The Presbyterian Historical Almanac and Annual Remembrancer of the Church, Volume 9Joseph M. Wilson, 1867 - Presbyterian Church |
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... death he was engaged in reading a work descriptive of the heavenly state ; it was a work in which there was more of fancy than of scriptural facts . He laid it aside with the remark : " It is too much the work of the imagination , and ...
... death he was engaged in reading a work descriptive of the heavenly state ; it was a work in which there was more of fancy than of scriptural facts . He laid it aside with the remark : " It is too much the work of the imagination , and ...
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... death . preached for his brethren occasionally , as his health would permit . In 1850 he removed to Saratoga Springs , N. Y. , where he died Oct. 29 , 1866 , of consumption . He He married Miss Sarah Maria Carpenter , a daughter of Dr ...
... death . preached for his brethren occasionally , as his health would permit . In 1850 he removed to Saratoga Springs , N. Y. , where he died Oct. 29 , 1866 , of consumption . He He married Miss Sarah Maria Carpenter , a daughter of Dr ...
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... death ; but he was willing to walk by faith , leaving his soul and its exercises , as he left his widow and children , to his heavenly Father's care . And as death drew near the same calm faith sustained him . At family worship in the ...
... death ; but he was willing to walk by faith , leaving his soul and its exercises , as he left his widow and children , to his heavenly Father's care . And as death drew near the same calm faith sustained him . At family worship in the ...
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... death of a brother to whom he was tenderly attached , he insisted that such a man ' should be followed to his grave with shouts and songs of victory . ' " I recollect well an address which he made at a communion - table shortly ( before ...
... death of a brother to whom he was tenderly attached , he insisted that such a man ' should be followed to his grave with shouts and songs of victory . ' " I recollect well an address which he made at a communion - table shortly ( before ...
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... death and heaven . A letter written but a few weeks before his death , and when the fatal nature of his disease had been ascertained , lies before me . I copy a few sentences : All I have to do is to wait till my heavenly Father calls ...
... death and heaven . A letter written but a few weeks before his death , and when the fatal nature of his disease had been ascertained , lies before me . I copy a few sentences : All I have to do is to wait till my heavenly Father calls ...
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Page 263 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Page 172 - There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
Page 378 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 48 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America would proceed forthwith to the First Presbyterian Church.
Page 390 - And thus on many accounts it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.
Page 263 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Page 177 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 503 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye should ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Page 445 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 178 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die. Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing thy power to save ; When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave.