"After Eighty Years,"A.H. Smythe, 1886 - 127 pages A history of the first Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Ohio. |
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... blessed for fourscore years The saintly work performed of yore , So let Thy Church , through smiles and tears , Grow by Thy Spirit evermore . BENEDICTION . HISTORICAL SKETCH BY THE PASTOR , FRANCIS E. MARSTEN . " Old First Church " in ...
... blessed for fourscore years The saintly work performed of yore , So let Thy Church , through smiles and tears , Grow by Thy Spirit evermore . BENEDICTION . HISTORICAL SKETCH BY THE PASTOR , FRANCIS E. MARSTEN . " Old First Church " in ...
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... blessing to Central Ohio that has not felt the moulding hand of one or more mem- bers of the old First Church . And as I , well nigh a stranger to our institutions and history , have delved in the musty records of the past , my ...
... blessing to Central Ohio that has not felt the moulding hand of one or more mem- bers of the old First Church . And as I , well nigh a stranger to our institutions and history , have delved in the musty records of the past , my ...
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... blessing to satisfy all thirsty souls , opens its mouth and speaks to us , saying : " Behold , I lay in Zion a chief corner stone , elect , precious ; and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded . " Jesus Christ is and must al ...
... blessing to satisfy all thirsty souls , opens its mouth and speaks to us , saying : " Behold , I lay in Zion a chief corner stone , elect , precious ; and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded . " Jesus Christ is and must al ...
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... blessed and made a blessing in connection with this dear , dear old church , let your solemn vow be that you will be more devoted to all its interests and more faithful to all its offered privileges than ever in the past . May the ...
... blessed and made a blessing in connection with this dear , dear old church , let your solemn vow be that you will be more devoted to all its interests and more faithful to all its offered privileges than ever in the past . May the ...
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... blessing or a curse to me would depend upon whether I used it for the glory of God , or for my own personal and selfish gratification . Children are held responsible , and justly so , for the proper use of the pecuniary bequests of ...
... blessing or a curse to me would depend upon whether I used it for the glory of God , or for my own personal and selfish gratification . Children are held responsible , and justly so , for the proper use of the pecuniary bequests of ...
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Page 11 - Lift up thine eyes round about, and see : all they gather themselves together, they come to thee : thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
Page 6 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 8 - O God of Bethel, by whose hand Thy people still are fed, Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led, 2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before Thy throne of grace; God of our fathers, be the God Of their succeeding race.
Page 7 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength, labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 6 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. "In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 52 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Page 7 - And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us : And establish thou the work of our hands...
Page 6 - Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Page 41 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Page 7 - O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.