Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged for the Pulpit and the Platform |
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... John Cook's , in Derbyshire , without any acquaint- ance but my servant about me , and was sentenced to death by the physicians , I began to contemplate most seriously on the everlasting rest which I ap- prehended myself to be just on ...
... John Cook's , in Derbyshire , without any acquaint- ance but my servant about me , and was sentenced to death by the physicians , I began to contemplate most seriously on the everlasting rest which I ap- prehended myself to be just on ...
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... John Brown . have always looked forward to old age with peculiar 140. AFFLICTIONS , Resignation in I have delight , and now that he is approaching it he finds his expectations surpassed Telling his tale of read of a lady who , having ...
... John Brown . have always looked forward to old age with peculiar 140. AFFLICTIONS , Resignation in I have delight , and now that he is approaching it he finds his expectations surpassed Telling his tale of read of a lady who , having ...
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... John Wesley preach . The farmer was not a converted man ; he cared little about religion ; on the other hand , he was not what we call a bad man . His attention was soon excited and riveted . John said he should take up three topics of ...
... John Wesley preach . The farmer was not a converted man ; he cared little about religion ; on the other hand , he was not what we call a bad man . His attention was soon excited and riveted . John said he should take up three topics of ...
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... John i . 1-5 . Persuaded by his father to read the New Testament , " At first sight , " he says , " I fell unexpectedly on that august chapter of St. John the Evangelist , ' In the beginning was the Word , ' & c . I read part of the ...
... John i . 1-5 . Persuaded by his father to read the New Testament , " At first sight , " he says , " I fell unexpectedly on that august chapter of St. John the Evangelist , ' In the beginning was the Word , ' & c . I read part of the ...
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... John Ride often had recourse to some very novel things whereby to draw a congregation and secure atten- tion . On one occasion he went into a very low , ignorant neighbourhood . He stood like one be- wildered . With strange gestures and ...
... John Ride often had recourse to some very novel things whereby to draw a congregation and secure atten- tion . On one occasion he went into a very low , ignorant neighbourhood . He stood like one be- wildered . With strange gestures and ...
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Popular passages
Page 343 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Page 351 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 349 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and,...
Page 7 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord...
Page 260 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way : but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Page 58 - 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 47 - Not that I speak in respect of want ; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 306 - JUST as I am, without one plea. But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid'st me come to thee, O Lamb of God ! I come...
Page 70 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 357 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.