Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Nearly Three Thousand Facts, Incidents, Narratives, Examples and Testimonies, Containing the Best of the Kind in Most Former Collections, and Some Hundreds in Addition, Original and Selected, the Whole Critically Arranged and Classified on a New Plan, with Copious Topical and Scriptural IndexesLeavitt and Allen, 1848 - 891 pages |
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... gospel , are like poor men coming to be clothed from a public charity . If you give them cloth in the piece , they will dispose of it as they can , and keep their own rags . But if you have it made up , and give them plain , well ...
... gospel , are like poor men coming to be clothed from a public charity . If you give them cloth in the piece , they will dispose of it as they can , and keep their own rags . But if you have it made up , and give them plain , well ...
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... gospel , apparently not without success . Being reminded by an acquaintance that , in all probability , she would soon stand in need of what she had saved , she replied , " that she could not think it her duty to see her aged parents ...
... gospel , apparently not without success . Being reminded by an acquaintance that , in all probability , she would soon stand in need of what she had saved , she replied , " that she could not think it her duty to see her aged parents ...
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... gospel , which was now the joy and rejoicing of his soul . So much wisdom and truth is there in the beautiful lan- guage of the poet : - 66 Good , when he gives , supremely good , Nor less when he denies ; E'en crosses , from his ...
... gospel , which was now the joy and rejoicing of his soul . So much wisdom and truth is there in the beautiful lan- guage of the poet : - 66 Good , when he gives , supremely good , Nor less when he denies ; E'en crosses , from his ...
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... Gospel was introduced by cerned about her best interests . The the Methodist preachers , a poor laboring preaching was removed to her son's man was induced to hear the Gospel . cottage , which was situated about a mile By the blessing ...
... Gospel was introduced by cerned about her best interests . The the Methodist preachers , a poor laboring preaching was removed to her son's man was induced to hear the Gospel . cottage , which was situated about a mile By the blessing ...
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... gospel , and wrote a book against the truths he had professed to love . After this , he was brought into a very awful state of mind , absolutely despairing of the mercy of God being extended to him . He was visited by several ministers ...
... gospel , and wrote a book against the truths he had professed to love . After this , he was brought into a very awful state of mind , absolutely despairing of the mercy of God being extended to him . He was visited by several ministers ...
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Popular passages
Page 346 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 148 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 318 - Ye are the salt of the earth" — " Ye are the light of the world.
Page 638 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel...
Page 462 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 374 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 269 - THERE is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
Page 151 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 401 - Socrates, peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted, and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared.
Page 248 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...