The National Preacher, Volumes 23-241849 - Religion |
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... hours have been all swallowed in the vast abyss of the infinite Past . Its transactions belong now to the province of history . Memory may recall them , and by her magic power cause their pictured resemblances to rise before us ; but ...
... hours have been all swallowed in the vast abyss of the infinite Past . Its transactions belong now to the province of history . Memory may recall them , and by her magic power cause their pictured resemblances to rise before us ; but ...
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... hour of some men's lives is worth more than the whole existence of other men . Nay , in our own existence , we find that some single hours do more for us , more to give us experience , wisdom , power , more to put the stamp of age upon ...
... hour of some men's lives is worth more than the whole existence of other men . Nay , in our own existence , we find that some single hours do more for us , more to give us experience , wisdom , power , more to put the stamp of age upon ...
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... hour has done its work . Would you see its effects ? Yon aged woman , bowed with sorrow , and gathering a miserable subsistence from charity ; yon bloated form , a young man prematurely old , outcast and reckless , the com- panion of ...
... hour has done its work . Would you see its effects ? Yon aged woman , bowed with sorrow , and gathering a miserable subsistence from charity ; yon bloated form , a young man prematurely old , outcast and reckless , the com- panion of ...
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... hours , uprooting and shaking , but of growing hours , each of which produces fruit . Here we may apply , though with a signification different from the mean- ing of the author , that line of the poet , " It is not all of life to live ...
... hours , uprooting and shaking , but of growing hours , each of which produces fruit . Here we may apply , though with a signification different from the mean- ing of the author , that line of the poet , " It is not all of life to live ...
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... hours , our moments ; we will make our hours swift , and cause them to do full work as they rush along . Let us fix our eye upon the great object before us , and bend all our energies to attain it . Time flies . We have a work to do ...
... hours , our moments ; we will make our hours swift , and cause them to do full work as they rush along . Let us fix our eye upon the great object before us , and bend all our energies to attain it . Time flies . We have a work to do ...
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Page 255 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 255 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 196 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 257 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 176 - Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
Page 69 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
Page 170 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 251 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 28 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Page 43 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.