Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... circuit of twenty miles . Look from any extremity of the Cam- pagna to the centre , and St. Peter's , like a stone Saul , over - measures all competing altitudes by the head and lofty shoulders . And this brings us , by a roundabout way ...
... circuit of twenty miles . Look from any extremity of the Cam- pagna to the centre , and St. Peter's , like a stone Saul , over - measures all competing altitudes by the head and lofty shoulders . And this brings us , by a roundabout way ...
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... Circuit , which included the place of his residence , under the preaching of Rev. John Easter , a man of note in those days . M'Kendree , who had before been deeply impressed with religious convictions , says : - " My convictions were ...
... Circuit , which included the place of his residence , under the preaching of Rev. John Easter , a man of note in those days . M'Kendree , who had before been deeply impressed with religious convictions , says : - " My convictions were ...
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... Circuit . He writes : " I went immediately to the circuit to which I was ap- pointed , relying more on the judgment of experienced ministers , in whom I confided , than on any clear convic- tion of my call to the work ; and when I ...
... Circuit . He writes : " I went immediately to the circuit to which I was ap- pointed , relying more on the judgment of experienced ministers , in whom I confided , than on any clear convic- tion of my call to the work ; and when I ...
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... Circuit . At the following Conference ( 1790 ) he was sent to Portsmouth Circuit , and the year following to Amelia Circuit . When this year's labours were closed , having served four years in the travelling connexion , he was elected ...
... Circuit . At the following Conference ( 1790 ) he was sent to Portsmouth Circuit , and the year following to Amelia Circuit . When this year's labours were closed , having served four years in the travelling connexion , he was elected ...
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... Circuit , in the South Carolina Conference . Here he remained only one year , for at the next Conference he was appointed to Bedford Circuit , in the bounds of the Virginia Conference . At the commencement of the third quarter he was ...
... Circuit , in the South Carolina Conference . Here he remained only one year , for at the next Conference he was appointed to Bedford Circuit , in the bounds of the Virginia Conference . At the commencement of the third quarter he was ...
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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.