Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... heart ever found its most genial soil amid the humble , holy , and enduring people of God . Of ambition , with which he has been most recklessly charged , he seems to have been absolutely incapable , except the ambition of doing good ...
... heart ever found its most genial soil amid the humble , holy , and enduring people of God . Of ambition , with which he has been most recklessly charged , he seems to have been absolutely incapable , except the ambition of doing good ...
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... heart than that which shone upon us as we crept blithely along the road that gradually swept up from the ferry . Our sensations we will not attempt to describe , as we paced the pathway of the quiet old country town , where the first ...
... heart than that which shone upon us as we crept blithely along the road that gradually swept up from the ferry . Our sensations we will not attempt to describe , as we paced the pathway of the quiet old country town , where the first ...
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... heart was undergoing that process of preparation for their full disclosure and ready reception which might be resem- bled to turning up the fallow ground . He was not far from the kingdom of God . While the young clergyman was engaged ...
... heart was undergoing that process of preparation for their full disclosure and ready reception which might be resem- bled to turning up the fallow ground . He was not far from the kingdom of God . While the young clergyman was engaged ...
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... heart by the impulse of an earnest query - a thema con variazione , making melody in the heart unto the Lord while breathing deep - toned benevolence toward man . If ever Church originated in an unexceptionable source it was this . If ...
... heart by the impulse of an earnest query - a thema con variazione , making melody in the heart unto the Lord while breathing deep - toned benevolence toward man . If ever Church originated in an unexceptionable source it was this . If ...
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... heart . His views of the mode of the sinner's acceptance with God were confused indeed ; but on the subject of personal con- secration they may be said never to have varied . Fight- ing his way , as he was called to do , through a ...
... heart . His views of the mode of the sinner's acceptance with God were confused indeed ; but on the subject of personal con- secration they may be said never to have varied . Fight- ing his way , as he was called to do , through a ...
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Page 57 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 122 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 285 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 41 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling...
Page 36 - Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Page 299 - But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Page 46 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Page 225 - Lord King's account of the primitive Church convinced me, many years ago, that bishops and presbyters are the same order, and consequently have the same right to ordain.
Page 27 - Instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions: being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil.
Page 273 - My God is reconciled ; His pardoning voice I hear : He owns me for his child ; I can no longer fear: With confidence I now draw nigh, And, "Father, Abba, Father,