Popular preachers. Rev. W. Morley Punshon |
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... advantage . It is the part of the pulpit to speak to a frivolous and materialistic generation of a love that is infinite , a hope that is eternal ; to be the personified conscience of the community , the voice of God in the land . Let ...
... advantage . It is the part of the pulpit to speak to a frivolous and materialistic generation of a love that is infinite , a hope that is eternal ; to be the personified conscience of the community , the voice of God in the land . Let ...
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... advantage to the preacher of Christianity . Some may view our assertion with surprise . There are not a few who think of modern science as hostile to Christianity . Nor can it be denied that some not unreasonable grounds may be adduced ...
... advantage to the preacher of Christianity . Some may view our assertion with surprise . There are not a few who think of modern science as hostile to Christianity . Nor can it be denied that some not unreasonable grounds may be adduced ...
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... advantage which preachers of the Gospel possess in these times , is that , in com- parison with other ages , the age in which we live is tolerant . There are , perhaps , no two words in which more may be said to indicate the difference ...
... advantage which preachers of the Gospel possess in these times , is that , in com- parison with other ages , the age in which we live is tolerant . There are , perhaps , no two words in which more may be said to indicate the difference ...
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... advantage of a gentle up - bring- years — the spirit mounting upon the breath of ing . His family connections were of an emi- its parting prayer - the last enemy destroyed - nently respectable character , and he received his memory ...
... advantage of a gentle up - bring- years — the spirit mounting upon the breath of ing . His family connections were of an emi- its parting prayer - the last enemy destroyed - nently respectable character , and he received his memory ...
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... advantages ; gyved by a dishonest expediency ; not doing a good lest it should be evil spoken of , nor daring a faith lest the scoffer should frown . With two worlds to work in - the world of the heart , with its many - phased and ...
... advantages ; gyved by a dishonest expediency ; not doing a good lest it should be evil spoken of , nor daring a faith lest the scoffer should frown . With two worlds to work in - the world of the heart , with its many - phased and ...
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Page 22 - Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, which is within you ? Again he saith, You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
Page 15 - No, by no means, I will not stir, neither will I have the meeting dismissed for this. Come, be of good cheer; let us not be daunted; our cause is good, we need not be ashamed of it; to preach God's Word, is so good a work, that we shall be well rewarded, if we suffer for that...
Page 15 - God of his mercy should choose me to go upon the forlorn hope in this country; that is, to be the first, that should be opposed, for the gospel ; if I should fly, it might be a discouragement to the whole body that might follow after.
Page 15 - ... end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm, or be found to come over again without special licence from the king, you must stretch by the neck for it, I tell you plainly ; ' — and so he bid my jailer have me away.
Page 15 - You must be had back again to prison, and there lie for three months following ; and at three months' end, if you do not submit to go to church to hear divine service, and leave your preaching, you must be banished the realm ; and if, after such a day as shall be appointed you to be gone, you shall be found in this realm...
Page 19 - Father, I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory...
Page 20 - Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; and if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither would they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
Page 19 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Page 15 - I told him, as to this matter, I was at a point with him; for if I were out of prison today, I would preach the Gospel again tomorrow, by the help of God.
Page 12 - ... faithful to duty — to open the world's dim eye to the majesty of conscience — to gather and instruct the orphans bereft of a father's blessing and of a mother's prayer — to care for the outcast and abandoned, who have drunk in iniquity with their mother's milk, whom the priest and the...