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... cause of Temperance . He had seen so much of the awful effects of the vice against which we contend , that he gladly heard and obeyed the call to do what he could to suppress it . Bat , as he told me , for a long 4 [ 3 ABSTINENCE ...
... cause of Temperance . He had seen so much of the awful effects of the vice against which we contend , that he gladly heard and obeyed the call to do what he could to suppress it . Bat , as he told me , for a long 4 [ 3 ABSTINENCE ...
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... cause . I thought nobody could get away from my arguments . I sat down , " said he , " thinking that he who could withstand the appeal that I had made must be a hard one indeed , when a little crusty - looking man got up in a distant ...
... cause . I thought nobody could get away from my arguments . I sat down , " said he , " thinking that he who could withstand the appeal that I had made must be a hard one indeed , when a little crusty - looking man got up in a distant ...
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... cause of his uneasiness . The young man replied , that he was not afraid to die ; but he had a mother and two sisters in En- gland , to whom he had been accustomed to send £ 100 every year ; and his only regret at dying was , that they ...
... cause of his uneasiness . The young man replied , that he was not afraid to die ; but he had a mother and two sisters in En- gland , to whom he had been accustomed to send £ 100 every year ; and his only regret at dying was , that they ...
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... cause , had determined to sever a slave mother , and her only child . She had been faithful under the very worst usage , and she determined to remain so , until he told her , that on the morrow , her child must be borne to New Orleans ...
... cause , had determined to sever a slave mother , and her only child . She had been faithful under the very worst usage , and she determined to remain so , until he told her , that on the morrow , her child must be borne to New Orleans ...
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... cause . 66 Embracing these new sentiments has evidently brought my mind into this wretched condition ; and as the fruit is bad , the tree must be bad also . He that fol- loweth me , ' says Christ , shall not walk in darkness ...
... cause . 66 Embracing these new sentiments has evidently brought my mind into this wretched condition ; and as the fruit is bad , the tree must be bad also . He that fol- loweth me , ' says Christ , shall not walk in darkness ...
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Page 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 384 - The wicked is driven away in his wickedness : but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Page 332 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the...
Page 438 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Page 134 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 50 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 468 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Page 135 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Page 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 611 - The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance, and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it.