Christian Civilization: An Address Delivered Before the Athenian Society of the University of Ohio at Athens, September Sixteenth, 1840 |
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... man injures his country , and is a traitor ; he who reforms a young man is a patriot , and may save his country . Hampden when young was in bad ways , and those whose influence withdrew him , did England a service that man's ...
... man injures his country , and is a traitor ; he who reforms a young man is a patriot , and may save his country . Hampden when young was in bad ways , and those whose influence withdrew him , did England a service that man's ...
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... man's living frame ; in history , as in each individual , you will see the mysterious but perfect combination of ... Man against Wealth — a battle which has brought forward in succession Reformers , Radicals , and Chartists , and is at ...
... man's living frame ; in history , as in each individual , you will see the mysterious but perfect combination of ... Man against Wealth — a battle which has brought forward in succession Reformers , Radicals , and Chartists , and is at ...
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... man is a Free Will , working mysteriously under and within an eternal necessity , as a Heathen would call it , or an Over ... man's own power ; the first producing Spiritualism , Faith , Obe- dience ; the second Materialism , Doubt and ...
... man is a Free Will , working mysteriously under and within an eternal necessity , as a Heathen would call it , or an Over ... man's own power ; the first producing Spiritualism , Faith , Obe- dience ; the second Materialism , Doubt and ...
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... man's life , and , as it seems , of national life . Keeping this in view , I would ask you , my friends , whether we ... man to bind him- self , heart and soul , to these principles ; so to bind himself as to live a Prophecy of the great ...
... man's life , and , as it seems , of national life . Keeping this in view , I would ask you , my friends , whether we ... man to bind him- self , heart and soul , to these principles ; so to bind himself as to live a Prophecy of the great ...
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... man's needs , and must enter all his doings ; and that we may supply our present wants only through the spread of a living , prac- ticable , heart - stirring Christian faith . To ascertain those wants , let us look at the former central ...
... man's needs , and must enter all his doings ; and that we may supply our present wants only through the spread of a living , prac- ticable , heart - stirring Christian faith . To ascertain those wants , let us look at the former central ...
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Page 26 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 23 - True, he never did, but it was because he knew so well that if we but sought " the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things should be added unto us.
Page 26 - With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, iearn to labor, and to wait.