Life Sketches: Ancestry, Early Life, Christian Experience, and Extensive Labors of Elder James White, and His Wife Mrs. Ellen G. White |
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... duty , and immediately went directly from the door of that school - room , on foot , to the town of Troy , the place of my last school . I had gone but a few rods on my way , when sweet peace from God flowed into my mind , and Heaven ...
... duty , and immediately went directly from the door of that school - room , on foot , to the town of Troy , the place of my last school . I had gone but a few rods on my way , when sweet peace from God flowed into my mind , and Heaven ...
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... duty more humbling to my pride . The district was made up of Univers- alists , formal professors , respectable sinners , and infidels . My employer , who had also engaged me to teach their school the next winter , was an infidel . I ...
... duty more humbling to my pride . The district was made up of Univers- alists , formal professors , respectable sinners , and infidels . My employer , who had also engaged me to teach their school the next winter , was an infidel . I ...
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... duty . A few weeks after- ward , however , I visited the place again . A general reformation was in progress , under the labors of a Christian minister . On Sunday , the meeting was held in a barn . The interest was general , and the ...
... duty . A few weeks after- ward , however , I visited the place again . A general reformation was in progress , under the labors of a Christian minister . On Sunday , the meeting was held in a barn . The interest was general , and the ...
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... duty to preach the doctrine . He treated the matter with candor , and seemed troubled as he learned from my own lips that I was inclined to believe that Christ would come about the year 1843. He had given the subject no study , but evi ...
... duty to preach the doctrine . He treated the matter with candor , and seemed troubled as he learned from my own lips that I was inclined to believe that Christ would come about the year 1843. He had given the subject no study , but evi ...
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... duty , and turn to my books . I was urged to speak in the presence of two young preachers , and attempted to preach . In twenty minutes became confused and embarrassed , and sat down . I lacked resignation and humility , therefore was ...
... duty , and turn to my books . I was urged to speak in the presence of two young preachers , and attempted to preach . In twenty minutes became confused and embarrassed , and sat down . I lacked resignation and humility , therefore was ...
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Page 119 - For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Page 44 - Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot ? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days ; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Page 45 - I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Page 343 - Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples. (And behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment : For she said within herself, if I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Page 172 - And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so -come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Page 327 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 173 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Page 41 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Page 398 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 398 - Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.