Fifty Years Syne: A Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, 1848-1898 |
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... preached , down , perhaps , to the remotest generations ; of a system of schools according to the most approved method of the Free Church ; and of an independent Scottish race in the far south , which shall be equally distinguished with ...
... preached , down , perhaps , to the remotest generations ; of a system of schools according to the most approved method of the Free Church ; and of an independent Scottish race in the far south , which shall be equally distinguished with ...
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... preach the Gospel Burns passed the ordeal satisfactorily , and was licensed by the Presbytery of Haddington in 1823. Towards the close of his studies , and for a short time as licentiate , he acted as tutor in several families of note ...
... preach the Gospel Burns passed the ordeal satisfactorily , and was licensed by the Presbytery of Haddington in 1823. Towards the close of his studies , and for a short time as licentiate , he acted as tutor in several families of note ...
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... preacher he was calm and dignified . His sermons were carefully composed and somewhat closely read . At rare intervals , when deeply stirred , he would raise himself from the paper , his eyes flashing , his face glowing with inner light ...
... preacher he was calm and dignified . His sermons were carefully composed and somewhat closely read . At rare intervals , when deeply stirred , he would raise himself from the paper , his eyes flashing , his face glowing with inner light ...
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... preached from a text , Numbers xxxii . , 23 , that was characteristic of his own ways and of the public teaching of a life - time . The tribes that are there addressed had found on the hither side of Jordan a place of rest for their ...
... preached from a text , Numbers xxxii . , 23 , that was characteristic of his own ways and of the public teaching of a life - time . The tribes that are there addressed had found on the hither side of Jordan a place of rest for their ...
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... of the Settlement . The text of that first sermon preached amid such novel surroundings seems very striking and memorable in its appropriatness . It was Old the 4th verse of the CXXX . Psalm : 20 FIFTY YEARS SYNE . 70 THE FIRST SERVICES.
... of the Settlement . The text of that first sermon preached amid such novel surroundings seems very striking and memorable in its appropriatness . It was Old the 4th verse of the CXXX . Psalm : 20 FIFTY YEARS SYNE . 70 THE FIRST SERVICES.
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Page 68 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 3 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
Page 4 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Page 82 - I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick : but I will destroy the fat and the strong ; I will feed them with judgment.
Page 12 - Keep not standing fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam ; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home, In what land the sun does visit, Brisk are we, whate'er betide : To give space for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.
Page 30 - His benefits to the generation following ; for, as the youth must succeed us, so we ought to be careful that they have knowledge and erudition to profit and comfort that which ought to be most deare to us, to wit, the kirk and spouse of our Lord Jesus.
Page 192 - For now the noonday quiet holds the hill : The grasshopper is silent in the grass : The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
Page 26 - I must tell you, there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland: there is King James, the head of the commonwealth, and there is Christ Jesus, the King of the Church, whose subject James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but
Page 36 - The whole earth is the Lord's garden, and he hath given it to the Sons of Adam, to be tilled and improved by them : why then should we stand starving here for places of habitation, and in the mean time suffer whole countries, as profitable for the use of man, to lie waste without any improvement?
Page 61 - Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, How they maun thole a factor's snash : He'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear. He'll apprehend them, poind their gear ; While they maun stan', wi' aspect humble, An' hear it a', an' fear an' tremble ! I see how folk live that hae riches ; But surely poor folk maun be wretches.