Lives Made Sublime: Or, Sketches of Christian Men who Adorned Their Lives with Good WorksCarlton & Porter, 1899 - 386 páginas |
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... power of water or steam was sufficient to turn seventeen thousand spindles , and their productions gained prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851 . The rise of Mr. Sugden was the result of deep 12 LIVES MADE SUBLIME .
... power of water or steam was sufficient to turn seventeen thousand spindles , and their productions gained prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851 . The rise of Mr. Sugden was the result of deep 12 LIVES MADE SUBLIME .
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... thousand people - a num- ber unequaled except at the funeral of Dr. Kane- they bore him to his burial ; and Bishop M'Ilvaine improved the event by giving an address of great impressiveness , and urging all to follow the depart- ed by ...
... thousand people - a num- ber unequaled except at the funeral of Dr. Kane- they bore him to his burial ; and Bishop M'Ilvaine improved the event by giving an address of great impressiveness , and urging all to follow the depart- ed by ...
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... thousand sermons . Let us , my dear brother , fol- low his example ; let us be ready , as he evidently was , and then we shall meet him in glory . " Reader , are you witnessing for Christ ? When any one in your company is tempted to sin ...
... thousand sermons . Let us , my dear brother , fol- low his example ; let us be ready , as he evidently was , and then we shall meet him in glory . " Reader , are you witnessing for Christ ? When any one in your company is tempted to sin ...
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... thousand of our fellow - creatures annually , then we will allow that they are Christians indeed ; but if they cannot , as it is impossible , let them join with the friends of humanity , let them rank with the fol- lowers of Christ ...
... thousand of our fellow - creatures annually , then we will allow that they are Christians indeed ; but if they cannot , as it is impossible , let them join with the friends of humanity , let them rank with the fol- lowers of Christ ...
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... thousand pounds wiped off , no other stimulus can be wanting to induce me to go on , even if I were not bound by that most sacred of all ties , a promise to my friends . Upon the other point to which you have so delicately alluded , I ...
... thousand pounds wiped off , no other stimulus can be wanting to induce me to go on , even if I were not bound by that most sacred of all ties , a promise to my friends . Upon the other point to which you have so delicately alluded , I ...
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Lives Made Sublime: Or, Sketches of Christian Men who Adorned Their Lives ... Robert Steel Visualização de excertos - 1899 |
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attended became benevolence Bible blessed Cawnpore character Charles Charles Wesley Christian Church of Scotland congregation dayly death devoted divine drink earnest Ebley Edinburgh eloquence England eternal evangelist faith father fear feel Flockhart friends Fulneck gave GEORGE WHITEFIELD give Glasgow glory Gospel grace hand happy Havelock heart heaven HENRY HAVELOCK holy honor Howel Harris Hugh Miller ical interest James James Stirling Jesus Christ labors land lectures living Llangeitho Lord Jesus master ment mind minister ministry missionary Montgomery ness never night parish person piety poet pray prayer preacher preaching reader received religion religious Sabbath Saviour says Scotland Scriptures sermon Sheffield Society soldier soon sought soul spirit Stirling Sugden teetotal temperance thee thou thought thousand tion truth Tyng Wales Welsh language Whitefield Wide 16mo William Allen words wrote young youth
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Página 248 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side: But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 7 - Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Página 26 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Página 378 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Página 377 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try, Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways ; While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry,
Página 248 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the...
Página 146 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering ; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed.
Página 68 - Piety has found Friends in the friends of science, and true prayer Has flowed from lips wet with Castalian dews. Such was thy wisdom, Newton, child-like sage ! Sagacious reader of the works of God, And in his word sagacious. Such too thine, Milton, whose genius had angelic wings, And fed on manna. And such thine in whom Our British Themis gloried...
Página 263 - When I tread the verge of Jordan, Bid my anxious fears subside: Death of death, and hell's destruction, Land me safe on Canaan's side ; Songs of praises I will ever give to thee.
Página 283 - 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!