The Ways of Life: Showing the Right Way and Wrong Way, Contrasting the High Way and the Low Way, the True Way and the False Way, the Upward Way and the Downward Way, the Way of Honor and the Way of Dishonor |
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Page iii
... minds of those who heard them . And the earnest wish of many of them that they might be published in book - form inspired the hope that they might be still more useful . The ocean is made up of drops . So the influence that lifts the ...
... minds of those who heard them . And the earnest wish of many of them that they might be published in book - form inspired the hope that they might be still more useful . The ocean is made up of drops . So the influence that lifts the ...
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... hope that such a conviction may fasten itself upon the mind of the reader of this little volume , we commit it into his hands . ST . LOUIS , Mo. , January 1st , 1855 . G. S. W. CONTENTS . Lecture One . PRINCIPLE AND PLEASURE . Principle.
... hope that such a conviction may fasten itself upon the mind of the reader of this little volume , we commit it into his hands . ST . LOUIS , Mo. , January 1st , 1855 . G. S. W. CONTENTS . Lecture One . PRINCIPLE AND PLEASURE . Principle.
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... Mind , like the Body , is Developed by Exercise - Labor and Perseverance .. Lecture Twelve . THE ACTUAL AND THE POSSIBLE . Page 132-145 The Acorn and the Oak - The Possible of the Potato - The Seed and the Plant- Newton and the Apple ...
... Mind , like the Body , is Developed by Exercise - Labor and Perseverance .. Lecture Twelve . THE ACTUAL AND THE POSSIBLE . Page 132-145 The Acorn and the Oak - The Possible of the Potato - The Seed and the Plant- Newton and the Apple ...
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... mind , this is a crude conception , unworthy of an enlight- ened mind . In Scripture phraseology , " eternal life " is the end and aim of man's being . " Eternal life " is to know , love , and serve God . To serve him , is to do right ...
... mind , this is a crude conception , unworthy of an enlight- ened mind . In Scripture phraseology , " eternal life " is the end and aim of man's being . " Eternal life " is to know , love , and serve God . To serve him , is to do right ...
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... mind dissipated , my feelings corrupted , my moral sensibilities blunted . I may read the same work for Principle , and in all respects . be benefited . I may go to church for Pleasure , and have my soul injured by the vacant gaze of my ...
... mind dissipated , my feelings corrupted , my moral sensibilities blunted . I may read the same work for Principle , and in all respects . be benefited . I may go to church for Pleasure , and have my soul injured by the vacant gaze of my ...
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