The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George Müller (of Bristol)

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J. Nisbet, 1889 - 315 pages

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Page 244 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
Page 137 - shall have the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession ; " when " the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 141 - Thessalonian believers did) shall ' serve the living and true God, and — wait for His Son from Heaven.
Page 253 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 235 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Page 33 - Christian orator, his deep piety, disinterested zeal, and vivid imagination, gave unexampled energy to his look, action, and utterance. Bold, fervent, pungent, and popular in his eloquence, no other uninspired man ever preached to so large assemblies, or enforced the simple truths of the Gospel by motives so persuasive and awful, and with an influence so powerful on the hearts of the hearers. He died of asthma, Sept. 30, 1770 ; suddenly exchanging his life of unparalleled labors for his eternal rest.
Page 32 - December 16, 1714. Educated at Oxford University ; Ordained 1736. In a ministry of thirty-four years, He crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, And preached more Than eighteen thousand sermons. As a soldier of the Cross, humble, devout, ardent, He put on the Whole armor of God ; Preferring The honor...
Page 138 - Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition .... whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.
Page 193 - For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Page 32 - Dec'r. 16, 1714: educated at Oxford University : ordained 1736. In a ministry of thirty-four years, he crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, and preached more than eighteen thousand sermons. As a soldier of the cross, humble, devout, ardent; he put on the whole armor of God, preferring the honors of Christ to his own interest, repose, reputation, or life.

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