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... sometimes hear a Christian congregation spo- ken of as an audience : a good audience meaning a large congregation ; a bad audience , or a thin audience , meaning a small congregation . There is , indeed , a lower deep than this : it is ...
... sometimes hear a Christian congregation spo- ken of as an audience : a good audience meaning a large congregation ; a bad audience , or a thin audience , meaning a small congregation . There is , indeed , a lower deep than this : it is ...
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... sometimes to coun- try folk whose intelligent and hearty attention made one forget the unworthy edifice which was ... sometimes of one block of freestone , gracefully carved over its surface , like that beautiful pulpit in the cathedral ...
... sometimes to coun- try folk whose intelligent and hearty attention made one forget the unworthy edifice which was ... sometimes of one block of freestone , gracefully carved over its surface , like that beautiful pulpit in the cathedral ...
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... Sometimes those stone pulpits are warm- ly padded inside with crimson cloth ; sometimes they are cold white marble within , unrelieved by a vestige of drapery , very chilling to look at and ( one would say ) to preach from . Sometimes ...
... Sometimes those stone pulpits are warm- ly padded inside with crimson cloth ; sometimes they are cold white marble within , unrelieved by a vestige of drapery , very chilling to look at and ( one would say ) to preach from . Sometimes ...
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... sometimes preached . There is in England a parish church where the pulpit consists of a velvet - covered easy - chair , with a music - stand placed in front of it . The builders of that church are recorded to have resolved to erect a ...
... sometimes preached . There is in England a parish church where the pulpit consists of a velvet - covered easy - chair , with a music - stand placed in front of it . The builders of that church are recorded to have resolved to erect a ...
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... sometimes hears reported . All jocular matter is of course inadmissi- ble ; all bitter and sarcastic remarks are unutterably offensive . I lately read in a country newspaper an account of a discourse given upon some occasion by a ...
... sometimes hears reported . All jocular matter is of course inadmissi- ble ; all bitter and sarcastic remarks are unutterably offensive . I lately read in a country newspaper an account of a discourse given upon some occasion by a ...
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Page 123 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 133 - Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Page 272 - Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race," — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more : Too common ! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.
Page 181 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 206 - And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel ? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
Page 147 - Oh that I had wings like a dove ! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 276 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 137 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Page 186 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.