Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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Page 82
... Sabbath before the election for a bishop was to take place , he was appointed to preach in the morning at the Light- street Church . Bishop Asbury , who was present , was heard to say that the sermon would make him a bishop , and his ...
... Sabbath before the election for a bishop was to take place , he was appointed to preach in the morning at the Light- street Church . Bishop Asbury , who was present , was heard to say that the sermon would make him a bishop , and his ...
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... Sabbath day , he preached to a crowd who sat rejoicing to be the hearers of the word as it fell from his lips . He paid special attention to the West , for he felt himself more identified with that portion of the work than any other ...
... Sabbath day , he preached to a crowd who sat rejoicing to be the hearers of the word as it fell from his lips . He paid special attention to the West , for he felt himself more identified with that portion of the work than any other ...
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... Sabbath , November 23d : this sermon was reported from his lips , and formed the first number of the Western Methodist Preacher . Bishop Soule , speaking of this , his last public service , says , feelingly : - " Here that penetrating ...
... Sabbath , November 23d : this sermon was reported from his lips , and formed the first number of the Western Methodist Preacher . Bishop Soule , speaking of this , his last public service , says , feelingly : - " Here that penetrating ...
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... Sabbath , the first of March , it became so evident that mortality would soon be swallowed up in immortality , that his brother made known to him the opinion of phy- sicians respecting his situation , and questioned him in regard to his ...
... Sabbath , the first of March , it became so evident that mortality would soon be swallowed up in immortality , that his brother made known to him the opinion of phy- sicians respecting his situation , and questioned him in regard to his ...
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... Sabbath to the Thursday follow- ing , when he died , he was calm and composed , with little pain . To his nephew , Dudley M'Kendree , he said fer- vently , " Follow me as I have followed Christ , only closer to Christ . " His favourite ...
... Sabbath to the Thursday follow- ing , when he died , he was calm and composed , with little pain . To his nephew , Dudley M'Kendree , he said fer- vently , " Follow me as I have followed Christ , only closer to Christ . " His favourite ...
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Page 125 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 61 - 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 289 - 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 43 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling...
Page 38 - 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 46 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Page 10 - For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable— pipes in the liberal air, Mix'd with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes. Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me!
Page 229 - 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 37 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 277 - 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 ! cry.