The Life and Labors of the Late Rev. William Stevens Balch: With an Outline of His Writings and Discourses and Biographical Sketches and Recollections of Incidents, Travels and Correspondence, During a History of More Than Sixty YearsPrinted and bound by Donohue & Henneberry, 1888 - 326 pages |
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... Practical -A Great Reformer - A Memorable Sermon Before the Gen- eral Convention in 1840 - His High Ground Upon the Reform Character of Our Religion , Placing Him in the Front Rank- Always a Universalist , but Never a Bigot - His the ...
... Practical -A Great Reformer - A Memorable Sermon Before the Gen- eral Convention in 1840 - His High Ground Upon the Reform Character of Our Religion , Placing Him in the Front Rank- Always a Universalist , but Never a Bigot - His the ...
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... practical lover of all that was noble and good in man , and an ardent and practical hater of selfishness , greed , hypocrisy and pretense . His influence has been great and wide . He has lived a consistent , noble , energetic , good ...
... practical lover of all that was noble and good in man , and an ardent and practical hater of selfishness , greed , hypocrisy and pretense . His influence has been great and wide . He has lived a consistent , noble , energetic , good ...
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... practical explanation of Bible teaching . Had he done this I should have been saved much most anx- ious suffering . But he believed young minds should not be biased , but left free to examine and decide for themselves - not a very ...
... practical explanation of Bible teaching . Had he done this I should have been saved much most anx- ious suffering . But he believed young minds should not be biased , but left free to examine and decide for themselves - not a very ...
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... practical Christian be- liever . " My mind caught more particularly upon the burn- ing hell . I thought if I could see that , I might hope to be saved . Many a time I laid my head upon my pillow and tried to see it . I could see ...
... practical Christian be- liever . " My mind caught more particularly upon the burn- ing hell . I thought if I could see that , I might hope to be saved . Many a time I laid my head upon my pillow and tried to see it . I could see ...
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... practical infidelity so prevalent at this day . What is irrational , contradic- tory and absurd , serious , thoughtful and honest minds can not accept as truth and duty in religion and morals more than in anything else . " " Children ...
... practical infidelity so prevalent at this day . What is irrational , contradic- tory and absurd , serious , thoughtful and honest minds can not accept as truth and duty in religion and morals more than in anything else . " " Children ...
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Page 164 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 71 - Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Page 77 - Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth ; 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Page 110 - I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coining, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth : and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Page 195 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 69 - But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done : and there is no respect of persons.
Page 200 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Page 192 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 39 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Page 1 - His youth was innocent ; his riper age Marked with some act of goodness every day; And watched by eyes that loved him, calm and sage, Faded his late declining years away. Meekly he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.