The Spiritual Pilgrim: A Biography of James M. PeeblesColby & Rich, 1878 - 303 pages |
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... asked . After the dismal funeral , he soberly went to his mother — always his oracle- with the inquiry , — " Will Aunt Sally sprout again , like corn and beans ? " " Her body , my son , will come to life again at the resurrection , in ...
... asked . After the dismal funeral , he soberly went to his mother — always his oracle- with the inquiry , — " Will Aunt Sally sprout again , like corn and beans ? " " Her body , my son , will come to life again at the resurrection , in ...
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... asked the thinkers . The MYSTIC RAP ! It echoed over the land , and " there was joy in heaven . " Two de- cades ago , it startled the world from its long slumber . What of the ministers ? They laughed at it . What of the philosophers ...
... asked the thinkers . The MYSTIC RAP ! It echoed over the land , and " there was joy in heaven . " Two de- cades ago , it startled the world from its long slumber . What of the ministers ? They laughed at it . What of the philosophers ...
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... asked . That what meant a great question . When his spirit - cousin gave thus an intelligible communi- cation , he attributed it to thought - reading . Well , thought - reading is " The end of a golden string ; Only wind it into a ball ...
... asked . That what meant a great question . When his spirit - cousin gave thus an intelligible communi- cation , he attributed it to thought - reading . Well , thought - reading is " The end of a golden string ; Only wind it into a ball ...
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... asked : " have I compromised truth , or shunned duty ? " " Go and preach your highest convictions ! " was the response . Instantly his resolution was fixed . He would be henceforth inde- pendent , act the Parker , an agitator ! ' Tis ...
... asked : " have I compromised truth , or shunned duty ? " " Go and preach your highest convictions ! " was the response . Instantly his resolution was fixed . He would be henceforth inde- pendent , act the Parker , an agitator ! ' Tis ...
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... asked a voice . Then he thought of his ministerial companions , and recalled a report that Rev. J. P. Averill , of Battle Creek , Mich . , a prominent Universalist , in full fellowship , had espoused Spiritualism . The angels know whom ...
... asked a voice . Then he thought of his ministerial companions , and recalled a report that Rev. J. P. Averill , of Battle Creek , Mich . , a prominent Universalist , in full fellowship , had espoused Spiritualism . The angels know whom ...
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Popular passages
Page 236 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 206 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars...
Page 101 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
Page 34 - I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall.
Page 233 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Page 37 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 225 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 92 - I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Page 36 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 27 - The Lord is good unto all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.