Memoir of Rev. William Gurley, Late of Milan, Ohio: A Local Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church : Including a Sketch of the Irish Insurrection and Martyrs of 1798 |
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... prayer - Reflections on early piety ..... .Page 13 CHAPTER II . William becomes an apprentice Declines in piety - Class formed in Wexford - Is reclaimed under a prayer by Mr. Wesley - Becomes a leader - Sabbath duties - His acquaintance ...
... prayer - Reflections on early piety ..... .Page 13 CHAPTER II . William becomes an apprentice Declines in piety - Class formed in Wexford - Is reclaimed under a prayer by Mr. Wesley - Becomes a leader - Sabbath duties - His acquaintance ...
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... prayer meetings in his cell - Extracts from his jour- nal - Mrs . Gurley returns from ship - Her sufferings - Comes to see him in prison - Fare of prisoners - Prisoners compelled to exe- cute Catholic traitors - Dreadful alarm of ...
... prayer meetings in his cell - Extracts from his jour- nal - Mrs . Gurley returns from ship - Her sufferings - Comes to see him in prison - Fare of prisoners - Prisoners compelled to exe- cute Catholic traitors - Dreadful alarm of ...
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... praying in prison - Prayer meeting in Mr. Gurley's cell well attended - Happy result therefrom - Conversion of a prisoner - His triumphant death - Found afterward by Mr. Gurley on his knees in the water - Arrival of King's troops ...
... praying in prison - Prayer meeting in Mr. Gurley's cell well attended - Happy result therefrom - Conversion of a prisoner - His triumphant death - Found afterward by Mr. Gurley on his knees in the water - Arrival of King's troops ...
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... prayer - Reflections on early piety . IRELAND , or the " Emerald Isle , " as the Irishman loves to call it , was the birthplace of the Rev. William Gurley . Love of country is a sentiment natural to man , and common to the inhabitants ...
... prayer - Reflections on early piety . IRELAND , or the " Emerald Isle , " as the Irishman loves to call it , was the birthplace of the Rev. William Gurley . Love of country is a sentiment natural to man , and common to the inhabitants ...
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... prayers morning and evening . These consisted only of the Apostles ' Creed and the Lord's Prayer . At each Lent we were required to repeat the Catechism of the Church . " But , although William was thus early trained by his father to ...
... prayers morning and evening . These consisted only of the Apostles ' Creed and the Lord's Prayer . At each Lent we were required to repeat the Catechism of the Church . " But , although William was thus early trained by his father to ...
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Page 179 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 122 - Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God : he made the sky, And earth and seas, with all their train : His truth for ever stands secure ; He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.
Page 112 - Who suffer with our Master here, We shall before His face appear, And by His side sit down ; To patient faith the prize is sure; And all that to the end endure The cross, shall wear the crown.
Page 121 - Come, O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee ; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day.
Page 166 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
Page 166 - The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces ; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them : the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth ; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Page 138 - Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Page 27 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 72 - For these five years they have fixed their eyes most earnestly on France, whom they look upon, with great justice, as fighting their battles, as well as those of all mankind who are oppressed. Of this class, I will stake my head, there are five hundred thousand men, who would fly to the standard of the Republic if they saw it once displayed in the cause of liberty and their country.
Page 189 - ... use every influence in their power to induce the people of the country at large to return to their allegiance also.