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... living and acting like ourselves . Few biographies are much read in after ages . A few like Paul , Luther or Howard become immortal . The majority fade way in a few ages and their memory is lost . Often important principles are esteemed ...
... living and acting like ourselves . Few biographies are much read in after ages . A few like Paul , Luther or Howard become immortal . The majority fade way in a few ages and their memory is lost . Often important principles are esteemed ...
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... living from a man , and thus afflict him with the wants of a dependent family ; and by these and similar annoy- ances ( as a popular divine expressed it ) , " keep order in War- saw . " Times and circumstances change but human nature ...
... living from a man , and thus afflict him with the wants of a dependent family ; and by these and similar annoy- ances ( as a popular divine expressed it ) , " keep order in War- saw . " Times and circumstances change but human nature ...
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... living , feeling , thinking soul passes into another mode of develop- ment , or sinks into the dark night of unconsciousness . Such is death without revelation . Faith alone reveals the future , and gives it substance and reality . Its ...
... living , feeling , thinking soul passes into another mode of develop- ment , or sinks into the dark night of unconsciousness . Such is death without revelation . Faith alone reveals the future , and gives it substance and reality . Its ...
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... living , feeling , thinking soul passes into another mode of develop- ment , or sinks into the dark night of unconsciousness . Such is death without revelation . Faith alone reveals the future , and gives it substance and reality . Its ...
... living , feeling , thinking soul passes into another mode of develop- ment , or sinks into the dark night of unconsciousness . Such is death without revelation . Faith alone reveals the future , and gives it substance and reality . Its ...
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... living practical faith in the religion of Christ , as the power that is to reform the world and govern the entire life and actions of men . Christianity as professed and practiced by the mass of nominal Christen- dom , is an abstraction ...
... living practical faith in the religion of Christ , as the power that is to reform the world and govern the entire life and actions of men . Christianity as professed and practiced by the mass of nominal Christen- dom , is an abstraction ...
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Page 132 - LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. "And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 64 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 242 - For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water : whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Page 41 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor : The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; And he shall be blessed upon the earth : And Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing : Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Page 76 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 132 - And many people shall go and say, " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : " for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn...
Page 161 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 247 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 68 - And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; .and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Page 196 - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.