An Address Delivered on Christmas Day, at the Funeral of Rev. Benjamin Tappan: Together with a Sermon Preached the Following Sabbath, December 27, 1863Kennebec Journal, 1863 - 22 pages |
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... Christ was born , on that first Christmas - day , Calvary joined hands with Bethlehem over the babe , the bitter cross towering in the midst and casting its dark shadow on the manger . Christ was born that he might die , and in his ...
... Christ was born , on that first Christmas - day , Calvary joined hands with Bethlehem over the babe , the bitter cross towering in the midst and casting its dark shadow on the manger . Christ was born that he might die , and in his ...
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... Christ has taken his servant . We thought that he was needed here . The field called for his sharp sickle . The Lord has taken him home . He who feeds thousands with a handful of bread , and ordains strength out of the mouth of babes ...
... Christ has taken his servant . We thought that he was needed here . The field called for his sharp sickle . The Lord has taken him home . He who feeds thousands with a handful of bread , and ordains strength out of the mouth of babes ...
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... Beloved , let us be followers of him , even as he also was of Christ : followers through the world , and out , and up , into that better life where there is fulness of joy forevermore . 2 SERMON .. Revelations xiv : 13 . AND I ( 8 )
... Beloved , let us be followers of him , even as he also was of Christ : followers through the world , and out , and up , into that better life where there is fulness of joy forevermore . 2 SERMON .. Revelations xiv : 13 . AND I ( 8 )
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... Christ's followers will work . There is to be something when life is over for which they may be rewarded . The christian life is not merely an effort to keep the heart sinless it is a persistent work for the Lord . We have him for a ...
... Christ's followers will work . There is to be something when life is over for which they may be rewarded . The christian life is not merely an effort to keep the heart sinless it is a persistent work for the Lord . We have him for a ...
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... Christ's death in his stead . More than this , he felt his own weakness , and recognized the power of God in bringing him to penitence and trust , and relied upon it for his perseverance and final salvation . Such was the groundwork of ...
... Christ's death in his stead . More than this , he felt his own weakness , and recognized the power of God in bringing him to penitence and trust , and relied upon it for his perseverance and final salvation . Such was the groundwork of ...
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Page 9 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 18 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 13 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Thou...
Page 4 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Page 3 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying. What shall we drink ? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
Page 5 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 5 - To me remains nor place nor time ; My country is in every clime ; I can be calm, and free from care, On any shore, since God is there.