Lectures for the PeopleG. G. Evans, 1859 - 414 páginas |
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... practice it . The ministra- tion in the pulpit is necessarily peculiar . If subtle argument alone could convert sinners , the process might as well be done in the preacher's library as in the pulpit . But more than human intellect is ...
... practice it . The ministra- tion in the pulpit is necessarily peculiar . If subtle argument alone could convert sinners , the process might as well be done in the preacher's library as in the pulpit . But more than human intellect is ...
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... practice to his teaching ; by the intelligible plainness and shrewdness of his language ; by his unmistakable sincerity and earnestness ; by his sacred calling , which gives him more influence than if he were simply a lay teacher ; and ...
... practice to his teaching ; by the intelligible plainness and shrewdness of his language ; by his unmistakable sincerity and earnestness ; by his sacred calling , which gives him more influence than if he were simply a lay teacher ; and ...
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... that it is not his practice also . It would be a very easy matter - at all events , not so very difficult a matter - to observe the Golden Rule , if all that is required were simply this , to 38 LECTURES FOR THE PEOPLE .
... that it is not his practice also . It would be a very easy matter - at all events , not so very difficult a matter - to observe the Golden Rule , if all that is required were simply this , to 38 LECTURES FOR THE PEOPLE .
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... practice it . If you understand this rule , if you perceive the amplitude of its range , you will not be so foolish as to say that you have observed it , or that the observance of it is by any means an easy matter . Instead of lifting ...
... practice it . If you understand this rule , if you perceive the amplitude of its range , you will not be so foolish as to say that you have observed it , or that the observance of it is by any means an easy matter . Instead of lifting ...
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... practice . So the prodigal " arose , and came to his father . " Perhaps he traveled on in fear and trembling ... practices of yours , you may find it difficult to realise by honesty quite such large returns . Feeding the devil's swine is ...
... practice . So the prodigal " arose , and came to his father . " Perhaps he traveled on in fear and trembling ... practices of yours , you may find it difficult to realise by honesty quite such large returns . Feeding the devil's swine is ...
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Página 220 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 375 - For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner ; And he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night...
Página 375 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Página 281 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Página 174 - They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Página 71 - But the Father said to his servants. Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found And they began to be merry.
Página 247 - For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Página 127 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Página 220 - How His first followers and servants sped, The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Página 141 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.