Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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Page 76
John McClintock. reached the station , on the outskirts of the settlements , and forming a company with some others , on Monday , Septem- ber 27 , 1800 , they began their route direct to Kentucky . They pushed forward with all possible ...
John McClintock. reached the station , on the outskirts of the settlements , and forming a company with some others , on Monday , Septem- ber 27 , 1800 , they began their route direct to Kentucky . They pushed forward with all possible ...
Page 79
... formed and added to the district , and the district itself divided into three , M'Kendree still presiding on the one including the most of the State of Kentucky . The mere handful of members , scattered here and there in the settlements ...
... formed and added to the district , and the district itself divided into three , M'Kendree still presiding on the one including the most of the State of Kentucky . The mere handful of members , scattered here and there in the settlements ...
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... forming a part of the great North - west Territory . The place where they crossed the river was near the pres- ent site of Shawneetown . Hence they proceeded west to Kaskaskia , upon the Kaskaskia River , preaching at every place where ...
... forming a part of the great North - west Territory . The place where they crossed the river was near the pres- ent site of Shawneetown . Hence they proceeded west to Kaskaskia , upon the Kaskaskia River , preaching at every place where ...
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... formed in different parts of our vast field of labour ; but yet there is room , and pressing calls for much greater enlargement are constantly made . " The great and extensive revivals of religion which we have experienced the last ...
... formed in different parts of our vast field of labour ; but yet there is room , and pressing calls for much greater enlargement are constantly made . " The great and extensive revivals of religion which we have experienced the last ...
Page 94
... formed , making in all nineteen Conferences to be visited by the five bishops . Bishop M'Kendree , in bidding farewell to the members of the General Conference of 1828 , said to more than one that his days were so rapidly drawing to a ...
... formed , making in all nineteen Conferences to be visited by the five bishops . Bishop M'Kendree , in bidding farewell to the members of the General Conference of 1828 , said to more than one that his days were so rapidly drawing to a ...
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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 11 - 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.