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... come he will be especially remembered as the head and inspiring genius of a great religious newspaper , one that in other respects as well as years leads the rich and va- ried column of religious journals in America ; one that has ...
... come he will be especially remembered as the head and inspiring genius of a great religious newspaper , one that in other respects as well as years leads the rich and va- ried column of religious journals in America ; one that has ...
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... come to him at any hour of the day or night with whatever trouble or care we had , and his door and heart would be always open for us to enter . That was the beginning of what in those days was called a revival of religion . Not one of ...
... come to him at any hour of the day or night with whatever trouble or care we had , and his door and heart would be always open for us to enter . That was the beginning of what in those days was called a revival of religion . Not one of ...
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... come out with firmer convictions of truth and duty , perhaps with new purposes and holier aims . But it must be a college where evangelical religion is the supreme power . The spirit of unbelief , the scepticism of infidelity , I mean ...
... come out with firmer convictions of truth and duty , perhaps with new purposes and holier aims . But it must be a college where evangelical religion is the supreme power . The spirit of unbelief , the scepticism of infidelity , I mean ...
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... come there on the completion of my fiftieth year in the ministry , and recount ' the experiences of the half - century . It came around this month , and on Saturday afternoon I went up there . It is only about thirty miles from the city ...
... come there on the completion of my fiftieth year in the ministry , and recount ' the experiences of the half - century . It came around this month , and on Saturday afternoon I went up there . It is only about thirty miles from the city ...
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... come from Stamford , New Canaan and Greenwich , and I know not how many other places . Among them were some who had been pres- ent fifty years ago and heard the boy's first sermon . One of them said he remembered the text , and he ...
... come from Stamford , New Canaan and Greenwich , and I know not how many other places . Among them were some who had been pres- ent fifty years ago and heard the boy's first sermon . One of them said he remembered the text , and he ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.