Sixty-one Years of Itinerant Christian Life in Church and StateCurts & Jennings, 1898 - 506 pages |
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... Appoint- ment - First Sunday - Changed to Madison Station- Marriage - Amusing Incident - Appointed to Marcellus— Funeral - James Jay , an Old Wesleyan Preacher - Skane- ateles - Visit there in 1864 -- Auburn - Returned to Madi- son ...
... Appoint- ment - First Sunday - Changed to Madison Station- Marriage - Amusing Incident - Appointed to Marcellus— Funeral - James Jay , an Old Wesleyan Preacher - Skane- ateles - Visit there in 1864 -- Auburn - Returned to Madi- son ...
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... Appointed to Grace Church , Day- ton - Second Marriage , to Miss McDonald - Dayton Dis- trict - Unveiling a Painting - Address - Urbana - Wesley Chapel , Cincinnati - Centennial Sermon , . CHAPTER XXVII . · Page 363 Central Church ...
... Appointed to Grace Church , Day- ton - Second Marriage , to Miss McDonald - Dayton Dis- trict - Unveiling a Painting - Address - Urbana - Wesley Chapel , Cincinnati - Centennial Sermon , . CHAPTER XXVII . · Page 363 Central Church ...
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... appoint- ments as a local preacher in places not too far from our home . In 1832 father entered the traveling connection , in which he continued thirty - six years . His death , at the age of seventy - four , was peaceful and tri ...
... appoint- ments as a local preacher in places not too far from our home . In 1832 father entered the traveling connection , in which he continued thirty - six years . His death , at the age of seventy - four , was peaceful and tri ...
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... appointed there was unable to serve them on ac- count of ill - health . The year was a delightful one . Revivals occurred , and some fifty or sixty persons were converted . Here I became acquainted with the daughter of Solomon Root ...
... appointed there was unable to serve them on ac- count of ill - health . The year was a delightful one . Revivals occurred , and some fifty or sixty persons were converted . Here I became acquainted with the daughter of Solomon Root ...
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... appointed by the bishops to preside . In his Journal , Asbury says : " Monday , 5th ( September ) -I made an attempt to speak a few words from Philippians ii , 2-5 . We have progressed in our business very well , though deprived of the ...
... appointed by the bishops to preside . In his Journal , Asbury says : " Monday , 5th ( September ) -I made an attempt to speak a few words from Philippians ii , 2-5 . We have progressed in our business very well , though deprived of the ...
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Page 476 - I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel. Since God is marching on.
Page 377 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 450 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 57 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 436 - According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Page 476 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 192 - And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba : prayer also shall be made for him continually ; and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 481 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
Page 435 - I WILL bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Page 481 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.