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Page 170
... Christmas Evans . 171 papers , inartistically. the effort should be made . If by the instrumentality of a few in- dividuals ten or twelve persons are brought out of the world into a church in one year , is it not reason- able to suppose ...
... Christmas Evans . 171 papers , inartistically. the effort should be made . If by the instrumentality of a few in- dividuals ten or twelve persons are brought out of the world into a church in one year , is it not reason- able to suppose ...
Page 171
... Christmas Evans was born on the 25th of December , 1766 , in a cottage belonging to a farm called Esgair- wen , in the neighbourhood of the long and straggling village of Llan- dyssul , prettily situated among the Cardiganshire hills ...
... Christmas Evans was born on the 25th of December , 1766 , in a cottage belonging to a farm called Esgair- wen , in the neighbourhood of the long and straggling village of Llan- dyssul , prettily situated among the Cardiganshire hills ...
Page 172
... Christmas Evans got a more definite theology , and was feeling his way to the secret of his power . People were still in great doubt whether he was a genius or a fool , but the major part strongly in- clined to the latter alternative ...
... Christmas Evans got a more definite theology , and was feeling his way to the secret of his power . People were still in great doubt whether he was a genius or a fool , but the major part strongly in- clined to the latter alternative ...
Page 173
Christmas Evans on his Preaching Tours . 173 ations , rebuild some of the gate- | by some kind of vessel . No vessel ways , and measure the whole with was near . His good wife had , how- the measuring reed of truth . It ever , just ...
Christmas Evans on his Preaching Tours . 173 ations , rebuild some of the gate- | by some kind of vessel . No vessel ways , and measure the whole with was near . His good wife had , how- the measuring reed of truth . It ever , just ...
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... Christmas had no notions of order , these sermons were often scattered about ... Evans inside his little Cildwrn cottage sermon - making is a sketch worthy ... Christmas Evans tried in vain to establish the weekly offering . life - long ...
... Christmas had no notions of order , these sermons were often scattered about ... Evans inside his little Cildwrn cottage sermon - making is a sketch worthy ... Christmas Evans tried in vain to establish the weekly offering . life - long ...
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Page 94 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 180 - Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not ; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Page 41 - Neither was there any among them that lacked : for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the Apostles' feet : and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 367 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.
Page 65 - Tis not for man to trifle ! Life is brief, And sin is here. Our age is but the falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we,— One, only one ; — How sacred should that one life ever be — That narrow span ! — Day after day filled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil.
Page 185 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven : whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Page 382 - And thou an angel's happiness shalt know,— Shalt bless the earth ; while, in the world above, The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow; The seed that in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in Heaven's immortal bowers.
Page 185 - Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church...
Page 382 - Some high or humble enterprise of good Contemplate, till it shall possess thy mind, Become thy study, pastime, rest, and food, And kindle in thy heart a flame refined. Pray Heaven for firmness thy whole soul to bind To this thy purpose — to begin, pursue, With thoughts all fixed, and feelings purely kind ; Strength to complete, and with delight review, And grace to give the praise where all is ever due.
Page 123 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To...