The Spiritual Pilgrim: A Biography of James M. PeeblesColby & Rich, 1878 - 303 pages |
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... true value to mankind , the more precious the record may become , the more eagerly will humanity search for the footprints of its pioneers , preachers , teachers , media , and martyrs . It is this tendency to identify all human ...
... true value to mankind , the more precious the record may become , the more eagerly will humanity search for the footprints of its pioneers , preachers , teachers , media , and martyrs . It is this tendency to identify all human ...
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... true justice was done . Good orthodoxy that ! An ample supply of playthings for children , and persuasive discipline , are economies in household furni- ture . This restless fellow did not take to muscular industry . He hated ...
... true justice was done . Good orthodoxy that ! An ample supply of playthings for children , and persuasive discipline , are economies in household furni- ture . This restless fellow did not take to muscular industry . He hated ...
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... true , devoted soul , Ever thy remembered face . I'll think of thee when evening's ray Is gleaming o'er the sea ; When gentle twilight's shadows play On mountain , vale , and tree . " At Smithville , James attended a select school ...
... true , devoted soul , Ever thy remembered face . I'll think of thee when evening's ray Is gleaming o'er the sea ; When gentle twilight's shadows play On mountain , vale , and tree . " At Smithville , James attended a select school ...
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... true to its cause ? " Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity . " Ambition , once so fluctuating and disappointing , now burned with steady fire . Scholarship was James's first aim . Teaching a high school at Upper Lisle , N.Y. ...
... true to its cause ? " Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity . " Ambition , once so fluctuating and disappointing , now burned with steady fire . Scholarship was James's first aim . Teaching a high school at Upper Lisle , N.Y. ...
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... true , That in their speculation choose To make discoveries strange news , And natural history a gazette Of tales stupendous and far - fetched , Hold no truth worthy to be known , That is not huge and overgrown , In vain stern nature to ...
... true , That in their speculation choose To make discoveries strange news , And natural history a gazette Of tales stupendous and far - fetched , Hold no truth worthy to be known , That is not huge and overgrown , In vain stern nature to ...
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A. J. Davis Aaron Nite Allan Kardec American ancient angels Anna Blackwell asked Banner of Light Battle Creek beautiful believe bless Brother Peebles Burns Christ Christian church circle DEAR BROTHER delight divine earnest earth earthly English eternal eyes faith Father feel feet flowers friends glory gospel hand happy harmony hear heart heaven holy Hosea Ballou human immortal Indian inspiration J. M. Peebles Jesus John labors land lecture letter living London magnetic medium mediumistic mediumship meeting mind minister ministry moral mountains Naples nature never obsessing spirits peace Peebles's Pilgrim Powhattan Pozzuoli prayer preach progress River Ouse Robert Dale Owen ruins séance Sir John Barrington sister soul speak sphere spirit spirit-world Spiritualists stars sweet sympathy tears temple thee thing thou thought thousand tion touched truth Universalist voice walked wisdom words writes young
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.