Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler: With ReminiscencesRev. Pardee Butler was born at Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York, in 1816, the son of Phineas and Sarah Pardee Butler. His family migrated to Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, in 1818, and to Sandusky Plains, Ohio, in 1839. He married Sibjl S. Carleton, daughter of Joseph Carleton, at Sullivan, Ashland County, Ohio, in 1843. Their family migrated to Iowa in 1850, to Illinois, and in 1855 to Kansas. He was a minister, and fought against slavery, and for prohabition. He died at his home near Farmington, Kansas, in 1888. |
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... never saw him shoot a gun , and he has never owned one within my recollection . Orin Loomis was often heard to say that Phin . Butler was the most courageous man he ever knew . He was quick - tempered , but warm - hearted , and full of ...
... never saw him shoot a gun , and he has never owned one within my recollection . Orin Loomis was often heard to say that Phin . Butler was the most courageous man he ever knew . He was quick - tempered , but warm - hearted , and full of ...
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... never saw the time that any one could repeat a verse in the New Testament to him , but that he could tell the book , and nearly always the chapter in which it was found . He and his father's family put their membership into the church ...
... never saw the time that any one could repeat a verse in the New Testament to him , but that he could tell the book , and nearly always the chapter in which it was found . He and his father's family put their membership into the church ...
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... never had cause to regret his choice , for she proved to him a helpmeet indeed . While living there , at the solicitation of his neigh- bors , he held a debate with a Universalist preacher , to the satisfaction of his friends and the ...
... never had cause to regret his choice , for she proved to him a helpmeet indeed . While living there , at the solicitation of his neigh- bors , he held a debate with a Universalist preacher , to the satisfaction of his friends and the ...
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... to speak in all the evenings of the coming week . The first commanded universal attention : " Does the spirit die when the body dies ? " They had never thought of that . They had been thunderstruck when this 28 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS .
... to speak in all the evenings of the coming week . The first commanded universal attention : " Does the spirit die when the body dies ? " They had never thought of that . They had been thunderstruck when this 28 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS .
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... never gone . There was probably more Bible reading that day in Ripley than any day before or since . At night the ... never mean more than this ? Paradise sometimes means the happy garden where Adam and Eve dwelt ; but does it never mean ...
... never gone . There was probably more Bible reading that day in Ripley than any day before or since . At night the ... never mean more than this ? Paradise sometimes means the happy garden where Adam and Eve dwelt ; but does it never mean ...
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Page 323 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh : — (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; — And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Page 58 - Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,' and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Page 58 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 58 - Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things.
Page 327 - Refrain from these men and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 101 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 243 - The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors shall be forever prohibited in this State, except for medical, scientific and mechanical purposes.
Page 229 - What shall I eat, and what shall I drink, and wherewithal shall I be clothed?
Page 109 - The council of war clanked off to see if Mr Wardrop's words were true. He warned them that it was as much as a man's life was worth to enter the engine-room, and they contented themselves with a distant inspection through the thinning steam.
Page 230 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.