 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1879 - 402 pages
...have learnt in his last moments, with Topham Beauclerc 'standing at the foot of his death-bed, that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." In his view of the awfulness of death and personal responsibility... | |
 | Herbert Mortimer Luckock - 1880 - 394 pages
...Court. The charge was that the inscription on the tombstone — Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey. ' It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.' 2 MAOC. xii. 26. — was "contrary to the Articles, Canons and Constitutions, as to the doctrine and... | |
 | Mark McNeal - 1880 - 480 pages
...from them, and the wicked spirits went out 1 Cent. Epist. TheoL, Epist. 74. of them." Acts, c. xix. " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they be loosed from their sins." 2 Mach., c. " xii. " Many of them that believed came confessing... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1880 - 1064 pages
...been no violation of the Articles of the Church of England. It was again maintained, that the words " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead," were not those used in the English version of Maccabees : but then, he considered the main point to... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1880 - 1066 pages
...been no violation of the Articles of the Church of England. It was again maintained, that the words " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead," were not those used in the English version of Maccabees : but then, he considered the main point to... | |
 | Richard Gilmour (R.C. bp. of Cleveland.) - 1881 - 122 pages
...twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem, that sacrifices might be offered for them, saying: " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead." Chapter 87.— From the Machabees to Jesus Christ — 1. After the death of the pious and heroic Judas,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 982 pages
...existence among the Jews is attested by the well-kndwn assurance iu 3d Maccabees, cnap. xii., that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." The continued maintenance of the practice among the Jewish... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1899 - 658 pages
...the Arches in the case of Woolfrey v. Breeks. ' Spes mea Christus. Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.' This was the inscription which originated the trial. The Incumbent refused to admit it into the churchyard,... | |
 | Walter Walsh - 1900 - 454 pages
...to inscribe on a tombstone in a parish churchyard the following words: — "Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey;" and "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. — 2 Mac. xii. 46." The tombstone containing these words had actually been set up in Carisbrooke Churchyard,... | |
 | Percy Dearmer - 1902 - 552 pages
...power to exclude an inscription because it contained the petition, 'Pray for the soul of J. Woolfrey. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.' The Court declared that the inscription 'was not illegal, as by no canon or authority of the Church... | |
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it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
