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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... duties , we ought to remember the toil and agony and blood which have been paid for our pros- perity . We shall come forth a better land . In this elevation of our thoughts we shall be better ; in the throwing off of our sins we shall ...
... duties , we ought to remember the toil and agony and blood which have been paid for our pros- perity . We shall come forth a better land . In this elevation of our thoughts we shall be better ; in the throwing off of our sins we shall ...
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... duties will be unknown , where the perplexities of life will not annoy us . It is even so . But to enjoy the rest we covet and expect , the service must be done for the Lord . Our stores and business , our homes and cares , must bear ...
... duties will be unknown , where the perplexities of life will not annoy us . It is even so . But to enjoy the rest we covet and expect , the service must be done for the Lord . Our stores and business , our homes and cares , must bear ...
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... It did not need a conscience as quick as his , nor a self - knowledge as thorough , to show him that his life was not equal to his duty . It matters nothing that his faults were hidden from us . He saw them and bemoaned them , and ( 12 )
... It did not need a conscience as quick as his , nor a self - knowledge as thorough , to show him that his life was not equal to his duty . It matters nothing that his faults were hidden from us . He saw them and bemoaned them , and ( 12 )
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... duty to God . It was that idea he sought to get into their minds , with this , which followed at once , that duty had been uniformly disregarded . He wanted to show men their peril and need , first of all . In my early ministry among ...
... duty to God . It was that idea he sought to get into their minds , with this , which followed at once , that duty had been uniformly disregarded . He wanted to show men their peril and need , first of all . In my early ministry among ...
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... duty of serving God came to him with added force when he realized the grace of God in giving his son . Obligation became intensified when Jesus died . Thenceforth to refuse the simple love which God asked was more than guilt ; it was ...
... duty of serving God came to him with added force when he realized the grace of God in giving his son . Obligation became intensified when Jesus died . Thenceforth to refuse the simple love which God asked was more than guilt ; it was ...
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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.