Both Sides the Border a Hundred Years Ago; Or, Glimpses of Religious Life in the Last Century1858 |
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... speak to creatures , and begin my inter- course with God , which shall never be broken off . Farewell , father and mother , friends and relations ; farewell the world and all delights ; farewell meat and drink ; farewell sun , moon ...
... speak to creatures , and begin my inter- course with God , which shall never be broken off . Farewell , father and mother , friends and relations ; farewell the world and all delights ; farewell meat and drink ; farewell sun , moon ...
Page 39
... shall never be extinguished . The ministers are learning to speak with new tongues . ' Whitefield himself thus sums up the results of his first visit to Edinburgh- · Glory to God ; he is doing great things here AND ITS IMPULSE . 39.
... shall never be extinguished . The ministers are learning to speak with new tongues . ' Whitefield himself thus sums up the results of his first visit to Edinburgh- · Glory to God ; he is doing great things here AND ITS IMPULSE . 39.
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... speaking to souls under distress great part of the day . Every morn- ing I have a constant levee of wounded souls , many of whom are quite slain by the law . I have a lecture in the fields , attended not only by the common people but ...
... speaking to souls under distress great part of the day . Every morn- ing I have a constant levee of wounded souls , many of whom are quite slain by the law . I have a lecture in the fields , attended not only by the common people but ...
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... speak in glowing language of the days of their Calvin and Farel , and Zuingle and Beza . The Scotch grow warm at the mention of their Knox and Hamilton . Talk of more modern revivals - they point you to Cambuslang or Kilsyth . One body ...
... speak in glowing language of the days of their Calvin and Farel , and Zuingle and Beza . The Scotch grow warm at the mention of their Knox and Hamilton . Talk of more modern revivals - they point you to Cambuslang or Kilsyth . One body ...
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... speak , a part of his own history , — such a man's life , carefully and correctly written , might furnish incidents of truth more striking than any fiction , and events as important in their character and interesting in their recital as ...
... speak , a part of his own history , — such a man's life , carefully and correctly written , might furnish incidents of truth more striking than any fiction , and events as important in their character and interesting in their recital as ...
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Page 34 - SOLDIER, rest ! thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking; Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewing. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more : Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Page 133 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever "twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 210 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 88 - The pains of death are past ; Labour and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Page 127 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!
Page 186 - AND is there care in heaven ? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is : else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts. But O ! th...
Page 210 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion ; and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ; and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ; and to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 79 - FATHER, I know that all my life Is portioned out for me, And the changes that are sure to come, I do not fear to see ; But I ask Thee for a present mind Intent on pleasing Thee.
Page 100 - Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 205 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.