Incentives for Life, Personal and PublicFleming H. Revell Company, 1902 - 320 pages |
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... spirit remain in that stupor which is the paralysis of virtue . The method of Jesus is suggested by the state- ment of Dr. Maudsley , the eminent English physician and alienist , " The Will is the cul- minating effort of mental ...
... spirit remain in that stupor which is the paralysis of virtue . The method of Jesus is suggested by the state- ment of Dr. Maudsley , the eminent English physician and alienist , " The Will is the cul- minating effort of mental ...
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... Spirit is seen in producing the " final blossom of human education , " the Will consecrated to all that is right and true . No novelist ever conceived a finer picture of spiritual heroism than this from the actual ex- perience of ...
... Spirit is seen in producing the " final blossom of human education , " the Will consecrated to all that is right and true . No novelist ever conceived a finer picture of spiritual heroism than this from the actual ex- perience of ...
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... spirit . Spiritualists use the word for the dominating influence of ghosts ; the " obses- sion " or " breaking into " the house of the soul being so complete that the spirit of the departed comes to occupy the medium's consciousness ...
... spirit . Spiritualists use the word for the dominating influence of ghosts ; the " obses- sion " or " breaking into " the house of the soul being so complete that the spirit of the departed comes to occupy the medium's consciousness ...
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... spirit has been indescribable . I have prayed with great drops of agony on my brow . . . But there is no hope . Conceive a spirit in hell , employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him ...
... spirit has been indescribable . I have prayed with great drops of agony on my brow . . . But there is no hope . Conceive a spirit in hell , employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him ...
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... spirit world . There , we may suppose , all the motives to holiness glow with the immediate prospect of reward . But the power of choice is gone . Will not this be perdition ? Will not conscious in- ability to take heaven be itself hell ...
... spirit world . There , we may suppose , all the motives to holiness glow with the immediate prospect of reward . But the power of choice is gone . Will not this be perdition ? Will not conscious in- ability to take heaven be itself hell ...
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Page 68 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 172 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 268 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Page 60 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 209 - Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you ; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Page 40 - Brow and head were round, and of massive weight, but the face was flabby and irresolute. The deep eyes, of a light hazel, were as full of sorrow as of inspiration ; confused pain looked mildly from them, as in a kind of mild astonishment. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute ; expressive of weakness under possibility of strength.
Page 64 - Vengeance is mine alone !" So saith the Lord, and with all humbleness His servant echoes back the awful word. MAN. Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer — nor purifying form Of penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven— can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit, the quick sense...
Page 157 - To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 62 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel : and they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 266 - The supplicating tears of the women and moving. petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.