Cyclopædia of moral and religious anecdotesVirtue, 1850 - 863 Seiten |
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... better than I do ! " This is pretty much the view most people take of this matter ; a moderate drinking clergyman may talk to his drunken parishioner till doomsday , but he will never make him a sober man so long as he drinks himself ...
... better than I do ! " This is pretty much the view most people take of this matter ; a moderate drinking clergyman may talk to his drunken parishioner till doomsday , but he will never make him a sober man so long as he drinks himself ...
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... better ;, and I trust that you are walking the same road , and will soon follow me . " To his eldest son he observed , " When you go into the world , and are exposed to persons who , perhaps , will ridicule the Saviour's name and the ...
... better ;, and I trust that you are walking the same road , and will soon follow me . " To his eldest son he observed , " When you go into the world , and are exposed to persons who , perhaps , will ridicule the Saviour's name and the ...
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... better protected from Turkish violence , went thoughtlessly to the as- sembly - room and the dance , as though all were peace and security . While the countenance of many gathered blackness through fear , that of others exhibited only ...
... better protected from Turkish violence , went thoughtlessly to the as- sembly - room and the dance , as though all were peace and security . While the countenance of many gathered blackness through fear , that of others exhibited only ...
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... better judgment for the time , and created an imaginary neces- sity , by which she suffered herself to be controlled . Much admired , she was so often solicited to dance that her blood became painfully overheated ; and find- ing the ...
... better judgment for the time , and created an imaginary neces- sity , by which she suffered herself to be controlled . Much admired , she was so often solicited to dance that her blood became painfully overheated ; and find- ing the ...
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... better give up that kind of business ? " O , " said he , " I have not yet made enough to give each of my children a single leaf of the Catechism . " " Why , " inquired the clergyman , " how large is your family ? " " Above 600,000,000 ...
... better give up that kind of business ? " O , " said he , " I have not yet made enough to give each of my children a single leaf of the Catechism . " " Why , " inquired the clergyman , " how large is your family ? " " Above 600,000,000 ...
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Seite 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 384 - The wicked is driven away in his wickedness : but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Seite 332 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the...
Seite 438 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Seite 134 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Seite 50 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Seite 468 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe.
Seite 135 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Seite 611 - I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 611 - The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance, and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it.