 | Henry Ware - 1839 - 386 pages
...the words of eternal life. Every man standeth or falleth by himself alone. Call no man master, but be able to give a reason for the faith that is in you." But this is a hard task. It is a difficult and laborious thing to compare scripture with scripture,... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1839 - 1020 pages
...the words of eternal life. Every man standeth or falleth by himself alone. Call no man master, but be able to give a reason for the faith that is in you." But this is a hard task. It is a difficult and laborious, thing to compare scripture with scripture,... | |
 | Alfred Barry - 1848 - 374 pages
..."which is in Heaven," and a reproach to your earthly instructors, as well as to yourselves, not to be able to " give a reason for the faith that is in you ;" nor could you give a stronger proof of manliness, than not to be ashamed to confess it before men,... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - 1854 - 352 pages
...we profess. It is both reasonable and scriptural that I should endeavor to make you intelligent, and able to give a reason for the faith that is in you. As we cannot live this year upon the provisions consumed last year, so it is well to ply the mind and... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - 1854 - 344 pages
...we profess. It is both reasonable and scriptural that I should endeavor to make you intelligent, and able to give a reason for the faith that is in you. As we cannot live this year upon the provisions consumed last year, so it is well to ply the mind and... | |
 | Anson William Henry CARTWRIGHT - 1866 - 160 pages
...give an object to your reading, and pre* Gal. i. 8. serve a safeguard against error : you will thus be able to give a reason for the faith that is in you, and be kept from being ' tossed to and fro, and carried about by every wind of strange doctrine and cunning... | |
 | 1872 - 420 pages
...but it may make difference with the " why" of it. Hang this motto over your school-room door : " be able to give a reason for the faith that is in you." — H. in JUimiis Teacher. 4. TEACHING SPELLING. Some of the Western Educational Journals have recently... | |
 | Joseph Howe - 1874 - 360 pages
...apply my rule to Eloquence in its more extended sense, and I shall endeavor to do so bye and bye ; although I must confess that I love to linger upon...may be that I overvalue this essential element of sincerity ; but I cannot bring myself to believe that there is any true Eloquence without it. I would... | |
 | Navy - 1878 - 156 pages
...belief from others, without troubling yourself as to the grounds on which it rests; for unless you are able to give a reason for the faith that is in you, it is likely to be shaken with every wind of doctrine. Should the iron of doubt enter your soul, as... | |
 | Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest - 1881 - 274 pages
...lacking, your approval or rejection of risks will soon lose their value. Be honest with yourself — be able to give a reason for the faith that is in you, and have the manliness to carry them into execution, and no trouble need be feared over this part of your... | |
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I feel my inability to cope with critics by whom the high road has been beaten, and am more at my ease in the byways. It may be that I would rather have you all good men and true, able " to give a reason for the faith that is in you... 
