Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some... New-England's Memorial - Page 110by Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 515 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bradford D. Smart Ph.D. - Business & Economics - 2005 - 604 pages
...they had to be right. In some of the most prophetic words in American history, William Bradford wrote, Thus, out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled has shone to many, in some... | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick - History - 2006 - 492 pages
...of believers had laid the groundwork for things to come. "Thus out of small beginnings," he wrote, "greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here... | |
| David Keith Adams - 282 pages
...from 1621 until his death in 1657, wrote a history of the plantation which concluded with the words : 'Thus out of small beginnings greater things have...produced by his hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand; so the light here... | |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) - 1921 - 656 pages
...wrote of the Pilgrim exodus and settlement, "Out of small beginnings great things have been produced, and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many." The Old World gave to the New a precious cargo in the Mayflower. The New World has returned... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1856 - 584 pages
...their fathers. " Out of small beginnings," said Governor Bradford, "great things have been produced ;" and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea, to a whole nation. TIME is like a ship which never anchors : while I am on board I had... | |
| Great Britain - 1920 - 950 pages
...at the Battery. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS AUSTERFIELD, YORKSHIRE By WINIFRIDE WRENCH ' As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea, in some sort to our whole nation.' — WILLIAM BRADFORD. TUCKED far away in a remote... | |
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