Our True Encouragement: A Sermon, Preached at Buffalo, New York, September 8, 1847, Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at Their Thirty-eighth Annual MeetingPress of T. R. Marvin, 1847 - 28 pages |
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... Christian Missions . But how are we to get up to this state of feeling , and this standard of action ? We shall but practice an imposition upon ourselves if we merely compare what is now doing with what was done a few years ago ...
... Christian Missions . But how are we to get up to this state of feeling , and this standard of action ? We shall but practice an imposition upon ourselves if we merely compare what is now doing with what was done a few years ago ...
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... Christian missions will be forgotten . We cannot labor , with any heart , for those in foreign lands , while we feel no concern for our next - door neighbors . We cannot offer earnest prayer , and give cheerfully of our substance , to ...
... Christian missions will be forgotten . We cannot labor , with any heart , for those in foreign lands , while we feel no concern for our next - door neighbors . We cannot offer earnest prayer , and give cheerfully of our substance , to ...
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... Christian family . I do not see how we can draw any other conclu- sion . This is not our work as ministers ; much as we may love it and cherish it and labor for it , it is not ours alone . One of the mistakes into which many seem to ...
... Christian family . I do not see how we can draw any other conclu- sion . This is not our work as ministers ; much as we may love it and cherish it and labor for it , it is not ours alone . One of the mistakes into which many seem to ...
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... Christian heart by our divine Teacher . We have been wrong , sadly wrong on this point . The number in our churches is small , of those who entertain a deep and lively interest here . A mere handful in each church - perhaps composed of ...
... Christian heart by our divine Teacher . We have been wrong , sadly wrong on this point . The number in our churches is small , of those who entertain a deep and lively interest here . A mere handful in each church - perhaps composed of ...
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... Christian morality . According to this view , every Christian , as a part of the church , has a share in the responsibility , and must either go himself , or send or support some one who will go in his behalf to spread it abroad ; that ...
... Christian morality . According to this view , every Christian , as a part of the church , has a share in the responsibility , and must either go himself , or send or support some one who will go in his behalf to spread it abroad ; that ...
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Page 24 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Page 12 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 23 - Christ : to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord : in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Page 5 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles.
Page 10 - What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned ? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Page 7 - And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba : prayer also shall be made for him continually ; and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Page 40 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God...
Page 20 - He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Page 31 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 23 - In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts...