The Spiritual Pilgrim: A Biography of James M. PeeblesWilliam White, 1872 - 299 pages |
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... happy impression : a ray penetrated the inner darkness ; a more charitable spirit sprung up in his heart . He read the Bible with candor ; read " Ballou on the Atonement , " and other Universalist works , and , within a year , be- came ...
... happy impression : a ray penetrated the inner darkness ; a more charitable spirit sprung up in his heart . He read the Bible with candor ; read " Ballou on the Atonement , " and other Universalist works , and , within a year , be- came ...
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... happy memories , all faces smiling , 66 merry Christmas was the auspicious " " all hearts speaking hour of Mr. Peebles's secret thought that had haunted him in dreams and reveries . The church in Oxford was beautifully adorned with ...
... happy memories , all faces smiling , 66 merry Christmas was the auspicious " " all hearts speaking hour of Mr. Peebles's secret thought that had haunted him in dreams and reveries . The church in Oxford was beautifully adorned with ...
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... happy audience , noticing prominent citizens , whom he afterwards learned to be such men as Seth Paine , H. M. Higgins , Mr. Green , & c . " Not all fools , I trow , " he thought . Sooh a gentleman was entranced , and came direct to him ...
... happy audience , noticing prominent citizens , whom he afterwards learned to be such men as Seth Paine , H. M. Higgins , Mr. Green , & c . " Not all fools , I trow , " he thought . Sooh a gentleman was entranced , and came direct to him ...
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... happy response . Closing that ever memorable meeting , the congregation gathering around him , Joseph Merritt and Eli Lapham , both Quaker ministers , and others , gave him their hands , saying , " We want to engage thee . Thee need not ...
... happy response . Closing that ever memorable meeting , the congregation gathering around him , Joseph Merritt and Eli Lapham , both Quaker ministers , and others , gave him their hands , saying , " We want to engage thee . Thee need not ...
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... happy . But , sir , your prayers are short . Are a first best judge of human nature ; read a man right through ; take your snap judgment of every thing , of men included ; do best on the spur of the moment ; so ' take no thought what ...
... happy . But , sir , your prayers are short . Are a first best judge of human nature ; read a man right through ; take your snap judgment of every thing , of men included ; do best on the spur of the moment ; so ' take no thought what ...
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Page 286 - 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 57 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Page 238 - 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 164 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 268 - 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 27 - The Lord is good unto all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Page 248 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who, on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water...