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... convicts . The disobedient son . Conversation . Struggles with sin . Second story . Nature of ardent spirit . W.'s crime . Learning to read in prison . First lesson . Effect of the Bible upon W. Sins against God . W.'s mental sufferings ...
... convicts . The disobedient son . Conversation . Struggles with sin . Second story . Nature of ardent spirit . W.'s crime . Learning to read in prison . First lesson . Effect of the Bible upon W. Sins against God . W.'s mental sufferings ...
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... convicts in a State Prison . I might per haps have selected narrations far more interesting and striking in their attendant circumstances , but I have cho- sen to present those which may be taken as a fair speci- men of the ordinary ...
... convicts in a State Prison . I might per haps have selected narrations far more interesting and striking in their attendant circumstances , but I have cho- sen to present those which may be taken as a fair speci- men of the ordinary ...
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... convicts . The disobedient son . believing that its moral power would be great enough to cure even those desperate ... CONVICT'S STORY . " When I had been in prison about eighteen months I began to think of my past ways , and to see that ...
... convicts . The disobedient son . believing that its moral power would be great enough to cure even those desperate ... CONVICT'S STORY . " When I had been in prison about eighteen months I began to think of my past ways , and to see that ...
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... convict said : 66 " I want to ask if , after men have repented of their sins , there will ever be times when they will give up to their lusts ? " " It is a very bad sign if they do , " replied the gentle- man . 66 " Once , when I was ...
... convict said : 66 " I want to ask if , after men have repented of their sins , there will ever be times when they will give up to their lusts ? " " It is a very bad sign if they do , " replied the gentle- man . 66 " Once , when I was ...
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... CONVICT'S STORY . There lived in one of the middle states some years ago , a man whom I shall call W. I suppress his real name . His character was bad , and he lived with another man whose character was worse than his own . His employer ...
... CONVICT'S STORY . There lived in one of the middle states some years ago , a man whom I shall call W. I suppress his real name . His character was bad , and he lived with another man whose character was worse than his own . His employer ...
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Page 97 - So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 233 - And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass ; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Page 239 - And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
Page 232 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of 3.
Page 153 - But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover ; will ye therefore, that I release unto you the King of the Jews ? Then cried they all again, saying ; Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
Page 228 - When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
Page 115 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly, that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 65 - How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Page 246 - As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders : from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there, bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
Page 239 - AND it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.