Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... blessed to the good of the whole district ; many sinners were awakened , converted , and added to the Church , and the field of labour was enlarged . In 1799 he was removed to the Baltimore Conference , and placed over a large district ...
... blessed to the good of the whole district ; many sinners were awakened , converted , and added to the Church , and the field of labour was enlarged . In 1799 he was removed to the Baltimore Conference , and placed over a large district ...
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... blessed with the privilege of camping peaceably in the woods - a situation very favourable for contemplation . We expect to reach the settlements eight days from this , at our rate of travel- ling . I intend , if the Lord will , to ...
... blessed with the privilege of camping peaceably in the woods - a situation very favourable for contemplation . We expect to reach the settlements eight days from this , at our rate of travel- ling . I intend , if the Lord will , to ...
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... blessed recollections . And many hearts , throughout this continent , will throb in unison with his own , when he declares , that for him , that name is the very synonyme of nobleness and honour , associated , as it is , with all that ...
... blessed recollections . And many hearts , throughout this continent , will throb in unison with his own , when he declares , that for him , that name is the very synonyme of nobleness and honour , associated , as it is , with all that ...
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... Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see God . " It was his last sermon . He retired from the sanctuary , and after a season of suffering , borne with exemplary patience , in his own log - cabin in the wilds of Indiana , the ...
... Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see God . " It was his last sermon . He retired from the sanctuary , and after a season of suffering , borne with exemplary patience , in his own log - cabin in the wilds of Indiana , the ...
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... blessed , though preached only on my horse - block , than a hundred of those I preach in the pulpit . I invited him to come and treat her ladyship next Sunday with another , now the place is consecrated . If you should ever favour ...
... blessed , though preached only on my horse - block , than a hundred of those I preach in the pulpit . I invited him to come and treat her ladyship next Sunday with another , now the place is consecrated . If you should ever favour ...
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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.