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... say , because individualities differ in details . Very much spurious composition would collapse if the writer would honestly apply to it the test , " Would this move me ? Would these thoughts , thus expressed , sat- isfy the cravings of ...
... say , because individualities differ in details . Very much spurious composition would collapse if the writer would honestly apply to it the test , " Would this move me ? Would these thoughts , thus expressed , sat- isfy the cravings of ...
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... say of it ? What instruments have apparently wrought the change ? What methods of preaching , what subjects in the pulpit , what auxiliary agencies outside of the pulpit , have seemed to be the working forces ? Hard- featured and cross ...
... say of it ? What instruments have apparently wrought the change ? What methods of preaching , what subjects in the pulpit , what auxiliary agencies outside of the pulpit , have seemed to be the working forces ? Hard- featured and cross ...
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... say , is such an attitude to the spiritual power of the ministry . A pulpit thus sundered from these quickenings of the popular heart can never be the pulpit of the future . The work of this world's redemption will sweep grandly over it ...
... say , is such an attitude to the spiritual power of the ministry . A pulpit thus sundered from these quickenings of the popular heart can never be the pulpit of the future . The work of this world's redemption will sweep grandly over it ...
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... say with Patrick Henry , " Sir , it is not books , it is men , that we must study ; ' but we say , " Books and men we must study . " 99 A young man once inquired of me , " Can you direct me to a book which shall teach me to write a ...
... say with Patrick Henry , " Sir , it is not books , it is men , that we must study ; ' but we say , " Books and men we must study . " 99 A young man once inquired of me , " Can you direct me to a book which shall teach me to write a ...
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... says and believes about us . We need to face the facts of the popular theory as they are . Further : it should be observed , in illustration of the same point , that portraits of character given in the pul- pit sometimes do not seem to ...
... says and believes about us . We need to face the facts of the popular theory as they are . Further : it should be observed , in illustration of the same point , that portraits of character given in the pul- pit sometimes do not seem to ...
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