Studies for Personal Workers

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International committee of Young men's Christian associations, 1904 - Church work - 161 pages

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Page 121 - 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 13 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Page 148 - If you say so, that is quite enough — of course I believe your word;" and there grew up in consequence a general feeling that " it was a shame to tell Arnold a lie — he always believes one.
Page 99 - If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.
Page 10 - But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
Page 4 - That common millions might have quenched, then died Of thirst, because there was no more to drink. His goddess, Nature, wooed, embraced, enjoyed, Fell from his arms, abhorred; his passions died, Died all but dreary, solitary pride; And all his sympathies in being died. As some ill-guided bark, well built, and tall, Which angry tides cast out on desert shore, And then retiring, left it there to rot And molder in the winds and rains of heaven...
Page 86 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Page 135 - I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work d ." Two doctrines, both of them distinctly Christian, throw their guardian shadows over the lesson.
Page 142 - Resolved, that I will, the Lord being my helper, think, speak, and act as an individual : for as such I must live— as such I must die, stand before God, be judged, be damned or saved for ever and ever.
Page 129 - Unless I be convinced by Scripture and reason, I neither can nor dare retract anything; for my conscience is a captive to God's word, and it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. Here I take my stand: I can do no otherwise. So help me God. Amen.

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