Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J. |
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... gospel , I refer to that character of deportment which is opposed to littleness , not to say meanness , in his dealings . There is often found , in this respect , in some ministers , otherwise men of great excellence , a striking want ...
... gospel , I refer to that character of deportment which is opposed to littleness , not to say meanness , in his dealings . There is often found , in this respect , in some ministers , otherwise men of great excellence , a striking want ...
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... gospel , the importance of this social quality is peculiar . A physician or lawyer may be remark- ably deficient in affability , and yet his professional , reputation and even usefulness may sustain no mate- rial drawback on this ...
... gospel , the importance of this social quality is peculiar . A physician or lawyer may be remark- ably deficient in affability , and yet his professional , reputation and even usefulness may sustain no mate- rial drawback on this ...
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... gospel ought not to allow himself , in ordinary cases , to talk with freedom , if at all ; and , of course , concerning which , when they are introduced , he ought generally to exercise a strict reserve . Every wise man will see at once ...
... gospel ought not to allow himself , in ordinary cases , to talk with freedom , if at all ; and , of course , concerning which , when they are introduced , he ought generally to exercise a strict reserve . Every wise man will see at once ...
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... gospel , who stands continually as a " watchman , " and a " defender , " on " the walls of Zion ; " and who is acting every hour , not only for himself , but also for the church of God ; — for him to doubt whether habitual care as to ...
... gospel , who stands continually as a " watchman , " and a " defender , " on " the walls of Zion ; " and who is acting every hour , not only for himself , but also for the church of God ; — for him to doubt whether habitual care as to ...
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... gospel , and for all the prac- tical duties of life . Such are the daily and hourly effects of intoxicating drinks . They do more to gene- rate crime , to destroy human life , and to prostrate domestic and social peace and happiness ...
... gospel , and for all the prac- tical duties of life . Such are the daily and hourly effects of intoxicating drinks . They do more to gene- rate crime , to destroy human life , and to prostrate domestic and social peace and happiness ...
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Page 205 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 304 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Page 34 - That gentleness therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.
Page 362 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
Page 73 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 73 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 74 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Page 167 - The more conscientious preachers, the Bible men, they who talk about principle, and doing to others as you would that they should do unto you,— how could they fail to recognize him, by far the greatest preacher of them all, with the Bible in his life and in his acts, the embodiment of principle, who actually carried out the golden rule?
Page 245 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 71 - A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth ; and a word spoken in due season, how good is it,