Memoir of Rev. Stephen R. SmithA. Tompkins, 1852 - 423 páginas |
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Página 266 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Página 69 - When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
Página 46 - And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Página 194 - The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward ; everything presses on towards eternity : from the birth of time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men towards that interminable ocean.
Página 109 - My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Página 194 - Meanwhile heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine...
Página 398 - The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will show them his covenant.
Página 33 - He went, however, and heard a discourse in the morning, from Zech. 6 : 13, and, for the first time in his life, felt that he had listened to a sermon that neither involved an absurdity nor a contradiction. The congregation was not large, and occupied a school-house in the present city of Utica, — then a meagre and muddy village. A larger congregation was anticipated in the afternoon, and arrangements were made for the service in the open air, under some trees, on the bank of the Mohawk river. There,...
Página 79 - He that goeth forth weeping bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Página 34 - And such certainly were its effects upon the mind of the " writer. For, while it left him without any pretension " to the knowledge or belief of Universalism, as a system " of religious truth, it certainly satisfied him that it was " consistent with itself, and with all that we see and know " of the Deity and his moral government. It is scarcely "to be doubted that similar impressions were made on " many persons in that congregation.