The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record: For the Year ..., Volume 29Cooke and Whiteley, 1879 - Church work with the poor |
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... blessing , then leech - like cries out , " Give , give . " This craving for more is not confined to the corporeal man ; the spiri- tual nature must also be suitably fed . Though not desiring to forsake old truths , or to despise former ...
... blessing , then leech - like cries out , " Give , give . " This craving for more is not confined to the corporeal man ; the spiri- tual nature must also be suitably fed . Though not desiring to forsake old truths , or to despise former ...
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... blessing them and giving them dominion , God " rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had created and made . " This creation of man last is one of the best established facts of geology ; and though there are some details ...
... blessing them and giving them dominion , God " rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had created and made . " This creation of man last is one of the best established facts of geology ; and though there are some details ...
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... bless my soul , for Jesus Christ's sake ! Amen ; " and then he died like one falling asleep so peacefully . He only sleeps ... blessed Lord in perfect holiness and endless happiness . Then they shall have an abundant entrance into heaven ...
... bless my soul , for Jesus Christ's sake ! Amen ; " and then he died like one falling asleep so peacefully . He only sleeps ... blessed Lord in perfect holiness and endless happiness . Then they shall have an abundant entrance into heaven ...
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... blessed form of lay - agency they had - the local preachers : Were they to be local preachers ? If they made the local preacher institution a paid business its charm would be gone ; they would destroy its character altogether . He would ...
... blessed form of lay - agency they had - the local preachers : Were they to be local preachers ? If they made the local preacher institution a paid business its charm would be gone ; they would destroy its character altogether . He would ...
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... blessed life CHARLES RICHARDSON'S was ! Thou- sands of precious souls were brought to CHRIST by the agency of a man who never cost the connexion more than the wages of an average artisan , and who for years worked in the pul- pits of ...
... blessed life CHARLES RICHARDSON'S was ! Thou- sands of precious souls were brought to CHRIST by the agency of a man who never cost the connexion more than the wages of an average artisan , and who for years worked in the pul- pits of ...
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Page 118 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 149 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 59 - Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 237 - I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind ; and that is, by securing to myself the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity. He sees, at one view, the whole thread of my existence, not only that part of it which I have already passed through, but, that which runs forward into all the depths of eternity.
Page 237 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Page 118 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God ; for it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Page 235 - ... there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caesar.
Page 237 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care ; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it ; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 56 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 152 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.