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Page 75 - Bible — and, when they come to resign their temporal life, utter strangers to the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ whom He has sent, whom to know is life everlasting. I count it, my brethren, one of the most striking exhibitions which theology can furnish, that a man may give the strength of his days to the labour of its most difficult and profound investigations, and be, after all, a stranger to what is called in the Bible the spiritual discernment of the truth...
Page 25 - Be not weary in well-doing, for in due time ye shall reap if ye faint not...
Page 9 - And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye remember that he is the *same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, and that all these gifts of which I have spoken, which are spiritual, 'never will be done away, even as long as the world shall stand, only according to the unbelief of
Page 74 - ... universal spreading of his reign. In conclusion, it is. our earnest prayer, that it may please the Supreme Ruler of the Universe to hasten the coming of that period when the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ shall shine forth with unclouded brightness ; when Righteousness shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.
Page 7 - who has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the strong, and the foolish things of this world to confound the wise...
Page 78 - But it is good to he zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with yoc.
Page 3 - Letter," endorsed after each of the above directions; and are to be sealed, and given into the hand of the Postmaster, as when common letters are post paid. 4. Bank Notes or...

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