful, He gives us in His holy Church all the graces necessary for our salvation, so that if we are lost it will only be because of our own wilful malice.
He used to say that it was very much with the wealth of the Church as with a man's beard, the more closely it was clipped the stronger and the thicker it grew again.
Even if holy women only served as perfumes for theChurch they would not be useless.
It happens to our crosses, as it does to those which are painted on the walls of a church when the Bishop in consecrating it makes a second cross upon them with holy oil.
