Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33O. Everett, 1843 |
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... wish we had room for a lengthened sketch of the stand which he and others took . We refer our readers to the deeply interesting account in the Memoir , pp . 23-50 . " He commenced the life of reform with himself ; was exem- plary in his ...
... wish we had room for a lengthened sketch of the stand which he and others took . We refer our readers to the deeply interesting account in the Memoir , pp . 23-50 . " He commenced the life of reform with himself ; was exem- plary in his ...
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... wish of his heart in becoming a preacher of heavenly truth , in a denomination with whose principles he could sym- pathize , when he saw it to be his duty to join the anti - slavery society . He took this step not hastily but ...
... wish of his heart in becoming a preacher of heavenly truth , in a denomination with whose principles he could sym- pathize , when he saw it to be his duty to join the anti - slavery society . He took this step not hastily but ...
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... wish , but what we want . ” Preachers have too often mistaken men's wishes for their wants , their unsanctified tastes for their spiritual yearnings ; and , in honestly striving to meet the latter , have catered for the former . They ...
... wish , but what we want . ” Preachers have too often mistaken men's wishes for their wants , their unsanctified tastes for their spiritual yearnings ; and , in honestly striving to meet the latter , have catered for the former . They ...
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... wish that in the pulpit I could be stripped of every sense and every faculty , but that of speech , so that there might not come in through my eyes and my ears and my wound- ed sensibilities , so many impediments to the easy current of ...
... wish that in the pulpit I could be stripped of every sense and every faculty , but that of speech , so that there might not come in through my eyes and my ears and my wound- ed sensibilities , so many impediments to the easy current of ...
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... wish , you will es- tablish the point , that death is not an evil . But I will not inter- rupt you with questions . I prefer to hear a continued discourse . M. What if I question you , will not you answer ? A. That would be arrogant in ...
... wish , you will es- tablish the point , that death is not an evil . But I will not inter- rupt you with questions . I prefer to hear a continued discourse . M. What if I question you , will not you answer ? A. That would be arrogant in ...
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Page 242 - Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof.
Page 244 - I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 242 - And an eye shall vex thee, looking ancient kindness on thy pain. Turn thee, turn thee on thy pillow: get thee to thy rest again. Nay, but Nature brings thee solace; for a tender voice will cry.
Page 242 - I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair. What is that which I should turn to, lighting upon days like these? Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to • golden keys.
Page 241 - Is it well to wish thee happy? — having known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine!
Page 192 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Page 242 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Page 120 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of "Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.
Page 244 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 192 - Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand ; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.