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... religious denominations have not only neglected to afford young men necessary aid to cultivate their gifts ; but to such a measure they have manifested a mistaken opposition . * It is with pleasure I perceive this prejudice gradually to ...
... religious denominations have not only neglected to afford young men necessary aid to cultivate their gifts ; but to such a measure they have manifested a mistaken opposition . * It is with pleasure I perceive this prejudice gradually to ...
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... religion . ORATORY . Or , the public delivery of a discourse . Many a good sermon has been thrown away , in the esti- mation of hearers , by the preacher standing in the desk , apparently as cold and inactive as a statue of marble ; and ...
... religion . ORATORY . Or , the public delivery of a discourse . Many a good sermon has been thrown away , in the esti- mation of hearers , by the preacher standing in the desk , apparently as cold and inactive as a statue of marble ; and ...
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... religion , and which we hope will be continued when our heads may be laid upon the lap of earth . Be not , therefore , weary in well doing . We cherish a lively hope that the young per- sons who have been , or may yet have the privilege ...
... religion , and which we hope will be continued when our heads may be laid upon the lap of earth . Be not , therefore , weary in well doing . We cherish a lively hope that the young per- sons who have been , or may yet have the privilege ...
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... CHRISTIAN , it is impossible , in the nature of the thing , that he should make a faithful minis- ter of Christ ... religion and his ministry in question . To remove such evils , the Apostle was happy in reciting to them the experience ...
... CHRISTIAN , it is impossible , in the nature of the thing , that he should make a faithful minis- ter of Christ ... religion and his ministry in question . To remove such evils , the Apostle was happy in reciting to them the experience ...
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... faith of Christ , why not use the language of the gospel ? Is there a necessity to coin a set of technical terms to ... denominations of christian churches , we are obliged to lament the diversity of modes in administering Baptism and ...
... faith of Christ , why not use the language of the gospel ? Is there a necessity to coin a set of technical terms to ... denominations of christian churches , we are obliged to lament the diversity of modes in administering Baptism and ...
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Page 10 - As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 11 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God : for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Page 5 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, While the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, When thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 8 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man " should cast seed into the ground ; * and should sleep, and " rise night and day, and the seed, should spring, and grow " up, he knoweth not how. a For, the earth, bringeth forth " fruit of herself ; first, the blade, then, the ear, after that, the
Page 6 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 9 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Page 9 - ... stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olivetree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Page 10 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 2 - As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For he knoweth our frame ; He remembereth that we are dust.