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title: 'The Church: Its Strength and Its Weakness'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Miller Paxton'
date: 1881-06-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Church History'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 52'
- 'Judges 1'
- 'Mark 9'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/paxton-1881-the-church-its-strength-and-its-weakness
---

# The Church: Its Strength and Its Weakness

Sermon urging the Church to awake from weakness, tracing cycles of power and decline in history, and insisting divine power requires human duty and effort in mission.

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