Virginia Baptist Ministers: 5th Series, 1902-1914, with SupplementJ. P. Bell, 1915 - 525 pages |
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... heart as a Baptist with regard to religious liberty to my ancestry of ' obstinate Lutherans ' , and with regard to missions , to the fact that three or more successive generations of my father's family were devoted to this work ? The ...
... heart as a Baptist with regard to religious liberty to my ancestry of ' obstinate Lutherans ' , and with regard to missions , to the fact that three or more successive generations of my father's family were devoted to this work ? The ...
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... heart was the intellectual and religious education of her children , while a breach of decorum was almost a crime in her eyes . Her own manners were loveliness itself , and she con- trolled more powerfully by her smiles than she could ...
... heart was the intellectual and religious education of her children , while a breach of decorum was almost a crime in her eyes . Her own manners were loveliness itself , and she con- trolled more powerfully by her smiles than she could ...
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... heart . ' I wept until I was ashamed . Until I became a professor of religion I was constantly afraid , on going to church , that I would be convicted and expose myself to the people . This fear often made me seek the gallery , though ...
... heart . ' I wept until I was ashamed . Until I became a professor of religion I was constantly afraid , on going to church , that I would be convicted and expose myself to the people . This fear often made me seek the gallery , though ...
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... heart whenever I think or speak of this , my father in the Lord . My course was in the midst of the fierce struggle which resulted in the founding of Rochester University . God overruled the storm and Hamilton was saved while Rochester ...
... heart whenever I think or speak of this , my father in the Lord . My course was in the midst of the fierce struggle which resulted in the founding of Rochester University . God overruled the storm and Hamilton was saved while Rochester ...
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... heart rejoiced . I had a large colored membership and many of them devoted Christians . My morning sermons were pre- pared with care . Friend B- — , an elder in the Pres- byterian Church , would criticize them as too abstract . But I ...
... heart rejoiced . I had a large colored membership and many of them devoted Christians . My morning sermons were pre- pared with care . Friend B- — , an elder in the Pres- byterian Church , would criticize them as too abstract . But I ...
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Virginia Baptist Ministers. 5th Series, 1902-1914, with Supplement George Braxton Taylor No preview available - 2018 |
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Popular passages
Page 476 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 216 - And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith: Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free — Just read on his medal, "My country,
Page 289 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and he destroy.
Page 367 - A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. Unpractised he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour: Far other aims his heart had learned to prize— More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 138 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 282 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 461 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole
Page 327 - Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.
Page 456 - For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Page 385 - For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.